I quote Zen Mind Beginner's Mind a lot: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." It's like, the smarter someon

I quote Zen Mind Beginner's Mind a lot: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." It's like, the smarter someone gets, the more it trips them up when it comes to questions like the one Yann is trying to address. Because, "world modeling" doesn't have to mean that the system understands advanced physics and calculus. Look at our own brains – only analogies, I'm aware – and think about how much a child can infer about what will happen when you throw a ball at them. Are they 'calculating' trajectories? Not consciously. That would be too slow, regardless. Their brains have become wired through experience and evolution. Formally explaining why the ball will do what it does? Well, that takes years of math and physics education. Bottom line: in the months and years after a model comes out, research tends to uncover all sorts of things happening inside them that are unexpected. Best thing is to approach it with a beginner's mind, and say, "hey, it's doing _something_ interesting – let's try and understand what that is," rather than just forcing everything to conform to our existing worldview.