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The speaker accepts that reinforcement learning's generality holds in the limit, but considers relying on it a very wasteful way to approach the world.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026

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“while I think this is true, in the limit,”
“I also think it's a very wasteful way of thinking about the world,”
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