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Archived term · Independent editorial record
chīkǔpilled
/chee-koo-pild/ adjective
Archive definition
Convinced that achieving AI supremacy requires enduring hardship and committing to the lessons of scalable computation.
An illustration · hypothetical
A team accepts a difficult period of infrastructure investment because it believes sustained compute scaling will matter most.
Editorial reading
Alex joins the Chinese concept chī kǔ, or eating bitterness, with the Bitter Lesson: endurance in pursuit of AI progress, rather than an expectation that the transition will be comfortable.
Captured source language
“Convinced that the path to AI supremacy is to eat bitterness long enough to learn the Bitter Lesson.”
