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Alexander Mattick says optimization may have many local optima, and constraints can make proposed trajectories difficult to keep feasible.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“and I have all of these local optimum. If I add constraints,”
“then it's very,”
“very easy to have a model which kind of, actually like most of these trajectories are proposed actually not really feasible,”Play from 2:09:54Report a misattribution
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