Joseph Jacks: nearly all of Richard Sutton's profound ideas have been misread
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-11-08
Joseph Jacks argues that nearly every extremely profound contribution by Richard Sutton has been misinterpreted and perverted—reinforcement learning is just one example, and The Bitter Lesson is another.
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