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The speaker says transfer from verifiable tasks to less verifiable tasks is an unexpected form of generalization that cannot be assumed in advance.
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“Also, generalization from these verifiable tasks to less verifiable ones.”
“This is also a type of generalization that there's no reason a priori to expect it.”10:33Report a misattribution
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