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Comment by wartywhoa23

8 hours ago

False dichotomy, we're talking about the same.

In the framework of Laplace's Demon, no single human, the whole humankind nor any machine or algorithm it creates is capable of 100% precise prediction of anything at the level of operation of said Demon. If there's any experiment proving otherwise, I'd like to know.

If you insist that we talk about 100% prediction of my personal choices, let's play a simple game of guessing UUIDs. I generated one and changed a single digit in it at my free (or predetermined) will. Here it is, protected by another UUID which I'll post as soon as you make your prediction.

https://eu.onetimesecret.com/secret/2ttgx3flngktuelcswh861hm...

  [nothing] is capable of 100% precise prediction of anything at the level of operation of said Demon

No see I actually agree. See my original post:

  It's complicated and functionally impossible to predict with any certainty, but the future *is* certain.

I thought your disagreement was with my central point of strict determinism, meaning past, future and present are all set in stone, but you've agreed with this on account of the Demon. So I am entirely lost on what your point actually is.