/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3067203

well that's pretty obvious but I need to have more than just 2 categories.

Philosophical question...

If we are simply going to lock a person away for the rest of their life, what benefits do we get from keeping them alive in prison? Don't we have to feed and guard and essentially take care of life sentence prisoners?

In my opinion, we should give prisoners sentenced to life 5 years in prison and then kill them. They will be happier because they won't have to live in prison the rest of their lives and the state will be happy because they won't have to pay for the prisoners. Also, it would severely deter people from doing things that would put them in jail for life.

>>2780597

what makes you so sure that heaven exists and not reincarnation?

>>2636029

I'll just post it here.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
In this context, "almost surely" is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the "monkey" is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces a random sequence of letters ad infinitum. The theorem illustrates the perils of reasoning about infinity by imagining a vast but finite number, and vice versa. The probability of a monkey exactly typing a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time of the order of the age of the universe is minuscule, but not zero.