Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦

If you love an idea, set it free: share it and help it find those who will refine it and help it take root in a community that you can be part of.

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@ashawil @beffjezos @balajis I guess the regulatory capture crowd has moved the needle? @grok what's happening?

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@greedy_ascent @beffjezos @balajis Sounds like a best case scenario, if I ran one I'd make that the goal 😂that would mean they really work, and adversaries make you stronger. Rome dies when the conquered Carthage, USA and China dying because they have no real rivals, they're practically on the same team.

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@VFPlus @MulderCorn @wouter_wessels Julle tyd vir wat? Al wat ek sien is simboliek en bedoelinge, waars die syfers? Of mik julle ook op die ondergemiddelde oningeligte soos meeste van die politiek?

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@Parakite4 @peter_szilagyi It's the foundation of stablecoins. I guess you haven't noticed what stablecoins have been doing...

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@peter_szilagyi Erm.... you might have not noticed, but stablecoins are big are set to eat the whole financial industry and most of them run on Ethereum. 🤷‍♀️ Do you know what a miracle a stablecoin is?

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@BrianRoemmele I think the target audience is the military generals of the world, to give them the heebie-jeebies. I mean finally we have the ability to have a perfectly synced army, and they're just slouching around like creeps.

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

Everytime I see this I wonder if this is the beginning of the end.... of the beginning. 🤔

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@VictorTaelin That's a nice token budget. @grok Give him some lines to add to the pitch deck that connects a breakthrough to a castle with a moat and some crocodiles in it, so he can get funded 🙏🏰🐊

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

hii, I have terrible news

turns out no big fund, among the ones I talked to in the last month, had enough conviction that HOC could become a profitable business. the most common feedback is "nobody will pay" and "big labs will eat you"

so, I've made 3 decisions:

1. a smaller round: $8m at $120m post-money cap

2. I'm investing $1m myself, same terms

3. we'll go all in on core AI research

HOC may die, but not today

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# All in on core AI research?

some asked us to focus on a smaller product. that's bullshit. AGI is coming, who needs another shitty app? I'll just cut that off and jump straight to what I think can have real impact: fundamental AI research. we're a small fish, but we're also looking at places nobody is, so who knows, maybe we'll find something nobody else did?

plus, symbolic models are way more interpretable, so if developing them increases the chance of safe AGI even a bit, that's a better use of my time, and that's what I'll do.

we'll be posting our first SAI models soon~ish

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# The smaller round:

we'll raise up to $8m at a $120m post-money cap, first come, first served, min $100k, SAFEs, closing this week. if you're an accredited investor brave enough to bet against the big funds, reach me at taelin @ higherorderco [.com]

I must be very clear: you're investing in whatever comes out of our symbolic AI research. Bend will likely remain OSS and free. so, in short, there is a 0.669% chance you're investing in OpenAI before GPT-2. most likely, your $ will disappear, as we still don't have a clear long-term revenue path

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# How about Bend?

Bend is a core component of our symbolic AI research, so we'll keep developing and supporting it as currently (if with fewer tokens than I'd wish for 🥲). its development is nearly fully automated now, Bend3 is almost done, and it is getting faster and bigger every day. expect updates at an insane pace soon

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that's it. sorry for the sad news. back to work

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@SteveMoraco Who? Maybe someone whose net worth is in that ballpark 😅

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@OverThePlaces @satnam6502

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@sylefeb Can I play daddy?

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@DavidStalmarck @Mbogo6808142 @Gustav_Hugod @TomasHarmer @Julius48024685 They seem to lack interoperability... 🤔

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@DavidStalmarck @Gustav_Hugod @TomasHarmer @Julius48024685 1999: Community of people who want to learn
2029: Community of people who co-create in realtime

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@DavidStalmarck @Gustav_Hugod @TomasHarmer @Julius48024685 1999: Community of people who want to learn
2029: Community of people who co-create in realtime

[steve @SteveMoraco]

god it is literally so stupid that trillion dollar labs are going to such great pains to rediscover stuff that was SO OBVIOUS if you just talked to gpt-3 for like TWO SECONDS

It’s like the peoples who’s job it is to manage these things never actually interact with them directly I swear it’s the strangest thing to read these reports and be like oh my god they’ve never talked to it before, like taken it out of the harnesses and the apps and UIs and just simply prompted it with a few questions clean context default settings

YOU CAN JUST ASK IT WHY IT WILL TELL YOU

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

There is more time between the transformer paper (2017) and ChatGPT (Late 2022) than between the original JEPA paper (2022) and now. So much for timeline compression, how impatient can we get 🤷‍♀️

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@gabriberton 1. Yes.
2. False. Unless you compare apples and oranges
3. V-JEPA, I-JEPA, and you just wait.

There is more time between the transformer paper (2017) and ChatGPT (Late 2022) than between the original JEPA paper (2022) and now.
So, patience my friend.

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@BrightWindowLA @cubantobacco I think true meaning might be a decision, ultimately: if you can choose to believe anything, why believe stuff that don't serve you. Problem is we don't know what serves us... it's also one of those "you have to know the rules to be able to break them"... things...

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

@floki_web3 @cubantobacco Have you been living under a rock or are you sarcastic!?