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14 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
“I think you might be prepared to bite a bullet on your libertarian principles when it comes to the tremendous price discrimination that we see between API prices and first party Quadmax or GPT Pro subscription prices.”
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- Nathan Labenz
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- 14 Aug 2026
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- The Cognitive Revolution
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…I Yeah. Personally would take some risk to try to kinda the relationship up and hopefully create space for I think I think you're right. I think it makes sense to throw back at me. You said they'll take it if it's in their rational self interest, they'll still do it even if we do this or that. But I do wonder if there's pride governed limits to what people will do in rational self interest, and I would just hate for that to be the way that we fail to get to something that could be a huge difference maker in the grand scheme of things. I think you might be prepared to bite a bullet on your libertarian principles when it comes to the tremendous price discrimination that we see between API prices and first party Quadmax or GPT Pro subscription prices. I'm not a lawyer, but, yeah, I I again, I I do think that I would not be surprised if there will lies like that in effect that that that technically forbid companies to subsidize as aggressively as they are doing. It does put them it does make it very hard for, like, an application layer to emerge. Yeah. It's hard it's hard to compete against tokens that are as heavily subsidized as as what's the functional labs are doing. That's that's just the reality of the application layer right now. Anything else you wanna say or touch on before we break for today? This has been great. Well, I'd be I'd be remiss if I didn't mention you know, obviously, we're all releasing Linditimate. So lindit.ai. I I I think be ready to see more, not just from us, but I do believe the next six months are going to be about multiplayer AI and about this, like, Ironman suit. Like, about this human AI hybrid and these products that create this human AI hybrid organization. Yeah.…
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