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no, processed food has a processing problem

Elon is literally exercising his “f*ck you money” position:

https://youtu.be/XamC7-Pt8N0?si=NlT0ZRjgLbwtZcSG

How can a true source of truth free speech platform be anything other than a non profit model like Wikipedia? Free speech requires speaking the truth, and the truth makes most people, including companies / advertisers uncomfortable.

Thanks. In the video around 2:40, he describes it as a “kindergarten for robots”, that’s an interesting way to think about it. I wonder if it would be possible to crowdsource the training of new tasks with a standard training tech protocol? That way you bid on the task you want and someone who solves it gets a bounty and everyone benefits? The point is there’s a long tail of tasks and a centralized lab probably can’t do them all.

This reminds me of the funniest scene in the movie Idiocracy, where he loses track of which cable goes in the mouth vs ear vs butt. A laugh a day keeps the doctor away, enjoy :-)

https://youtu.be/zop3VG_K9HU?si=k8LDptGhvQDxtsTB

Curated list of favorite underrated movies:

#1 pick for HN Crowd: The Man From Earth // must see, especially if you like philosophical movies (don't recommend the sequel by the way)

Runner's Up:

Being There // absolute classic and must see for every person, at least once

Peaceful Warrior

The Lion In Winter // one of the best dramas ever made, and unbeatable cast with young Anthony Hopkins

Predestination // incredible drama about time travel paradoxes

The Interview // Hugo Weaving

Vitus // amazing story about a piano prodigy who fakes losing his talents to have a normal life

The Perverts Guide to Cinema // documentary, Slavoj Zizek's tour de force psychoanalysis of cinema as an art form; addressing the philosophical and psychological question of whether cinema (and other art forms) fulfil your desires, or rather teach/train you both to desire (and what you should desire), thus the sensationalistic and polemical invocation of it as "perverted"

Le Professionnel (French film, not to be confused with the one with Natalie Portman)

Revolver // Guy Ritchie's quote "It took me three years to write this film whereas Snatch took me three months". It is a masterwork metaphor about the ego, ego death, consciousness, meditation, spirituality, and the nature of reality. Recommend reading an interpretation of the film either before or after viewing to better appreciate what is happening in the story as it is most metaphorical.

Rest of the List: The Big Kahuna, Tao of Steve, Crazy Stupid Love, Megamind, Eyes Wide Shut, Dead Poet's Society, Before Sunset, Gambit, Five Minutes of Heaven, Temple Grandin, Croupier, The Good Guy, 3 Idiots, Limitless, Drive, Whiplash

I am not familiar with the space, but is moving boxes from A to B even a real pain point for many businesses such that they’d get an ROI by buying something like this just for that sole purpose? It just seems like one of a hundred specialized location and company specific tasks an average warehouse worker needs to do, and they need to show robots doing something a little more specialized or compelling to make this anything other than lame video demo hype. What is their beach head market? Any insight appreciated!

In appreciation of the irony:

“Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived on insects.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-o...

From the article:

“There are more likely explanations for the levitation, explains Richard Greene, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Maryland, including magnetic properties in the compound in its normal, non-superconducting state. The betting markets probably had it right: Odds are the new era is not yet upon us.”

useage in this manner could lead to a mineshaft gap

lava monsters do not sleep

What’s interesting in this case is that it’s a female that got scammed. “Pig Butchering Scheme” is a strange name to call it.

Are there by chance companies you could pay to do this on your behalf as a service? (get the money owed by insurance) Seems like something ChatGPT would be good at, if this doesn’t already exist, and then the company would charge a small percentage of what they force the insurance company to pay. If ChatGPT can ace the bar exam, you’d think it could devour all the related case law and coverage legalese from your policy, and generate effective legal responses.

Always good to dedicate time to getting your shit together, happy new year:

https://www.theonion.com/clinton-calls-for-national-week-off...

Reminds me of the plot in the movie Being There, an absolute classic and highly recommended for anyone who has not see it:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/

It’s deeply philosophical, simple, and humorous at the same time.

Do any of the solutions presented by the winners hold real potential to make a real impact within 10 years?

The “only” thing missing, is to get the best engineers, and pay them double what they normally make.

Source: https://youtu.be/DkGMY63FF3Q

I am curious, if they indeed used first principle thinking in order to design a robot that has to be able to replace human labor / jobs, why the robot needs to have 28 actuators and look and function exactly like a humanoid? It seems like copying exact human form, mobility, and movement would almost be arbitrary, and not really necessary. Anyone else have an informed idea as to why that wanted to so precisely copy the human form and movement?

Most robotics as far as I understand are designed to be specific to a set of tasks, and the design is optimized around that, thus no other industrial robots look exactly like humans, as far as I am aware. Are they being too ambitious, and romantic, in trying to design a robot that does too much while looking like a human?

Kind of a tangent, but for any German speakers (or someone learning German), there is a fun series about kids on a Mars Colony from Andreas Eschbach called Das Marsprojekt, it has 6 books in the series. It was really fun to read, and if you’re intermediate a good way to learn.