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Re:Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle by roadnottaken on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:38PM (#11825836)
Explain?
Re:Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle by etjossem on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:53PM (#11825963)
The carefully crafted (non-random) sequence above tries to fake out the script and succeeds every time. It reveals the script's own predictability, and why you shouldn't rely on it too much as a yardstick for testing your brain's psuedo-randomness.
Re:Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle by muti on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:04PM (#11826047)
You can generate a sequence like this if you can see what the program thinks your next input will be, and choosing different.

It's fairly easy to debug/modify the javascript to do this