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I guess this is why evolution is taking unreasonable amounts of time.
Assuming time has no end, what would be a reasonable amount of time ? Let’s say you could evolve at 10000x the speed ? So what ? Where do you need to be ?
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The most impressive thing about the video is not the skill but the control of their fear.
Not that have experience, but I feel like that's just practice. Your subconscious needs to learn that it's not necessarily going to die when it does that, and your subconscious learns from experience, so if you did it 10 times and nothing went wrong, you'll be less scared.
But with the parkour on top of city buildings that is more extreme than what they portray on rooftop chases in a Bourne Identity movie... hmm... I think that is another level. There is a good chance you will die if you do that alot over 10 years. It probably requires some letting go of ego to the point where you are happy to die early. Like the free and solo climbers.
[1] Forgive me if you are a great skiier this is my dumb interpretation!
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The difference being each human has to spend thousands of hours learning that level of control over their bodies, and work hard to maintain that level of physical fitness. And if they fall off the roof, millions of dollars of potential earnings and GDP die with them. Whereas these robots are only $70k, and once one of them can do this, they all can do it. Just like with Chess and Go. It’s not impressive at first, the…
Yes, that's very true. Success for one robot means success for a whole bunch of robots. However, success for one Olympic athlete does not mean everyone can achieve the same level. That's the main difference.
They are essentially one “organism”. They are effectively the same height, same weight, same battery life, same way of processing information, same capabilities.
There is zero uniqueness. Like a single machine with a thousand eyes and arms.
If they develop uniqueness it would get wild, like the movie rogue one…
If a robot is damaged it would be interesting though. Would it adapt ? If it adapts would it be part of the same fleet? Could it receive the same “updates”, or would it be an individual? It would the able to do certain things others bots of the same model could do…
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The difference being each human has to spend thousands of hours learning that level of control over their bodies, and work hard to maintain that level of physical fitness. And if they fall off the roof, millions of dollars of potential earnings and GDP die with them. Whereas these robots are only $70k, and once one of them can do this, they all can do it. Just like with Chess and Go. It’s not impressive at first, the…
The most impressive thing about the video is not the skill but the control of their fear.
The feeling over fear when you want to ask someone out, then you do it and it works out, that is the spice of experience. Like wise when it doesn’t work out, it can suck but it’s also part of the spice.
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Not that have experience, but I feel like that's just practice. Your subconscious needs to learn that it's not necessarily going to die when it does that, and your subconscious learns from experience, so if you did it 10 times and nothing went wrong, you'll be less scared.
I experienced this with skiing, where [1] you need to look down the hill and lean forward amongst other things for best results, things your fear reflexes want to avoid at all costs at first. But with the parkour on top of city buildings that is more extreme than what they portray on rooftop chases in a Bourne Identity movie... hmm... I think that is another level. There is a good chance you will die if you do that a…
With Skiing, you have to make yourself quite vulnerable. It’s instinctual for us to want to close ourselves up to protect our organs when scared. But you can’t ski well or difficult terrain without opening your body up, relax your arms and expose your vulnerability. This is especially scary at first when tree skiing. When you do relax it’s amazing.
I think this is why some like snowboarding more. You’re facing sideways and you feel less exposed. You can get away with being closed up a little more and while it’s bad form, you never really have to snap out of it the way way you do on Skis.
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Yes, that's very true. Success for one robot means success for a whole bunch of robots. However, success for one Olympic athlete does not mean everyone can achieve the same level. That's the main difference.
I think the main difference is these robots aren’t individuals like us. They don’t and won’t have unique experience. They are essentially one “organism”. They are effectively the same height, same weight, same battery life, same way of processing information, same capabilities. There is zero uniqueness. Like a single machine with a thousand eyes and arms. If they develop uniqueness it would get wild, like the movie r…
Is it just me or was I unimpressed that it can't long jump further than 2x its body length?
Pretty unimpressive given recent advances in AI