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Re:The Middle of the Square by swayvil on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:10PM (#32786388)
The more naive the observer, the simpler the pseudorandom algorithm necessary for apparent randomness.

For a paramecium a=a+1 might do.

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Re:The Middle of the Square by 082349872349872 on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:14PM (#32786721)
Humans attempting to be random are not that much more sophisticated than the putative paramecium; they can be predicted with a 16 bit model: https://this1that1whatever.com/miscellany/mind-reader/Shanno...
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Re:The Middle of the Square by osculum on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:56PM (#32786952)
Online version for those who want to try it: https://web.media.mit.edu/~guysatat/MindReader/index.html

I ended up doing better by choosing the answer myself, than by using a die. Go figure.

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