SirWart · HackerTrans

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Why should California taxpayers subsidize other Californians to buy EVs that are made in other states? Like if you care about emissions aren't the cars made in California using California's relatively green electricity, higher worker standards, and short distance to travel after manufacture better than ones made elsewhere? Even if you don't want to support Tesla, not even having a carveout for cars manufactured in the state seems insane.

SirWart

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There are a couple of arms commonly used in research around the $10k mark, namely the Franka Emika and UFACTORY xArm 6.

The ALOHA project uses the ViperX 300 6DoF, which is around $6500 but uses higher quality dynamixels with aluminum parts and bills itself as "research grade". I have one of these and I'd say it's expensive for what you get, but still cheaper than the "factory grade" robots. I will need a bimanual setup eventually and I'm probably going to get either an Emika or xArm since I'm already hitting the weight limits of the ViperX.

SirWart

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Sorry, my use of "intelligent" here was imprecise. They can clearly learn, but seem much less intelligent than other animals that we commonly eat, and not anywhere close to the same level of intelligence of animals that we generally do not eat, such as great apes, elephants, and whales.

SirWart

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I visited an experimental octopus farm in Hawaii once, expecting to come away feeling guilty about eating octopus since I had heard so much about how smart they are. It ended up having the opposite effect, since I learned that they only live 2 years and aren't social creatures. This is opposite of every other intelligent creature that we know of, and so I'm extremely skeptical of claims of their intelligence. They might show sophisticated behavior, but so do a lot of insects like ants and we know they aren't intelligent.

EDIT: sorry, when I say intelligent, I mean as intelligent as animals that we generally do not eat. I believe they are less intelligent than livestock, but can learn behaviors like most animals.

SirWart

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As noted in the quote, the CommonCrawl WARC files don’t contain images themselves, LAION used those files to find img tags and downloaded them themselves

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