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Although RL learns less information per sample than supervised learning, that lower information uptake may be beneficial for continual learning.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“I wrote a post a few months earlier arguing that RL learns much less information per sample than supervised learning.”
“But this may be a good thing rather than a bad thing.”Play from 14:51Report a misattribution
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