Neil Gershenfeld

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication · 28 May 2023 podcast

You aim carefully at a target you want to accomplish.

And if everything goes right, you then hit the target and succeed.

What I do, you can think of as ready, fire, aim.

So you do a lot of work to get ready.

Then you close your eyes and you don't really think about where you're aiming, but you look very carefully at where you did aim.

You aim after you fire.

And the reason that's so important is if you do ready, aim, fire, there's...

the best you can hope is hit what you aim at.

So let me give you some examples, because this is a source of great- You're full of good lines today.

Source of great frustration.

So I mentioned the early quantum computing.

So quantum computing is this power of using quantum mechanics to make computers that for some problems are dramatically more powerful than classical computers.

Before it started, there was a really interesting group of people who knew a lot about physics and computing.

that were inventing what became quantum computing before it was clear there was an opportunity there.

It was just studying how those relate.

Here's how it fits to the Ready, Fire, Aim.

I was doing really short-term work in my lab on shoplifting tags.

This was really before there was modern RFID.

And so how you put tags in objects to sense them.

something we just take for granted commercially.

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