OccamsTaser comments on How would not having free will feel to you? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OccamsTaser 23 June 2013 04:28:36AM -1 points [-]

You seem to be ascribing magical properties to one source of randomness.

Free will is not the same as randomness.

What special 'diversity' is being caused by 'free will' that one couldn't get by, say, cutting back a little bit on DNA repair and error-checking mechanisms? Or by amplifying thermal noise? Or by epileptic fits?

Diversity that each individial agent is free to optimize.

Comment author: gwern 23 June 2013 04:34:09AM -1 points [-]

Free will is not the same as randomness.

In your usage, there is nothing distinguishing free will from randomness.

Diversity that each individial agent is free to optimize.

Huh? How is your link at all related?

What freedom to optimize does 'free will' give you that a RNG or PRNG of any kind, from thermal fluctuations to ionizing or cosmic radiation, does not?

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