The Bitter Lesson Has No Utility Function

I wrote an essay arguing that decision theory had been quietly abandoned by mainstream AI &mdash; not because it stopped working, but because deep learning absorbed all the oxygen. I posted it to Hacker News . A commenter informed me I was &ldquo;annoyed at the Bitter Lesson.&rdquo; I hadn&rsquo;t read the Bitter Lesson. This proved awkward for approximately forty-five seconds, after which it…