dxu comments on Is Determinism A Special Case Of Randomness? - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: DonaldMcIntyre 04 May 2015 01:56AM

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Comment author: dxu 04 May 2015 02:30:28AM *  3 points [-]

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "special case of randomness"? As far as I can tell, you don't ever really explain this within the post, from which I infer you probably think it obvious enough to not be worth explicitly saying. Whenever an author thinks this, however, it is usually untrue, and in fact I found (and still find) whatever you were trying to say completely non-obvious. I think it would greatly help discussion if you were to put a brief explanation of your idea within the post; that way readers won't be left floundering.

Comment author: DonaldMcIntyre 04 May 2015 04:03:10AM *  0 points [-]

I think I am confusing some terms above (randomness, probability, certainty, etc.) I will rethink and try to explain it by editing.