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Constraints can support sensible exploration by removing irrelevant regions of the state space.

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

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“Fundamentally then you you still need to externalize some structure. If it's not the constraints, then it's the the way you actually generate the output. So I do think there is something to it with this idea that constraints can help doing like sensible exploration, but basically removing things from the state space which are irrelevant. The complexity here is kind of actually forming how to compare these unconstrained versus constrained settings. Because”
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