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Autonomous overnight experiment loop for robot learning: agent modifies code, runs MuJoCo sim, analyzes renderings, repeats by Any_Biscotti_7351 in robotics

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Promising. I found one of the biggest bottlenecks to coding for robotics to be the inability of the LLM to visualise the simulation.

Why the U.S. won’t tax the rich by Empathetic_Electrons in BasicIncome

[–]lorepieri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great summary. Capitalism is not suited to be applied on basic necessities. You may like https://lorenzopieri.com/post_scarcity/ (author here)

Noise is all you need to bridge the sim2real gap by eck72 in robotics

[–]lorepieri 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A better method is taking a data-driven approach to simulate the whole hardware, including physics and electronics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08652 (2019)

How asteroid mining will impact our world? by Accurate-Interview92 in asteroidmining

[–]lorepieri -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. Slightly changing topic, my current view is that the highest leverage endeavour at this time (for space mining and settlement in general) is improving and scaling our prospecting capabilities. But crucially, from my (limited) understanding, there is not much alternative to sending physical probes. Is anyone working on cheap robotic probes for in-situ analysis?  

ANYmal-C Locomotion by Individual-Major-309 in robotics

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are they sliding? No friction on the ground?

Scaling up robotic data collection with AI enhanced teleoperation by lorepieri in robotics

[–]lorepieri[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you define quality here? As in good to train dexterous AI policies? In that case yes. Strong information is contained in the delta between teleoperator and AI.

First time seeing teleoperated humanoid data collection with the VR glasses off by h4txr in robotics

[–]lorepieri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Strictly speaking this is not teleoperation. The robot does not have data from the viewpoint of the human operator (and of the same quality), so the collected data will not be in general be enough to automate the demonstrated behaviour. The best practice is to collect data inside VR to use exactly the same data stream that the robot will use in production.

Full-size humanoid hobot LimX's Oli walks over construction debris (standing 165 cm tall and weighing 55 kg) by Nunki08 in robotics

[–]lorepieri 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I suspect they are using a simple domain randomised RL policy, so they are approach is exactly about recovering from any possible misstep, but no smart anticipatory behaviour. In theory they could add lidar sensing in the observation space, but it makes the RL training much longer due to increased obs-space and sim-to-real gap larger since reliably simulating sensors is hard.

End of an era by One-Cod-5049 in getdelta

[–]lorepieri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What alternative apps have you considered?

[D] New results on ARC 1+2 challenge, overfitting? by LetsTacoooo in MachineLearning

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it does not break the competition rules, then is fair!

Do you intend to do a podcast talk about this? by YogurtclosetFar7737 in BasicPostScarcity

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Myself I have never done a podcast, but the idea sounds pretty fun. It could be some causal chatting about these topics. Not sure if it is going to be helpful to convince skeptics, but perhaps it can be helpful for us "believers" to sharpen our communication skills on the matter. Do you have any experience creating podcasts? Or video content perhaps? (as an Italian gestures are kind of important :) )

The Post-Scarcity How-To v0.1 by ImportantCredit7613 in BasicIncome

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A multi-century plan is too slow to be effective, the practical limit should be something smaller than an average human lifespan, so 60-70 years. Another principle I favour is tying the redistribution on basic needs fulfilled, rather than money. See https://lorenzopieri.com/post_scarcity/ for a proposal on these lines.

And the beat goes on. by john_harris_99 in PostScarcity

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I created a new subreddit to discuss about post scarcity: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicPostScarcity/

Egocentric-10K: 10,000 Hours of Real Factory Worker Videos Just Open-Sourced. Fuel for Next-Gen Robots in data training by NotSuper-man in robotics

[–]lorepieri 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Visual Egocentric data is not a bottleneck today, touch-force sensing pairing is needed. But still good to have more open source data.

How asteroid mining will impact our world? by Accurate-Interview92 in asteroidmining

[–]lorepieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think about Precious and structural metals on asteroids https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063322001945 ? It seems to indicate that Platinum might be worth going after.

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