Comment on I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying MarcusComments−wyldfire6mo"I expected an automaton to be a good source of entropy and it turns out it is not."BTW LLM here is doing a great job of emulating humans. They are not good at this task either.Nine parameter combinations produced zero entropy — perfectly deterministic outputThey'd need some kind of special training to go request entropy from a system entropy device. Behaving deterministically is a feature, not a bug.−emp173446moJust because the LLM happens to be bad at something humans are also bad at, doesn’t mean the system is “emulating humans”.
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"I expected an automaton to be a good source of entropy and it turns out it is not."
BTW LLM here is doing a great job of emulating humans. They are not good at this task either.
They'd need some kind of special training to go request entropy from a system entropy device. Behaving deterministically is a feature, not a bug.
Just because the LLM happens to be bad at something humans are also bad at, doesn’t mean the system is “emulating humans”.