What Capable Agents Must Know: Selection Theorems for Robust Decision-Making under Uncertainty — mentioned by benlivengood

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:35:50 GMT

What I look forward to after research like https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02491, which demonstrate the necessity of world-modeling capability to achieve satisfactory performance on certain goals, is a refractor the SoTA test suites to demonstrate how much world-modeling is necessary in various task distributions. There have been a few years now of arguments about the level to which transformers do or do not have a world model (v.s. being purely stochastic parrots like early pre-trained LLMs) and now we have some tools to actually make quantifiable determinations.

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What Capable Agents Must Know: Selection Theorems for Robust Decision-Making under Uncertainty — mentioned by benlivengood