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Name: Anonymous 2008-02-06 21:16

Is it possible for an electronic device to produce truly random numbers? No, it isn't.

Why? Because random does not exist. Everything is deterministic. Random is just a name we give to things that seem to happen arbitrarily, but that really isn't the case.

Unfortunately, We just don't have a good enough understanding of the universe to prove this. Something like that might be quite far off. Though, I believe in less than 500 years Homo sapiens will have been long obsolete.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-20 18:46

Hitler was thwarted by the Jews.  If he had succeeded we would be a lot cooler now.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-20 18:52

>>41
My Jewish girlfriend is hotter than your Aryan whore.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-20 20:52

>>40
It's not really that simple, Anon. I don't have the patience to go into detail. Or time, at current.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-20 23:18

>>42

A hot Jew?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 13:19

Liquid Snake = Ubermenschen

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:42

>>45
Liquid Snake is a pretty stupid name. What the hell would you do with a liquid snake? Put it in a bottle?
It wouldn't be much of a snake without it's long, serpentine body, now would it? Maybe it could be kind of half-liquid, in a gel sort of way. But that's not a snake. That's a slug. "Ooh, look at me, I'm an Ubermensch." but you're not, you're a fucking slugman, and you suck.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:42

>>45
Liquid Snake is a pretty stupid name. What the hell would you do with a liquid snake? Put it in a bottle?
It wouldn't be much of a snake without it's long, serpentine body, now would it? Maybe it could be kind of half-liquid, in a gel sort of way. But that's not a snake. That's a slug. "Ooh, look at me, I'm an Ubermensch." but you're not, you're a fucking slugman, and you suck.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:46

>>46,47
I felt this was a very important message. That's why I posted it twice, so you'd have double the opportunity to read it. Or maybe you'll read it two times. It's your choice, really. I can lead the horse to the water, but I can't make it read, and all that.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 19:25

>>48
I think horses could read better if they weren't letter blind

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 23:22

>>49

Genius

Name: 4tran 2008-02-22 1:20

How did we degenerate from a discussion about determinism to horse literacy?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 1:59

>>51
Because, Liquid Snake

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 3:00

>>51

Welcome to 4chan, you must be new here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 3:18

>>51
Well, there's a lot of similarities. For example, horses can't read, and determinism can't exist with locality, so there's things that both can't do.
And you could easily get a child to believe in a talking, reading, horse, and a lot of children believe that the world operates by deterministic rules.
Similarily, the Bell test experiments and Muybridge's photos have a lot in common, in that both prove something, one about determinism and locality, the other about horses.

Name: 4tran 2008-02-22 18:25

>>53
I've been here at least since last June..

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 1:10

>>55

lurk moar. The correct response is ''fuck you faggot'' but thanks for playing, faggot.

Name: 4tran 2008-02-23 7:18

>>56
Screaming profanities like a butthurt 12 year old seemed unnecessary for this situation.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 0:16

>>57

Hey come on now, never pretend. Be yourself!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 17:05

Isn't the radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus random? And this is not so because of our limitations in measuring, but rather it is random by physical law?

Also, Heisenberg.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 21:10

>>59
No, you don't get it, man.  When physicists say "it's physical law" what they really mean is "We blew all the grant money that was supposed to go to figuring that out on shemale Thai hookers, so we'll just tell everyone it's random".

Seriously, look it up.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 21:21

>>60
Feynman died in the '80s, unfortunately.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 0:31

we can't be certain that a process is random until it has progressed for an infinite period of time.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 23:22

itt: people who read xkcd vs. people with actual training in math/science

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-26 23:43

>>61
That, sir, is slander.  Feynman was never a shemale Thai hooker.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-26 23:52

>>63
And sadly, the xkcdfags are drowning out the rest.
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