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Comment author: PhilGoetz 04 December 2010 06:03:11PM 0 points [-]

A random number generator has an astronomically low chance of generating a coherent sentence, never mind interesting or correct.

Good point. I would probably have to keep a careful record only of statements on yes/no questions to get around this.