DickingAround

в прошлом годуdiscuss

I run thousands of robots in production. We can get a very high success rate but only for the task they're designed for. Production robots can't pick up stuff they drop yet. And this '80%' level is not actually acceptable or even state of art for just pick-and-place, but it's compelling for a robot that also knows how to do other things with equal quality (if JEPA does that).

DickingAround

в прошлом годуdiscuss

I think actually you could do that if you wanted to; look up what notes mean, write some little program to make a sound if you had to. You could do it in a week if it was your only job.

DickingAround

в прошлом годуdiscuss

We should not under-estimate the need for speed in supply chains. Predicting future demand is hard. To be more specific, we're talking about predicting ~100M unique products (the order of magnitude that moves on the pacific) and some of them have very lumpy demand (e.g. invent a new product, but it depends on 100 other obscure products).

DickingAround

в прошлом годуdiscuss

I think the core of the 'improved productivity' question will be ultimately impossible to answer. We would want to know if productivity was improved over the lifetime of a society; perhaps hundreds of years. We will have no clear A/B test from which to draw causal relationships.

DickingAround

в прошлом годуdiscuss

This is a good point; a man or woman sitting behind a desk doing correlation analysis are going to look very similar in their function to a business. But they probably physically look pretty distinct to an x-ray picture.

DickingAround

в прошлом годуdiscuss

Just because a whole industry is bullshit doesn't mean I should force it to not exist. I don't like musicals. I don't understand or care anything about their culture. But it has a right to exist. Some people are into musicals. Their existence or non-existence isn't my problem and it isn't my business. We cannot and should not try to engineer the world around what we personally find valuable and ignore what others find valuable, even if they got their opinions form an ad, or their parents did and they inherited it.

DickingAround

2 года назадdiscuss

TINA = There is no alternative... to stocks. Lot of people lost money on long term bonds. Short term bonds are at least better than cash. Stocks are supposed to be about investing in an asset. I guess there is kind of an alternative out there.

DickingAround

2 года назадdiscuss

Humans can do a lot of useful things with electrical energy. It's good to see our most powerful entities (companies) directly getting involved in getting the energy they need and still trying to do that in a climate-friendly way.

DickingAround

2 года назадdiscuss

Sadly, that's still very non-causal. A lot of things in China were happening at the same time. We just need to be honest that we don't have causal data and we have to make decisions on correlation data (and not try to over-claim causal testing).

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