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Reinforcement-learning maximalists argue that any objective can technically be represented as a reward function.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026
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“The idea of, especially the reinforcement learning maximalists, is that they say, well, technically, I can write down any objective I want as some form of reward.”1:29:21Report a misattribution
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