Comment by ants_everywhere
5 days ago
Yes we've all heard the AIs are not deterministic trope ad nauseam , but that's unrelated to my point.
MCMC is also not deterministic, and yet people learn how to use it well. Being non-deterministic is kind of the whole point of anything based on statistics. It's deterministic conditioned on the seed.
MCMC is reliably predictable. I believe I made it clear in my last comment that that was the goal, not actual run-to-run determinism which is achievable.