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__MatrixMan__today at 12:50 AM1 replyview on HN

Nothing is random enough for an arbitrary audience. There's always the possibility that some alien spaceship will land and some creature will emerge, take a glance at your RNG, and say: "next one's 6598489811, try it" and they'll be right.

We can only say that something is random enough given a certain audience's beliefs about what kind of predictions are possible. If it takes lava lamps to convince that audience, well then ok.


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NuclearPMtoday at 1:11 AM

Why would beliefs matter?