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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject The goal was never goodsimulation; it wasanswering counterfactuals… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 Learned approximations of slow simulators change what science is possible, by turning a six-month screening run into something you do over lunch. Learned approximationsof slow simulators… JD Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30 If we live in a simulation, whoever is running it does not know how it ends, because nobody runs a simulation whose outcome they already know. If we live in asimulation, whoever is… EM Elon Musk — holds since 2023-11-09 Building a realistic simulator is exactly as hard as building the agent, because the simulator is itself a large AI model. Building a realisticsimulator is exactly as… DD Dmitri Dolgov — holds since 2026-08-03 Value functions only make reinforcement learning faster: anything you can do with one you can also do without it, just more slowly. Value functions onlymake reinforcement… IS Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 Object orientation is overrated: it was born of simulation and is now applied everywhere, including where it does not fit. Object orientation isoverrated: it was born… RH Rich Hickey — holds since 2018-01-02 Samuelson's random-walk analogy for stock prices was mathematical showing-off dressed up as a claim about the real world. Samuelson's random-walkanalogy for stock… AG Andrew Gelman — holds since 2023-05-27 AG Andrew Gelman — turned since 2023-05-30 The value of an ambitious experiment target is not hitting it but the conversation about what would have to be true to hit it. The value of anambitious experiment… AC Albert Cheng — holds since 2025-10-05 Learning from a reward ten years away is a solved problem: a value function trained by temporal-difference learning rewards the steps along the way. Learning from a rewardten years away is a… RS Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26
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