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The speaker expects Sutton's bitter lesson to apply to Picbreeder: automatically searching or evolving the solution space without human involvement will yield a more elegant result than its hand-tinkered solution.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“I think that Sutton's bitter lesson is also going to be true for this one. So if we basically take the human out of the equation and instead just evolve the search space or search the, uh, the space of solutions automatically, we are also going to end up with something that's more elegant than the hand-tinkered solution in the case of Picbreeder.”47:09Report a misattribution
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