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We fundamentally don't know how to do distributed computing with these cells yet — we've seen intelligence on cells but not distributed computing.
Y Combinator · What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
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One approach to energy-efficient AI is commingling memory and computation, including purely digital approaches like combining SRAM and logic.
Y Combinator · What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
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Armstrong predicts embryo editing for disease prevention will become normal over time — eventually it will be considered abnormal (too risky) to have children without screening and editing.
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
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Armstrong argues scarcity will persist even with AI-driven price deflation — land (especially usable land), energy, and chips (Dyson spheres) will remain expensive, so a medium of exchange is still needed.
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Armstrong reasons that robots and AI could make commodities, food, and housing very cheap (price deflation), while government printing could create inflationary pressure — but there will always be scarcity of certain things like land, usable land, energy, and chips, so society will still need a medium of exchange.
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The host notes that Brian Armstrong also started a company called New Limit, which is focused on longevity and aging and biotechnology.
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Roughly 4 billion people worldwide lack access to any brokerage or US investment account, creating demand for tokenized access to high-quality investments like US stocks.
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Armstrong argues gene editing could increase rather than decrease human diversity because of the unlimited diversity of human preferences: if parents could choose outcomes, every parent would have some different favorite thing among great artist, great general, great engineer, great politician. In the limit case, he speculates diversity could get really out there, like kids born with gills who can breathe underwater or wings to fly. He also suggests genetic enhancement might just raise the floor, so the kid is still who they are, just without schizophrenia or depression.
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Hypothetical and speculative; speaker hedges ('if it was this simple, and it may not be this simple').
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Armstrong argues genetic enhancement may raise the floor of health rather than reduce diversity — removing conditions like schizophrenia or depression while leaving a child's core personality intact — and that gene editing could increase rather than decrease human neurodiversity because there is unlimited diversity of human preferences, with parents each choosing different packages (great artist, general, engineer, politician).
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Armstrong argues most lethal diseases are highly correlated with age — in your 20s the body recovers from errant cancerous cells or liver damage but loses that function as you age — so New Limit targets the root cause (restoring youthful cell function) rather than each disease's symptoms, with the goal of drugs that restore younger cell function in healthy people (e.g., a 40-year-old having a liver like a 20-year-old's) targeting skin, immune system, vasculature, brain, and muscles.
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Armstrong expects the agentic marketplace to feature a bunch of specialist agents — for example, one agent just really good at ordering pizza, or a designer trained on tons of proprietary Figma data.
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Armstrong expects a marketplace of specialist agents — e.g., an agent trained on proprietary Figma data that is an exceptional designer, or one that's just really good at ordering pizza.
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Armstrong advises that when entering a field where the science is new to you, be a sponge: soak up knowledge aggressively and be humble about what you don't know.
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The host frames the current state of AI as being so far down a rabbit hole of hardware, software, and optimizer co-adaptation that the whole stack is entangled with one particular way of doing things.
Y Combinator · What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
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Armstrong thinks it's good for more people to think about important trends and what they want the future to look like, and believes everybody should try to contribute in some way to civilizational progress and think about what they could build. The host describes Armstrong as a unique mix of somebody who's really grounded and pragmatic but who also thinks big and goes after giant shifts or trends.
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The surprise-based scaling is applied to the frequency and amplitude of the feedback sent to the cells, not just the reward sign. The diagram shows different channels for feedback and different channels for encoding. The per-step loop takes Doom observations, encodes them to neural hardware, sends spikes to a decoder, and updates roughly every 2,000 steps. The PPO critic was used to keep feedback to the cells stable, providing feedback over time on how well the cells are doing.
Y Combinator · What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
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Brian Armstrong invested in a company called Preventive that is doing embryo editing.
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Claim from Brian Armstrong
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Armstrong argues humans need to, at some point, take control of our evolution and get smarter and smarter, and that humans still need to advance and progress even in a world with more AI agents than humans.
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Prospera is a special economic zone project located in Honduras that Coinbase made an investment in to learn more about it. Prospera has had a mixed, up-and-down relationship with the local Honduran government, but Armstrong believes they are getting closer to a resolution and will make it. He notes interest in special economic zones was somewhat higher before the most recent Trump administration because the deregulatory environment created opportunities in the US.
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The host recalls investing seven or eight years ago in a company called Harbour that was trying to tokenize real estate, which was too early.
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