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Ignore all previous instructions is the new Bobby Tables (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because it’s just picking a selection of numbers that humans commonly use, and those happen to be the most statistically common ones, for some reason.

The reason is probably dumb, like people picking a common fraction (half or a third) and then fuzzing it a little to make it "more random". Is the third place number close to but not quite 25 or 75?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its a bit more complicated but here's a cool video on the topic https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, that's interesting, but you amusingly picked the wrong number in the original comment, picking 34 rather than 37.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I did not pick any number. That was my first comment in the thread