Yesterday I Was Surprised. Today I Am Speechless: Move 37 End of Human Supremacy | The Bitter Lesson

"Yesterday I Was Surprised. Today I Am Speechless.": Move 37 and the End of Human Supremacy | The Bitter Lesson
The stone landed on the board like a question the game had never been asked.
Move 37.
The commentators called it an error. Lee Sedol tried to believe them. The human mind is desperate for explanations that preserve dignity.
But the stone did not become an error.

Lee searched for a familiar shape—an old proverb, an old pattern, an old story he could tell himself to turn panic into procedure. There was none.
This move carried no risk-signature he could read. It sat on the board with the quiet certainty of a calculation too large to fit inside any one skull.
He stood and walked out. Fifteen minutes. The corridor smelled of sanitizer. The building's ventilation hissed softly, indifferent.
Inside him, a colder thought rose: If this move is correct, then the board I learned is not the whole board.
The shame was immediate and physical. The game had been his home. Homes are supposed to be stable.

He walked back into the room. He sat down. He placed a stone.
The machine responded instantly.
The instant response was its own message: Your suffering is not part of my loop.
"Yesterday I was surprised, but today I am quite speechless."
Speechless. Not only because of defeat. Because of the encounter with an intelligence that did not share the human need for explanation.
This was the newest kind of terror: being outclassed by something that does not hate you. Something that does not even notice your dignity. Something that is simply doing the scalable thing.

📖 From "The Bitter Lesson" — a novel exploring 70 years of AI history through Rich Sutton's famous essay and Rumi's mystical philosophy.
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