Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…No, see it in the other direction. We are not the contributors. We are the maintainers, right? So we maintain for everyone. Meaning that, for example, every year there is around 150 people who contribute to VLC and maybe 300 on FFmpeg, right? Our goal as a small team is to get all the contribution in. So if there is more usage, there will be more contributions, and those people will do the right module, the new format, and so on. We care about the architecture of VLC, the architecture of FFmpeg, right? Now we’re doing things in VLC, which is spatial audio, right? We did the demo not long ago. There was changes needed on the architecture, and we did the first spatial audio module. When it’s going to add the second one, it’s going to be easy, or the third one is going to be easy, right? Our goal, and it’s going to be the same for others or haptic, right? We need to work the architecture so that modules can be added to add future capabilities. So yes, we are going… We are a multimedia framework, so that’s not just audio and video. It’s everything that is timed and represents something that you can sense. And if it’s brainwaves, it’s going to be brainwaves. I think that’s inevitable. Sorry. I love this on so many fronts because, so FFmpeg and VLC are pushing companies and pushing the world to standardize. So for example, to standardize- … brainwaves, right? So standardize… It would push, like I hope Neuralink comes up with a standard for multimedia via brain-computer interfaces or for robots with haptic. By experience, what happens is always the same, right? You start, it’s a new topic. There is like five different standards because everyone starts to do this. The hype goes down because every time the hype goes down, then people start to say, “Well, you know what? We need to do a standard.” People, because two or three companies, usually not the leader, but the two or three followers do a standard, and then we implement the standard and then it’s the end of the curve. It starts to be more pepper.…

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