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Dagon comments on Open Thread May 16 - May 22, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 22 May 2016 04:34:57PM 1 point [-]

If none of the participants can predict or influence the 50/50 outcome, then it's random. The procedure for generating the state doesn't matter - only that the individual events cannot be predicted and the aggregate converges toward a distribution.