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lisperlast Tuesday at 3:55 PM1 replyview on HN

It's also impossible to prove that a given coin is not being controlled by an AI. (Or a deity.)


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FartyMcFarterlast Tuesday at 4:01 PM

Yes, which is why you can only trust abstract coins that exist in a formal system which assumes independent tosses :)

If you require true randomness without any assumptions this is not the universe for you.

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