[ExI] Claude for president?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 12:49 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> LLMs are complex enough that, even with the controls as you say, it
>> seems likely that two people - or even the same person - running the
>> exact same non-trivial query two times would often enough get
>> non-identical answers.
>
> It seems that way, but LLMs are themselves fully deterministic. So long as the exact same input and context are provided, their output is the same. In practice, however, the tokens a LLM deterministically predicts as most likely are then randomly selected by a higher level process to make the writing more dynamic. This is driven by the "heat" parameter. But by using a pseudorandom selection with the same seed, identical output can be ensured.

This is true in the sense that the universe may be fully
deterministic: technically true (possibly) but unreproducible in
practice (given the complexity and number of inputs of a LLM worth
advising the President of the United States) due to the very high
number of variables.