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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the monkeys were truly infinite would time even matter? For any set of monkeys that could write Hamlet within a year there's an infinite number of duplicate sets, so they could do as much writing in one day as the original set would do over the age of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't get to pick and choose! You get infinite monkeys. What's all this about duplicate sets? Sounds like somebody is trying to bring in a ringer! That's cheatin!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's the thing about infinity. If you have infinite monkeys, you don't have to choose. You'll have infinite instances of every possibility.

Finding any of the monkeys that typed out something interesting (or did something interesting that wasn't typing or more common interesting monkey stuff) is another issue. If there's an 0.0000001% of something interesting and unusual happening by coincidence, then there will be 999,999,999 uninteresting or usual instances for each interesting and unusual one.

Now if there were infinite copies of you searching the infinite monkeys for interesting and unusual events and all interesting ones get sent to an email address, the email server would overload in about the time it takes for the quickest interesting thing to happen, be noticed, and reported.