Almost any game you play has some kind of randomness or pseudorandomness which means that things change overtime somewhat unpredictably.

大多数你所玩过的游戏都有某种,随机数或者伪随机数,这就意味着每个事件都存在不可预测性。

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In the light of human mortality, the disinterest of the gods, the chanciness of life, what can man do to achieve happiness and immortality?

既然人生苦短,又没有什么神灵保佑,生死都只是随机事件,那我们怎么才能达到幸福和不朽呢

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In the course of backing itself up, there are sort of random events flash to consciousness and get put together in a coherent story.

在备份过程中，有些事件会随机地浮现到意识层面,被拼凑成一个连贯的故事。

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This is magical thinking and it affects people because it gives them a sense of confidence and power over events that are thought to be random or uncontrollable.

这是神奇式思考,而它也影响人们,因为它给人自信和力量,去应对那些随机或者不可控的事件

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In order to understand probability, you have to take things as coming from a random event and people don't clearly have that in their mind from an intuitive standpoint.

为了理解概率,你要把事件想象成是随机发生的,但人们没有那样,清晰直观的认识

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Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

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