On Only Nothing Existing
This one is about answering a fundamental question. Why something rather than nothing? Or equivalently, why does anything exist at all? This is clearly a har...
Posts by Year
2024
Hyperwave: Hyper-Fast Communication within General Relativity
Posting this a bit late, but sometime ago I published a paper exploring microscopic-sized space-time perturbations and discovering a quite interesting result...
2023
s/acc: Safe Accelerationism Manifesto
Accelerate. Fast, Safe and Fair. Technology has been a transformative force for our civilisation and it is poised to play an increasing role going forward. ...
How to Fix AutoGPT and Build a Proto-AGI
Language models powered AI agents are promising, but nearly useless at the moment. I cover what is not working, why and what can be done to get us to usefu...
AI Techniques for the Modern Problem Solver and Post-Scarcity Resources
Quick post to mention two open lists I’m maintaining: AI Techniques for the Modern Problem Solver https://github.com/lorepieri8/ai-techniques A curated ...
2022
Robotic DAOs
Picture this future scenario. It’s a busy Monday morning, the streets are buzzing and the robo-taxi you called has barely found some space for a temporary ...
A pragmatic metric for Artificial General Intelligence
Current intelligence definitions are either partial or do not provide an actionable evaluation of intelligence, something tangible which can be used to qua...
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...
Basic Post Scarcity Q&A
After multiple private and online conversations, I spotted some recurring questions about basic post scarcity, I thought it would be fun to publish them he...
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...
2021
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...
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...
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