accelerating humanity’s progress towards epistemic depravity | ai + punk rock | building
@ego_ai_
(YC W24) | prev. facebook ai applied research | unhinged af |
👾
@ego_ai_
is an AI-native simulation engine where players can create 3D animated characters, worlds, and scripts with natural language. Imagine being able to prompt Minecraft or The Sims into existence.
Congrats on launching
@peggy_wang
+
@simulacronist
!
YC founders in my batch got stuck in an elevator in the Transamerica Pyramid and used ChatGPT to figure out how to get unstuck. Thank you
@sama
,
@tszzl
and
@OpenAI
🫡
to all those who have
@ycombinator
interviews scheduled,
@peggy_wang
and i are happy to help you practice with a mock interview. i still have mild ptsd from my yc interview with
@mwseibel
and i’d like to help you get prepared 🥲 DM me if you have an interview coming up!
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Thanks to our amazing customer Vishnu Hari (
@simulacronist
),…
@atalovesyou
@shajedulkarim_
they aren’t thinking about this - the sad truth is that they simply do not care. we are not an influential or important constituency for any political party
Same reason AI works for game dev. Imagine an army of agents committing workable code into an engine - building the game as it’s played. A truly infinite game.
One reason AI works for code is that most people are just writing the same programs over and over. The elegant solutions to this problem are more abstract languages and more powerful libraries. But maybe AI will be the worse-is-better solution that wins.
“i’d rather be a market maker than a market taker…i don’t like the word share” - jensen @
@stripe
sessions: sage advice for founders
@ycombinator
@nvidia
1\ We built a 3D simulation of a small town populated by fully autonomous AI agents inspired by
@joon_s_pk
's Stanford Generative Agents paper. We called it TownWorld and live streamed it to Twitch
am i the only person who kinda enjoys going to the dentist? the dentist drill is genuinely soothing to me and the torture tools they use feel v satisfying when scraping gunk outta the gums 🦷😬
🎙️Intelligent Game 🎮 Worlds
Ego AI
> co-founded by
@peggy_wang
and
@simulacronist
both formerly from Meta
> started off doing avatars 🎭
> serendipitous meeting with Emmett Shear
@eshear
(OpenAI 3 day CEO, Twitch co-founder) led to pivot
Now launching first AI native…
people in my life who’ve constantly pontificated about luck and randomness as an input function into success also seem to be a particularly unlucky bunch 🤔 imo kismet is summoned, not encountered
@SFReyes2023
@garrytan
@ulricmusset
@ycombinator
Not taking away from them at all.
Just pointing out the role of luck and randomness.
Also suggesting that a talk titled “how to build a $100bn business” is a fantasy to get more people into the top of the YC funnel
"The "infinite pleasure box" is a common AI games pitch I hear, but it's fundamentally flawed. Let me explain why.
The core insight is correct. AI will make game development faster and cheaper, enabling niche games for small audiences - even audiences as small as one. So far,…
The reason there will never again be games quite like WoW or oldschool runescape, is those worlds represented an initial escape for a certain type of young boy into a new world. For the first time in history, connecting a handful of lonely kids from each region with their peers.
(13/21) ego (
@ego_ai_
) - A game engine that lets players created 3D worlds with natural language. It's like being able to prompt your own 3D game into existence. Ex-Meta AI founders who are huge game nerds.
@shriyanevatia
At this stage you’re investing in founders and traction versus what the product does. What the product does is most likely gonna change quite a bit since most of us are pre-PMF.
3D Gaussian Splats are cool, but they're static (Part 7).
PhysGaussian is a simulation-rendering pipeline that can simulate the physics of Gaussian Splats while simultaneously render photorealistic results 🤯
is there an overly long german word for the feeling you get when you briefly lock eyes with another driver at a red light? it’s not a romantic feeling, but a strange moment of shared intimacy that feels kinda… sweet