Comment by krallistic

Various reasons

Some people just believe there is no innate knowledge or we dont need it if we just scale/learn better (in the direction of Bitter Lesson)

(ML) Academia is also heavily biased against it due to mainly two reasons: - Its harder to publish, since if you learn Task X with innate Knowledge, its not as general, so reviewer can claims its just (feature) engineering - Which hurts acceptance, so people always try to frame their work as general as possible - Historical reasons due to the conflict the symbolic community (which rely heavily on innate knowledge)