Re: D! I

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dark MaP wrote:
> 
> >  There was once a real demonstration of this sort of thing at Monkeys
> >Typing Shakespeare
> ><http://bronte.cs.utas.edu.au/monkey/>
> 
> Sorry, d link is broken. :-(

	Yes, that's why said "there was once"...

> >  A computer that wasn't being used too much -- the equivalent of several
> >stadiums of monkeys pounding at typewriters for 24 hours a day, I suspect
> >-- tried to match "to be or not to be, that is the question".  When I
> >looked, the "monkeys" had only 30% percent right after 8 months.
> 
> Same results you'll get with hundred of illiterate persons... don't you
> think so? I bet a person like this will spent much more time that the poor
> monkeys.. haha.

	Illiterate persons have various means of concealing
their illiteracy from others, FWIW.

> >  But -- what if the monkeys get to keep a letter if they get it right, and
> >the number of unknown letters keeps decreasing?  Better yet, what if the
> >monkeys looked for, instead of letters, words of the necessary length, and
> >got to keep those as before?  The problem gets a lot easier.  Someone else
> >can do the math.
> 
> And how (do you think) the monkeys will know WHAT WORDS must be kept?!!?
> Where must they base their theorie?

	Ah, you put your finger on the problem here.  In the
development of species, the "words to keep" are the
ones that survive in their environment and reproduce
successfully.  With the VMs, we have no clue on which
"words" to keep...  (someone please tell me I'm wrong!)

> >  This is the sort of thing that people who say "life on earth is as likely
> >as an explosion in a junkyard creating a Boeing 747" are ignoring.   I
> >never thought my native USA state, Kansas, could be so stupid, but they
> >passed a law requiring creationism to be taught along with evolution in the
> >schools.  (What is creationism, anyway?  "God created the world"?  It
> >really doesn't say much.)  I believe that Kansas is taking the law off the
> >books.
> 
> We need some 'Creationism' in the VMS case... :-)

	Yes, if we had some divine book that would give us
some idea of what a word meant, more a Rosetta Stone
than a Bible, it would sure help.

Dennis