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Local-optimization methods can be highly precise, but a bad batch can make their subproblem unsolvable, requiring care to avoid that setting.

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

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“And that has some nice properties.”
“It can be very very precise,”
“but now you need to be really really careful not to maneuver yourself into uh like a effectively an unsolvable setting where like your sub problem is unsolvable because you had a bad batch.”
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