Rich Sutton, the guy behind both "reinforcement learning" & "the Bitter Lesson", muses that Tech needs to understand the Bitter Lesson better: https://youtu.be

Rich Sutton, the guy behind both "reinforcement learning" & "the Bitter Lesson", muses that Tech needs to understand the Bitter Lesson better: https://youtu.be/QMGy6WY2hlM https://youtu.be/QMGy6WY2hlM Longer analysis: https://youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?t=47m28s https://youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?t=47m28s To (try and) summarize those in the context of TFA: builders need to distinguish between policy optimisations and program optimisations I guess a related question to ask (important for both startups and Big Tech) might be: "should one focus on doing things that don't scale?"