Thread: Karl Pilkington and the nature of infinity

I've becomed obsessed with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington. In this clip Gervais starts to laugh at Pilkington for "nat being able to understand the nature of infinity"

Ricky says that if an infinite number of monkeys type random shit you'll eventually have the complete works of Shakespeare. Karl says its nonsense.

I'll have to agree with Karl but for different reasons. The works of Shakespeare represent a possible sequence that can be created from a typewriter, but this does not mean it could be achieved without intelligence. reason being it is impossible to achieve "all possible results" of written paper since its infinite. therefore its possible that the monkeys can go on forever creating something other then the works of Shakespeare. there will always be an infinite number of alternatives other then Shakespeare, and there is no pattern guiding the monkeys to even write in english, much less anything comprehensible. thus its bollocks.

Anyone seen his new show An Idiot Abroad?

i listened to the Ricky Gervais guide to... last week, very funny shit.

LOL! fucking love it.

Here is the vid alone on infinity lol

Originally Posted by IronMan666

I'll have to agree with Karl but for different reasons. The works of Shakespeare represent a possible sequence that can be created from a typewriter, but this does not mean it could be achieved without intelligence. reason being it is impossible to achieve "all possible results" of written paper since its infinite. therefore its possible that the monkeys can go on forever creating something other then the works of Shakespeare. there will always be an infinite number of alternatives other then Shakespeare, and there is no pattern guiding the monkeys to even write in english, much less anything comprehensible. thus its bollocks.

Anyone seen his new show An Idiot Abroad?

your logic is flawed,

The works of Shakespeare represent a possible sequence that can be created from a typewriter, but this does not mean it could be achieved without intelligence

it means exactly that this could be created without intelligence, if shakespeare represents one possible sequence out of an infinity of possible sequences it stands that it is necessarily possible for monkeys to write shakespeare, you can't say that one outcome is not possible when you have an infinite set of possible outcomes

here is your flaw

reason being it is impossible to achieve "all possible results" of written paper since its infinite. therefore its possible that the monkeys can go on forever creating something other then the works of Shakespeare. there will always be an infinite number of alternatives other then Shakespeare,

there is nothing stating that the monkeys have to go through "all possible results" before randomly creating shakespeare. yes there are an infinite number of other possibilities besides shakespeare that can be worked out but nothing says that all possible sequences have to be achieved before shakespeare is randomly created. and further to say that the works of shakespeare cannot be a possible outcome is just plain wrong, if you have an infinite set then it holds that shakespeare is one of those infinite possibilities.

i have recently watched "an idiot abroad" it was pretty entertaining, i will be watching it again

you know you boy ricki is godless heathen right?

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/...im-an-atheist/