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opinion claim

The speaker considers in-distribution individual language-model calls desirable because they will probably produce the right answer.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“And this is a very desirable property,”
“I think, for obvious reasons,”
“like if every task is in distribution for each individual language.”
“language model call you will probably get to the right answer um so exactly”
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