will cb: engram modules are fundamental for continual learning, not just an efficiency trick
willcb · x · 2026-10-20
will cb shares two research takes:
- He's mostly convinced engram modules (or things like them) will be fundamental for continual learning, not merely an efficiency trick.
- His endgame idea is "agentic gradient": an agent free to do whatever it wants to its own harness or weights. The real meta-RL problem is making it actually work, with many bridges still to cross.
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