A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

  • SlamWich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    441·
    2 years ago

    This is clownery, humanity is infinite monkeys, and we wrote Hamlet ages ago.

    • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Are they arguing it wasn’t random though? I mean Shakespeare had to think through the plot and everything, not just scribble nonsense on a page

    • CaptKoala@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      2 years ago

      Everyone keeps forgetting that we’re all just what monkeys evolved into…

      • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        Actually, both monkeys and us are what our common ancestors evolved into. Which was neither a human nor a monkey.