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TheAncientGeek comments on Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaronson’s "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 22 April 2014 11:00:55AM *  1 point [-]

My thoughts exactly. Real randomness and sufficiently advanced pseudo randomness would be equally good for practical purposes, all other things being equal, but it might well have been easier to tap into noise than evolve a PRNG. So we may have ended up with incompatibilist FW by a kind if accident.