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Humans compress information when learning, and this compression supports generalization and reasoning.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“When we learn stuff,”
“there's clearly some kind of compression.”
“And this aids our generalization and rocking.”Play from 9:02Report a misattribution
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