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The Tragedies of Reality Are Coming for You

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In 2023, I was at an ML conference. The night was young, the drinks were flowing, and the topic turned to a question: “if you could take any machine learning subfield, and give all their resources to a different one, what are you killing and what are you boosting?”

In 2023, I was at an ML conference. The night was young, the drinks were flowing, and the topic turned to a question: “if you could take any machine learning subfield, and give all their resources to a different one, what are you killing and what are you boosting?” I don’t remember what they boosted, but one person said they’d kill robotics. When I pushed them on it, they said robotics progress is too slow and nothing happens relative to everything else. I think they were correct that robotics progress was slower than software-only machine learning subfields. But I would also add two…

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