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title: "Arbitrariness and randomness"
date: 2022-06-30 21:19:13 +0100
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Veritasium seems to think that "arbitrariness" is the same as "randomness".
Without true randomness, upon repetition, the guard will gain information on
how the renumbering method was chosen, thus decreasing the prisoners'
probability of success.

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