gfrlog comments on Techniques for probability estimates - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Yvain 04 January 2011 11:38PM

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Comment author: gfrlog 08 January 2011 06:38:35PM 0 points [-]

The point isn't to make it more random, the point is to make it more trustworthy. You can participate in the process and be confident that the result is random without having to put any trust in the other participants.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 09 January 2011 10:23:46PM 0 points [-]

Regardless, your original language claiming it made it more random was correct, because it does make it more hard-to-predict-but-with-clear-symmetry, aka random.