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

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    15 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…

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      14 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

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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      15 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,”

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Hypothesis: every science journalist should be placed in front of a bitch-slapping machine for the rest of their career. Every time they think about writing an article, they get bitch slapped. This will greatly improve the quality of science journalism.

    • Konstant@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

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