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Some potentially useful abstractions may never be put into practice because the right person does not discover them.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“that's it doesn't g kind of you can't do fuzzy logic to do inference on fuzzy logic. For Bayesian you can you can effectively do do Bayesian inference to to learn a Bayesian model. I think that the reason we see certain abstractions and not other abstractions is just because ultimately someone picked them up and they worked really nicely. This also of course on the contrary means there are plenty of abstractions would be really really nice which never end up seeing like the the actual time of the day because”
“But they just were never discovered by the right person to actually use.”Play from 2:00:00Report a misattribution
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