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by ctoth 295 days ago
> It's all built around probability and statistics.

Yes, the world is probabilistic.

> This is not how you reach definitive answers.

Do go on? This is the only way to build anything approximating certainty in our world. Do you think that ... answers just exist? What type of weird deterministic video game world do you live in where this is not the case?

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How many "r's" are in the word "strawberry"?

I'm certain this simple question has a definitive answer.

which apparently hard to come up with by compiling lots of text into a statistical model for what text is most likely to come after your question