What Grant Sanderson thinks about reinforcement learning

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1. 30 Jun 2026

   Our readingTo reward the instinct that a new idea is worth having, training would have to score the smallness of the concepts a solution needs, not just whether it solved the problem.

   Their wordsUh but I don't think it's easy but I do think it's something you would have to do in order to uh reward the gawwa like instinct rather than just rewarding have you solved a problem.

   ↗Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?youtube.com 4th of 23 in this recording