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by AaronAPU 327 days ago
We’re so unaccustomed to working with non-deterministic computer tech that rather than acknowledge they are hit-or-miss, everyone just picks one side and goes all-in on it.

Which sounds an awful lot like politics.

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> We’re so unaccustomed to working with non-deterministic computer tech

The whole history of computer history is about making computing deterministic, after we found out that having generative anything (Recursion, Context-Free grammar,...) is a double-edged sword. So for any known set of inputs, you want the output to be finite and non-zero, and all items having the correct properties.

All of physics was like that until QM
"non-deterministic" is a weird way to say "mangles data 1/3 to 1/2 the time"