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    1 year ago

    The Borg still adapt even if they use a randomly changing sequence, which means even in the future of Star Trek, they haven’t actually found a way for computers to generate real random numbers and it’s just an algorithm to simulate it, which of course the Borg can extrapolate from.

    You’d think they’d have quantum mechanics on lock by the 24th century.

    • @marcos
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      61 year ago

      I would expect their random numbers to have at least 128 bits of entropy. Evidently, they have 2 or 3.

    • @Cringe2793
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      21 year ago

      Don’t the borg only adapt after they get shot? They need to experience it to adapt.

    • @nicoweio
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      21 year ago

      That’s an interesting idea, although I’d say in that case they just “meta-adapted”, so that even truly random variations in the same degrees of freedom would not have helped.