Bugmaster comments on Burdensome Details - Less Wrong
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When I hear "high-quality random numbers" I think "crypto-quality random numbers" - which certainly suffice, but are clearly overkill...
You would be amazed at what tabletop gamers do and do not consider "overkill" :-)
EDIT: In the interests of full disclosure, I am a tabletop gamer, and yet I do consider crypto-quality random numbers to be overkill, but I may be in the minority on this.
Yes, but those are typically the same people who have rituals around their dice. Which, on reflection, seems kinda contradictory...