Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And an infinite amount of time.

  This “rebuttal” is forced contrarianism. It’s embarrassing.

  A thought experiment has rules, you can’t just change them and say the experiment doesn’t make sense…

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The other part of it is there’s not only one monkey who does Hamlet correct on the first attempt, there’s two, three four, guess what - an infinite amount of them.

    And another infinity that get it right after 5 minutes

    Another infinity that take exactly 10 years 3 months 2 days 3 hours 4 minutes and 17 seconds

    And another infinity that takes one second less than the life of the universe

    And another infinity that takes a googleplex of the lifetime of the universe to complete

    that’s the point of the thought experiment

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For what it’s worth, it seems like it’s this “journalist” trying to make a sensational headline

    The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality

    “We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,”

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hypothesis: every science journalist should be placed in front of a bitch-slapping machine for the rest of their career. Every time they think about writing an article, they get bitch slapped. This will greatly improve the quality of science journalism.

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  • Konstant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How would monkeys type through infinite. Don’t they stop, are they not mortals like normal monkeys?

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