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The market has an incentive to privilege aspects of womanhood that can be named, depicted, and immediately recognized.
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From one piece Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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cuz we don't yet have a a frontier foundation model that's robust enough for for uh robotics.
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The biggest problem in robotics today is data, not chips; chips become the bottleneck later.Their words
We should zoom out and recognize the biggest problem right now in robotics is actually data. One day it'll be chips, but for now it's data.
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With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
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Once AI and robotics do the manufacturing, the price of any object becomes the price of the energy used to make it.Their words
If you keep asking this question, what you realize is energy is the fundamental input. When we figure out AI and robotics that allows us to do semi-aututonomous manufacturing, energy will become the cost of all things, right? The cost of buying a thing will become the cost of energy used to make it.
12 August
From one piece Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that the distribution channel for physical models is going to be slower uh unfortunately because you actually need a physical robot there
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Uh and just like how we see in language models how now a lot of time is spent actually generating data, generating synthetic data by actually running the model and having it think through things. I think a lot of the data in the future in robotics is going to be the robot attempting to do lots of tasks in lots of real world circumstances.
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So, you might be surprised to hear that most state-of-the-art foundation models for robotics have no memory or no context. They're just operating on the current sensor observations, the current camera readings, uh, and predicting actions based off of that.
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Betting a robotics company on today's component prices is betting it on a number with a short shelf life.Their words
So, betting your company, betting your approach on today's hardware prices is just betting your company on a number that has a fairly short shelf life and is going to expire.
1 August
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KEF LS LUXETheir words
The LS LUXE offers something arguably more valuable for many listeners: extraordinary performance with almost none of the complexity that has traditionally accompanied high-end audio. It's elegant, beautifully engineered, wonderfully musical, and refreshingly easy to live with.
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I would say the chat GPT moment of robots happened a couple of years ago already.
10 July
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Once you commit to HTML, an enormous amount of complexity simply evaporates.
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There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes. But for a decade or so, the complexity of front-end development made it impractical for most. Thankfully, AI coding agents have reopened the door.
25 March
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
13 March
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um humanoid robots maybe start to or robotics at least start to but the main factor is going to be for reducing the number of people is modularizing things and making them in factories in Asia
13 February
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does that mean the robotics industry will also be generating trillions of dollars of revenue? My answer there is yes, but there will be the same extremely fast but not infinitely fast diffusion. So, will robotics be be revolutionized? Yeah, maybe tack on another year or two.
29 December 2025
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The Complex WorldTheir words
This book goes deeper, surveying where complexity science stands today.
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Nine tenths of the cost of Mars Sample Return comes from a single planetary-protection requirement.Their words
something like 90% of the complexity and cost of MSR is driven by a requirement that the samples “break the chain” on the way home
12 September 2025
From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But the reason why it's not the most important thing for the kind of skills that you saw when you visited us, it at some level I think it comes back to Moravik's paradox. So Morovik's paradox is basically that it's like you know if you know one thing about if you want to know one thing about robotics it's like that's that's the thing. Morovik's paradox says that basically uh in AI the easy things are hard and the hard things are easy.
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The date that matters for robotics is not when the technology is finished but when the data flywheel starts turning.Their words
So to me like what what I tend to think about a lot in terms of timelines is not the date when it will be done but the date when it will when like the flywheel starts basically.
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I think that it's optimistically that it's actually the other way around that the robotics uh element of the equation will make all the other stuff better. And there are two uh reasons for this that that I could tell you about. One has to do with representations and focus.
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So, that's not an argument about robotics being easier than autonomous driving. It's just an argument for 2025 being a better year than 2009.
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Robotics has a bootstrap that computing never had: making robots is physical work, and robots do physical work.Their words
robots help with uh physical things uh physical work. And if producing robots is itself physical work, then getting really good at robotics should help with that. It's a little circular, of course.
2 September 2025
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But once you actually have a sophisticated industrial economy, central planning can't handle the complexity. And so you try and create incentives and structures around that while not having pricing and that just doesn't work.
14 June 2025
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Yeah, these are great work that shows what's possible. The approach doesn't scale currently. Three days of Google's server time can solve one high school math format there. This is not a scalable prospect, especially with the exponential increase as the complexity increases.
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3 February 2025
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I think it's actually probably simpler than that. It's probably something related to computer use or robotics rather than science discovery.
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