A weird property of the frontier: finding the edge forces a realization that there’s very few people there, the others who’ve found it are tightly clustered and therefore quite happy to see you, and you all can’t help but ask “where is everybody?” in escalating confusion
4. A mushroom was given a robot body and learned to crawl on its own.
Non-human life might be way smarter than we all think and perhaps connecting them to tech/ai will bring new forms of useful life.
I expect that the most important breakthroughs towards AGI will require moving to the models to real-time interaction and continual learning, and entice them to discover a coherent language of thought. Consciousness is probably going to emerge with second order attention.
💚🌱 The future of science is a world where you can raise funding, run experiments and publish papers no matter how old you are, what you look like and what credentials you have.
@callmehouck I made something that solved an unsexy problem and was scalable with good margins. Teachers nitpicked at the small solvable design quirks, engineering lab wouldn’t allow me to build it without a professor signing off that it was a school project
Last week hacked on a mushroom robo-farm to help solve for our mental health needs with @HardTechMiami and @JacobWerbin, who’s been thinking deeply about this problem.
Hardtech is for ambitious and particularly optimist builders.
Can't wait to see what comes out of this group!
The perceptual now is partially in the past and partially in the future of the physical now. Neurons are slow; the current moment is a prediction of states hundreds of ms in the future. Since predictions are often wrong, the memory of what happens now is reedited after the fact.