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Founder @EigenLabs ($10B+ AUM protocol, a16z-funded) • Building Open Agentic Networks • Maximizing Individual Agency Post AGI • Ex-Prof @UW: Information Theory.

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Paras Chopra on The PostAGI Banger episode Power Concentration, RSI, Future of Work, AI in India. One of the clearest thinkers I have had the privilege to interact with. His blog has this core principle: “know what’s true and do what’s right” - it struck such a resonance with me I could not stop thinking about it. It felt so proximate to what my own ideal in life is. Paras Chopra built Wingify, then started Lossfunk to work on harder research problems once the company-building work became repeatable. I went the other direction, leaving academia to build a company, which he brought up in the first few minutes. A big part of our conversation was about where intelligence ends up concentrating. Open models sit roughly six months behind the frontier today. But if frontier models begin training the next generation of models, there is no reason that gap stays fixed. “Countries that are rich, countries that have more GPUs, they make better intelligence. And that cycle just keeps on concentrating and the rest of the world simply just falls behind.” This is one reason I care so much about open innovation. As intelligence becomes a more important input into everything we build, who gets to participate in creating it matters enormously. Paras also makes the case that this technological wave is different because we are beginning to automate the work itself. That changes how quickly knowledge can compound, who can contribute, and how much is at stake if the frontier becomes closed. Part 1 of 2 with Paras Chopra of Lossfunk on PostAGI. 00:00 Intro 00:54 Know what's true, do what's right 03:10 From Wingify to Lossfunk, an AI Research Lab 07:15 Hierarchies that could get fixed forever 09:43 The leverage labor used to have 12:50 When action and outcome come apart 16:47 Democracy is just a word 20:46 What went wrong with blockchain 23:51 Speculation as a coordination technology 27:24 Permissionless innovation 31:46 Why DAOs didn't work 35:12 The most controllable intelligence ever built 39:33 Verifiability and confounding

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