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Victor Riparbelli

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
801 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And you can run so many simulations and it may not look like it for parents if you're playing like Warcraft 3 or Red Alert or whatever game that you're playing, World of Warcraft that you're playing back then.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But actually what you're doing is you're training yourself to make a lot of decisions really rapidly and to understand what the implications of each decision that you make are in some kind of game that you're playing. But life is a game. Careers is a game. Building companies is a game to some extent, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But actually what you're doing is you're training yourself to make a lot of decisions really rapidly and to understand what the implications of each decision that you make are in some kind of game that you're playing. But life is a game. Careers is a game. Building companies is a game to some extent, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But actually what you're doing is you're training yourself to make a lot of decisions really rapidly and to understand what the implications of each decision that you make are in some kind of game that you're playing. But life is a game. Careers is a game. Building companies is a game to some extent, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And I think we're just the first generation where you actually can sit by yourself and get so many iterations in that would have otherwise been impossible. You can't sit down before the computer era and simulate lots of small decisions in how to run a business. You just couldn't do it, right? You would have to actually build a business and run a business. Here you can play rollercoaster tycoon.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And I think we're just the first generation where you actually can sit by yourself and get so many iterations in that would have otherwise been impossible. You can't sit down before the computer era and simulate lots of small decisions in how to run a business. You just couldn't do it, right? You would have to actually build a business and run a business. Here you can play rollercoaster tycoon.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And I think we're just the first generation where you actually can sit by yourself and get so many iterations in that would have otherwise been impossible. You can't sit down before the computer era and simulate lots of small decisions in how to run a business. You just couldn't do it, right? You would have to actually build a business and run a business. Here you can play rollercoaster tycoon.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And of course, rollercoaster tycoon is not like running a real theme park, even if it's just like 20% of being the CEO of a real theme park, right? I think that teaches you a lot. And so I think the decision-making and kind of sense of strategy you build from that is, I think is highly valuable because it's a two-way feedback mechanism, right? You can sit down and read books about things.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And of course, rollercoaster tycoon is not like running a real theme park, even if it's just like 20% of being the CEO of a real theme park, right? I think that teaches you a lot. And so I think the decision-making and kind of sense of strategy you build from that is, I think is highly valuable because it's a two-way feedback mechanism, right? You can sit down and read books about things.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

And of course, rollercoaster tycoon is not like running a real theme park, even if it's just like 20% of being the CEO of a real theme park, right? I think that teaches you a lot. And so I think the decision-making and kind of sense of strategy you build from that is, I think is highly valuable because it's a two-way feedback mechanism, right? You can sit down and read books about things.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But I think what's powerful about computer games is that there's this kind of constant feedback loop.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But I think what's powerful about computer games is that there's this kind of constant feedback loop.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

But I think what's powerful about computer games is that there's this kind of constant feedback loop.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I am a generalist in the purest sense of the word. And when I was younger, I wanted to be an artist, wanted to be a great computer programmer, developer. And I just like... I never really excelled at any of them. I still have a dream of making the music improve one day. But I think what I'm really good at, I know a lot of things about lots of very random things. I'm just extremely curious.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I am a generalist in the purest sense of the word. And when I was younger, I wanted to be an artist, wanted to be a great computer programmer, developer. And I just like... I never really excelled at any of them. I still have a dream of making the music improve one day. But I think what I'm really good at, I know a lot of things about lots of very random things. I'm just extremely curious.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I am a generalist in the purest sense of the word. And when I was younger, I wanted to be an artist, wanted to be a great computer programmer, developer. And I just like... I never really excelled at any of them. I still have a dream of making the music improve one day. But I think what I'm really good at, I know a lot of things about lots of very random things. I'm just extremely curious.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I'm not an expert in anything specific, but I have a very, very wide range of interests. And I think my neural network has been trained on

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I'm not an expert in anything specific, but I have a very, very wide range of interests. And I think my neural network has been trained on

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

I'm not an expert in anything specific, but I have a very, very wide range of interests. And I think my neural network has been trained on

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

so many random things like how elevators work to black metal in Norway to like how people make technology like all these kind of different things and I kind of used to be a bit annoyed at myself like why can't you just sit down and become like you know the world's best music producer or like the world's best programmer or AI researcher or something like that and I think now I've realized that my power is actually the fact that I'm like decent at like a lot of things