News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Are real numbers really real? by ethagnawl on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:39PM (#17295003)
> It's like if a lottery gave out [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]: it's a remarkable pattern, but no more or less likely than any other particular result.

Do you know if there's a name for the fallacy you've alluded to? (Assuming that an ordered sequence is less likely than any other.)

Re:Are real numbers really real? by gowld on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:23PM (#17298156)
Interestingly, the fallacy is actually good reasoning. Even though every permutation is equally likely, the permutations fall into equivalence classes of "notoriety", and the class of ordered sequences is far smaller (== less likely) than the class of disordered sequences (which are all equivalently noninteresting).

(This is entropy, as it applies to both information and the physical world.)