I used my free will. I chose to not do it.
Was that really free will, or were you destined to not do it?
Fate decided that the website doesn't work on mobile phones.
Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand
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#32Whee, I did pretty well against it, managed to be at around 30%. https://imgur.com/a/GmaE45k
(And no, I didn't write a Perl script, or have multiple goes to game the score, I just “tried not to do what I thought it'd think I'd do”.)
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#33From the Github description, a quote: "In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next. It’s actually very easy to write a program that will make the right prediction about 70% of the time. Most people don’t really know how to type randomly. They’ll have too many alternation…
Free will is equivalent to randomness with many (asymptotically infinite) degrees of freedom.
Not sure if the experiment tests this. (Pressing a different key or closing the browser tab are also variables in this probability distribution.)
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#34Mobile users dont have any free will I guess.
This feels more true than it should.
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#35Something about the feedback of being able to see when it was guessing wrong made me beat way more often than 50%, just by mixing it up or being a little unpredictable when I thought it was going to catch on to me or guessed a few in a row. I was consistently in the 20-30% for a large amount of guesses.
But when I started trying to type random keys as fast as possible it started getting a lot more right.
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#36The question is never if we have free will or not. The question is if we are in a state where free will is available or not. For example, when I’m aware that there is space around myself, then I’m also aware that there are thoughts, feeling in the body, breath etc. In this state, I believe, it’s possible to choose. In this test I can choose the only press the other key and this algorithm doesn’t do so well. Then some…
The universe led up to this moment where you fool yourself into thinking you have free will just cause you sat still for a bit. Doesn't mean much. Think about it, if the universe is all predetermined, how peaceful your mental state is or isn't has no impact on it. We all either have free will or not, but breathing deep isn't gonna trigger it.
Free will is any random process with an asymptotically infinite number of degrees of freedom, by definition.
Are humans such a process?
Who knows, but attempts to model individual humans have certainly failed before. (We need lots of humans in aggregate to successfully model them, once the central limit theorem starts working.)
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#37100%, I just alternated "f" & "d".
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#38Mobile users dont have any free will I guess.
"Hacker's Keyboard" was supposed to let you pull up the keyboard anywhere but some system update broke it. I got around it with Teamviewer to my desktop.
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#39Mobile users dont have any free will I guess.
Apparently someone hasn't been reading their user agreements very closely, have they?
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#40hmm hovered around 53-54%