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Comment author: othercriteria 05 June 2012 06:44:56PM 1 point [-]

But how could the universe manage to obey a probability distribution?

How could it not? The Kolmogorov axioms are not very restrictive.

Obviously, the probability distribution over the state of the universe is not going to be as easy to characterize as the die's Multinomial(1/6,1/6,1/6,1/6,1/6,1/6).