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Trenton Bricken: belief

22 May 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

“Then going back to the paper you mentioned, aside from the caveats that Sholto brings up, which I think is the first order, most important, I think zeroing in on the probability space of meaningful actions comes back to the nines of reliability.”

— Trenton Bricken

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Speaker
Trenton Bricken
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 May 2025
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Yeah, at the end of the day, just signal and then correcting to it. Totally. Then going back to the paper you mentioned, aside from the caveats that Sholto brings up, which I think is the first order, most important, I think zeroing in on the probability space of meaningful actions comes back to the nines of reliability. Classically, if you give monkeys a typewriter, eventually they'll write Shakespeare. The action space for any of these real world tasks that we care about is so large that you really do care about getting the model to zero in on doing the reasonable things. To the extent that at some pass you’re like "Hey, you've got token space"...…

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