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If agents fail to generalize from short- to long-horizon tasks, it is unclear how training on white-collar tasks could enable them to build a business from scratch at Sam Walton’s level.

Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026

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“And if you can't generalize from short horizon to long horizon,”
“then how are agents supposed to generalize from getting trained at a bunch of white-collar tasks to, say,”
“having the ability to be dropped in the real world and build a business from scratch as well as Sam Walton?”
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