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One word of the title is not obvious. Here's how it is defined in the text: > Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability
by s_gourichon 5y ago
One word of the title is not obvious. Here's how it is defined in the text:
> Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing,"
> Consistent with this theme, I believe the solution to scaling up generalist robotics is to push as much of the iteration loop into software as possible, so that the researcher is freed from the sheer slowness of having to iterate in the real world.
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> The most obvious way to ephemeralize robot learning in software is to make simulations that resemble reality as closely as possible.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoThis kind of comment seems to just support not reading the articles. Is this encouraged on HN?
- mattnewton 5y agoI think it lets me know if the article is worth my time. I usually glance at the comment sections first because small titles often aren't enough to understand what the article is about.
- sbierwagen 5y agoSupporting this, I would say I'm reading the first couple comments on a submission far more often than reading the submission itself. It's not even close, probably three or four times more.
- HWR_14 5y agoIsn't that what the article's score is supposed to tell you?
- mattnewton 5y agoThat's another signal, yes. Lots of things are interesting or important to the HN community that I don't care about personally, and even if that weren't true I don't set aside enough time to read the whole front page every day.
- Zababa 5y agoIt's also a way to create discussion around a specific part of the article.
- jsnell 5y agoYeah, I must admit that from the title I thought this was going to be an argument that we should factory reset all robots daily just to ensure they never become conscious, or start drifting from their default settings in other ways. "Mindwipe them all, it's the only way to be sure."
- iknowstuff 5y ago"Robots Must Be Westworlded"