For root drives (where recovery may be required) and database drives it still serves a purpose, IMHO.

We’ve been doing it for a long time. Linus is from Finland.

I’m going to get downvoted to oblivion, I’m fully aware.

There are many things I don’t know anything about. But I do know a fair bit about this area.

And with great respect to the worriers, this just will not happen.

The investment team that’s bought EA have many other “western” investments they’ve never interfered with, even though they do a great deal of things that the orthodoxy in Saudi Arabia would disagree with. The layers between “what I [claim] to believe” and “make me the most amount of money” are many and includes people from all over the world. If anyone thinks Saudi royalty will sit and make determinations about what games EA will ship they can stop worrying right now. The Saudi monarchy is worrying about two things only: As much money as possible and staying in power.

This is an investments like so many others. It will be ordered to profit-maximise - and if that requires one-upping Doom in gore, and shipping a new edition of Gay Paradise 2000 every 6 months - they will do exactly that.

This is a complete storm in a tea cup.

The function is deterministic, agreed. The implementation is almost always not. Hardware floating point addition is not associative. So a GPU kernel that splits a reduction differently (ie interleaving it with anything else, like running your graphics, or sharing your work with other users on the same hardware) will produce different results over different runs even at temperature 0.0.

Determinism is almost always impossible when dealing with floating point on a multi-process/multi-user system.

There are attempts to create batch invariant language models (https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/batch_invariant_ops) but all the major ones are not.

No. Floating point arithmetic and ordering of operations won’t make 0.0 deterministic.

Exactly this. If you made an LLM that had deterministic code output then I’m all up for saying “AI is a compiler for human language”. But until then AI is most definitely not a compiler.

95% AI text agree. It reeks.

Guys, guys, it’s not an OR, it’s an AND.

We need both nuclear AND renewables.