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The speaker says “inference” is an overloaded term used in both logic and Bayesian methods, among other contexts.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026
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“We give people not enough credit when we talk about kind of doing infor so first of inference is a really really overloaded term, right? If you go into logic, like they say we do inference, like logical inference. And if you go into like Bayesian they they all say they also do inference. Now I say, well we are actually also doing inference. And so I I think we have to be a little bit careful not to to use the term kind of too liberally because and like I have to be careful myself.”45:51Report a misattribution
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