Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron is 90% sure we live in a simulation | E2358
Jason and Lon talk with Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron about world models for robots and why he is 90% sure we live in a simulation, plus GrokBot usage limits, data center backlash and space data centers.
The gist
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Jason says Launch spends under $40,000 a year on AI tools like GrokBot and gets over $2 million in value, about $50 per dollar.
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Jason designed jacket mock-ups in about 15 minutes by talking to GrokBot through Wispr Flow, and has his Athena assistants build bots for tasks.
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Oliver Cameron is 90% sure we live in a simulation, and Lon recommends the documentary Glitch in the Matrix for anyone curious about the idea.
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Jason built a Chrome extension that hides Amazon's sponsored listings from a two-sentence Claude prompt, echoing Karpathy's HackerTube built in two hours with Claude.
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Lon cites a poll finding 66% of Americans oppose data centers, and Jason argues space-based data centers, enabled by Starship, are the obvious end state.
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"All I did all weekend when I wasn't with the family and going to a Halloween party was just hang out with my Grokbot. I'm so addicted... The bot interface is more pleasing and more efficient. And now that I have a hundred different bots, I'm starting to put bots together."
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"I did this in about under 15 minutes of instructions, maybe 10, of just talking to it, using Wispr Flow to guide it, and then I just kept republishing it."
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"What I'm doing now is I'm having my Athena assistants use Grokbot. I have two Athena assistants. They're going to use the same instance."
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"There is a great documentary called Glitch in the Matrix that plays on this idea and that speaks with people who believe we are in fact in a simulation, that I really recommend if you want to learn."
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"I just wrote like two sentences. I gave it a simple prompt and then I forgot I did it and then I got back to my desktop and there was an alert in Claude... I made my own unsponsored... with a Chrome extension."
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