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

Sasha Kaletsky is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Creator Ventures, $20m VC fund focused on consumer internet investing, founded with celebrity Youtuber (and cousin) Caspar Lee.

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The next frontier of game engines, infinitely scalable persistent games, real-time hyper-scalable simulations, distributed cloud game engines, breaking the technical limits in MMOs infrastructure.

Guest Bio: Rashid Mansoor, founder and CEO of Metagravity (https://techfundingnews.com/londons-metagravity-ropes-in-9-5m-to-build-interoperable-decentralised-compute-infrastructure-for-metaverse/) . From being a doctor of research in topology of complex and chaotic systems to founding Adbrain (https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/news/press-room/the-trade-desk-acquires-the-assets-of-adbrain-ltd) and Hadean (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/23/distributed-computing-startup-hadean-nabs-30m-to-power-the-metaverse/). With Hedean, he broke world records (https://www.ccpgames.com/news/2019/ccp-games-and-hadean-go-for-world-record-with-eve-aether-wars-phase-iii-at) for largest concurrent gaming sessions at events such as GDC, Gamescom and G-Star. Today he is the founder and CEO of Metagravity where he’s building the distributed compute infrastructure for metaverse gaming and virtual world simulations.

Augmented Reality, Holograms, History and Future of Communication, the status of the AR cycle, the broken gaming metaverse.

- Startup Beem: https://www.beem.me/

Jean-Philippe Vergne is an Associate Researcher of strategy and blockchain at the UCL School of Management. His award-winning research on piracy and on the rise of blockchain-powered organizations has been published in leading academic journals. His latest work is focused on defining and measuring decentralisation. Are DAOs effective organisations or are we misunderstanding their purpose?
Themes discussed: Decentralisation, DAOs, Piracy.

Maxim bio: 21yo hardware philosopher Maxim Perumal. At 15, from his small room, he built the world's most popular open-source VR Headset that you could build yourself at home for $100 bucks. After meeting the Chief Oculus Architect, he turned down working for Meta at 15. Later on, he started Unai: whilst everyone is focusing on mass market and gaming VR,  he’s trying to achieve the iphone moment for VR by focusing solely on remote presence, and building the full stack himself, from hardware  to OS, to protocol to content. We backed his vision here at Stride, and other investors include La Famiglia, NFX, Lachy Groom and Naval and Steve Jobs’ trusted Chief of Communication, James Vincent.

Themes discussed: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, metaverse, virtual worlds.

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Guest bio: CEO of LandVault (previously Admix), the world's largest metaverse builder with over 120 builders. Raised $37M from Elefund, Notion Capital, Force over Mass, Speedinvest, DIP Capital, SVV, Rocket Capital. Sam is also owner of the community Good Morning Web3, with over 30k members.

Themes discussed in the episode: metaverse, game engines and 3d rendering, future of brands, interoperability, new blockchain business models, virtual land.

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Tags: Unreal Engine, Unity, The Sandbox, Decentraland, Horizon Venues, future of brands, blockchain, Virtual Land

Guest bio: Jordan Topoleski is 22 years old, dropped out of Harvard twice, and is now building Arkive, the world’s first decentralised museum.
DAO members can vote on which artwork to add to the collection and where they get exhibited. It is testing the limits of collective intelligence and DAO engineering. Cofounded alongside Thomas McLeod and Aleksander Herforth Rendtslev, they just raised $9.7m from Offline Ventures, TGC Crypto, NFX, Not Boring Capital.

Themes discussed: collective intelligence, optimal DAO structures, voting mechanisms, art and originality, Artificial Intelligence.

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Tags: DAO, decentralised autonomous organisation, Decentralised Museum, Decentralised Art, ArkiveDAO, Arkive, Thomas McLeod, Jordan Topoleski, generative ai, generative art, dall-e 2, Eniac patent

Interview with Woj.eth, founder of Mazury (https://mazury.xyz/)
Mazury is a platform to hire using web3 credentials (POAPs, NFTs, Soulbound tokens, Buildspace 101, Sismo GitPOAP, Kudos). They aggregate data from all over the internet and blockchain to give employers verifiable and granular information about candidates. For instance, recruiters can now screen candidates twho have a POAP showing they participated at ETHGlobal Hackaton.

In the episode we discuss: web3 credentials, future of work, people search engines, digital Identity, privacy concerns with the blockchain, anonymity, soulbound tokens, eth wallets and web3 authentication.

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