Post #4482623

2026-08-10 02:08 UTC

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io Forgive me for being a little cynical about "and then RSI will happen" but it's not like this hasn't been tried before. In robotics there was a lot of excitement about "let's just make a robot then have it evolve a way to move the motors to do the task" this could work in very limited demo settings, but to really solve a problem it's just a big mess, this kind of random variation problem solving is just a lot slower than just writing it yourself.

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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-08-10 02:10

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io Do you remember all of the soft robots? The worms? They were supposed to have evolved a way to do the dishes by now. I remember seeing a presentation about such a system and the speaker said (with an air of doom and wonder) "and in just five min. it had learned how to walk, what could it learn in a day?" And you know back then that kind of gave me a little chill "wow this stuff so good it is alarming" I thought. I'm... kind of grouchy about it now.

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@neckspike@indiepocalypse.social 2026-08-10 02:09

@futurebird@sauropods.win @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io it'll get a repetitive stress injury first

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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-08-10 02:11

@futurebird@sauropods.win ok, that's valid criticism, but I'd look at the step-change in performance of robots at the Beijing Robot Marathon. I'm not even looking at Boston Dynamics, but your average Robot marathon entrant can build a robot that can run a marathon on battery and do it quite reliably

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