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by gmueckl 142 days ago
No, this isn't right. There are totally legitimate use cases for PRNGs as sources of random number sequences following a certain probability distribution where freezing the seed and getting reproducibility is actually required.
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And for a complicated concurrent system you can also replay the exact timings and orderings as well!
That's completely different from PRNGs. I don't understand why you think those things belong together.