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The Bitter Lesson
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Last discussed Oct 3, 2026
An influential essay by Rich Sutton about AI research, arguing that general methods leveraging computation are more effective than specialized approaches.
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"We have a framed copy of the bitter lesson on the wall. This is Rich Sutton - everyone should read it if you haven't."
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"There's this famous paper by Rich Sutton on the bitter lesson in AI... human experts had all these really clever ideas and beautiful theories, but really what you needed to make real progress is the simplest method you can come up with, a large ne..."
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