Austen: AI researchers were right, scale solved it — Bitter Lesson holds
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-08
Dwarkesh Patel resurfaces his standing question: researchers say "scale solves it," yet no one has a good rebuttal to the argument that certain failures indicate a fundamental limitation. Austen pushes back: the researchers were right — scale solved it, and the Bitter Lesson "remains both bitter and a lesson," reigniting the scaling-vs-limits debate.
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