PeterExplainsTheJoke
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What the hell does this mean petah?
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I might be stupid but I think this is a joke about the monkey on the typewriter thought experiment. Where if you give a monkey a typewriter and infinite time eventually it will write everything possible. the meme is a jumble of letters then the monkey writing something that goes incredibly hard then more jumbled letters. Or I'm stupid idk
Library of babel is a good example of this. They have an image section too where they had a computer randomly arrange a bunch of pixels until it generated every possible kind of combination of pixels of the variety they gave it. You can see which spot any copies of any image has been generated.
https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?little_mark
This is my favorite. Look for "In the land of bab"
Goddaymn liburals confusing little boys bout their gendurss!!
I’m bad at explaining things, just search up library of babel yourself.
To add to this. On r/whenthe someone recently made a joke post about all the infinite monkeys typing out that exact phrase at the same time before writing gibberish again, so this might also reference that reddit post as well.
Give an infinite amount of monkeys typewriters with an infinite amount of time and they will write the full works of Shakespeare.
Every time this gets brought up people mention both infinite monkeys and infinite time - it is completely unnecessary. Infinite monkeys and a finite time, or finite monkeys with infinite time, will be enough to produce not just Shakespeare, but any and all known literature that is possible to produce with the given typewriters.
To be that guy - humans are monkey, so both can be finite, since the works already exist.
To be that guy - humans are apes, not monkey
To be that guy - humans are not apes, but both evolved from the same species into new ones
To be that guy - Humans are classified as “great apes” under modern taxonomy. So they are by definition apes.
Humans are part of the Hominoidea superfamily: along with chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons—which makes us apes too.
to be that guy to your guy, humans aren't monkeys
Infinite amount of monkeys and time but just one typewriter works too, you'll have to find a way to entertain the monkeys not typing though...
wow. you must be super fun at parties. everyone loves one someone needlessly over explains a completely unimportant point.
tell me, does saying both infinite monkeys and time make the statement false?
One infinite is sufficient, but two works too.
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It’s a simple explanation of how exaggeration ruined the logical matter of the theorem. No need to be rude about it.
Since you were rude to the commenter, I must tell you that you probably have thousands of friends and they love your personality
omg. it isn't ruined. it works either way. it is a true statement either way. there was zero point to what they said, other than to obnoxiously 'correct' something that didn't need correcting.
That depends on the perspective. Maybe his version could be preferred since it could facilitate the calculations of, shall we say, distribution for how much time such an act would take on average and its standard deviation. Some would maybe see it as a new perspective in order to achieve the same goal. It’s all about vision
You only need one infinite, not both. Infinite typewriters means it is produced instantly. Infinite time can be accomplished with a single monkey.
I think you need infinite time, typewriters, and monkeys. Or at least one immortal monkey with a typewriter that never breaks down and infinite time.
I don’t like the infinite typewriters and monkeys part. It would require comping bits together if time is finite. Or the next monkey in line learning from the previous monkey’s mistakes like machine learning. Even then time becomes a possible issue. It’s almost like saying “I can write everything if I just know every word.”
With a single immortal monkey given infinite time you actually have a shot at it producing a book from start to finish. To me, it’s more just “you can accomplish anything through trial and error given enough time.” The more monkeys the faster it gets done, but they still need enough time to type the equivalent of a book and a guarantee that every monkey will type something different.
I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure that’s a Lovecraft quote? It’s at least a Lovecraftian sentiment. But the primary joke is, as has already been stated, the infinite monkey theorem and all it entails.
Edited to add: it’s recently been disproven that the infinite monkey theorem would work in actuality. I’m too lazy to find the source (but can if prompted lol) but basically a team of researchers/scientists determined that due to the constraints of the universe (i.e. its lifespan) an infinite amount of monkeys would not be able to write the works of Shakespeare. But I personally think that’s dumb because given a truly infinite amount of time, the monkeys would eventually get it done lmao
SHIT I didn’t realize this was PeterExplainsTheJoke 😭 I’m sorry for being OOC
no no, i was wondering about that part of it, so you still brought on topic value to the discussion, imo xD
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…well, if we’re working with the constraints of the universe, we couldn’t have infinite monkeys in the first place
There’s that small hiccup too, you’re absolutely right. I think their point was even if that were somehow able to be bypassed, it wouldn’t and couldn’t be done. Infinity is just such an abstract concept that we really can’t have productive conversations about it, and that’s what leads to silly ideas like the infinite monkey theorem in the first place.
well the infinite monkey theorem presupposes infinite time... so that doesn't disprove it
Again, they’re talking about the maximum amount of time our universe could possibly provide. But also, I addressed exactly what you said in my original comment if you read the whole thing lol
The infinite monkey theorem suggests that if you give an infinite amount of monkeys a typewriter and let them hit random letters, eventually you’ll get the entire work of Shakespeare. This is a play on that, where the monkey types a bunch of gibberish, then types a profound sentence before going back to gibberish.
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There is the idea that if an monkey had infinite time it would write something that makes sense like Shakespeare (or some work of Shakespeare). Lovecraft had in his works passages in which someone would speak an old died out language which was basically random letters stringed together. And so the meme suggests that a monkey could've written that as it ends with gibberish and the first part making sense was just a coincidence.
"It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times."?
statistically speaking, if u sit a monkey in front of a type writer, itll eventually write shakespeare. that is the monkey on a typewriter thought experiment. this is just that rebranded
It was the BLURST of times!?
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