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>>14677443
>You can't because at the bottom of it, the whole concept of randomness springs out of the need to reason about possible outcomes in the absence of information. It's a mathematical formalizaion of a perspective of undecidability, and the key word here is "perspective". It's not about some true underlying nature of the things being modeled, but the nature of trying to reason about them with incomplete information.

yup.

when it involves significant things, you basically have to admit that it's involving models outside your competence and stay out.
The reversal; is if the model happens to be in some specialized area of your competence, in which you see significant underlying models that the public must concede as random.