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Originally posted by John Henry
If the lottery really is random and any combination of numbers can come up, why do we never see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?
The answer is that for every combination that can come up and make us go 'hmm, that's wierd' there are a million more that won't make us bat an eyelid. So the overwhelming probability is that any given observer will exist in one of the far more infinite number of mundane universes, rather than one of the bizzare ones.
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that's a great point. i was thinking about it and realized that it can be something very simple...
example: to me, the numbers 3 21 81 are my birthday... to anyone else, it would be completely random and meaningless.
very cool thread.