doty clarifies the scaling debate: the point is against hardcoding human priors, not abandoning algorithms
dotey · x · 2026-11-10
dotey pushes back on a misreading of the scaling debate: some claimed the original argument was "algorithms no longer matter, just more data and compute," possibly to pump stocks. He clarifies the real claim: don't hardcode human experience into models—historically every such hardcoding became a bottleneck for the next generation. Algorithm innovation still matters, but algorithms must scale with compute; only search and learning truly do.
Related event: The Misread Bitter Lesson: More Compute Needs Better Algorithms(3 posts)→
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