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?

  • @jordanlundEnglish
    15•3 hours ago

    The statement isn’t about “A” monkey. It’s about an infinite amount of monkeys.

    • Todd BonzalezEnglish
      24•3 hours 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…

      • @KonstantEnglish
        1•42 minutes ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 hours 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

      • @ozymandias117English
        4•2 hours 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,”