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In theory, yes. But we're more approaching philosophy with Laplace's demon at this point.

A more realistic example: we can theoretically predict the weather weeks in advance. In reality, it's pointless because there so much data needed to collect for that, and so many events to away the weather, that's its impractical past a few days in the future.



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