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I guess you are in some category yourself because you seemingly haven't read the large amount of literature about a global shamanistic culture, and archaeologically there is plenty of evidence that divination came before games.

Its natural, because games based on chance give us the feeling of being "hot" or "cold" ie able or unable to predict entropy.

MMI is a burgeoning science but if you're curious there is a group out there with access to QRNGs that practice influencing probabilities. And there is a small, but measurable effect size. And even not so small in some experiments I have personally seen, but being funded by Rockefellers means keeping your nose pointed away from the control grid.


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welp


I am more internet infamous, but my one viral success has impacted my life in more ways than I could explain. But that one success took 5 years of my life.


One of my professors would always leave his pc set to the last move of klondike so he would return to work every day with a "win"


> I got a window on these as a taxi driver, where I was sent people who helped me figure out things I'd been wondering about.

I'm curious now, would you indulge me? If its woo woo we can just pretend no one is reading :)


Some people are of the philosophical bent that our world is entirely random. But this doesn't commonly match our experience. For example, I often asked people how they met their significant other. Sometimes it was nothing special, some couples had quite a story.

I had the sense that I got certain passengers for more than just transportation. Some people were having a rotten day, and I was able to cheer them up. One lady had some time to kill before her bus' departure time, so we went to the 24 hour diner, ordered our own pies and compared notes. When we got to the bus station she said it was the best birthday she'd had in quite a long time.

This was a semi-recent comment about the matching algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402081

The most important thing I learned in my taxi was about substance abuse. This HN poll didn't get any upvotes, but it references some of the diaries I never finished: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071316

Another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238488

If you're so inclined, I'm curious if you've experience is also that our universe is more than random?


I am the founder of randonautica, so in short yes I have found that our universe is more than random. Thanks for the answer, sometimes I wish a little more intuition was allowed here rather than only analytics.


The universe clearly isn't completely random. I'm not sure anyone believes that.


tell the truth, but don't always be telling it


Or, upon being pressed, you don't normally immediately fold if you know you are correct.



If I don't solve some problems in a day, my brain creates problems for me to solve.


it has such a completionist fetish, I have found it works much better when you basically tell it to pick a side and not go out of its way to be balanced.


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