TheAncientGeek comments on Is Determinism A Special Case Of Randomness? - Less Wrong
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Alternatively randomness could be a special case of determinism. Imagine a deterministic universe that branches into two different universes each time someone in the universe flips a coin. In one branch the coin lands head and the other it lands tails. To the people living inside the universe it would appear like a fundamentally random process, but in fact the universe is entirely deterministic.
In any case this doesn't have anything to do with free will. If you let a random number generator make your decisions for you, that's not free will.
Thats subjective randomness being a special case of objective determinism.