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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
I'm not too sure what's going on in this thread anymore so can someone just drop me a line when we're burning all the scientists please.
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Essentially its the age old argument of frequencist vs bayesian. Since i think frequencists are weirdos who live in dark holes id tend to agree with traveler that there is no such thing as random (in the literal sense), rather just a lack of information.
That said even if you work out all the governing equations of a system you're still stuffed by deterministic chaos, which hinders a complete appreciation of whats going on.
Its all become a bit arse over tit because on top of all this frequencist v bayesian debating, the 'nature of the universe' has entered the fray, ie traveler is (as far as i can tell) bringing in the strong anthropic principle 'the universe is precise, god didn't gamble with eternity' etc.
Whilst i broadly agree with his take on probability applying those arguments across the multiverse in some vague notion is confusing and odd.
JBG, how come ireland doesn't have any fighter jets?