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Note that he's talking about the same nondeterminism in that post that we're talking about here.


From the linked comment

> Process engineers for example have to account for human error rates. [...] Designing systems to detect these errors (which are highly probabilistic!)

> Likewise even for regular mechanical engineers, there are probabilistic variances in manufacturing tolerances.

I read them as relatively confined, thus probabilistic. When a human pushes the wrong button, an elephant isn't raining from the sky. Same way tolerances are bounded.

When requesting a JSON array from an LLM, it could as well decide this time that JSON is a mythological Greek fighter.


I'm just saying, it's a cite to a thread about the implications of AI-based nondeterminism, just like this one. That's all.




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