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A controller may have strong expected performance while retaining a single very large failure case.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“Because we cannot give like Alan-finity control, uh like Alan-finity guarantees. So because everything is sampling, sampling and kind of absolute uh maximal errors don't really play well with uh one another. You can have uh a control which in in expectation is really really nice, but has one really really huge failure case.”Play from 1:35:24Report a misattribution
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