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Coined by Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory), this simple, concise, and powerful law aims for an increase in harmony and respect within a professional organization. It can be applied when speaking with coworkers, performing code reviews, countering other points of view, critiquing, and in general, most professional interactions humans have with each other.
### The Bitter Lesson
[PDF](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson.pdf)
[HTML](http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html)
> The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.
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> Rich Sutton (2019)
The bitter lesson by [Rich Sutton](https://x.com/richardssutton) says that scale, in terms of both data and computational power, has driven the most significant advancements in AI research, rather than the intricacies of the research methods themselves.
## Principles
Principles are generally more likely to be guidelines relating to design.