[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by too_on_too_out

It was actually a criticism of Matt. And was somewhat-edgy.



True randomness does exist, just that machines, given RNG or no RNG, cannot, will never generate a random number. Because machines are completely rational and so must always follow steps. Unlike humans.


Speaking of the recently criticized Matt, human intuition is infinitely more refined, potentially, than most give credit. We pick up on patterns sub-consciously, this is proven. I mean - look at baseball, and sports in general. All-stars are constantly intuitively predicting plays before they happen. They intuitively reading and recreating rhythm and spatial patterns. That's proven and demonstrated.



Who's to say that some, without even realizing it perhaps, cannot pick up similarly on patterns - in an autistic rainman sense, if you prefer - in numbers. They can't explain it rationally nor mathematically but they just get a sense of patterns, predictability.

We’re also very, very bad at seeing patterns that aren’t based on anything that would predict future performance. See: the original post in this thread.