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jderick
on Dec 9, 2008
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Ask HN: What's your philosophy?
I never said there was anything random. Only non-deterministic. Of course, we are arguing philosophy, so experiments are useless.
mattmaroon
on Dec 9, 2008
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People have, throughout the ages, attributed to randomness (or now non-determinism) things they couldn't understand.
steveplace
on Dec 9, 2008
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Or they attributed it to a higher power (fatalism/determinism).
Pick your poison.
eru
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I'd like to hold the opposite view: There is randomness but the world is still deterministic. Just imagine there was a big one-time table of random numbers generated with the world. Whenever a random bit is needed, it's gets taken from the table.
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