Shravan Nageswaran is the founder of applied AI startup Atman Labs, attempting to create proactive AI capable of emulating human expertise, but using a contrasting approach to the modern standard of LLMs. He used to lead growth at Worldcoin, working alongside Sam Altman. Core topics covered: expanding awareness, the broken founder dilemma, learnings from Worldcoin and Sam Altman, the limits of LLMs and Chain-of-Thought, the Atman architecture.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(02:50) The Conscious Flywheel

(21:00) Finite or Infinite Energy

(32:30) Parental Imprinting

(37:50) Standup, Acting, and other energy sources

(51:00) Reactive vs Proactive founders

(01:07:00) Shrav's first projects

(01:12:00) Worldcoin and Sam Altman

(01:36:30) The issue with LLMs

(01:42:15) the Atman Labs Architecture

(02:20:20) Why Atman is called Atman