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virgil_disgr4cetoday at 2:28 AM2 repliesview on HN

> A one word change to a prompt/spec will produce a drastically different program

So in other words, determinism (or lack thereof) is the hard problem!


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ChadNauseamtoday at 2:30 AM

A deterministic program must have the same output for the same input, but determinism does not restrict the outputs for different inputs

ddtaylortoday at 2:30 AM

Obviously they are cryptographic hashing functions as they exhibit an avalanche effect!