YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Jev is the union of these two worlds.

The course looks like it is something that a human could do in 15 seconds, while Astra took 5 minutes.

A different way to think of this is, consciousness is just a near real time video game with causal influence.

another trick is to have it build something in a sandbox and have it add a human-editable setting to point it to places outside of the sandbox

seems like they're somewhat more willing to build a metaphorical gun as long as they're not pulling the trigger

There's also a very tangible limitation of the bitter lesson.

If, over time, compute climbs, and so compute-bound data-driven general architectures beat bespoke architectures (this is the bitter lesson), then it is not necessarily true that the most general architecture now beats all available bespoke architectures now (or even in the near/mid future - the crossover point is "eventually").

Bitter lesson is most tangible for long-running research directions. Sometimes you need something working as best as possible now.

I wouldn't let him loose on the road though.

I think, at the very least, the guardrails would have to deterministic, ideally with super human senses, for people to accept self driving cars on the road.

It is easy to make car driving demos.

But I imagine this is orders of magnitude more expensive / less efficient than whatever Waymo is already doing, right?

The cool thing is that 1) it's theoretically more generalizable, 2) if we wait 18 months, it'll be 100x cheaper, and another 100x cheaper likely in 18 more months - at that point - something like a Mac Studio inside a humanoid could have these generalized capabilities, and a lot of Robotics problems start to look more feasible - especially when you consider how much better the models could be if highly specialized.