On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
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Artificial Intelligence
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 ...
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 ou...
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 more...
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, vis...
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 Tesl...
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...
Robotics
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. ...
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 ...
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 ou...
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 more...
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, vis...
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 Tesl...
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...
Tech
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
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 resu...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ou...
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 Tesl...
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...
Post-Scarcity
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Physics
Universal Dovetailer
I implemented a Universal Dovetailer in Python. This is a peculiar computer program capable of running every possible computer program without halting, by ...
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 h...
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 resu...
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 f...
Startups
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
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...
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 ...
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...
Economics
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. ...
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...
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...
AGI
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...
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...
Fundamental Questions
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 h...
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 f...
Reinforcement Learning
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 more...
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, vis...
Philosophy
Universal Dovetailer
I implemented a Universal Dovetailer in Python. This is a peculiar computer program capable of running every possible computer program without halting, by ...
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 h...
Space Exploration
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 f...
Virtual Reality
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 f...
Teleoperation
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 more...
DAOs
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 ...
Blockchain
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 ...
Accelerationism
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. ...
General-Relativity
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 resu...
Quantum-Gravity
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 resu...
Warp-Drives
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 resu...
Faster-than-light
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 resu...
Ontology
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 h...
Computer Science
Universal Dovetailer
I implemented a Universal Dovetailer in Python. This is a peculiar computer program capable of running every possible computer program without halting, by ...
Digital Physics
Universal Dovetailer
I implemented a Universal Dovetailer in Python. This is a peculiar computer program capable of running every possible computer program without halting, by ...
Simulation
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
Neuroscience
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
Mind Upload
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
Brain Simulation
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...
Machine Learning
On Simulating Humans
Simulating humans is incredibly hard, as it would require as an intermediate step to simulate the human brain. Yet, recent advancements in AI exposed a new...