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Latent variables are unobserved and do not themselves contain fundamental information.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“And the reason is that why the latents themselves don't hold any information. Like a latent is completely unobserved. They don't hold fundamental information.”Play from 1:02:27Report a misattribution
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