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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 Sept 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,”Play from 1:34:39Report a misattribution
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