(December 6, 2018 at 4:01 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Or..... we're staring at a pile of garbage insisting that a diamond just has to be in there, somewhere...it's only an issue of lumping it up just right.
But you don't know. Even randomness can yield results. No different than trying to catch a fish in a muddy pond. You can't see any fish, but based on what you know already, you can optimally improve your chances of catching one. Even if you don't know the optimal spot, you could just happen to cast in the right spot anyway and catch one. But if I assume there are no fish anywhere in the pond, there's 0 percent chance that I'll catch one. That doesn't mean I won't come up empty handed, but my chances go from 0 to possible. And yes, I'm talking about "fish", just so it doesn't drift.