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Remember that a group of Minecraft players managed to reverse-engineer the seed of a map based on a single low res screenshot using, among other things, the shape of clouds.

Human ingenuity is really impressive sometimes.



Exactly. Human ingenuity at scale can figure out wild things. I'm reminded of back when I played MMOs. No matter how hard the company tried to 'balance' the characters, it would only take a couple of days before players figured out optimal solutions that the company often didn't take into account.




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