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@chris_j_paxton yeah, I think portal was a missed opportunity though, they had some good ideas like the TV-mounted one. just needed some more work

@Darpinian Meta did this with portal and that was also dumb

The new OpenAI consumer device is said to be a speaker with moveable parts Mixed on this to be honest, but the big problem with smart speakers like Alexa was always that they were stupid bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@chris_j_paxton yeah. I bet an Aibo would sell though

@Darpinian Grandma is not going to want a reachy

@chris_j_paxton I don't understand the rumors that Apple's doing a HomePod with an arm, either. Can't imagine any useful task it could do with one arm and no locomotion.

@chris_j_paxton Like Reachy mini? Hard to see how people are going to pay for actuators that don't have any useful function.

How do humans actually act around humanoid robots, when they think no one is watching? I'm going to share some of our learnings at @dollhouserobots briefly 🧵 From day one, @dollhouserobots has been a rather unique operator of humanoids in one particular way: our robots interact with people *without* a human minder standing right next to them. Most humanoids you see in the wild (which is rare in the west today) are either demos, which are carefully guarded by human engineers standing next to the robot, or otherwise have humans clearly associated with the robot right next to them (an operator holding a controller, or someone with a camera recording content maybe)

AI researchers signing statements exhorting other people to stop them from destroying the world

More than 200 researchers and economists including Jack Clark, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, Tyler Cowen, Sholto Douglas, John Schulman, Yoshua Bengio, Eric Schmidt, and Dean Ball have signed a statement urging governments and institutions to act now to prepare for AI's economic impact.

@signulll envy

there is a very very simple reason why openai gets clowned on x now (even reddit) & why they lost a ton of public support at least with the closest power audiences. they face more negative press & vibes than any other ai company today. why? - it is not because of their product execution or execution in general. - it is not because of the owner of this platform. - it is not because of the transition from non profit to profit. - it is not because ppl are afraid of ai or job loss. - it is not because of their communication strategy or lack of potential strategy in general. - it is not because of their acquisitions. - it is not because of the lawsuits. - it is not because of their relationship deterioration with microsoft or apple. - it is certainly not because of the personality of sam altman. - it is not because of the endless drama on the personnel or the founders attempted coup. if you understand the mechanics of culture, you figure it out rather quickly. & it’s only one word. can you guess what it is?

@holdonbashar I have a "New X Android (Beta)" button in the app menu.

@Darpinian This is all I got

The new X Android app is pretty nice. It still doesn't scroll at 120 Hz reliably, but nothing on Android does. What it does do is load content very quickly.

@HPCDisrespecter @djcows Have you seen Nighthawkinlight's YouTube video where he makes passive cooling paint from grocery store ingredients? youtu.be/KDRnEm-B3AI

I love @djcows humor, but I have been autismbaited by this particular post, please forgive me for KC-tier serious discussions. Passive cooling via emission is entirely possible without spacecraft/aerospace component (1/??)

@_xjdr Join the dark side

my biggest take away from gpt5.6 so far (and fable to some extent as well) is that you only get a fraction of the value without running in --yolo mode (subagents that require approvals aren't any more useful than just running the prompts yourself) and as a staunch --yolo mode denier (legacy review every diff unc), i am finding this dichotomy difficult to cope with . i knew this was coming, and i've been preparing for it (its like 60% of the long term thesis behind code.noumena.com) but i didn't think it was already here.

@doomslide My god. Have you considered buying a catchy domain name and vibe coding a website to promote your sci-fi scenario? Maybe get Scott Alexander on board?

If the brain is in fact a computer it follows from the fundamental theorem of computational gizmo theory that it can run Doom. As such we must regard the game Doom as a sentient being with which we must retro-causally bargain.

@pham_blnh never skip pinky day

i don’t know why but 1x stress testing a single robot finger looks so funny to me so this is how our future overlords prepare themselves

@chris_j_paxton I thought about this every day as I walked through the cesspool they call the Mission district on the way to the Physical Intelligence offices

@chris_j_paxton > Litter would vanish. Public spaces could be maintained, by robots, at the level of a boutique hotel. Finally, we can all live in Tokyo

What would be different if labor was free? Fundamentally thinking of robots as a replacement for humans is thinking too small itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-would-y…

@finkd you really ought to change your handle

NEO’s Hands An API to the Physical World