Ben
@benersing
Imagine: you have $100M in your bank account. 🤔 What are you spending your time on for the next 12 months?
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kevin j
@entropybender
start my version of Salk/Santa Fe Institute
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Ben
@benersing
Say more. What's your vision with that?
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kevin j
@entropybender
many things which i'm always excited to talk about in detail, but the first would be trying to create a set of models of humans and serve it as an api for conducting simulations at scale
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Ben
@benersing
Interesting. What got you interested in that?
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Ben
@benersing
What type of model? Physiological? Psychological? Whole body?
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kevin j
@entropybender
going from relatively atomic models then composing them together. fluid mechanics for veins, control systems for the heart, etc. idea is similar to huggingface you have lots of diff models and can compose them easily to form as granuar or as whole-body of a human simulation as you want
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Ben
@benersing
Interesting. You certainly know the space better than I do, but I’ve seen a handful of startups attempting to solve for pieces of what you're describing. My current opinion is it needs to be government / grant funded. The startup costs appear too high and the path to commercialization too long. wdyt?
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kevin j
@entropybender
i concur, i wouldn't try to do a startup. would be an institute funded by tech elites- kind of like arc institute by the stripe founder. the previous failures also had a lot to do with computational limits which get exponentially lower every day. LLMs transform studies to code which i think will be a force multiplier
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