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Hank Rearden wrote:

Randomness is a concept of measurement, specifically a measure of the
lack of understanding/analytical ability by humans of a causal system.


But the notion of a causal system is based on observing a set of instances
where one event follows another, from which which we infer a notion of cause
and effect. We then extrapolate that notion to instances that we haven't
observed, or which haven't occured yet, and thereby impose a notion of
causality on what is, literally, unknown.

A random dataset could appear to be ordered to us, and we would be none the
wiser.


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