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Wait, didn't Ed Thorp argue for the exact opposite – if you have a super-person that can guarantee lack of bias, then you also have absolute Newtonian predictability on virtue of the mechanical perfectitude. The randomness must come from somewhere, and it comes from imperfections which also incidentally introduce bias.


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