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Why we picked it A one page essay arguing that in AI the methods that ride falling compute costs keep beating clever handcrafted ones, because compute keeps getting exponentially cheaper. It is a sharp, real example of a cost curve as the durable fuel behind a trend. Even outside AI, it teaches you to ask what is quietly compounding underneath.
The Bitter Lesson
From incompleteideas.net (Richard Sutton) by Richard Sutton ~5 min read
- General methods that ride cheap compute beat clever handcrafted ones over time.
- The durable force is the exponentially falling cost of computation.
- Bet on what compounds, not on this year's clever trick.
