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Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“I don't know maybe it's it's just me, maybe I'm just unlucky, but if I look at the papers I'm reviewing, they're really incremental all of them. And I I I don't fault all of all of the people there for for publishing like this, because first of all it's got re it's rewarded, and secondly, it doesn't make sense to go and say, well I'm setting up a big deep learning theory, I I write this book uh over over my P_H_D_ like I I don't do cumulative, I actually do a manuscript, I I have in the end,”Play from 1:22:44Report a misattribution
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