Finally! Common sense is being able to predict the consequences of your actions. I've wanted to do that for years, but I was thinking in terms of planning and trial and error against low-resolution physics models of the world. Sort of like A* on steroids. This has limited applicability, although some video games try to do something like that. The new approach here is more promising, because it needs less of a world model.

Getting through the next few seconds without a major screwup is the big problem in unstructured robotics. This approach may not be the right answer, but it's addressing the right question.