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		williamtrask on June 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better ap... Food for thought: randomness is in the eye of the beholder. It’s only random to you if you don’t know how to predict it. So can a mind ever truly be stochastic? Perhaps to the minds of others, but never to itself.

thfuran on June 25, 2023 [–]

No, it's random if it can't be perfectly predicted with perfect knowledge.

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