The speaker thinks reinforcement learning produces some transfer across domains, including between math and code and between puzzles and math.

“i mean i think a lot of this as well is just like i think rl does generalize a bit like suddenly you get like some transfer between like math and code or like puzzles and math and this kind of stuff also just like the amount the sheer amount of environments i think that people are targeting is just like vastly greater so like you know before when you try to do you know some task which like you do in your daily life like two years ago like the labs wouldn't really care about this they wouldn't like train”