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Researcher Argues Deep RL Offers No Mechanistic Theory of Generalization

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A reason to be skeptical that current deep RL contributes to a theory of general intelligence: even if you know the full dynamics of video-game state-variables, studying fully-specified reward-max Bellman equations gives you no mechanistic theory of what generalization is.

11:54 AM · May 29, 2026 View on X