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you misunderstand infinity
by tacoooooooo 2y ago
you misunderstand infinity
- clueless 2y agohow so?
- chowells 2y agoSo if I randomly type letters from the top row of my keyboard forever, I'll eventually type the entire works of Shakespeare? Of course not. There are lots of ways you can bias random that remain random, but prevent every possible output from being generated. That's all GP was saying. You can't just say "infinite time", you need to rule out biases that would prevent the desired result.
- recursive 2y agoYou don't need "perfect randomness". The claim was about "perfect randomness". You just need a non-zero probability for the outcomes in question. And you need independence between subsequent random events.