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Alexander Mattick suggests that representations may need to form a spectrum: lower-level representations allow for change with fewer constraints, while higher-level abstract representations are privileged for being more known and invariant.

Tim Scarfe · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026

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“a spectrum of representations where we admit fewer constraints because we allow for the fact that lower level representations change as we interact with them, but maybe we privilege higher abstract representations that are more known and invariant.”

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