tl;dr: For years, we've been reading the Bitter Lesson backwards. It wasn't about compute — it was about data. Here's the part of Scaling Laws no one talks about:Translation: Double your GPUs? You need 40% more data or you're just lighting cash on fire. But there's no 2nd Internet (we’ve already eaten the first one). The path forward: data alchemists (high-variance, 300% lottery ticket) or model architects (20-30% steady gains), not chip buyers. Full analysis below.For almost a decade, the most ...