You assume that monkeys are identical, communicate with each other and know what they are doing. Take one of these away and all of the infinite monkeys will press the same buttons basically making them one monkey. Take another and they will type random gibberish.

The point of the dilemma is for non of those to be the case. The point is can Shakespeare or anything valuable to humans appear in random given enough time and resources? Basically can “the AI” as we know it now that doesn’t actually have “I” create something new and valuable?

And the answer is(going from the basic maths) yes it may produce something cool but it also may never produce Shakespeare or anything cool and will never know what it can do and what it can’t.

I don’t think “valid” is a proper word for someone’s life. You don’t have to be validated by anyone, you don’t own anyone anything. Do what you yourself see fit for this one-time adventure.

That’s an interesting point of view.

Their facial expressions are like they think Magnus did nothing wrong.

We should be careful to avoid creating communities that are echo chambers

From what I see we are already echo chambers on the most pressing topics.

That was the moment I decided to selfhost my email server.

So now the hosting you use will share the same(or likely much more) data if some government requests it.

Counterpoint. There was one whistleblower killed, there are lots of people on this case like Boeing staff, government employees, the police, senators, the president, who haven’t done shit. Now there are two murders. Any of the people who SHOULD be doing something about it doing anything? No. Now there are 12 brave people against the thousands of shit people.

one TOTP app more

You say this as a bad thing.

From the outsider perspective those aren’t sides but teams going to the same goal with slightly different tactics.