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VinLucero

62 karma · joined August 8, 2011

Founder @ DubPrime

Director of Product at Sivo (YC W21)

Former Google, Credit Karma, Xbox, and Fintech Founder.

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VinLucero··on The dead economy theory
Yeah, it’s the same problem as nuclear proliferation.

We see what happened with Ukraine when they gave up their nukes in exchange for a promise of protection.

The same could be true of countries who forgo AI development directly in exchange for promises.

VinLucero··on Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
Really looking forward to playing Voxile with my friends! I feel like merging real quests with a Minecraft-like will be compelling.
VinLucero··on Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
Thank you
VinLucero··on Show HN: What if AI agents had Zodiac personalities?
Any ones you recommend?
VinLucero··on Non-Zero-Sum Games
Are you assuming elite college admission counts are rigid in the count of people admitted because of real teaching constraints or reducing the supply of prestige?
VinLucero··on Non-Zero-Sum Games
Then why do we have books on grit? And why is grit such a good indicator of successful founders?
VinLucero··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
Have you ever read Yonatan’s article on Shock Wealth and how the ruling class is incentivized to cause shocks?

https://medium.com/newco/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6d...

VinLucero··on ETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble
Blanket demand results in blanket pricing.

Demand increases prices for things, even if their intrinsic / fundamental value isn’t superior to other things in the (ETF) basket.

It’s arguably a market mispricing.

VinLucero··on How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family
If AI enables the personalization of apps for individuals, wouldn’t it also be good at doing so for families?

Maybe there is an opportunity to create vibe coded products that fit into the rhythm of a given family.

Collective emotion as a construct for a bigger family goal is an interesting optimization problem.

Mint for tracking your family’s mental and emotional health.

VinLucero··on Head in the Clouds
Beautiful articulation of the value of wisdom over intellect. Of being a generalist over a specialist at all times.
VinLucero··on LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction
I agree here. English (human language) to Bytecode is the future.

With reverse translation as needed.

VinLucero··on SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
Agreed. This is a very interesting discussion! Thanks for bringing it to light.

Have you read Escher, Bach, Gödel: the Eternal Golden Braid?

VinLucero··on SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
@futurisold, would love to collaborate with your team on running experiments. We have $300k of GPU credits to burn in the next 2 months.

There’s only so many cat videos my Agentic AI Army can create:

https://youtu.be/upVY1QioDeY?si=H566-_JIm7FmW4u0

VinLucero··on SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
Nice! But have you considered a Neurosymbolic AI that can Evolve?

https://deepwiki.com/dubprime/mythral/3.2-genome-system

Or feel Emotion? https://deepwiki.com/search/how-do-emotives-work_193cb616-54...

Have you read Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind?

VinLucero··on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
Can confirm. Was an HP Scholar at the time and leadership was chaotic.

Good people though.

VinLucero··on Docs like code in basic terms
What about Sphinx built documentation?
VinLucero··on Scallop – A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming
If you like scallop, you are gonna love lobster:

https://liby99.github.io/res/papers/lobster.pdf

VinLucero··on Psychedelic Graphics: An Introduction
Very cool explanation between time as a variable and graphical design “aberrations”
VinLucero··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
My biggest takeaway from this was the ableist messaging:

“You cannot dangle what people need to effectively work in front of them like a carrot and subtly threaten to take it away. It’s ableist. You wouldn’t dare to do that with elevators or other accessibility features at the office, so don’t do it with that either.”

VinLucero··on Go east from Seattle
Currently in Spain and originally from Seattle. Was thinking this very thing earlier today.
VinLucero··on A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics
Been looking for this!
VinLucero··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
I wonder if anyone has done a study yet on how the Glymphatic nervous system is impacted by rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) instead of drugs (pharmacological solutions).

Anyone deep into this field around?

VinLucero··on World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip
It’s almost like we need a third space to discuss topics as a society outside the context of work, home, and religion.

Get outside of your bubble!

VinLucero··on LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
Congrats from a CyanogenMod alumnus!
VinLucero··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
I’d argue that the author glosses over 2008 recession as the underlying issue by saying that the recovery was well underway by 2012.

The reality of the recovery wasn’t shared equally and those who got the short end of the stick for the last decade likely shared those worries with their children (directly or indirectly)

Does anyone know how the child’s parental income impacts the growth of depression / anxiety over the same time period?

VinLucero··on The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
I feel in my heart a deep sense of empathy after watching that. Like the quote from National Treasure, “People don’t talk like that anymore.” But the response from Nicolas Cage is, “But they feel it”.

As I understand it, Hitler used an economic narrative to build his team of supporters and eventually, desperate times cause people to vote with their wallets.

Does anyone else feel like the advent of modern online interactions is different from the early web? And maybe, just maybe… the economic incentives of the web shifting are what caused us to begin feeling angry and desperate?

Why not rebuild a better web, based on old principles of feeling? Web3 is really just about trust and decentralization of it, so why not rebuild the entire economic stack?

AI is great at many things, but great at feeling it is not.

VinLucero··on Let's try to understand AI monosemanticity
I see what you did there.
VinLucero··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
What are the incentives at Play here? You seem to know the rules of the game.
VinLucero··on Bank financing and bad urban planning make the retail apocalypse worse
Very cool ideas, but so difficult to execute. Reminds me of income share agreements from personal Fintech, but applied to Commercial Real Estate.
VinLucero··on Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit
It could work depending on how they structure the receivables (SPV, 72 hour agreement to buy) from the loan facility.

I am also curious on the official answer though!

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