Chris Paxton
@cpaxton.bsky.social
AI, robotics, and other stuff. Currently AI @ agility robotics
Former Hello Robot, NVIDIA, Meta.
Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/
All opinions my own
Former Hello Robot, NVIDIA, Meta.
Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/
All opinions my own
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Humanity as a service
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
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People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
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Unbelievably lazy journalism
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Unbelievably lazy journalism
Humanity as a service
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Humanity as a service
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to Not Having a Surveillance State
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to Not Having a Surveillance State
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Every debate about AI on here about whether it is good or evil, verboten or not, presumes it can be prevented, and that seems so out of touch I don't even feel like reading to the end of a post, even the rebuttals.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Every debate about AI on here about whether it is good or evil, verboten or not, presumes it can be prevented, and that seems so out of touch I don't even feel like reading to the end of a post, even the rebuttals.
10% of their revenue. meta made $16 BILLION on fraud last year. and because these were a paid service that means that far more than $16 was lost by those defrauded
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
10% of their revenue. meta made $16 BILLION on fraud last year. and because these were a paid service that means that far more than $16 was lost by those defrauded
guys we were literally just talking about this
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
guys we were literally just talking about this
Another shot of the xpeng robot. really surreal stuff.
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Another shot of the xpeng robot. really surreal stuff.
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A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
It is good for humanity if ai is spread out across all these great companies
The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It is good for humanity if ai is spread out across all these great companies
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The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
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I've had enough of this meme andymasley.substack.com/p/its-much-e...
It's much easier to hold computers accountable than it is to hold humans accountable
Computers live in a totalitarian surveillance state
andymasley.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I've had enough of this meme andymasley.substack.com/p/its-much-e...
"Don’t assume what you can’t know" mirrors a lot of my own thoughts on this
When I started my doctorate, I had to complete the standard research ethics training. Particularly with prisoner populations, I saw many parallels to AI. #ai #artificialintelligence #llms #largelanguagemodels #aiethics
When We Decide Who Can Feel
Should AI be protected by ethical research guidelines?
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"Don’t assume what you can’t know" mirrors a lot of my own thoughts on this
Not a fan of this kind of shit tbh
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Not a fan of this kind of shit tbh
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Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Abolish Border Patrol.
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the contrast between the left in NYC and San Francisco is incredible
winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo
winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
the contrast between the left in NYC and San Francisco is incredible
winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo
winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo
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i haven’t figured out how to use it, but apparently Kimi K2-Thinking has a Heavy mode with 8 parallel trajectories that are reflectively aggregated
it does better than GPT-5-pro on HLE
it does better than GPT-5-pro on HLE
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
i haven’t figured out how to use it, but apparently Kimi K2-Thinking has a Heavy mode with 8 parallel trajectories that are reflectively aggregated
it does better than GPT-5-pro on HLE
it does better than GPT-5-pro on HLE
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Hilarious positions I’ve heard people take as a resction to AI:
1. Copyright maximalism
2. Cartesian dualism
1. Copyright maximalism
2. Cartesian dualism
Some ppl on this site are negative-polarizing themselves into being more copyright maximalist than fucking Sony.
If we’d Japanese copyright rules, American culture would be vastly poorer for it. As would Japanese culture, b/c Japanese creators routinely use US sites to flout their own insane rules.
If we’d Japanese copyright rules, American culture would be vastly poorer for it. As would Japanese culture, b/c Japanese creators routinely use US sites to flout their own insane rules.
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hilarious positions I’ve heard people take as a resction to AI:
1. Copyright maximalism
2. Cartesian dualism
1. Copyright maximalism
2. Cartesian dualism
Another good one from the pope
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Another good one from the pope
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November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Leo is six months in office, and he has shown over and over that he was the exact right choice for the seat of St Peter in this specific moment in time. I've been reading a lot of articles about him and his history in Peru and the theology he was taught, and it really is full of compassion.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Leo is six months in office, and he has shown over and over that he was the exact right choice for the seat of St Peter in this specific moment in time. I've been reading a lot of articles about him and his history in Peru and the theology he was taught, and it really is full of compassion.
Emdash as an indicator for AI text astounds me. Basically every writing program converts -- into – and --- into —. Have you people literally never written anything before
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Emdash as an indicator for AI text astounds me. Basically every writing program converts -- into – and --- into —. Have you people literally never written anything before
Words to live by tbh
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Words to live by tbh