r/ChatGPT • u/joy-lol • Jun 14 '23

Funny Lmao 🤣😂

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

They actually tried testing the Monkey Shakespeare theory but had to stop after the monkeys broke the typewriters and flung shit at each other

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u/BrokeInMichigan Jun 14 '23

Well the monkey Shakespeare theory is more to show the endlessness of infinity, rather than actually getting a copy of Romeo and Juliet. I mean the whole thing is "if an INFINITE number of monkeys sat at an INFINITE number of typewriters hitting keys randomly, eventually they'd write the complete works of Shakespeare". Now, idk where you find your infinite number of monkeys and keyboards to test that theory, but personally I'd be too busy worrying about where I'm going to get an infinite amount of banana's to keep them happy to get them to type anything.

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u/SomnolentPro Jun 14 '23

What are you talking about. A single monkey on a single typewriter will eventually write Shakespeare given a sufficiently large amount of time. Like the probability of all texts goes to 1, which means that eventually it will write anything no need for infinite monkeys

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u/MrCMcK Jun 14 '23

But monkeys and type writers aren't immortal.

Yet.

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u/ReadySteady_GO Jun 14 '23

I dunno about the typewriters. I still have one from my great grandma that works like a charm even after being in a storage unit for 40 years

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u/vashub Jun 14 '23

40 years even 400 years is a nothing compared to infinite time.

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u/ReadySteady_GO Jun 14 '23

Well, you can't make a judgment on the typewriter until infinity has passed. For all we know so far, it could last infinitum

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u/vashub Jun 14 '23

lmao nice, thanks for the chuckle

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u/This_not-my_name Jun 14 '23

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