Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
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Re: Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
#20.375 -- I guess I'm not perfectly random.
Re: Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
#3Well, it's less about your 'free will' and more about one's inability to generate a random number.
I'm not going to take the time to test it, but if you flipped a coin before each key press, this algorithm would eventually get to 50% accuracy. But in the short term it would probably be <50%, because it assumes it won't actually get random input.
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#4No explanation given of how this has anything to do with free will.
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#6No explanation given of how this has anything to do with free will.
Click through to the github
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#8I counted up from 0 in binary (excluding leading zeroes) and even with a completely predictable series, it only did slightly better than 50%. I was expecting more (that on-line game of 20 questions was freaky good).
Re: Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
#9What happens if i open the source code for this, run it in node, get the probability of guessing f or d, and then guess the one that's lower?
This is like showing someone an elaborate mirror, and saying, "See? My copy of you does exactly what you're doing to do! You don't have free will!"
All you have to do is put another mirror in the middle and show them that it doesn't work as they claim.
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#10I am stuck at around 0.76.
I think its flawed - Whatever I press it never changes by more than 1%
How can the prediction for 'f' be 0.764 and for 'd' be 0.763 - they don't add up to 1.