I’m an ape, damn it!
Well someone did write Hamlet but we don’t actually know who. So the thought experiment holds up even better because it is a random person we don’t know much about.
We do know who wrote it, some people are just too elitist to accept it was a middle class boy from Stratford-upon-Avon
While sure it’s a funny joke, it also kind of misses the point of the original analogy. The monkeys are intended to be stand ins for entirely random inputs, which Shakespeare, and the human species as a whole, is not.
Go back far enough back and sure it was
But to get Shakespeare it was random, all the wars and plagues and volcanic eruptions and his ancestors moving around the country and him being born in a time where writing plays was a viable career
Those won’t random acts though. They were decisions and actions from outside inputs. If you had enough data you could recreate the events from the big bang onwards in theory. Assuming human decision making is deterministic.
Random in this case means random as in if a particle decays or not. Not simply harder to predict as in human behaviour.
Somebody might have misunderstood the thought experiment.