You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

DanArmak comments on Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: polymathwannabe 05 January 2015 12:48PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (150)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: DanArmak 06 January 2015 09:23:18AM *  1 point [-]

It's well known in the security industry / compsci that humans are are very bad at generating, and recognizing, random numbers. I can't recall if there's a name for this bias; there's the clustering illusion but that's about recognizing random numbers, not trying to generate them.

This paper tries to analyze why this is hard for humans to do.