Ben Goertzel: Scaling components requires fiddling; blind combination is intractable
bengoertzel · x · 2026-08-08
Ben Goertzel notes that between a component working in a small test and working at scale lies a lot of fiddling with algorithms, representations, and interfaces. Trying that blindly for dozens of components at once results in an intractable global optimization problem.
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