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		Aerroon 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Universe would die before monkey with keyboard wri... 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.

mmoskal 10 months ago [–]

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

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