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Tom McGrath sees a fundamental disagreement with Richard Sutton over whether simple, externally supplied scalar rewards are sufficient for training.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“I think there's a sort of disagreement at base with Richard Sutton about rewards and their sort of sufficiency or like simple scalar rewards that are provided externally from an environment.”
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