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Originally Posted by too_on_too_out
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.
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This is incorrect -- there are machines that use cosmic background radiation as a white-noise generator and, from that, can generate truly random numbers. And, at any rate, if you're doing a proper pseudo-RNG, it's actually pretty easy to involve a human in the loop (I'd be shocked if OOTP isn't using clicks + the system clock to seed a PRNG). Meanwhile, humans are actually
terrible at generating randomness or recognizing it. We see patterns in everything, even when there aren't any, and if you ask someone to name a bunch of "random numbers", there's lots of biases that will crop up -- for instance, they're vastly more likely to be odd than even, will likely not be divisible by 5, and will be spread out too much over the total range they're covering (true randomness tends to develop 'clumps').