Monday, 2nd February 2026
Monday,
2.2.2026
Die Vermessung der Welt
The story has two main themes: experimental vs. theoretical science and aging. [... 153 words]
Can humans make AI any better? Another great Welch Labs video about the bitter lesson, contextualizing the recent Dwarkesh interview with Rich Sutton.
Many people misunderstand the bitter lesson. It's not that some solutions are "past" it while others aren't. It's a ladder of increasingly general approaches to the same problem, with a persistent tradeoff between heuristics that perform well now versus general methods that win in the long term, given enough compute.