CarlShulman comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tut 13 February 2010 07:24:22PM 1 point [-]

And one of the foundational (but non-obvious) assumptions of materialism is that nothing is truly random.

In that case I am not a materialist. I don't believe in any entities that materialists don't believe in, but I do believe that you have to resort to Many Worlds in order to be right and believe in determinism. Questions that amount to asking "which Everett branch are we in" can have nondeterministic answers.

Comment author: CarlShulman 13 February 2010 07:58:06PM 2 points [-]

Those sorts of question can arise in non-QM contexts too.