Brain Teaser: Seemingly Random Number List Selection

[ Thanks to Mike Golvach for this link. ]

"We're just about at the end of the road, so I thought I'd make today's post a bit of a Brain Teaser. The answer to this is actually pretty interesting and (from my struggling with it) you'll either get it right away or it'll take you a good amount of time..."

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