In other words: it's "easier" to make better monkeys than to scale up to produce something valuable.

Or in other other words: random generation is highly unlikely to produce something valuable.

Or in other other other words: the amount of useful information in "the library of babel" is miniscule compared to noise.

In other words the only way we know of how significant complexity arises in the universe is (ultimately) through evolution.

pedantry: that monkey was ~250 years before keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Hansen_Writing_Ball

Hurdy gurdys with keyboards have been around long before then.

If you try to write Shakespeare with hurdy-gurdy keys, you're going to get slightly abridged versions, like that famous tragedy A ad Ceaa, or the comedy Ced f E.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxfOZH8cew

I somehow doubt Shakespeare had access to a typewriter...

Someone really needs to go dig up his bones and give him a typewriter. Too bad Halloween was yesterday.

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Apes, thank you very much.

Ook!

Did anyone get the number of that donkey cart?

Apes aren't monkeys.

Indeed - that fact was already established 17 years ago ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--szrOHtR6U