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by planede 784 days ago
If you asked a person to give you a random number between 1 and 6, would you accept if they just said a number they just came up with or would you rather they rolled a die for it?
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If they didn't already have dice in their hand, I would certainly expect the former.
They should turn around and ask me instead for a random number between 1 and 6 and then reply with seven minus that number.
How is that more random?
I was being somewhat tongue in cheek (absurdist?), but I suppose if you don't know my algorithm (7 - n) then it does add layer of ... uncertainty?
Depending on who you ask, the answer would have been "oh, I have an app for that. Hold on..."

GPT wins for not having that delay.

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