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A hierarchical abstract system requires lower-level systems to guarantee invariants that upper-level systems can rely on.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“it becomes really, really difficult to effectively the fundamental constraint that you want for like a hierarchical abstracted system is that the lower systems guarantee some invariant that the upper systems can actually guarantee.”Play from 1:56:51Report a misattribution
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