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Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)

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392 points seanhunter | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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swayvil ◴[19 Nov 24 14:50 UTC] No.42184011[source]▶
This is clearly the law of conservation of reality at work.

Likewise, when you hear a word for the first time suddenly you hear it five times in a row. Or if you see somebody once you suddenly start running into them all over the place.

It's because it's cheaper to repeat past realities than to create new ones.

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1. __MatrixMan__ ◴[19 Nov 24 16:45 UTC] No.42185432[source]▶
So if computation in the enclosing universe got more expensive, they'd enable more aggressive optimizations, and we'd see the effect get stronger?
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2. Vecr ◴[19 Nov 24 16:52 UTC] No.42185510[source]▶
I don't think this is a real, non-psychological effect in general. For this coin flipping of this very particular method, yes the physics simulations look right, but in general it's not something I think exists, or would even reduce the compute needed for the universe.