The Singularity needs new terms. chīkǔpilled adj. /chee-koo-pild/ Convinced that the path to AI supremacy is to eat bitterness long enough to learn the Bitter Lesson. China has a cultural concept, chī kǔ (吃苦): “eat bitterness.” Endure hardship now to prevail later. AI has Sutton’s Bitter Lesson: general methods that scale with computation eventually beat hand-crafted human ingenuity. Being Bitter-Lesson-pilled means believing that scale wins. Being chīkǔpilled means being willing to endure the cost, repetition, failure, and grind required to make scale win. Less cleverness, more compute. Less impatience, more iteration. Eat bitterness. Scale compute. Win later.