Sutton publishes The Bitter Lesson
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Published The Bitter Lesson — argued that the biggest lesson of 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, by a large margin
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Scripture for the scaling camp. Repeatedly cited as the basis for justifying compute over the injection of human knowledge
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