My current blog is epistem.ink. This one is here just for archival purposes. It surprises me that when people think of "software that brings about the singularity" they think of text models, or of RL agents. To me, this seems counter-intuitive, and the fact that most people researching ML are interested in subjects like vision and language is flabbergasting. For one, because getting anywhere productive in these fields is really hard, for another, because their usefulness seems relatively minimal.

Elon Musk is more than a bit busy building Model 3s, launching rockets, and saving the world from the AI apocalypse, but that isn't keeping him from digging in to his holy mole-iest venture yet: a mildly mystifying scheme to find a faster, cheaper way of boring tunnels, and using it to destroy traffic. Musk still isn't talking, but documents the Boring Company provided to the city of Hawthorne, and comments employees made to the city council, provide a few tidbits. Good thing, too, because the Hawthorne city council just gave the Boring Company permission to begin digging a 1.6-mile tunnel so it can test its technology. "The test tunnel project would involve SpaceX engineers repeatedly testing personal vehicle types suitable for placement on the skates; refinement of the design and technology; and general data collection on performance, durability, and application," the Boring Company wrote in documents submitted to the city council.

It was meant to be a futuristic vision of how we could avoid the frustration of getting stuck in traffic. Elon Musk recently shared his dreams of high speed travel in self-driven cars, using underground tunnels built under cities. But this is a case of running before you can walk, according to one expert. At the TED conference in Vancouver, Musk showed off a new video of electric'skates' transporting cars in a narrow tunnel under a city before raising them back to street level in a space as small as two parking spaces. Behind him a Tesla car can be seen on one of the'skates.

Elon Musk has been teasing his tunneling project since he first tweeted the idea during a frustrated rant aimed at LA's heavy traffic in December. Now, the first details of the radical project have been revealed. In an appearance at the TED conference in Vancouver, Musk showed off a new video of electric'skates' transporting cars in a narrow tunnel under a city before raising them back to street level in a space as small as two parking spaces. At the TED conference in Vancouver, Musk showed off a new video of electric'skates' transporting cars in a narrow tunnel under a city before raising them back to street level in a space as small as two parking spaces. Behind him a Tesla car can be seen on one of the'skates.