When you think about it, Shakespeare WAS the result of billions of monkeys trying to write stuff randomly for millions of years.
The monkeys just eventually turned out to be *us*.
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We're basically the result of a very inefficient machine learning algorithm. Some weird stuff sure came out.
Writing was invented in 3200 B.C. so it only took us 4764 years.
It was the BLURST OF TIMES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8
Wasn’t even infinite! Got that shit banged out by 1616!!!
Apes. We're Apes, not Monkeys.
I get it, but intuitively there is a clear difference between me typing a poem and me pounding on my keyboard with my fists. This of course begs the question, what is the difference between writing something meaningful and writing nonsense? What does it *mean* to mean? This is not an easy question, but clearly the answer is not "nothing". So I think I disagree.
But typewriters weren’t even invented in 1656.
In that sense Leo DiCaprio owes a lot of his career to da Vinci and Shakespeare
There's a difference between evolution and infinite chance
This sub is so fucking bad now
But but but monkeys are actually our cousins and not actually humans themselves.
Well technically we didn’t evolve from monkeys
Oh my god! I was wrong! It was Earth all along! You've finally made a monkey, (Yes, we finally made a monkey!) Yes, you've finally made a monkey out of me! I LOVE YOU DR. ZAIUS!!
I am going on a limb here, but I don't think the cumulative population of all monkey species is in the billions.
Except it wasn't random but okay
We were never monkeys. We used to be part of the Catarrhini family who split into the surviving Old World monkeys and Apes.
By the time writing got involved, they had ceased to be monkeys for a very very long time.
Unless you don't believe in evolution. Actually had someone in 8th grade say evolution was just a theory and refused to take the test on it. Don't remember much of it, but I do know he was just trying that cause he didn't study.
Karl Pilkington's mind would not be able to comprehend this
grasping at straws
I hate to be pedantic but monkeys and humans are parallel evolution. We come from the same original creature but branched a long time ago.
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