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Is sex a cryptographically secure random number generator?
7 points by jacobwilliamroy on July 21, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
How many bits of entropy are in my family tree? Which species produces the most entropy in the least amount of time?


I think you could rephrase it as "Is reproduction a cryptographically secure RNG?". The stuff I was thinking about before reading the extra text you wrote in addition to the question is not what you were asking for ;)


It's interesting how trying to formulate an answer to a left field question like this helps shine a light on areas where knowledge is lacking on both of those things.


Guess you can narrow that question down to "Can an infinite DAG be used as a random number generator?" which, I guess kinda trivially is yes? Probably provable practically using something like the Linux git tree using hashes as indicators of what to do.




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