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Specialized robots, not humanoids.

Specialized robots, not humanoids. “Humanoids have their place, but there’s a lot of room for specialized robots that do things in an efficient, sort of industrial-scale kind of way, which is sort of where we play,” Kalanick said about his […]

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Atoms are local.

I can’t do justice to this article with a summary. If you only read one this week, let this be it. It explores this idea: “how do we get to a future where everything grows on trees?” | learn more

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Emergence: A unifying theme for 21st century science.

“When electrons or atoms or individuals or societies interact with one another or their environment, the collective behavior of the whole is different from that of its parts. We call this resulting behavior emergent. Emergence thus refers to collective phenomena […]