Varun Nair(@_varunnair):“If every change requires collecting a new dataset and running another round of post-training, you’re signing up to repeat that work for as long as the robot is deployed. This is not scalable.” Adaptation Cost has always been the right metric for generalization. You must minimize it through diversity.

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Varun Nair@_varunnair

2026.09.10 17:49

“If every change requires collecting a new dataset and running another round of post-training, you’re signing up to repeat that work for as long as the robot is deployed. This is not scalable.” Adaptation Cost has always been the right metric for generalization. You must minimize it through diversity.