[mattpallissard]

> Arguably then, from a truly omniscient perspective, nothing, not even the physical world, is truly random

Technicality or practicality? This is one of those mathematician vs engineer topics. I'm reminded of this lkml thread from a few years back.

https://lwn.net/ml/netdev/CAHk-=wiSw7zYVUxiGT=_TPx1fqtNNYgu0...

[valine]

Even from an omniscient perspective it isn’t remotely clear that quantum waveform collapse isn’t entirely random.

Quantum random number generators should be empirically nondeterministic.