pnrjulius comments on But There's Still A Chance, Right? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 03 April 2012 02:45:57AM 10 points [-]

The probability of generating THAT SEQUENCE is enormously, nigh-incomprehensibly tiny.

The probability of generating A SEQUENCE LIKE THAT (which appears as patternless, which contains no useful information, which has a very high information entropy) is virtually 1.

If I generated another sequence and it turned out exactly identical to yours, that would indeed be compelling (indeed, almost incontrovertible) evidence that something other than random chance was at work.