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Not at all. That essay simply says that non-deterministic algorithms don't perform better than deterministic ones (for some meanings of 'non-deterministic algorithms'). But the claim that needs to be explained is how determinism helps to prevent "making truly spectacular mistakes".
Right. No doubt he is thinking he doesn't want a cosmic ray hitting his friendly algorithm, and turning it into an unfriendly one. That means robustness - or error detection and correction. Determinism seems to be a reasonable approach to this which makes proving things about the results about as easy as possible.