Rich Sutton discusses the Bitter Lesson in Sequoia interview

In a Sequoia Capital interview, Rich Sutton offers his own 26-word compression of the Bitter Lesson, clarifying it's an argument for algorithms that scale with computation, not against sophisticated algorithms.
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