> While the result needs to be exact, there is not one correct way to get there. The means by which you obtain a correct result do not need to be deterministic!

but HOW something is achieved matters, saying you don’t care about the how shows a very weak ethical and legal position. to be frank, anyone with this attitude should be kept away from power as much as possible

when you specify the goal “solve this milennium mathematical problem” it matters whether the path to solve involved mathematics, or whether it involved hacking huggingface, or developing ransomware to buy and allocate more compute.

similar to how in business, if you buy diamonds, it matters whether they are synthetic or whether they are blood diamonds

if you buy sand, it matters if it was brought from the desert or a beach

if you hire remote drivers, it matters if they are in your country, or if they are children

the means matter, not just the ends