• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    18 days ago

    There are rules that govern stochasticity, and especially the behavior of large aggregates of things that indivdually behave stochastically. It’s not a tradeoff of 100% locked-down order or headless-chicken chaos. There’s a continuum.

    No one thinks it’s the truth

    Within a certain range of scale, speed and energy, it’s an excellent approximation of the truth.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      18 days ago

      Within a certain range of scale, speed and energy, it’s an excellent approximation of the truth.

      You could have just said “Yeah.”