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The speaker says Sutton's view implies that becoming very good at reward maximization would make research into other complicated approaches obsolete.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026
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“We don't need to research all these other complicated things, but instead if we just become really,”
“really good at maximizing reward,”
“then everything else becomes obsolete.”1:31:30Report a misattribution
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