The Bitter Lesson

The general take

Jason Calacanis highlighted The Bitter Lesson as a valuable insight worth sharing with the audience, describing it as a 2019 blog post by Rich Sutton that argues general learning approaches scaling with computation consistently outperform specialized solutions in AI problems.

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Nerissa Calhoun thought taking another woman’s man meant she had won. Kavion Reddick was handsome, smooth, and knew exactly how to make her feel chosen. But when the same lies he told Tavia Ellison start showing up in Nerissa’s life, that stolen love turns into regret real quick. Tavia isn’t broken, bitter, or begging for Kavion back. She knows the truth about him — and she has the receipts to prove it. What starts as hate between two women becomes something neither of them expected when Nerissa discovers Kavion didn’t just cheat. He used her name, her credit, her trust, and her pride to build a fake business empire. Now Nerissa has to face the woman she hurt, the man she thought she wanted, and the ugly truth about what it really cost to feel chosen. But when a third woman, Ravina Quell, steps into the picture with even more proof, Kavion’s whole world starts falling apart.

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  Jason Calacanis👍 Recommends

  …explaining the foundational ai principle guiding xai and elon's approach to artificial intelligence development

  “Chamath sent us a link to The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton in the group chat. That's the 2019 blog post. We'll pull it up here for people to take a look at and put it in the show notes. The Bitter Lesson basically says in a nutshell that you're always better off when you're trying to solve an AI problem, taking a general learning approach that can scale with computation.”

  All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Elon’s Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFsat 20:26

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