Legal Clone of Shakespeare
It is not legal to clone human beings. But what about recovering the bits of DNA from Shakespeare
and constructing a monkey with Shakespeare’s brain? The resulting monkey could not speak due
to vocal chord placement, but we could teach him to type. We could claim that it was simply an
example of the British Museum Algorithm coming true.
The British Museum Algorithm is that if enough monkeys type randomly on enough typewriters for
long enough, they will eventually write all of the plays of Shakespeare. The problem is the huge
job of finding all of the plays amongst all the random trash.
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It is not legal to clone human beings. But what about recovering the bits of DNA from Shakespeare
and constructing a monkey with Shakespeare’s brain? The resulting monkey could not speak due
to vocal chord placement, but we could teach him to type. We could claim that it was simply an
example of the British Museum Algorithm coming true.
The British Museum Algorithm is that if enough monkeys type randomly on enough typewriters for
long enough, they will eventually write all of the plays of Shakespeare. The problem is the huge
job of finding all of the plays amongst all the random trash.
Next
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