Comment by slashdave

Interesting paper, thanks! But, the authors escape the three paradoxes they present by introducing training limits (compute, factorization, distribution). Kind of a different problem here.

What I object to are the "scaling maximalists" who believe that if enough training data were available, that complicated concepts like a world model will just spontaneously emerge during training. To then pile on synthetic data from a general-purpose generative model as a solution to the lack of training data becomes even more untenable.