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What if something in monkey psychology causes them to hit the keyboard with their fist or palm every five minutes or so of typing? What if they regularly lapse
by thom 2y ago
What if something in monkey psychology causes them to hit the keyboard with their fist or palm every five minutes or so of typing? What if they regularly lapse into just pressing one key over and over? It seems very unlikely to me that even with infinite monkeys a work would be generated, because they're not actually random number generators.
- bluefirebrand 2y agoIf you had infinite monkies, what is the probability that one of them is actually a random number generator In the set of all infinite monkies there are infinite monkies that are random number generators
- thom 2y agoI believe that probability could plausibly be zero.
- bluefirebrand 2y agoOn an infinite scale it seems unlikely that the probability of anything is actually zero Near zero, certainly, but not actually zero
- thom 2y agoI think the number of things that are impossible is far greater than the number of things that are possible, even in an infinite universe.
- hanche 2y agoOh, but these are idealized monkeys that act like perfect random generators. Almost, but not quite, unlike spherical cows.