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SPEAKER_00 argues that encoding constraints as reward penalties can amount to extra work that avoids stating the constraint directly.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“Like it's they just they just reframe them as well It's a reward function because yeah,”
“of course like you can put them into as penalties But ultimately they are just kind of you're just doing a lot of work”
“To not write down a constraint.”Play from 1:39:48Report a misattribution
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