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To Hell With AGI Lets Solve DCT

  • The AI world obsesses over abstract benchmarks like passing exams, while ignoring the real challenge: changing a fucking duvet cover.
  • Forget Turing. The real measure of embodied intelligence is the Duvet Cover Test (DCT): an autonomous robot must enter a real home and change the bedding.
  • The DCT breaks current robotics. It requires navigating human chaos, contextual reasoning, and wrestling with the "rag-doll physics" of a floppy duvet.
  • A robot that passes the DCT can do your laundry, clean your kitchen, and help the elderly. A robot that beats you at chess can only beat you at chess.
  • This reveals the Great Inversion: AI will master god-like thinking decades before it masters physical reality.
  • For generations, we will be the hands for their brains—the physical actuators for a disembodied superintelligence.
  • The coming dystopia isn't AI overlords; it's us doing their laundry because their hands still suck.

Original published: October 28, 2025