Cargo Cults, Data Flywheels, and Novelty Pumps
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Cargo Cults, Data Flywheels, and Novelty Pumps
Cargo Cults, Data Flywheels, and Novelty Pumps Cargo Cults, Data Flywheels, and Novelty Pumps Every robotics company with plans to deploy robots claims to have a “scalable data flywheel”. The pitch goes something like: We deploy robots, collect data from those deployments, and use that data to improve the policy. The improved policy unlocks more deployments, which produce even more data. This flywheel compounds, and so too will our lead. This is the scale-pilled version of post-WWII Melanesian Cargo Cults that thought building fake airstrips will make American cargo planes continue to show up
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