Amit

Science is humanity’s highest-leverage investment.

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I gave WIRED the exclusive on our hands launch, and they wrote a really weird article about how we are sexualizing robotics… wired.com/story/the-1x-n… I felt pretty betrayed because that’s not what they told me they were writing about not is that what I’ve ever been about… actually I stand for quite the opposite… But I’ve come to find a lot of dishonesty and malice in the journalism community so I wasn’t surprised. This is what I sent the author… I’m only sharing this because I hope it encourages journalists to resist the click bait trap and tell truly awesome stories because I for one don’t believe journalism is dead— I think it’s just starting and just needs to evolve past the weird corner of the internet where data driven optimization turns everything into smooth brained shocking brain rot bullshit. The technological revolution we are going through should inspire a journalism renaissance. Not let it fall into further decay. There is so much brilliance at play in the world and the stories should be told! My note: “[author name redacted], it was nice talking to you, but I wanted to let you know that I didn’t enjoy your article at all. I understand the need to be inflammatory because that seems to be the only thing that gets clicks these days but that doesnt mean you shouldn’t recognize when something special is in front of you. I trusted our PR team in saying we should offer you the exclusive on what is one of the most important technological developments in the history of Mankind and I deeply regret it. Good luck with the rest of your writing career. -Dar Sleeper”

They also make it easier to employ automation in lower resource settings without trillions in infra or remodelling of how societies operate. A humanoid can just be swapped in for a human part time on a given task

Similarly with self-driving cars we could go down a route with no steering wheel and just robot shuttles or we could have a human robot actually drive us in a regular car. Humanoids are infinitely backwards compatible to all existing technology and center humans at all times

My thesis on Neo & humanoids is that for a long time we've actually designed our world and daily lives around technology. E.g. the shape of cities, the organization of our homes, etc. With humaonoids we get to shape our world and future around ourselves instead of alien machines

@feynmanpoint @TuvaAI Really excited to try this out! Persistent memory is one of the hardest problems

Today, we’re launching @TuvaAI to build a human-centric future for agentic science. Humans collaborating with AI can learn more than either working alone: humans guiding the research, equipped with agents that can test ideas quickly and autonomously, will deliver the next wave of scientific discovery. But science is all about the details. Neither Einstein nor AGI can drive your project forward without intimately understanding your growing, interrelated web of hypotheses, intermediate results, working threads, failed experiments, datasets, notes, and water cooler conversations. Our first product, Rao, was born out of my frustration having to reteach LLMs these constantly changing details for every single task in my own research. Rao maintains a persistent, dynamic research memory that learns and remembers project context, history, and threads. This research memory then links into our scientific agents as well as other AI software you may already be using, such as Claude or Codex. With Rao, every scientist turns into a PI managing a proactive, agentic research team that automatically stays on the same page. Rao is live in VS Code and by CLI, and can help with any scientific task that can be done in a computer. Our early users include computational biologists, theoretical neuroscientists, chip designers, and polymer physicists who use Rao daily to ideate, do math, analyze data, and write papers and grants. Now, we’re excited to announce Rao in closed beta. If your science mostly happens in a computer—theory, computational modeling, experimental data analysis, scientific writing—Rao can help you discover more, faster. Sign up for our waitlist, and if you’re a fit, we’ll work with you to tailor new, contextual agents that augment the way you do science. Link in the comments. More personally: I’ve been doing scientific research since I was a kid. Scientists do so much for the world, choosing a painstaking career for the joy of discovery, developing technologies we use every day along the way. And yet, the tools scientists use are often cumbersome and woefully out of date. For me, Tuva is much about empowering the people of science with products they love as it is about the discoveries we’ll help them make. And I’m lucky to work with some wonderful humans along the way—@SamsaraDurvasu1 @anuvellore @KimchiOfer among many others. If our mission resonates, please reach out.

@southpkcommons @incredutility @AkhilaKosaraju @PalantirTech You can read my full write-up here: catalyzernd.substack.com/p/10-takeaways…

Last week, with @southpkcommons NYC, I hosted a packed conversation on the future of biosecurity with @incredutility, @AkhilaKosaraju and Spencer Weiss from @PalantirTech For those who missed it, here are my 10 biggest takeaways 🧵

My biggest takeaway: biosecurity needs far more R&D, investment, and coordination. At Catalyze, we’re helping funders & researchers work together to push forward R&D innovation Explore our curated collection of biosecurity projects catalyzernd.com/portfolios/bio…

Biological models and data are inherently dual-use. The same structures and resistance data used to design countermeasures can help design around them. AI may lower the cost and expertise needed for offense faster than regulated, capital-intensive defenses can be deployed.

This is the coolest most fun thing I’ve seen anyone make. Spent hours flying around NYC in it yesterday and sharing it with friends and family. The best part of AI is enabling ppl to build fun cool stuff in days that used to take a team months