Quoting Drew Breunig, Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?, 2025

Data has an embedded perspective. It is not objective. Further, data is reductive, a shadow of the information it represents. And many things resist being reduced to data points1. Without sufficient data, the bitter lesson cannot be learned.

— Drew Breunig, Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?, 2025

5:58pm on August 14, 2025 from Georgia.


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