Will it work out?

Does the question make you excited or anxious?

Randomness or leaving things to chance has always been a challenge for people.

So we reached for objects to give the unknown a Shape.

It started as bone carved into a cube. A stone with dots etched into its faces. Or a stick split to fall one way or another.

From the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia, Egypt to Rome, dice have been in our hands for over five thousand years.

They became more than games.

In the Bible, “casting lots” decided fates.

Caesar at the Rubicon made the die a metaphor for irreversible choice.

Einstein resisted the randomness of Quantum phenomena with the famous note to Max Born that shared the line “God does not play dice.”

Hawking remixed and expanded on Einsten, “God not only plays dice… but sometimes throws them where we cannot see.”

Each generation turned to dice not just to gamble, but to make sense of what can’t be controlled.

Chance, fate, probability. They were our first models of uncertainty.

Today, we stand before another kind of randomness: the token-by-token roll of large language models. Meanwhile we look within ourselves to challenge our own natural system and why it’s special. In looking outward then back in, some are scared and threatened; others, inspired by the gaps.

We claim to know the mechanism to LLMs, yet the outcomes feel uncertain. Like dice, they are predictable in structure, unpredictable in result.

The lesson to me isn’t to fight randomness, but to pause, recognize it, and work with it.

Every roll — whether in bone, bronze, or silicon is a mirror of how we wrestle with the unknown.

I’ve chose a path to just keep taking shots and, a lot of times, it doesn’t work out…

Roll tape 🤣