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A latent variable can be understood as a distribution over a probability.

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

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“latent because the latent is effectively is a is a distribution over, let's say a probability,”
“it could be.”
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