The Bitter Lesson pertains to the long term. Even if it holds, it may take decades to be proven correct in this case. Short-term, imparting some human intuition

The Bitter Lesson pertains to the long term. Even if it holds, it may take decades to be proven correct in this case. Short-term, imparting some human intuition is letting us get more useful results faster than waiting around for "enough" computation/data.