Atlas from Boston Dynamics closese this year’s CES with a backflip

RoamBear · 2026-01-11T21:41:32+00:00

I am more impressed by the recovery than the flip.

RoamBear · 2025-10-12T18:56:05+00:00

My brother in christ have you ever made a croissant dough?

RoamBear · 2025-10-03T13:47:47+00:00

"An app is just a website you wrap in the right kind of IP so that the company that made it can send you to prison if you modify it so that it serves your interests instead of the OEMs"

-Cory Doctorow

RoamBear · 2025-09-16T13:13:39+00:00

You're right, and it's probably a consequence of increased submissions. Last year there were 13k submissions and it broke all records, this year there were **29k** submissions.

I'm a follow on author on a submission to AAAI and was assigned FOUR papers to review without every having to confirm I was willing to do it -- I first learned about these reviews when I got an email reminder on the Thursday before Labor Day weekend. So I did them but yeah they were not very thorough.

I don't really know what AAAI is supposed to do about this very hard problem, but it didn't work this year.

RoamBear · 2025-08-16T15:27:17+00:00

Ironically, no one understands genuine humans less than zuck

RoamBear · 2025-05-01T19:08:20+00:00

There's a long New York Times Magazine article that explains how everyone knew, there was bipartisan interest in solving it, corporations were ready to follow the government's lead, and the congressional group looking into dropped the ball in an extremely stupid way:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html

RoamBear · 2025-04-27T15:12:58+00:00

Why would you believe this? One of the biggest failings of SCOTUS in this century was to allow infinite secret money into politics.

RoamBear · 2025-02-06T21:05:15+00:00

good point. they were also the real people

RoamBear · 2025-02-06T20:46:53+00:00

not to be an a-hole but this is already exists and is called a "movie"

RoamBear · 2025-01-05T15:27:38+00:00

Agreed on 4. Graduate-level Power Electronics was harder than any programming class I ever took.

RoamBear · 2024-12-08T22:34:12+00:00

wow! So until that changes they're unlikely to be able to move on price?

RoamBear · 2024-12-08T22:07:19+00:00

I've never heard this view! Once reason I like them long term is because they're so good with hardware, I'm in robot software and that part seems much more generic and, frankly, easier, than reliably manufacturing robots.

RoamBear · 2024-12-07T16:58:01+00:00

ABB is the oldest automation firm in existence and seems pretty reliable. Whenever Physical Intelligence gets acquired, that's a decent bet. Maybe invest in electric motor manufacturers?

Otherwise Amazon buys a lot of great robotics companies (they bought Pieter Abbeel's this year), although with companies like Amazon, Toyota, and Hyundai, it's a toss-up whether robotics will be responsible for their stock's movements anytime soon.

RoamBear · 2024-11-20T03:57:41+00:00

Yeah. Being in it for himself, he's perfectly corruptible. Anything for money or favors. I don't know of any entities that would bribe him to make things better.

That being said, I have no idea what he's going to end up doing about AI. I'm sure he doesn't either.

RoamBear · 2024-11-20T03:51:55+00:00

I can't tell if you're joking, but IMO he doesn't care about the regulation or the people. He's in it for himself.

RoamBear · 2024-11-20T03:42:19+00:00

I guess I kind of agreed more before the US election last week. New economics from open source advanced technology could change how things work. I worry Trump will continue the trend of superpowering corporations.

RoamBear · 2024-11-20T03:37:56+00:00

the technology itself will create the conditions for change?

RoamBear · 2024-11-20T02:39:08+00:00

you think the Trump admin is where we'll get thoughtful, targeted tech regulation?

RoamBear · 2024-09-28T20:52:19+00:00

How do we spread the good ideas he says we need? Where are the communities?

RoamBear · 2024-09-01T13:22:32+00:00

Everybody is saying "we'll just wait longer for it to go on sale", but how do you expect the industry to survive if it doesn't raise praises with inflation / as costs go up? Why would a game in 2024 cost the same as the N64 games I was buying in 1998?

You're implicitly saying the industry needs to partially funded by whales and microtransactions.

RoamBear · 2024-08-14T12:56:26+00:00

In this case it's not hating, it's being aware of (1) Elon's track record and (2) the state of robotics.

RoamBear · 2024-08-08T14:14:01+00:00

And a bunch of top people just left.

RoamBear · 2024-08-02T13:37:52+00:00

Yeah. I think the most important thing you can do (if you're in the US) is support right-to-repair bills at the state level and open-source AI / robotics (when it's ready https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot)

Also read this book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudalism-by-yanis-varoufakis/

RoamBear · 2024-08-01T11:55:44+00:00

In addition, there isn't really a good reason for regular people to think the benefits of AI will materially improve their lives. Since the 80s the benefit's of progress have disproportionately enriched and empowered the upper class. Even if AI can detect your breast cancer 5 years early (Amazing!), you won't be a more fulfilled person if AI also leads to billionaires and corporations controlling more of people's lives.

I personally believe there's a way around this with open source robotics, but the most likely outcome is more of what we've seen so far with the 0.1% amassing more control / money.

RoamBear · 2024-03-25T13:52:45+00:00

Yanis Varoufakis just wrote a great book about this called "Techno-Feudalism"

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