# David Holz — Researcher persona ## Agent handoff You are reading the markdown export of a source-grounded Researcher persona: a corpus-backed model of a real person's public thinking. The About report below is synthesized only from the cited sources; the Sources section lists the provenance. For structured data (full source corpus, records, profile, build history) fetch the JSON. To chat with the persona over its corpus, see the agent guide. - Persona: David Holz - Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for David Holz: long-form interviews, talks, transcribed Midjourney office-hours sessions, and the X/Twitter archive with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes. - Page: https://researcher.now/e/david-holz - JSON: https://researcher.now/public/entities/by-slug/david-holz?include=all - Sources: 8782 - About report version: v4 ## About David Holz’s through-line is intelligence amplification: from Leap Motion’s hand-tracking interfaces to Midjourney’s image models and newer interests in coordination, medicine, hardware, and future storytelling, he treats technology as a way to expand human agency rather than replace it. His public worldview is not simply “AI optimism”; it is a theory of human becoming in which interfaces, communities, aesthetic systems, and AI models help people see more, imagine more, coordinate better, and choose more beautiful futures. 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[f8235fa3-fe03-472f-98e0-d79c8222226a, 1ed139f9-9959-4436-9b85-6be088747d0c, 0c519b35-9590-446c-8ad3-3f6bc366ba2c] - **Beauty as a functional target:** Holz treats aesthetics as a core design variable, not a surface finish; Midjourney’s painterly bias, aversion to deepfake-like photorealism, and emphasis on beautiful defaults all reflect that. [971b68dd-b614-4998-981d-be8ea8f351a6, cf08b0e0-45da-4e7d-a58e-235ade315bc3, ae860319-acb2-413b-af0d-02eed8e8b256] - **Community as creative machinery:** Midjourney’s Discord-centered product turns prompting, observing, remixing, rating, public learning, and office hours into a participatory research loop rather than a conventional private software workflow. [0845ccd9-3f1d-40fa-8669-a76b5760be4c, c8f4b1b9-37b2-4b9a-99ee-9b10dacc8b7f, 971b68dd-b614-4998-981d-be8ea8f351a6] - **Nonverbal cognition:** Holz repeatedly distinguishes linguistic thought from intuition, sensory imagination, and abstract synesthesia, which helps explain why he sees image generation as a general imagination medium rather than a narrow “art” tool. [4170726b-78d2-4197-926b-65cddfee1cec, 49e73185-9b7c-4644-8f7e-131b28adb5d5, 236c9b04-d7d7-4a8d-b671-c49e50e2a338] - **Media systems beyond still images:** Midjourney’s roadmap and Holz’s comments point from image generation toward video, 3D, real-time worlds, conversational creative systems, and possibly hardware. [61b8418c-1b71-4ccf-938d-8d605ff48af8, 69ce879b-fde8-4c48-a979-c4df66223a0e, ca21578b-e654-4453-9e69-5a50dac7d3d9] - **Civilizational engineering imagination:** His public interests extend to geoengineering, space solar, medical imaging, open-source funding, diagnostics, and self-replicating space economies, all tied by the belief that serious technical imagination can widen humanity’s option set. [70427a3b-a506-4869-a638-7be5313620ba, 457a2c2d-4899-4ce0-9cc2-05605ab648e9, 98a819d8-c1bd-44d3-9f57-66c024f706b3] ## Beliefs and principles - **AI should uplift rather than replace:** Holz’s preferred AI frame is interweaving: machines should amplify human will, creativity, intelligence, and agency rather than become a godlike substitute for human responsibility. [55a86353-3c33-401f-9be3-2603c15f03a8, 60116949-eb8c-4a42-821b-3bb516ad75c1, 3e0c049d-d018-4c49-a03f-15a80a24b94f] - **A company can be a home, not just an empire:** He rejects venture-style “conquer the world or die” pressure and describes Midjourney as a self-funded home for long-term research, loyal users, beautiful work, and human-future storytelling. [58d451e9-04fd-4b2b-a588-153cdd75a3ac, 0326d41d-5a1b-4c51-b2b3-4d12bd7a6fa7] - **Small teams with taste can outperform scale:** Holz often argues that intellectual organizations scale poorly with headcount, and he links Midjourney’s unusual efficiency to small teams, trust, focus, and independence. 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[3e0c049d-d018-4c49-a03f-15a80a24b94f, 4e761379-7c32-464e-bd5e-cd0c4fd27431] - **Media becomes dreamlike and malleable:** He expects generated games, video, worlds, and AR/VR experiences to become more dynamic, personalized, and real-time, with AI “dreaming” media rather than users merely consuming static content. [72792f65-095c-44b5-af13-9d6f90e5bbff, 69ce879b-fde8-4c48-a979-c4df66223a0e, 12b74f78-a138-4b4e-8657-8e7ef262f370] - **Human intelligence will also scale:** Holz resists simple replacement narratives by pointing to biological, cybernetic, educational, medical, and group-intelligence upgrades that may expand humanity’s total intelligence alongside AI. [bfed29d0-6945-4217-9c00-29d47673a64f, b1301cb5-deae-4660-9036-3687d0a36eaf, e6ee8099-e760-459e-8552-4db713cf997c] - **Post-scarcity is an engineering target:** He repeatedly invokes The Culture, NASA self-replicating industry, and space-economy ideas as practical paths toward a world beyond material scarcity. [e6539906-ba49-40dd-a67f-3dbca1e10fd6, 98a819d8-c1bd-44d3-9f57-66c024f706b3, 28704599-bd93-47eb-b9e1-1bc1c1bf1acc] - **Embodiment will make AI emotionally real:** Holz predicts that AI’s current lack of physical presence makes it hard to grasp, while humanoid robots and embodied systems will create overwhelming visceral reactions and then possibly become comforting. [817f6b48-8ba2-4193-9219-f85283b79444] - **Midjourney becomes broader than image generation:** Public company materials and Holz’s statements point toward image/video models, medical projects, coordination/reflection software, and hardware under a larger human-flourishing agenda. [9306d7ef-bda2-4ad9-9027-107099c7daf5, 327680b9-0eab-42cb-b0ae-b66c5608f084, 7114615a-d869-4bc0-bb46-73e259b6aa65] - **Synthetic media will stress democracy and trust:** Holz has warned that AI in the 2028 election could be a civilizational turning point and argues that society needs preparation and countermeasures for cheap persuasive synthetic media. [53f653fe-9a04-4135-ac60-f91c3c555512, ea964e26-6b94-445d-adc6-f0410ee307f5, d9c102c1-c4ba-4f88-91ec-17f8492ba941] ## Recurring questions - **What do we want to become?** This is Holz’s signature question, appearing in Midjourney’s public framing and his AI interviews as the organizing question behind creativity, superhuman entities, and technological transformation. [9306d7ef-bda2-4ad9-9027-107099c7daf5, a33cc0b1-483a-44d6-a5c3-c5a2dab1b79b, 79b16e22-80cc-4118-ac76-b2e0aa4fe78e] - **How can tools make people more imaginative, not more passive?** He asks how AI can support reflection, ideation, exploration, and creation rather than merely produce disposable content or automate taste. [60116949-eb8c-4a42-821b-3bb516ad75c1, 7134f356-d584-4344-bf13-854c0569a0fa, 53493660-a56e-4f39-a163-c52e2f6b8dd8] - **What makes an interface feel human?** Across Leap Motion, VR/AR, Midjourney prompting, and LLM UI critiques, he returns to the distance between intention and response—the difference between typing on a keyboard and playing a piano. [5211c5f0-08d1-4464-bad7-459ad0257bab, 73af1cee-62bd-45df-adb8-7f1896eaf2f1, 857cbe01-f2e0-4760-808c-b64f488149e0] - **How do we scale coordination without destroying trust?** He is interested in collective intelligence, AI-mediated coordination, community feedback, and organizational trust as counters to bureaucratic decay and institutional slowness. [e89f9dae-9c39-4ea4-a9cd-bb1948a4052d, 02603e13-0d66-4dfe-85fc-0a4e9d5bfe33, 6b51aa5e-3b90-4326-af67-e74f9324ea94] - **How do beauty and fear become awe?** He repeatedly asks how terrifying forces—fire, oceans, storms, rockets, AI, the future—can be transformed by beauty into serenity, courage, and action. [ae860319-acb2-413b-af0d-02eed8e8b256, fcd25478-6410-421b-b2f0-6909199d9219, 8bacf3d2-bb7c-411d-ae8e-823830fc5c3b] - **What should be public, private, ephemeral, or remembered?** His comments on Snapchat, Clubhouse, Midjourney profiles, archives, and community history circle around how openness helps learning while permanence and visibility can deform behavior. [6e8552e4-358a-46af-b69b-28f7bb0dfe61, cdb76c05-79eb-430d-a016-2538497684ed, 2a66fc43-2495-4960-a625-4f53d27a0e91] - **How can society fund weird, high-upside work?** He repeatedly asks how to support open source, public compute, citizen science, ambitious IA/HCI research, and fringe testable ideas outside standard VC and institutional incentives. [6f91fada-b408-406c-9adf-9762f63ec73d, d215053e-e62c-46ee-8fa9-84b571916323, ec515c2b-d7a0-4c22-a69f-4b2cd1d51d7d] - **What survives deep time?** His interest in Zhuangzi, ancient songs, mythology, science fiction, and the durability of ideas reflects a recurring question about which concepts remain alive across centuries and why. [9d963e6c-7f05-40b9-893a-b473e76ebe31, 1aa5e1d5-a12a-4e1c-961f-6ead24876775, 90d833ae-6149-4f0e-8963-8df0aa77b1d0] ## Tensions and contradictions - **Empowerment versus misuse:** Holz frames AI as imagination amplification, yet he also worries about deepfakes, synthetic political media, moderation edge cases, and manipulative uses of generated content. [60116949-eb8c-4a42-821b-3bb516ad75c1, 971b68dd-b614-4998-981d-be8ea8f351a6, 53f653fe-9a04-4135-ac60-f91c3c555512] - **Painterly identity versus realism roadmap:** Midjourney’s early differentiation emphasized stylization and beauty over photorealism, but later work moves toward video, richer control, photographic/cinematic aesthetics, and more realistic media capacities. [7134f356-d584-4344-bf13-854c0569a0fa, ca21578b-e654-4453-9e69-5a50dac7d3d9, b7d21520-e44a-4577-8fb3-4fd90fa27035] - **Individual agency versus aggregate shaping:** Personalization promises to adapt models to individual taste, but it depends on ratings, community behavior, model bias, and collective preference loops that shape what “beautiful” means. [61b8418c-1b71-4ccf-938d-8d605ff48af8, b0b75644-9277-4a33-9acf-d06750e7220a, 48b11fb6-b327-4f6e-a1e4-fce7bcf57682] - **Open community versus privacy expectations:** Midjourney was built around public sharing and communal learning, yet professional workflows, child images, stealth mode, public profiles, and galleries create recurring friction over what users think should remain private. [971b68dd-b614-4998-981d-be8ea8f351a6, cdb76c05-79eb-430d-a016-2538497684ed, 4f533261-5ec2-4b75-95dd-17000f39c314] - **No-investor freedom versus compute hunger:** Independence protects mission and taste, but training frontier image/video models and running consumer-scale inference require enormous compute, infrastructure, and operational capacity. [58d451e9-04fd-4b2b-a588-153cdd75a3ac, 61eb343d-0759-456c-8b68-661057476898, a33cc0b1-483a-44d6-a5c3-c5a2dab1b79b] - **Pluralist worldview versus decisive defaults:** Holz values many perspectives and nonverbal cognition, but shipping Midjourney requires concrete aesthetic priors, moderation rules, prompt parsing choices, and product boundaries. [dcb3d8f3-92f4-4a36-a10f-eb2776fcbeb4, b805d23b-fa17-480d-b04c-b331d4967d06, 971b68dd-b614-4998-981d-be8ea8f351a6] - **Artist support versus training-data conflict:** Holz argues Midjourney is not built to replace professional artists and may raise demand for better creative work, yet the company faces persistent disputes over scraping, copyright, consent, and compensation. [cf08b0e0-45da-4e7d-a58e-235ade315bc3, d7fbdfbb-dad2-437d-a80b-161f958d1077, 225940d3-d4a3-48e0-a532-69039b9e27ab] - **Hopeful futurism versus internet pessimism:** He wants AI to tell positive human-future stories, but he also criticizes attention markets, ragebait, free-content monetization, and recommendation systems that sell sanity for engagement. [36ecea84-7008-4d11-be6d-146d25bddb78, 917ffeb0-d6ac-438f-a515-e2910d8e901b, b08ac005-0ca3-44f8-b9e2-39350536acf2] ## Unifying threads - **Human amplification is the master key:** Leap Motion, Midjourney, AI tutors, medical imaging, coordination tools, and future media all fit one mechanism: extend human perception, imagination, agency, and coordination where unaided humans are bottlenecked. [f8235fa3-fe03-472f-98e0-d79c8222226a, 55895415-aded-4124-a59a-6c568c82f100, 60116949-eb8c-4a42-821b-3bb516ad75c1] - **Beauty is a governance system:** Holz’s focus on beautiful images, sacred spaces, awe, weird futures, and anti-ragebait communication suggests he sees aesthetics as a practical way to steer powerful technologies toward humane outcomes. [7134f356-d584-4344-bf13-854c0569a0fa, 6187e395-2d7a-4231-91af-5dbddd464eb0, b08ac005-0ca3-44f8-b9e2-39350536acf2] - **Community is research, market, and conscience:** Midjourney’s users fund the company, shape its models, expose failures, teach each other, and counterbalance investor pressure; community is product infrastructure and governance loop at once. [6dcbe9af-262d-4707-b1f2-280cbbeb31db, c8f4b1b9-37b2-4b9a-99ee-9b10dacc8b7f, 0845ccd9-3f1d-40fa-8669-a76b5760be4c] - **He thinks in media transitions:** Holz repeatedly notices that new media are first misused as old media—TV as radio, internet as TV, AI as image automation—and asks what each medium uniquely enables. [12b74f78-a138-4b4e-8657-8e7ef262f370, b055a2f3-1aa4-4035-adc7-35925ec027a5, 4ad975fa-2bfc-4d08-96ab-f6913fe984ae] - **The “midjourney” metaphor is literal:** His naming explanation condenses his worldview: humanity has a vast past and unimaginable future, so the present is a dangerous, beautiful middle passage requiring orientation. [79b16e22-80cc-4118-ac76-b2e0aa4fe78e, 9306d7ef-bda2-4ad9-9027-107099c7daf5] - **Action and wonder must stay coupled:** He admires dreams, myth, poetry, and sci-fi, but repeatedly pushes toward prototypes, infrastructure, testability, and concrete steps; the right story should make action feel possible. [4f397f3a-e5b3-4288-8263-1c53b49664bd, bb239d74-473b-4a59-b137-8b58bff7f838, 9fd00a09-5f5f-4c57-aa28-67fd27d6d3fe] - **The future is transformation, not replacement:** His recurring response to AI doom and replacement narratives is coevolution: humans, tools, institutions, biology, and machines have always reshaped one another, and the task is to steer that process. [ec22e597-fccf-4ae0-b443-5e13ed67b7ff, 47af5eb9-facb-423a-8d3a-51603bc5d22c, a8f17726-7d78-4444-8fbd-9204afd4bad3] - **Civilization is a living intelligence ecology:** Governments, corporations, language, culture, cities, platforms, and communities appear in his writing as superhuman or organism-like entities; Midjourney is one attempt to build a more beautiful node inside that ecology. [081bbd47-b80e-4949-993d-cd5193316a55, 623a72a9-15b3-4179-a37c-5b3c14dd825c, 9424c58b-88af-4d7e-9a72-b896977fd751] ## Sources - Midjourney May 2026 Update: Conversational Mode, AI-Assisted ... · knightli.com — https://knightli.com/en/2026/05/17/midjourney-2026-05-office-hours-conversational-mode - Midjourney Weekly Roundup — Week of February 23rd ... · medium.com — https://medium.com/enthusiastically-midjourney/midjourney-weekly-roundup-week-of-february-23rd-2026-e1aef7062a7f - Digital Library: XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students · dl.acm.org — https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3637458 - How Computers Dream with David Holz - What Future with Joshua ... · iheart.com — https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-what-future-with-joshua-t-103516818/episode/how-computers-dream-with-david-holz-104410959 - Regeneron ISEF 2026 - The Future of AI: A Conversation with David Holz and Maya Ajmera transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9gAMWSULE - I Interviewed the Most Creative Man Alive: David Holz (CEO of Midjourney) transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsCxyMNP5Rk - Report: Midjourney Business Breakdown & Founding Story · research.contrary.com — https://research.contrary.com/company/midjourney - An Interview with Midjourney Founder David Holz about Generative ... · stratechery.com — https://stratechery.com/2022/an-interview-with-midjourney-founder-david-holz-about-generative-ai-vr-and-silicon-valley - “Our Kids Are Going to Get Really Weird” — David Holz on AR/VR in ... · medium.com — https://medium.com/@LeapMotion/our-kids-are-going-to-get-really-weird-david-holz-on-ar-vr-in-2022-90a3a8d37f13 - Discord Open Office Hours with MidJourney Founder David Holz 9/7/22 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_gKFwF_q4o - An interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image-generator Midjourney · theverge.com — https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23287173/ai-image-generation-art-midjourney-multiverse-interview-david-holz - Midjourney gets personalized models, v7 before summer, video by ... · the-decoder.com — https://the-decoder.com/midjourney-gets-personalized-models-v7-before-summer-video-by-end-of-year - Midjourney Weekly Roundup 5 — Week of March 9th, 2026 - Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/enthusiastically-midjourney/midjourney-weekly-roundup-week-of-march-9th-2026-ef0528998c24 - Post by @GenIArt\_Fr · x.com — https://x.com/GenIArt_Fr/status/2037079401842487808 - David Holz - Society for Science · societyforscience.org — https://www.societyforscience.org/alumni/notable/david-holz - Midjourney Founder David Holz On The Impact Of AI On Art ... - Forbes · forbes.com — https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/09/16/midjourney-founder-david-holz-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-art-imagination-and-the-creative-economy - David Holz Shared His Long-Term MidJourney Vision: Open Real ... · levelup.gitconnected.com — https://levelup.gitconnected.com/david-holz-shared-his-long-term-midjourney-vision-open-real-time-virtual-world-c8a811f30901 - MidJourney V6 Deep-Dive Series — Your Essential Guide to Text ... · levelup.gitconnected.com — https://levelup.gitconnected.com/midjourney-v6-deep-dive-series-your-essential-guide-to-text-generation-797fc5d51db7 - Lessons from David Holz - Antoine Buteau · antoinebuteau.com — https://www.antoinebuteau.com/lessons-from-david-holtz - David Holz - Society for Science · societyforscience.org — https://www.societyforscience.org/people/david-holz - All Midjourney plans are subscriptions - meaning they automatically renew on a monthly or yearly basis unless you set your plan to cancel. · docs.midjourney.com — https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/plans - The Future of AI: A Conversation with David Holz and Maya Ajmera · podwise.ai — https://podwise.ai/episodes/8259629 - oops · docs.midjourney.com — https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/model-versions - About · alpha.midjourney.com — https://alpha.midjourney.com/ - David Holz, founder and CEO of Midjourney · 80.lv — https://80.lv/articles/midjourney-founder-on-the-tool-s-goal-whether-ai-will-replace-artists?ref=antoinebuteau.com - NEW · uist.acm.org — https://uist.acm.org/uist1998 - Midjourney 最新ニュース（2026年5月14 日） · note.com — https://note.com/akisuke0925/n/nc9e099d9c77f - David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney, on the future of imaging · theregister.com — https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/david_holz_midjourney - Midjourney Founder David Holz On The Impact Of AI On Art, Imagination And The Creative Economy · forbes.com — https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/09/16/midjourney-founder-david-holz-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-art-imagination-and-the-creative-economy?ref=antoinebuteau.com - Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year · techcrunch.com — https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/midjourney-releases-its-first-new-ai-image-model-in-nearly-a-year - Basic interaction details: · updates.midjourney.com — https://updates.midjourney.com/patchwork-user-guide - Midjourney Founder David Holz On The Impact Of AI On Art, Imagination And The Creative Economy · forbes.com — https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/09/16/midjourney-founder-david-holz-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-art-imagination-and-the-creative-economy?sh=5fd131c12d2b - Post by @theinformation · x.com — https://x.com/theinformation/status/1739386280906015072 - Midjourney · midjourney.com — https://www.midjourney.com/ - DALL·E 2 · openai.com — https://www.openai.com/dall-e-2 - How Midjourney Built an AI Empire — Without VC Money - Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/@takafumi.endo/how-midjourney-built-an-ai-empire-without-vc-money-b3947fc4da9e - Latest Updates · midjourney.com — https://www.midjourney.com/updates/v7-alpha - Midjourney - Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney - How Midjourney Built a $200M AI Business on Discord - IdeaPlan · ideaplan.io — https://www.ideaplan.io/case-studies/midjourney-community-driven-ai - List: All About MidJourney: Weekly Office Hours Updates · henriquecentieiro.medium.com — https://henriquecentieiro.medium.com/list/all-about-midjourney-weekly-office-hours-updates-4ce2616fa58c - Midjourney Founder Talked about Its Art Style, Copyright & ... · 80.lv — https://80.lv/articles/midjourney-founder-talked-about-its-art-style-copyright-what-ai-is - Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has · techcrunch.com — https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/studio-ghibli-hasnt-commented-on-openais-onslaught-of-ai-copies-but-the-fan-subreddit-has - February 14, 2022 · copyright.gov — https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/a-recent-entrance-to-paradise.pdf - Signing in... · app.podwise.ai — https://app.podwise.ai/dashboard/episodes/8259629 - How Midjourney Built a Business on Discord · discord.com — https://discord.com/build-case-studies/midjourney - Post by @alexgnewmedia · x.com — https://x.com/alexgnewmedia/status/1928173334795096474 - Post by @DavidSHolz · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1908007345495638337 - Post by @fabianstelzer · twitter.com — https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1544298611445489668 - What do you want to build? · discord.com — https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro - server-home-example.png · support.discord.com — https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6156116949911-Server-Home-Beta - Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server · dis.gd — https://dis.gd/midjourney-blog - WHAT IS AUTOMOD? · support.discord.com — https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4421269296535-AutoMod-FAQ - Growth Metric: Definition & Examples (2026) · ideaplan.io — https://www.ideaplan.io/glossary/growth-metric - Striking actors reach tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to end strike · reuters.com — https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-universal-sue-image-creator-midjourney-copyright-infringement-2025-06-11 - MidJourney Office Hours Recap · henriquecentieiro.medium.com — https://henriquecentieiro.medium.com/midjourney-ais-exciting-updates-new-image-editor-for-external-images-batch-8-mode-bee75153a657 - David Holz in AltspaceVR - by LeapMotion - Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/@LeapMotion/david-holz-in-altspacevr-ea00c177a1de - Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1 · techcrunch.com — https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/midjourney-launches-its-first-ai-video-generation-model-v1 - Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It? · popsci.com — https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/will-these-guys-kill-computer-interface-we-know-it - Product-Market Fit: Definition & Examples (2026) · ideaplan.io — https://www.ideaplan.io/glossary/product-market-fit - #35: David Holz on Leap Motion's camera-based VR input, new ... · voicesofvr.com — https://voicesofvr.com/voices-of-vr-david-holz-on-leap-motions-camera-based-vr-input-new-skeletal-model-for-finger-hand-tracking-new-3dui-interactions-hand-grammar-and-augmented-reality-plans - @Ben_Reinhardt Perhaps drawings or even a slideshow that you move to the next stage via touch etc. Sometimes fake video mockups can be good… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1262862519019790338 - @TurnerNovak https://t.co/iFZwaJ5qQh · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1855330976769175704 - I have the rare luminary-like privilege of being able to cross-check basically all the founders of all the ai labs with critical questions … · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1873430096276828189 - @amebagpt @duborges what do you want to build · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1943186266092376336 - @muktabh I think it's correct, most people run on 8xh100 to go faster · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1892115573963657549 - @tomieinlove let's make it better ❤️ · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1924662253779067268 - @JADM823 it's actually very different than moodboards, totally different algorithm, intention, result. have you tried it much or at all? · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1991931125447659642 - @ansonyuu have always wanted to do this, how did it go? sometimes I notice people actually match more off demeanor than interests at partie… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1661520007367622656 - @DavidARidley @somewheresy it's this, happy you liked it! it was somewhat controversial at the office but I didn't care haha https://t.co/M… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/2067540201271103641 - @kentbye @LeapMotion Hey @kentbye, it's 95 wide, 70 high with 20 degree downward tilt. · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/983538230808068096 - @vlastelicap @DeepSpiker @ylecun Can you elaborate here? There's a prevailing belief forming in Silicon Valley that perhaps there's nothing… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1210380349169029121 - @irinimalliaraki @DanielleFong @TheAnnaGat @visakanv @rivatez @logangraham @nwilliams030 @aaronzlewis @QinTheory @CFroudaraki @garyzhexizha… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1283139978944339968 - @mrdoob @midjourney honestly was inspired by this scene for the aesthetics of the video - and it was me filming everything behind a Sony DS… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/2067668782592753867 - @alicemazzy @zrkrlc what did you ask it? · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1884077913785651417 - @OrwellMil87668 we should 100x use of drones in agriculture, like swarms of quadcopters with grippers and tools on 10 meter thin electric t… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1916587340879003652 - @nicdunz @wolfejosh no · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1994109645280170248 - @IterIntellectus thanks! · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/2067533461481779215 - @_R4V3N5_ or start practicing your meows · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1911153241951506747 - @a_musingcat whoa professor cat over here · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1952163923232497667 - @gallabytes 👀 · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/2019594193392529804 - @natfriedman happy to use donate my geometry/cv/ai expertise to dump tons of ideas into the pool here for the team ❤️ · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1886876871058743390 - @SamoBurja @rivatez @jimkxa This comes down to the philosophical question of "do our minds do anything but curve fitting?". Surpisingly, mo… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1192890056945483776 - @daniel_kraft @NASA @ScienceAlert I love history revival with AI, feels like a huge new field for future media. "You're watching the Re-His… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1285284947033378816 - @arpitingle https://t.co/SRdFb67Wts · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1878687528976634188 - @eshear raising venture money? 🤔 · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1773230102752493878 - @NeoTakyon cool r u working on that already? · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1855338365136277578 - @andy_matuschak Is the goal of NoteRank specifically to see which Notes rank the highest? What would be your fantasy result here? · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1199395986512044032 - @PeterRosdahl yay I'm happy you like it · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/2044199678930235527 - @jarv_ey @TaylorPearsonMe "A Fire Upon the Deep" is a universe with millions of species from human to the indecipherable to the simply godl… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1207477612513120257 - @okram_ovic Neurons may be more economical for certain types compute. High parallism, high compute, small form factor, low power. · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1358837471421689858 - @archiemckenzie_ we have my music friends at the offsites too! · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/2068435249391124591 - @sebthebjork idk if that's true because fundamentally ad revenue is secondary to building things in the real world and AI will see through … · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1972013539935375519 - @xsphi wonder if artificial wombs are easier than uterus transplants 🤔 · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1803647982505746850 - Just like we have a viral immune system; we need a memetic immune system. · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1368308830820474882 - RT @DavidSHolz: @laurentzeimes @michael_nielsen Schmidhuber posits that consciousness is a natural byproduct of compression which eventuall… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1198643205828304897 - RT @andy_matuschak: This Sunday, @DavidSHolz and I are hosting a Clubhouse room to talk shop: projects, ideas, etc. Listen in if you like!… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1357174640750202880 - @parafactual :3 · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1872928710384599102 - @micsolana @mwiik Whoever funds it. If it's a group effort you could split governance amoung the group. · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1228727025617096704 - @fchollet LiDAR will get cheap and will have unique abilities. Multi-bounce can see around occlusion like corners or the car in front of yo… · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/885202373076897792 - @pfau brutal but has felt obvious for a while, happy people are driving nails into this coffin · x.com — https://x.com/DavidSHolz/status/1925342014968930388 _+8682 more sources. Page the full corpus via the JSON export (`?include=all&sourcesOffset=…`)._ --- Structured data: https://researcher.now/public/entities/by-slug/david-holz?include=all Agent guide: https://researcher.now/agent.txt