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AI training is stuck in a Frankenstein multi-stage local minimum
A frontier researcher argues that pretraining, post-training, RL, and tool scaffolding should give way to continual interaction and causal training
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A frontier researcher argues that pretraining, post-training, RL, and tool scaffolding should give way to continual interaction and causal training
Causal vs observational agency. Agent actions (a) should be treated as interventions, not as evidence for hypotheses (p). Actions by other agents or tool outputs are evidence (o).