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In domains where damage is very costly, performance that is good only in expectation or most of the time is often insufficient, so stronger guarantees are needed.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026

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“I think having something like this is,”
“it's necessary for many domains where actually like a”
“like damage is really really really bad and having just a trans in expectation that damage and good things happen most of the time is often not good enough like you want stronger things where then suddenly you go into things like robust reinforcement learning or something like this or like what i do for my phd constraint reinforcement learning where effectively you do a little bit more just to get this little bit of an extra boost in”
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