theory building
3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2026 by Daniel Litt · across every show →
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Sep 1, 2026
Litt: Reinforcement learning struggles to reward intermediate mathematical theory building
“I think what is definitely true is that, like, the skill of, like, developing a theory or, like, building your understanding of some poorly understood object is, like, a fuzzier one. So it might be harder, you know I guess you can try, you can tell it, you kno…”
Sep 1, 2026 bullish
Sep 1, 2026 bearish
Litt: Frontier AI models cannot autonomously perform mathematical theory building
“So like, I've tried to get both, both Fable and ChatGPT, 5.6 Sol, I guess, to do some kind of theory building, and it's like, they're not, they definitely are not good at it autonomously, at least with, like, whatever scaffolding I've set up. But with some hin…”