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A useful density assigns sufficiently high probability to desirable outcomes and sufficiently low probability to other outcomes.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“Ultimately kind of what you're actually interested in is just kind of a density which has which is high enough on the kind of good parts and low enough on everything else. And that of course then gives you kind of that then goes into the discussion of like a prior.”Play from 15:26Report a misattribution
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