Chris Paxton

If what a research engineer does *now* is automated imo that doesn't mean the research engineer job goes away; just like how accountancy changed with excel and personal computers. I do see the point I'm just a mass unemployment skeptic

We are now paying debts incurred by bsky-team's very conciliatory approach to ill-informed anxiety last winter about the HuggingFace dataset. (Anxieties that seemed then, as now, to be at least partly an excuse for dogpiling people.) Glad to see conciliation has some limits. Better late than never.

brett adcock on twitter

but i think automating research engineer roles doesnt mean mass unemployment necessarily; it means a change to the shape of employment in our economy.

i think shorting ad companies that rely on consumer spending would be reasonable; but the stock market as a whole would presumably do fine so chips, manufacturing, energy

Nvidia stocks

This is in fact done by a human normally, I think you're underestimating how hard it is to do simple stuff like this with traditional automation

windows xp background top half being of a bright blue sky with clouds, bottom half being of rolling green hills

bring back techno optimism

Itll get there

you talk using realtime video to anyone in the world via satellites from the back of a self-driving car that takes you to see the self-landing rocket launch that happens every 3 days

your shirt is made of recycled bottles, it's softer than cotton.

your pocket supercomputer coded an app by itself

Not sf but I like this prediction of them from Tesla in 1926

i wrote a custom llm sampler for llama-3.1-8b so it could only say words that are in the bible

R1 and g1 for comparison

‘Oh, I bought my humanoid on sale during Black Friday’ soon

At some point you're gonna have to admit we are living in a science fiction novel, we've got SpaceX rockets and computers that talk to us and you can buy an android at the store and even some flying cars in China

I've seen this stuff enough irl I believe it, although it's insanely well executed because unitree are like the best at this

science fiction like if the talking computer from star trek could converse with you in natural language. oh w

holy shit this comes up so often for even non-controversial topics

talking about the promise of atomically precise manufacturing gets you looked at like you've got two heads. yet Feynman's essay on this topic all the way back in 1960 talked both about APM, and nanometer computing hardware!

I mean I'd be careful but... it's this robot, it can definitely take a punch.

I mean I'd be careful but... it's this robot, it can definitely take a punch.

Wait til they announce the $6k r1. That will sell like crazy

You can buy a unitree g1 on Walmart now, wtf www.walmart.com/ip/Unitree-G...

i would imagine not very good yet!

same tbh

On X, Brett Adcock said this was running for 5 months of 10 hour days. Not bad at all

Figure working at BMW factory

Nah, I just think its interesting. I see a potential moral landmine if we mess it up, but not for 5-10 years tbh

Lol i understand they're pumping the stock

Are these deals... real? Or are they conditional/unlikely to actually happen in a short timeframe? I have been assuming the latter tbh

I’m confused about a few things:

• Who is building these AI data centers?
• What’s going to power them? It ain't nuclear power, since I’m not aware of any company being awarded a license to build a new commercial nuclear plant in the U.S.