So it comes down to voting, and that's why oligarchs are now controlling more media than ever, including social media. With AI + physical AI possible outcomes include both heaven and hell on earth for humankind. We can't mess up...
Maybe we should stop calling it vibecoding and call it what it is.
Natural language programming.
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
When training a general robot policy, what characteristics does your data and model architecture need to have? Some recent results call previous ideas into question.
A quick blog post on what separates the recent DreamZero work from other models open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.
OpenAI: We'll do it
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
The reason they’re going to stuff you all into concentration warehouses instead of camps this time is because you have drones now and might take pictures.
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
"OH but they cant do anything useful" here's the same robot building its own actuators
Haha @cpaxton.bsky.social is on fire:
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Some useful tips in there even for non-roboticists looking to make their paper artificially look good
New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."
Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever.
This is the country we live in now.
We're having trouble with Gr00t WBC on a newer Unitree G1.
Robot is unbalanced. Anybody else encountering issues?
github.com/NVlabs/GR00T...
This is really helpful, and the most complete description I have seen. Cheers to the Wayback Machine!!
It's so hard to be calibrated about robotics companies. I've been blown away by so many demos only to speak to an employee of the company and discover they're doing terribly
Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
The Trump era exposed how badly Congress erred over decades by granting the president emergency powers in certain situations while also making the president the one who decides when we’re in those situations.
ICE can’t mask except when ICE’s boss says it’s necessary? Repeating that same mistake.
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
“Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
Ken Goldberg is right.
“People think of space travel as extraordinarily difficult and it is, no doubt, but it turns out that getting a robot to reliably tie a sneaker is harder than getting a rocket out of the atmosphere,” Goldberg said. www.cnn.com/business/tec...
