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    • Nougat
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      3623 days ago

      … the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

      But not zero.

      • @CeeBee_Eh
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        323 days ago

        Basically nothing is ever truly zero

        • Nightwatch Admin
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          2323 days ago

          Someone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.

            • @Klear
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              223 days ago

              apes ⊂ monkeys, actually.

              • @scarabic
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                323 days ago

                monkey c monkey do

              • @scarabic
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                223 days ago

                We are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.

        • @Cryophilia
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          123 days ago

          The probability of lots of things is zero. The probability of a monkey typing a Chinese character on an English keyboard is zero.

          Similar idea: there are an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one, but none of those numbers is two.

    • @[email protected]
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      1023 days ago

      Weird how neither of those numbers are infinities. Almost like the numbers used are unfathomably small in comparison.

    • @scarabic
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      423 days ago

      So you’re telling me… there’s a chance!

      Sorry, I’m sort of lampooning comments like the one above and below you where people just can’t resist focusing on the possibility, no matter how ridiculously remote it seems. For myself, there’s a point of “functionally zero odds” that I’m willing to accept and move on with my life.