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Comment by gamblor956

2 days ago

Those are deterministic choices...

Deterministic means that the results are not random, not that they are known at the time of the initial choice.

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s1artibartfast  1 day ago

This seems like splitting hairs. The outcome are not known or calcuable.

I suppose a dice roll or the motions of a butterfly are deterministic as well, if you have a full model capable of fully modeling the world.

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