> Krakauer points out that humans and chimpanzees share nearly 99 percent of our genetic code. “Imagine I gave you Hamlet,” Krakauer says, “and I changed less than 1 percent of the text and I said, ‘What’s the play?’ and you said, ‘It’s Hamlet.’ And I said, ‘What have I changed?’ ‘I’m not quite sure…I did see a few typos.’”
I can’t stand this comparison, I mean, sure if you got Hamlet with 1% errors you’d recognize it as mostly Hamlet. But if you got a computer program with 1% of the instructions switched out, I bet you’d get a non-working program.
Also Hamlet is ~30,000 words long. If you randomly distribute errors, sure, it will look like Hamlet. If you give somebody 300 words to change Hamlet, I bet they could come up with something. Put “actually Hamlet was a ghost the whole time” at the end, I don’t know, I’m not M. Night Shyamalan.
I can’t stand this comparison, I mean, sure if you got Hamlet with 1% errors you’d recognize it as mostly Hamlet. But if you got a computer program with 1% of the instructions switched out, I bet you’d get a non-working program.
Also Hamlet is ~30,000 words long. If you randomly distribute errors, sure, it will look like Hamlet. If you give somebody 300 words to change Hamlet, I bet they could come up with something. Put “actually Hamlet was a ghost the whole time” at the end, I don’t know, I’m not M. Night Shyamalan.