wedrifid comments on Can you recognize a random generator? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 December 2011 08:51:58PM 2 points [-]

From a Bayesian viewpoint, no generator is inherently random. It is our inability to predict the outcome which makes the output "random."

Bayesianism is agnostic on the subject - it's physics that has an opinion. A rather strong opinion.

Comment author: DanielLC 28 December 2011 09:32:29PM 1 point [-]

Physics only tells you if you can predict the later output from the earlier output. It can't tell you what you know about the later output. If I flip a coin, it's random what it will land on before I flip it, but it has a probability near one of having landed on whatever I saw after I flipped it.