Sergey Demyanov

Founder/CEO of AI-native litigation platform Beagle. ex Snap, 2x founder, 1 exit. PhD. Old account: sdemyanov_me

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

Looks like European Commission regulates everything except car engines - the air quality in Lisbon is so much worse than in any American city

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Actually I meant pitch, but it was ready to help anyway 😂

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@mvanhorn @garrytan Plus, unless your evals are designed really carefully, they can be gamed too and won’t necessarily catch that mismatch. So does the final result usually end up matching the original intent? And how much of the time is actually spent just on figuring out good evals?

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

. What I don’t fully get in all this “loop mania” is how people are able to form such a clear product vision that they don’t feel the need to stay in the loop and iterate more. And even if so, the way it gets expressed can still be imperfect, so the result might end up different from what was intended?

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@vargastartup @edgarpavlovsky True, but the best of those don’t optimize for current the current quarter success fees alone. They build relations that help to sell in the future.

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@vargastartup @edgarpavlovsky Best people work in internal motivation. External incentives can almost always be hacked, or short-term in the best case

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@Dan_Jeffries1 > You can have all the compute in the universe and you still can't compress twenty years of drug side effects into twenty minutes.

You surely can if you have an accurate enough model of a human body, which doesn’t look like a sci fi anymore

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

Unpopular opinion: Net beneficiaries - those who receive more from the government than they pay in taxes, including all government employees - should not be allowed to vote, as they have a direct incentive to vote for maintaining and increasing these transfers

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

I get a much better response rate from cold LinkedIn outreach when I ask people to evaluate an idea and tell me whether it would be useful for their business than when I pitch a working product. People like helping others, but they’re tired of sales pitches

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

I was building a project plan with gstack in Claude Code 4.7 and got tired of fixing issues scattered across the document. The plan quickly grew to 25 pages from accumulated conversations and mixed context. Codex 5.5 cleaned up the mess and made it consistent in one shot.

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[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@emollick @pmarca 100%. Every answer is “that’s correct, but…”

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@TheGeorgePu Ahah founders on the seed round usually get less than $150k. $300k salary would be a luxury.

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@Bootlegregore @fivedogit @Mark_A_K_W @paulg Because 1) tax can be calculated automatically, 2) it is more difficult to avoid, 3) it is better for the society when low wealth people pay less taxes and may can become rich quicker

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@fivedogit @Mark_A_K_W @paulg Implementation matters. I proposed to tax only assets capable of generating revenue stream: real estate, stocks, bonds. Crypto is no different from gold, oil, or tomatoes. You can store value in it, but you take risks of price volatility. No revenue stream - no price floor.

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@Mark_A_K_W @paulg All answered here https://t.co/QzQNTKwWAb

- For illiquid shares this is the price of the last qualified transaction.
- L2 regularization makes ML models more robust by preventing excessive concentration in weights. Wealth tax is a similar mechanism, but for societies.

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@paulg I have a whole paper about that if you are interested https://t.co/QzQNTKwWAb

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@paulg It is actually not. 1) Income is self-reported, wealth can be measured objectively, 2) wealth tax is automatically progressive, income tax is not. Replacing would reduce wealth inequality.

[Sergey Demyanov @sdemyanov]

@fchollet And this becomes a real work to ensure that no shortcuts are available