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Wouldn't quantum effects have some influence on who gets cancer from background radiation, and wouldn't the impact of this ripple in a chaotic way throughout the world so that, say, Petrov isn't the one on duty on 9/26/1983?
Absolutely.
Human minds are a lot more stable than they feel - a decision that feels "close; 60/40" would still fall on the 60% side >>60% of the time - but chaos will quickly bubble up through other channels.