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There is no posttraining data commons

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Posttraining has no equivalent of the web-scale text commons that pretraining relied on, argues an essay titled "There is no posttraining data commons." Its author contends that human tasks are situated and ephemeral, so turning them into reinforcement-learning tasks requires preserving a world, intent, tools, and a grader.

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