[Cryptography] All dice are loaded?

Stephan Neuhaus stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch
Sun Aug 10 13:39:01 EDT 2014


On 2014-08-09, 04:03, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
> 2014-08-08 9:35 GMT+02:00 Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch>:
> 
>> On a philosophical note, indeed all dice are loaded.  They have to be.
>> If all the sides were the same, we couldn't say which face was up.
>>
>> Fun,
>>
>> Stephan
>>
> 
> Loaded refers to (balance of) weight, a projection of reality that does not
> at all have to interfere with our ability to identify a side.

My point was not a practical one, but a philosophical one.  The only way
to avoid bias (from a philosophical point of view) is to make all faces
exactly equal, aka indistinguishable.

Fun,

Stephan
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