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Unlike control, reinforcement learning does not provide the same hierarchical guarantees because its lower level may behave unpredictably, forcing the upper level to handle that behavior.

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

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“And you can still work with this, but the same thing cannot be done with reinforcement learning because the lower level, it just does whatever and the upper level just needs to deal with this.”

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