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One obvious difference (which you may or may not have intended) is that on Tuesday, all your decisions need to be made consciously and with some explicit calculation. This makes the decision-making process more cumbersome, and also means you engage different bits of mental machinery from Monday, which will lead to decisions that differ in various ways.
I gravely doubt whether the Tuesday scenario is actually anything remotely like possible, but that may not matter.
All the above would be just the same if you were just rolling dice. Is the real point of the question something to do with the quantumness of the random number generator? If so, I think you need to be more explicit about what sort of difference you think there might be (or think that others think there might be).
Hardware random number generators often use quantum effects for randomness. Though I agree that specifying quantum is pointless.
Yeah, that's not what I was getting at.
Not for every single decision, but let's say for 10 / day.
Yes, the quantumness is the point. Let's say I'm shooting photons through a half-silvered mirror or something like that.
By the way, "there is no difference" is a perfectly acceptable answer, if it's true.
I would be astonished if it made any difference. Not least because I bet your decisions already are well enough quantum-randomized: the universe is a quantum system, after all, and while maybe most everyday things can be adequately described as <something non-quantum> plus small errors, those small errors often grow exponentially over time.