Debate: pure autoregressive models are an offramp, real intelligence needs world models
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-09
- Pushing back on the claim that model capability is "just a harness," teortaxesTex argues pure autoregressive models are merely an offramp.
- His argument: a 10-year-old can't spin out 10,000 subagents to solve Navier-Stokes with pen and paper — the mark of real intelligence is having a world model.
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