True vs Pseudo-Randomness
The cluster revolves around debates distinguishing true randomness from pseudo-randomness, with commenters correcting misconceptions about randomness in computing, generators, and statistical properties.
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It's not random, its pseudo-random. Those are not the same thing.
No, it isn't random enough for that.
That's pretty psuedo random.
we should not be throwing the word "random" around so loosely. this is pseudo randomness. The fact that it is only pseudo random should be mentiond in the writing.
Prove to me that it's not perfectly random.
Randomness doesn't look random.
Maybe we can’t pick random numbers because we’re just LLMs
I wasn't aware randomness had behavior.
So does a random number generator.
So does a random number generator.