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When an optimization problem's solution is already known, minimizing the error between a candidate and that solution yields a convex problem that the speaker says works immediately.

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

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“I have my x star as my actual solution, and just write down as like minimise the error between x uh x and x star. It's a convex problem, it instantly works.”
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