[ExI] A Paranormal Computer

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 05:26:18 UTC 2016


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:33 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> This program asks you to randomly hit your "f" or "d" key. For me it
> consistently predicted what key I would hit next well over 50% of the time,
> usually around 70%.
>
> http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/
>

I was able to get it down to 38% by using certain tricks about how programs
like this think, which probably qualifies my input as non-random.
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