Luis Rosias

Founder of Fluo, the Tiktok for language learning! prev Google SWE & GOAT Smash Melee Coach. Lover of innovation that challenges the status quo

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

We're building Fluo, the Tiktok of language learning (https://t.co/rUH4AXK8KT) and we NEED MORE VIDEOS.

If you're a native Chinese speaker and you want to get paid for the instagram/tiktok swiping you were already going to do anyways, shoot me a message!

We just need as many urls of good viral videos as we can so we can make sure everyone at every level has good videos to learn from!

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

The problem is that youth soccer gets no money because of MLS. Here it takes 10-20k a year to play.

Everywhere else when a player makes it big, the youth club gets 5% of transfer fees and training compensation. They can also make money if the player helps them get promotion.

It’s like a VC model for youth development. 1 superstar funds the training of hundreds of kids for free.

In the US since the youth clubs are starved because MLS pockets all the money, they need to charge the kids directly to survive. This is why only rich kids can play in the US and our two best players came up through free European youth leagues.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

Prorel makes it a part of the culture. When your city team is fighting for their lives or to move up to the next tier, people care.

More importantly than anything though US youth development is starved of resources because of MLS.

Everywhere else, when a player makes it big, the teams that developed them get training compensation and 5% of transfer fees. MLS doesn’t do this and pockets the money meant for the youth clubs when the player gets transferred abroad.

This is why soccer is basically free everywhere else and costs 10-20k/year in the US. Youth clubs can only make money directly from kids as opposed to from promotion or producing a superstar like everywhere else.

Only rich kids can play competitive youth soccer in the US because of MLS.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@savanah2j It’s not culture. It’s bad incentives due to closed MLS system.

If we had a prorel open system, US would be a top 5 soccer country easy.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

Title 9. US women got more money to play college soccer than women anywhere else. Since women don’t play American football, and there must be equal number of scholarships for men and women, soccer became the main sport for women to get college scholarships.

It always comes down to money and incentives.
Same reason US men’s is bad is also because of MLS and bad incentives for youth development.

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@MurrayHillGuy1 Phelps and Messi are too low.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@VivianCaiIAm Founder's dinner sounds great! 🔥

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

Of course it’s environment specific.

So you can only have AGI when it’s operating inside a robot that can run around? That can swim? That can do a space walk?

For me general means that within a defined environment that it can take action in, the agent, given an objective, can perform or self learn to perform the set of actions to achieve any objective that a human could.

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@pmarca As long as China stays closed and tightly controlled, and Europe stays fragmented, American dominance will continue.

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@alwayspriyesh Engagement bait questions posted 50 times a day ruin X and make me mute you.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@leftoverer @ylecun @andrewgwils We have most of the pieces already and systems like Hermes are already showing signs of this. At this point its less of a fundamental technology/model architecture problem and just a harness problem.

An LLM base with intelligent harness will be AGI in digital environment.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@markproduct Founders are also users of products...

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

Maybe talking past each other then.

The G in AGI is environment specific right now.

The environment that LLMs operate in is a very different one than the ones humans or cats generally operate in.

With a few improvement to memory/context management and continual learning, they can easily become what most would consider AGI without being able to understand or take any action in the physical world the way we can.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

Agree with almost everything except for this one. Google Maps >>>> baidu map/amap/etc.

Navigation is awful in China, and having reviews centralized in maps is way more convenient than having them on Dianping and having to go back and forth.

For delivery, meituan is definitely faster and cheaper, but DoorDash has better UI/UX and recommendations imo.

DiDi == uber/lyft

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@ylecun @andrewgwils A teenager doesn’t learn to drive a car in a few hours. They learn to drive a car with 15 years of in world learning and a few hours of practice on top of that.

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One of the most insane matches I’ve ever seen. How in the world can a small island nation of 500,000 people produce this level of performance against one of the best teams in the world. My heart could barely take that game. Absolutely incredible performance by Cabo Verde.

[Dax McCarty @DaxMcCarty11]

Feast your eyes on not just the goal of this World Cup, but one of the best goals in World Cup history. Consider the stakes, the moment, the technique. Are you kidding me?!? 🇨🇻

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@_gaelicGhost @kseniam0s You trade equity for money when the money buys you speed/growth.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

@tamim_ui @X Followed!

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

Looking to connect with people on @X

If you're into:
- Startups
- Coding
- AI/agents
- UI/UX design
- Product
- GTM

Say hi and let me know what you're working on!
Looking to follow people!

(Triple Extra bonus points if you're into soccer, poker, pickleball, rock climbing or in SF!)

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@Miraclesj20 @Footballtweet It touched his hair bro.

All players need to shave their heads and trim their toenails if they want to win games.

Strict VAR and sensors are great for the game.

[Luis Rosias @CrunchyAI]

I mean this is just getting ridiculous.

How many game deciding moments are coming from a toe out of place, or a ball brushing someone's hair!?

Is that really what we want?

Nothing about the play materially changed in any way. The spin and trajectory are identical to the human eye.

Tech applied this strictly that doesn't change the play at all is a BAD application of sensors/VAR/AI and against the original spirit and intent of the off sides rule.