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At the centre The bitter lesson is only an empirical observation about a particular seventy years of history, and need not hold for the next seventy. Holds RSRichard Sutton Read this korrent →

• Similar wording The Bitter Lesson is misread as being about scale; it is about refusing to add human priors, because a clever specific fix always loses to a simple scalable one. Holds NLNathan Lambert
• Similar wording Knowledge decays fast when it goes unused, while the feeling a class left behind lasts for decades. Holds AMAdam Mastroianni