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American-made products are not impossible. Stories about iPhones costing $37,000 or laptops costing $100,000 are psy-ops, sometimes pushed by foreign adversaries but more commonly by American corporations that want anything but an upset to the status quo.
Palmer Luckey says companies are exaggerating the cost of American manufacturing to justify staying in China: “They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who pretend that manufacturing in the U.S. is this impossible, order-of-magnitude problem. A lot of it is very self-serving.
They want to justify why they’re in China. They want to justify why it’s OK for them to stay in China. They know that when sanctions hit as a result of a potential Taiwan conflict, they want to say, ‘Nobody could’ve predicted this, and I had no choice anyway.’
They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.
If Chinese subsidized steel is a third of the price of American unsubsidized steel, a tariff isn’t going to work. But if the price difference really is 30%, then a tariff could bring the American steel industry back.
It’s critically important to get this question right, and there aren’t enough people talking about it.”
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Over the past month, we completely switched to frontier LLMs to control a robot in a customer deployment.
By doing this, we have a classic System 1/System 2 architecture, but on steroids.
For the high-level reasoning layer, we use an agent based on Opus and Astra, which are many generations more capable than any VLA. For the fast execution layer, we use computer vision code written by the model, which is fast, editable, and reliable.
As a bonus, we got in-context learning, which is just a basic feature of LLMs, and continual learning, since whenever a new situation arises, the large model steps in and adapts the pipeline.
And it just feels better to be on the right side of the Bitter Lesson, benefiting from the billions being invested in frontier models around the world.
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A computer made of living brain tissue? 🧠💻 Biology vs. silicon was one of the wildest topics on #InventorFriday Live – Fringe Inventions Edition.
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Continue switching our customer’s setup from direct model control to control by code written by Astra/Opus.
The gripper picks up the back cover, points it at the light to mask it, and then uses that image to align it for precise insertion.
Good thing we already have the light built into the box.
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