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[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Nah it's a paradox. There's no such thing as just a freestanding Monte Carlo test that you can just "run" - you do actually need to define enough parameters to make it tell you anything.

This kind of self-referential stuff feels like a proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorems with extra steps.