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Re:John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality by szvsw on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:09PM (#41726109)
> The simulation framing tends to draw deterministic connotations.

I bristle at this because there is obviously a massive amount of probabilistic programming methodology and stochastic simulation techniques out there, but at the end of the day in terms of connotation you are probably correct…

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Re:John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality by Mattasher on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:02PM (#41726959)
I think there's a case to be made that, if the simulation hypothesis is correct, we are god's dice[1]. We exist as agents to introduce randomness in the form of free will or enough chaos to ensure non-determinism, at least from the perspective of whatever force built this place.

[1] https://mattasher.substack.com/p/btf-6-gods-dice

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Re:John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality by medstrom on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:18AM (#41729523)
Sounds like anthropocentric bias. If you can implement a true RNG for some things, why not for all things?
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