It's not really coming off as very random, Zalidor. You can't just say you're random and expect us to take your word at it. Quit trying so hard! And welcome!
My proof is a story that I'm working on. The most Random and stupid adventures of Link and Zelda. It involves Paintball, cats, Trees, Evil Principals, and Living Cafeteria Meat.
Another question is, who's going to read the output of the infinite monkeys to see if anything coherant has been produced?
An infinite number of people who speak an infinite number of codes and languages, in case something comes up in one of those infinite languages that someone else might miss.
I might as well weigh in here. It's only 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters. And I believe the quote pre-dates qwerty. However, the timeline is still infinite.
And the odds of monkeys typing a specific series of words on a typewriter are greater than zero. The Infinite Improbability Drive made it happen at much less than infinite improbability!
Over infinite time, the monkeys will breed, and they will evolve. They will eventually invent their own language, and type out these literary works on the typewriters, fully aware of what they're writing.
They will only evolve into a sapient species with the ability to compose works of literature if there is an environmental impetus for them to do so. Evolution is not a ladder with intelligent, human-like beings at the top and other lifeforms struggling to make their way up; it's simply the means by which species adapt to fill a particular biological niche.
An infinite number of monkeys chained to an infinite number of typewriters will only develop more complex brains if those brains give enough of an advantage in reproducing to those who have them to counteract the drawbacks of increased dietary requirements, difficulties in childbirth, etc.
Maybe if the monkeys were killed off whenever they were typing the wrong things, there would be a forced evolution favoring those monkeys that naturally hit the correct random sequences of letters. Those monkeys breed, passing the favorable genetic trait onto their typing descendants, and evolution eventually results in the pinnacle of monkey-typing.
This only works with the infinite monkey situation, of course.
We're weeding them out, favoring those monkeys that hit the random sequence we prefer. With any luck, some aspect of how they choose the keys the choose is part of their genetic code.
Either that or we'll breed them for intelligence, until we make a monkey that can learn English and just type it word-for-word.
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It's not really coming off as very random, Zalidor. You can't just say you're random and expect us to take your word at it. Quit trying so hard! And welcome!
I know Zalidor in real life. I have proof of his randomness. But I'm not going to show it to you until I record us talking or copy/paste an IM chat.
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Really, when you prove how random you are we'll talk.
An infinite number of monkeys chained to an infinite number of typewriters will only develop more complex brains if those brains give enough of an advantage in reproducing to those who have them to counteract the drawbacks of increased dietary requirements, difficulties in childbirth, etc.
This only works with the infinite monkey situation, of course.
Either that or we'll breed them for intelligence, until we make a monkey that can learn English and just type it word-for-word.
Although, I suppose we could still use Mark Wahlberg.
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Then I wonder if it would even be a virus of the computer sort.
I suggest everybody keep their distance when dealing with our new friend.