The Aaronson Oracle: the classic timing-based mind-reading experiment back on HN
routeroff · hn · 2026-10-14
The Aaronson Oracle, a web demo based on Scott Aaronson's algorithm, predicts your 0/1 keypresses before you press them by exploiting timing patterns. If you don't consciously randomize, it routinely guesses correctly over 70% of the time — a vivid lesson in how poor human intuition of randomness is.
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