Why it matters to him: he owns the test rig. A studio, students, and a body of martial knowledge
is the one place this question can be answered rather than speculated about — and it is the only
question on either tape where his accumulated advantage is the input. Tagged NAME ON IT.
Where it has come up
asked_count: 4 — he returned to it four separate times in one 74-minute tape, restarting the
thought twice on the record ("Take three… Take four"). A question asked four times is not a note,
it is a direction. This is the strongest single signal in the archive so far.
- Moonshots #266 @~9:00 — the panel calls LLMs "librarians that don't get out." He answers from the mat: "There's books about the physics of karate, the physics of Krav Maga… If you read all of that stuff, you will not learn martial arts. That's it."
- Moonshots #266 @~10:30 — "What are the sensors that we can put on LLMs that increases their capability to understand the physical world?"
- Moonshots #266 @~11:12 — is it an extension of the human body reporting back to a model, or a human using a model with sensors? His answer: "it could be both."
- Moonshots #266 @~1:07 — the fourth take: a multimodal model, video + pictures + heart rate, that could train people in self-defence.
What is known so far
The term he was reaching for is embodied AI. His framing splits cleanly in two and the split is his own: (a) what does a model need to sense, and (b) where do the sensors sit.
What would answer it
Not a literature review — a measurement. One technique, one student, one sensor set, and whether the model's judgement matches his own. He is the ground truth, which is the part nobody else has.
Related
- Embodied AI
- Existing board project: Do Not Die On The Mat — the 06-28 analysis found this question is that project's R&D horizon, not a new company.