Well it’s even more dismal in reality.
Gather enough parrots on a stage and at least one can theoretically utter a series of seemingly meaningfuly word-like sounds that is legitimately novel, that has never been uttered before.
But I doubt any randomly picked HN user will actually accomplish that in fact before say age 40. Most people just don’t ever get enough meaningful speaking opportunities to make that statistically likely. There’s just too many tens of billions of people that have already existed and uttered words.
That not reality, it’s theory.
Can you write down the actual argument?
It seems to be plausible, to me, given enough parrots.
Novel utterances happen all the damn time. See https://venturebeat.com/business/15-of-all-google-searches-a... for tangential evidence.
Edit: actually that looks like it's just an offhand mention of Google's initial report, but I don't really feel like spending more time tracking down details to rebut so silly a claim.
Unique gibberish and spelling errors also count as a “unique search” so I don’t see how it relates.
Do you have an argument that makes sense?
This is embarrassing, but I hastily misread your comment as saying something it didn’t say. So just disregard my comment altogether!