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robinhouston on Nostr: nprofile1q…rhmdu nprofile1q…4udvu Yes, I think that's the underlying effect. I've ...

Yes, I think that's the underlying effect. I've talked to several people who have been told “events of probability 0 are not necessarily impossible” and mentally appended “…just very unlikely” which is not at all the right way to think about it. I've seen people worry that a randomised algorithm terminates with probability 1, and think that means there's a possibility it will run for ever.