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The speaker thinks that most other estimators, including decision trees, share the property that effective fitting difficulty need not grow with irrelevant dimensions.

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

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“And in fact I think the same thing is true for most other estimators as well. Like if you think about like a decision tree, same property.”
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