ArisKatsaris comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - Less Wrong
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Hmmm. Well, that's in the full lenght version of which this is an extract. I notice that EYs disquisition, which is problably longer, doesn't suffer from the problem of being "too long".
Which instance of "random" do you think should have been pseudo random? Note that there are devices commercially marketed as supplying "real" randomness based on quantum physics.
Says who? Are you saying that the use of randomisation in software is always a misttake, that programmers who feel it is necessary are just incompetent?
It is true that a random number is no good in itself, but equally you can't solve every problem with pure determinism. So the value of a deterministic+random algorithm is in its determinsm+randomness.
According to word count tool:
"Thou Art Physics" article: 1032 words
Your comment: 1495 words
But I'm not thinking of the number of words alone but the number of words per point of communicated meaning.