alt Hacker NewsI'm sorry, I've lost track of what you're trying to argue. The point is that in practice, any sane design is just going to hash "lava lamp" information in with all the other low-quality entropy inputs that drive the LRNG. I wasn't making a subtle or complicated point here.
I'm not making a subtle or complicated point either. I think the start of it is that we had different ideas of what "worse" was being compared to.
You're saying "It's hard to tell a story where the wall is making things worse [compared to replacing it with nothing]." If the initially-unspoken bracketed condition is added, then yes, I agree with you.
My response was: "There might be a story where the wall is making things worse, compared to other things."