simulation

also referred to as: simulations

10 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 6, 2025 by Pim de Witte · across every show →

Everything said about simulation, oldest first

Dec 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Simulation will initially be a larger commercial AI market than physical deployment
“I think simulation will actually be the larger market initially. So I think in simulation because you have very little constraints also from a safety perspective, simulation is much easier. So I think a lot of the takeoff initially sits in simulation.”
Pim de Witte Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 1:03:57 World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
Jan 28, 2026 bearish
Insight
White: Simulations model boring things well but fail on interesting phenomena
“So I think this is one of the fundamental, I don't know, dichotomies of the world is that simulations stimulate really boring things really well. They don't simulate interesting things very well.”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 42:52 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
Jan 28, 2026
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White: Simulating biological systems hits fundamental limits; empirical lab measurement is unavoidable
“Basically the best model whatever, Opus seven or GPT 10, like it really can only propose the first experiment, maybe slightly more clever, but at a certain point you just need information, right? Like some little calculations you can do that, like, there's mor…”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 17:53 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
Apr 27, 2026
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Younis: Simulation cannot eliminate real-world testing due to escalating reproduction costs
“There is a meniscus line where you cross where still doing real world testing is better. There's a, in the central real gap, you can reproduce reality at exceedingly expensive costs. And this, nothing is free. So really you have to refining that line where you…”
Qasar Younis Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 40:32 The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
Apr 27, 2026
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Ludwig: Initial simulations never represent reality without sim-to-real feedback loops
“So at first go, no simulation is, is going to represent the real world. There's always a process of this sim to real matching where you actually, you need the real world feedback to basically feed into the parameters that are being used in the simulator.”
Peter Ludwig Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 37:39 The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
Aug 21, 2026 positive
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Park: Accurate human simulation models must precede complex automation agents
“This technology around simulation, creating accurate representation of people ought to precede the more complex agents that would automate the world that we live in.”
Joon Sung Park Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 8:32 Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
Aug 21, 2026 neutral
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Park: Decision-makers want simulation to shape the future, not predict it
“The reason why people are interested in simulation actually isn't because they want to predict the future. If you're winning against, if you're trying to win against a stock market, predicting the future is interesting, but most people, most decision makers, w…”
Joon Sung Park Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 15:15 Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
Aug 21, 2026 bullish
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Park: AGI and simulation are the twin pillar technologies of advanced civilizations
“You look at any advanced civilization in science fiction, there's two twin pillar technology. One's AGI in some form, and the other is simulation.”
Joon Sung Park Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 1:07:17 Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
Aug 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Park: Future simulations will cost as much to run as training models
“My hunch here is I do think in the next Some number of years, we will start creating simulations that will actually cost as much as training a foundation model.”
Joon Sung Park Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 49:58 Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
Aug 21, 2026 positive
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Park: Agent simulations beat multi-year field trials via instant repeated execution
“This is the reason why you want to run a simulation. You spend five years, forty million dollars on this one study and have one finding. But if you can run simulation many, many times instantly, then that's the value.”
Joon Sung Park Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 1:05:16 Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
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