alt Hacker NewsYou are mostly made of and operate on stochastic processes, this is why humans are not only able to reproduce, our reproductions are very self similar to the sets of inputs that make them. If suddenly you turned non-stochastic on everything you'd almost instantly die.
Moreso, if I took a quantum copy of you and replayed the same set of initial conditions billions of times they'd all behave exactly the same until enough randomness of the universe creeps in to start operating in non-linear ways.
Every prompt will behave non-deterministically when interacting with the real world long enough (which doesn't take long at all) because the outside physical world is stochastic but non-deterministic.
If I grep a file over and over again it’ll be long time before the universe affects the components enough to result in a different output.
If I ask an LLM to do the same thing twice it will do it differently.
Arguments are arguments but unless grounded in some kind of practical sense then they aren’t really useful and are more akin to something like “YOUR MOMS A STOCHASTIC PARROT!”