Richard Socher says Josh Tobin’s robotics work showed him that scaling smaller simulations to full generality would be very difficult.

“the agents and so on but before that he also worked in robotics and he saw sort of the smaller simulations and how it's going to be really hard to scale that in full generality and so that's that was his angle coming to recursive self-improvement we have Jeff Kloon who's been working in like open-endedness for a long time together with Tim Rocktaschel. Tim Rocktaschel also built Genie 1,”