Why the AI Determinism Argument Annoys Me
Why The AI Determinism Argument Annoys Me demofox2October 7, 20260 First up, who the heck am *I* to have an opinion on this? Well, I am a computer scientist specializing in deterministic sequences used in randomized algorithms. I stick to the bare metal of ML and don’t like to go into the highly abstracted levels that most modern ML people do, but yes.
- ▪Why The AI Determinism Argument Annoys Me demofox2October 7, 20260 First up, who the heck am *I* to have an opinion on this?
- ▪Well, I am a computer scientist specializing in deterministic sequences used in randomized algorithms.
- ▪I stick to the bare metal of ML and don’t like to go into the highly abstracted levels that most modern ML people do, but yes.
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Why The AI Determinism Argument Annoys Me demofox2October 7, 20260 First up, who the heck am *I* to have an opinion on this? Well, I am a computer scientist specializing in deterministic sequences used in randomized algorithms. Read my peer reviewed published papers on blue noise, read my blog posts on irrational numbers and the benefit of using them as pseudorandom number sources, read what I’ve written about using light weight cryptography to shuffle and group objects in constant time, with random access and inverse lookups using the Chinese remainder theorem. Watch my YouTube videos of the same.
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