Reality Hacker

Articles from the RealityHacker episode on 6/7/2025:

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Change your Brainwaves

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/scientists-taught-people-to-change-their-own-brainwaves-to-feel-less-pain/

Amazon Humanoid Delivery

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/amazon-is-reportedly-training-humanoid-robots-to-deliver-packages/

In Progress, Humanizing Robots

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/new-ai-startup-giving-robots-virtual-heart-rate-body-temperature-sweating-response-so-they-can-better-emulate-human-emotions-like-fear-and-anxiety/

Robot thinks ahead

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/algorithm-lets-a-robot-think-ahead-and-consider-thousands-of-potential-motion-plans-simultaneously/

Reality Versus Imagination

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/saturday-citations-reality-vs-imagination-rhinos-vs-poachers-mathematics-vs-the-big-bang/

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Show Notes for RH:

Kick Boxing Robots

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/humanoid-robots-fight-in-chinese-kick-boxing-competition/

Do Synthetic Cats cough up Cotton Balls?

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/these-robot-cats-have-glowing-eyes-and-artificial-heartbeats-and-could-help-reduce-stress-in-children/

Could AI Become Conscious?

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/the-people-who-think-ai-might-become-conscious/

42 MPH Ping Pong Ball

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/blink-predict-smash-mits-42-mph-ping-pong-bot-is-freakishly-fast/

Move'n on off of a 3D Printer

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/soft-robots-can-walk-themselves-out-of-a-3d-printer/

Articles Discussed:

Talk to your Pets

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/your-pets-could-one-day-be-able-to-talk-to-you-with-ai/

Hatsune Miku

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/anyway-heres-hatsune-miku-dancing-to-a-fen-vocaloid-cover-in-vrchat/

Spiders Spin Glowing Red Silk

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/biologists-engineer-spiders-to-spin-glowing-red-silk/

Infrared Night Vision Contacts

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/these-infrared-night-vision-contacts-let-you-see-through-your-eyelids/

The End of Reality as we Know It

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/googles-new-video-generating-ai-may-be-the-end-of-reality-as-we-know-it/

Articles Discussed:

Another Simulation Theory

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/gravity-could-be-proof-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation-new-theory-suggests/

When an Apple falls in your Head

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/coming-soon-to-apple-devices-brain-control-accessibility-features/

The Age of Paranoia.

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/deepfakes-scams-and-the-age-of-paranoia/

The First Attack.

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/humanoid-robot-turned-on-handlers-at-factory-in-dystopian-attack/

Meta wants You... all of you.

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/meta-wants-your-smile-squats-and-small-talk-and-its-paying-50-an-hour-to-scan-them/

Show Notes for 5/10/2025 Episode, s2e19:

Cyborg Cicadas

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/scientists-direct-cyborg-cicadas-to-play-a-horrendous-droning-rendition-of-pachelbels-canon/

Robot with Feels

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/amazon-develops-a-robot-that-feels-touch-just-like-its-human-workers/

Visual Intelligence

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/5-things-you-can-do-with-visual-intelligence-on-your-iphone/

Neurotech Devices

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/lawnerd/f/d/wearable-neurotech-devices-are-becoming-more-prevalent-is-the-law-behind-the-curve/

AI Powered Headphones

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/ai-powered-headphones-offer-group-translation-with-voice-cloning-and-3d-spatial-audio/

Show Notes:

Competing with non-human entities

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/when-you-apply-for-a-job-now-youre-competing-with-non-human-entities/

AI Agent Company

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/professors-staffed-a-fake-company-entirely-with-ai-agents-and-youll-never-guess-what-happened/

Gene Therapy Startup

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/this-gene-therapy-startup-wants-to-change-the-way-we-age/

Growing Human Teeth

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/scientists-successfully-grow-human-tooth-in-lab-with-aim-of-implanting-in-humans/

Are we in a simulation?

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/physicist-says-hes-identified-a-clue-that-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

Show Notes:

They are coming for us, RUN!

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-bunch-of-robots-ran-a-half-marathon-alongside-humans-and-it-was-incredibly-goofy/

Quantum Telepathy

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/quantum-telepathy-goes-real-how-lasers-and-ions-outsmarted-logic/

Humanoid Workers and Surveillance Buggies

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/humanoid-workers-and-surveillance-buggies-embodied-ai-is-reshaping-daily-life-in-china/

Gestures Predict Words

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/listeners-use-gestures-to-predict-upcoming-words-virtual-avatar-study-finds/

VR Dentists

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/virtual-reality-coming-to-a-dentists-office-near-you/

Show Notes for RealityHacker on 4/19/2025:

Holograms you can Touch

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/scientists-invent-holograms-you-can-touch/

Hot Potato because of AI Assistants

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/seattle-startup-potato-lands-4-5m-to-automate-science-experiments-using-ai-assistants-and-robots/

Molecular Robots in Cells

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/dna-circuits-come-alive-scientists-build-molecular-robots-inside-living-cells/

Characterizing Creativity

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/almost-like-us-characterizing-creativity-in-artificial-intelligence/

Realistic Avatars Foster Trustworthiness

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/in-science-communication-realistic-avatars-may-foster-more-trustworthiness-than-cartoon-like-ones/

Show Notes:

Four Years After Death

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/alvin-lucier-is-still-making-music-four-years-after-his-death-thanks-to-an-artificial-brain/

Personal Mixed Reality

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-new-way-to-bring-personal-items-to-mixed-reality/

Jumping Robot

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/insect-sized-jumping-robot-can-traverse-challenging-terrains-and-carry-heavy-payloads/

Murder Prediction Minority Report

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/the-uk-is-testing-a-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-potential-killers/

Engineered Bacteria

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/engineered-bacteria-emit-signals-that-can-be-spotted-from-a-distance/

Welcome to RealityHacker, s2e14 on 4/5/2025:

Here are the articles we discussed:

Quantum Signals inside Life

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/scientists-just-discovered-quantum-signals-inside-life-itself/

Galactic Spin Mystery

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/baffling-scientists-galactic-spin-mystery-challenges-big-bang-assumptions/

Uhhhmmmm... let me think.

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/that-uhh-let-me-think-face-you-make-androids-need-it-too/

Eco Friendly Dining

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/extended-reality-adds-meat-flavors-to-plant-based-meals-for-eco-friendly-dining/

Achievement Unlocked: Turing Test

https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/an-ai-model-has-officially-passed-the-turing-test/