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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh yeah? Name ONE ape that wrote Shakespeare. Go on I’ll wait

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He’s probably got a dumb name, like Bill or Willie.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

But what if we had infinite monkeys 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Let's use our braincells to fix real problems first. Like pants that don't stretch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I feel like there has to be more to this problem than pure probability. We ought to consider practical nuances like the tendency to randomly mash keys that are closer together rather than assume a uniform distribution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I've read there are so many permutations of a standard deck of 52 playing cards, that in all the times decks have been shuffled through history, there's almost no chance any given arrangement has ever been repeated. If we could teach monkeys to shuffle cards I wonder how long it would take them to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I always heard that it was an infinite number of monkeys, not just one. So one of them might get the job done in time.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

This is a false flag study to undermine public support for mathematics research!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

This sort of study shows you more how mathematicians think than how science or philosophy works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Abiogenisis in shambles again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Really, it just takes an infinite amount of monkeys one time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What if it's a smart monkey?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Of our sample size, 100% of “smart” (capable of symbolic language) monkey species have already written Hamlet.

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