Forecasting Basic Post Scarcity
Another forecast post! Sometime ago I wrote about a possible plan to reach basic post scarcity. Regardless of how we reach that stage, when will a basic pos...
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Forecasting the Iphone of Robotics
Sometime ago I wrote about how an app-based low-cost collaborative manipulator may be the first widespread general purpose robotic product which changes our ...
Bootstrapping Automation with Teleoperation and Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning
A new job figure is silently emerging: teleoperators, that is human piloting robots. While remotely completing a task is useful by itself, there is much mo...
On the potential of Transformers in Reinforcement Learning
Summary Transformers architectures are the hottest thing in supervised and unsupervised learning, achieving SOTA results on natural language processing, v...
Robotic Kitchen Automation Levels
How does a level 5 automated kitchen look like? I’m sure you are somewhat familiar with the self-driving cars levels of automation, perhaps following Te...
A Roadmap to a Post-Scarcity Society
The truly scarce resource is human abilities. Summary A post-scarcity society can be defined as a society in which all the basic needs of the population ar...
The iPhone of Robotics
The killer product of robotics is hidden in plain sight and may be just a few years away. Summary The robotic space is still waiting for a truly widespread...
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Welcome to my personal blog! I will write mainly about science, tech and fundamental questions.
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On Falsifying the Simulation Hypothesis
We kick off this blog analyzing the so-called Simulation Hypothesis. The main background reading is N. Bostrom original paper, or you can check Wikipedia for...