Chris C

Thank God we have scientists this is incredible stuff

@packyM Awesome!

Spend an hour reading this weekend and I think you’ll know more about robotics than 99% of people, including some people who invest in robotics. notboring.co/p/robot-steps

I TLDR'ed this for a few friends : - The internet has a lot of data, most of it is not useful for robots, LLMs or RL perception models don't have a physically grounded, world model, in robotics you need an accurate world + physics model -- This is why LLM's are coming for white collar jobs faster than plumber jobs - Many robotics companies started with perception models pretrained on internet data. These are good at identifying what things are (e.g., cars, people) and coarse motion patterns, but struggle with task-relevant geometry, force, and physical interactions when deployed on robots -- If you try to train a human to golf solely with videos, they won't be able to golf very well -- To get a robot (or human) to actually golf, they need to practice golfing - Recent advances in autonomous driving were enabled by massive fleet-scale data collected on production vehicles and used to reduce hard boundaries in the autonomy stack between perception, planning, and control in end-end training - Data is and will continue to be the bottleneck to robotics progress and how the data is collected matters -- Some believe collecting an internet-scale worth of robotics tailored data is required to get a robot capable of generalized tasking and this won't happen anytime soon -- Others believe improved simulation, reinforcement learning, and scaling foundation models will close gap sooner - Standardbots is deploying robots that perform a narrow mission well (95% of the time) that customers will pay for, for the other 5% they teleop into the robot, perform the task, collect data, and update -- Vertically integrating (incl firmware and control over the sensor-to-actuator stack) gives tighter feedback loops, more tunable variables during training, and greater engineering flexibility/margin while they're early in development and learning new use-cases -- They get paid to collect data in an operational environment, incrementally adding narrow tasks performed well while slowly generalizing portions of the autonomy stack

Process was ver silly. We didn’t have mineral rights before, it looks like we will. The RE was unlikely to come out of ground for many reasons ie overreg or we would’ve just bought them, now they likely will and we will secure supply chain for heavy RE critical to defense that China currently controls 90% of supply.

I’m increasingly convinced that the willingness to change your mind is the ultimate sign of intelligence. The most impressive people I know change their minds often in response to new information. It’s like a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth.

@paulg @lydiamoynihan If you advocate for any policy that would force others to do something that you have the means to do, but are not willing to do so unless others do it. You don’t actually believe in what you are saying.

@lydiamoynihan Saying he's happy to pay more taxes means he's happy to pay more to the government so long as he's not the only one. That's different from merely paying more yourself.

So tired of this *I’m ultra-wealthy I should pay more in taxes schtick* You literally can voluntarily pay more taxes on the treasury website right now. Instead of bragging about how you’re both rich and benevolent, make the additional payment and be quiet.

@adamgoldstein13 @SecDuffy @mkratsios47 @flyarcher @USDOT @FAANews Let’s go!

In DC today with @SecDuffy and @mkratsios47 to announce the Administration's Advance Air Mobility National Strategy. Incredible energy here. Big day as the @flyarcher team just completed our first applications to launch air taxi trials in US cities under the White House eIPP program set up by President Trump’s Drone Dominance exec order. This gives us a path to fly in US cities as early as next year. Our bids cover California, Texas, Florida, Georgia and New York, as well as a sole activation in Huntington Beach, CA. More to come.

Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.

@paulg @pschofie79 😅

@pschofie79 I'm not claiming this is some kind of new discovery. Rather that it's something you'd tell a 13 year old. As I said explicitly, in the tweet.

Wow, why has no philosopher ever considered this?

@zebulgar I love this video

good evening what a year of progress next year will be insane

@paulg @mattyglesias Wow love that blog post

@mattyglesias The AI boom is definitely real, but this may not be the best example to prove it. A lot of that increase in revenue has come directly from the pockets of investors. paulgraham.com/bubble.html

Something I’ve noticed going back into engineering that I should have never left: I am 10x more compelled to have uncomfortable conversations I wouldn’t have cared enough to put a lot of thought into to get right in my roles in business I grew bored of.

what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs on farms, we’d have very expensive food, no industrial revolution, and a shitty standard of living for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the automobile, we’d have lost the economic explosion that arose from highways, lower cost transportation, and countless networked industries. if you had done this with the emergence of the computer and the internet, your entire district would still be based on an economy of oranges and plums. humanity’s ability to compete, organize, and carry itself forward is a magical miracle. in every truly free society, tech evolution has improved the lives of absolutely everyone. in every society where a government stood up to create barriers and gates to tech evolution in the name of “workers rights”, standards of living went into a freefall. your view is luddite at best and authoritarian at its heart. limiting freedom of choice, controlling the rights of workers and capital providers, is the core activity of socialism and will cause unbelievable unintended damage. well-intentiined, sure, but examining the consequences and n-th order effects, it’s clear how this model deeply harms workers, employment standards, wage growth etc. i urge you to deeply study the social and economic history of technology evolutions, speak to folks in your district, and avoid the socialist trap the Dem party seems to be swirling into…

@ToKTeacher Agree with what you are saying here about socialism. Disagree with the criticism of this tweet. Think he is 100% correct. His point is about how scalable these systems are. Are we all not communists with our dogs?

This assumes the "heart" of socialism is something like love, compassion, kindness and so on through a lens of "sharing" and "equality". Of course that couldn't be further from the truth. It's "heart" is authoritarian control and a rejection of the value of the individual.

@ScottAdamsSays Yes

Will the US be competitive in the flying car business?

wtf is he doing

Perps are very silly financial instruments. Hyper liquid made $40M yesterday while many traders positions in profit were auto deleveraged.