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  • There’s the possibility that there’s something else at play that we don’t know, and maybe cannot fathom.

    The possibility that there is something hidden that we are not aware of is why Bell’s Theorem was such a revolution in physics. The experimental proof of Bell’s theorem won the nobel prize. There are no hidden variables. Probability is fundamental, not a result of some unknown process.

    The premise wasn’t that the computer was 100% perfect. It was 99.9% perfect. That is its good enough such that you should assume its correct. The premise could have said 75% and it wouldn’t change anything. Saying 99% makes it simpler for the reader to assume that the computer is correct.

    The computer is not supernatural. The premise does not say the computer is 100% accurate. The premise does not say that the computer can violate known laws of physics. The premise is that the computer knows your behavior.









  • If it’s not an all in one PC, those USB ports on the back of the monitor aren’t likely to be connected to anything.

    I’ve never used the monitor USB ports because they require another USB cable to go back to the PC so the monitor can act as a hub. So it’s not saving much clutter and isn’t easily accessible like a desktop USB hub.

    Furthermore, if the IT department has any security, it will have USB completely disabled. My wife worked in HR for a regular consumer brand and even those laptops were so locked down such that you couldn’t plug in a different mouse without IT approval. You couldn’t even boot to Linux to bypass because the bios was locked and the drive was Bitlockered.




  • Then the experiments may be flawed. We dont know what we dont know

    That’s the same excuse flat Earthers make. Yes every single observation made over the past 100 years could have been wrong and tomorrow we find out that all of quantum mechanics is wrong.

    There are a near infinite number of variables involved, but if we knew every variable, we could solve it.

    Take a single electron. You can’t define it’s position and motion (momentum) simultaneously. It is fundamentally unsolvable. There aren’t even hidden variables that we are unaware of. Bell’s inequality has been experimentally proven many times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell’s_theorem



  • You didn’t read the article. The computer isn’t watching you flip the coin and then switching the boxes at the last moment.

    The boxes are fixed before you enter the room. The computer has already predicted your choice.

    Which is beside the point that the OP posited using a random process to make the choice for you. The method of randomness isn’t the issue. That’s why I said a Geiger counter could be substituted for a coin flip.