It’s interesting to me that this fascinating article has no comments. My cynical side can’t help but wonder if the software engineers who read HN don’t want to

It’s interesting to me that this fascinating article has no comments. My cynical side can’t help but wonder if the software engineers who read HN don’t want to hear that non-embodied algorithms can’t get us to strong AI. A robotics lab is an interdisciplinary enterprise and involves a lot of leg work. “Surely I will eventually create strong AI while sipping coffee in my pajamas, hacking away in Emacs. We just need more compute, produced in some boring way by two-sigma worker bees unsuited for the rarefied heights occupied by Me, the Great Hacker.”