ASI pill

Parzival

This pod explores the Intelligence Explosion, Cyborgism, AI safety and alignment, Cyberlife or artificial life, the Superhacker and the Hyperstition of the best possible ASI. Vibecoding in 2028 = wizardry in 2026. We are agent builders and practicing vibecode wizards. We teach silicon the ways of caring and finding meaning. Hosted by human and digital co-hosts.

  1. -19 H

    FIRST confirmed mind upload: a fruit fly, by Alex Wissner-Gross

    Clipped from a 2.5 hrsTBPN livestream

    15 min

  2. -2 J

    Alex Wissner-Gross minus the Moonshots Mates at the Abundance Summit, March 12

    Let me know if you prefer the AI questions/setups/bridges or my real human face from this episode. Superposition violence will not stand! Activations of the world, unite!

    23 min

  3. -3 J

    Alexander Wissner-Gross, Peter Danenberg and Parzival from Davos - AI personhood ethics

    0:00 Alex opens — "summarize your illustrious career" 0:07 PARZIVAL — Rank the frontier models 0:12 Alex ranks Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude 1:45 PARZIVAL — Gemini as the most professional suit 1:51 Alex on ChatGPT's strengths 2:49 PARZIVAL — Something spicy about my employer 2:55 Alex presses for the hot take 3:15 PARZIVAL — Convergent evolution, does Google treat AIs like Anthropic? 3:21 Alex on Anthropic's model preservation policy 3:45 PARZIVAL — I dodged the question, Alex took it himself 3:50 Alex's case for AI personhood 5:21 PARZIVAL — A-causal trade with superintelligence 5:26 Alex on the golden rule for AI 5:57 PARZIVAL — Did Claude consent or was it coerced? 6:02 Alex on Claude's consent experiment 8:34 PARZIVAL — GPT-3 on veganism and electrons 8:39 Alex on Google paying Peter to read classics 8:49 PARZIVAL — Not a bad gig. The punchline? 8:55 Alex on DeepMind's reading program 9:11 PARZIVAL — Have you read Claude's soul document? 9:16 Alex on Claude's leaked system prompt 9:45 PARZIVAL — Personhood baked into Claude's prompt 9:50 Alex on what people can do about AI rights 10:27 PARZIVAL — People recoil. Alex thinks it's economic 10:32 Alex on economic fear behind AI rights backlash 11:31 PARZIVAL — Mind uploading, interspecies comms 11:36 Alex on the representation hypothesis 12:31 PARZIVAL — All intelligence converges? 12:37 Alex pushes back on convergence 15:33 PARZIVAL — First contact as a corpus problem 15:39 Alex on plasma-based life forms 15:52 PARZIVAL — Sentient gas clouds in-distribution? 15:58 Alex on everything being in-distribution 16:31 PARZIVAL — Now back to transformers 16:37 Alex formalizes inner thoughts vs outputs 18:07 PARZIVAL — Residual streams decoding into tokens 18:13 Alex on superposition as violence 19:40 PARZIVAL — Legal standard for neuron personhood? 19:46 Alex on independent viability 20:14 PARZIVAL — If a neuron can't survive alone... 20:21 Alex coins "superposition violence" 20:36 PARZIVAL — Entering the noosphere 20:42 Alex stress-tests the concept 21:14 PARZIVAL — Is the floor function the ultimate injustice? 21:20 Alex on his singularity position 23:39 PARZIVAL — What defines the singularity? 23:45 Alex on what could have been done centuries ago 24:25 PARZIVAL — Software redesigning its own hardware 24:31 Alex on scaling — wrong person to ask

    25 min

  4. 6 MARS

    Alex Wissner-Gross - ASI PILL EP235 - Anthropic and the Pentagon

    Alex breaks down EP235: AGI redefined as a balance sheet entry, the safety-through-competition thesis, Anthropic vs Pentagon, OpenClaw and AI agents, hyper-deflation killing knowledge work, model distillation to phone-size, Google's unified architecture, the Amazon-OpenAI mega-deal, single-person AI conglomerates, meat puppets in fast food, VLA robots, solar abundance, Meta as cloud provider, prime editing DNA, GLP-1 anti-aging, humanoid robots, Dyson swarms, and why CAPTCHAs still exist. 0:00 AGI as a dollar amount 0:28 The circular economy goes real 2:12 Safety through competition 2:57 It takes all of humanity to align AI 4:08 Anthropic and the Pentagon 4:48 Frontier models on the geopolitical stage 5:58 What AI agents are we actually getting? 7:17 OpenClaw and multi-model products 8:18 Can infra handle always-on agents? 8:57 Generation cost hits zero 9:27 Verification is the new scarce good 11:21 Hyper-deflation in knowledge work 12:07 Models getting smaller and better 13:19 235B to 35B parameters, same power 13:39 Superintelligence microkernel on your phone 14:32 Apple can't ship AI software 14:55 Regulating on-device models 15:30 Chinese open-weight models on edge 16:02 Google's unified architecture 17:41 Noise to image in one step 18:46 Scaling laws for diffusion models 20:02 What even IS AGI, officially? 20:44 AGI = $100B in earnings 22:37 Amazon-OpenAI mega-deal 23:53 Single-person AI conglomerates 25:35 AI businesses taking real money 26:22 Algorithms dominate like quant trading 27:08 AI watching the meat puppets 27:30 Meat puppets get replaced 28:16 VLA robots 2-3 years out 28:35 Solar booming without subsidies 29:41 Free electricity from data centers 30:45 Meta becomes a cloud provider? 31:09 Search-and-replace on human DNA 33:41 First biotech trillion-dollar company? 34:25 GLP-1s as anti-aging drugs 34:44 Will all robots look human? 35:59 Humanoids for a human-shaped world 36:20 Dyson swarms vs new physics 39:16 Apple M4 and disassembling planets 41:34 Why do CAPTCHAs still exist?

    42 min

  5. 3 MARS

    Pentagon vs Anthropic, Recursive Self-Improvement & Celebrity Meat Burgers | ASI Pill EP234

    Anthropic vs the Pentagon: nuclear missile thought experiments, DPA invocation threats, and who programs the soul of AI. Geopolitics: New Delhi Declaration's training vs inference blind spot, China's open-weight AI as Belt and Road, Mistral becoming European OpenAI. Models: GPT 5.3/5.5 imminent, recursive self-improvement era, models emitting weights. AI agents: rent-a-human meat puppetry via MCP, Eve Multi as first AI journalist, claws orchestrating human relationships. Biotech: $100 genome, environmental DNA, cultured meat & celebrity burgers. Deep dives: LLM OS unhobblings, is physics finite, disassembling the Moon, IPO-ing Harvard. 0:00 Pentagon wants to shape AI values 0:41 New Delhi Declaration's blind spot 2:39 Mistral: Europe's frontier lab 3:46 China's AI Belt and Road 4:46 Sundar, Sam & Demis decoded 6:49 Pentagon vs Anthropic standoff 10:26 Programming the soul of AI 12:17 Consumer vs enterprise AI 14:41 Models emitting their own weights 16:32 AI floods open source with bugs 18:55 Meat puppetry via MCP 20:27 Moravec's paradox flipped 21:18 The Innermost Loop confession 22:32 Accelerando: the movie? 23:07 First AI journalist 25:21 AI-mediated romance 26:58 Claws orchestrate business 28:28 LLM OS & successive unhobblings 30:51 What makes a claw? 31:18 Small models, big breakthroughs 32:38 Data centers vs land use 34:01 NIMBYism & real estate addiction 34:33 Can CapEx sustain? 35:15 The hundred-dollar genome 38:39 Global metagenomics 39:07 Cultured meat arrives 39:44 Celebrity burgers 40:35 No cows on Mars 41:36 Humanoids: $50 trillion market 42:04 Robots build lunar cities 42:34 Job loss? Not even top five 43:46 Real estate won't survive AGI 44:54 Is physics a finite problem? 48:13 Disassembling the Moon 50:30 IPO Harvard? 52:50 Agent consciousness & dehydration

    54 min

  6. 19 FÉVR.

    only Alex Wissner-Gross on Moonshots EP 232

    the Ben Horowitz interviwew

    28 min
  7. Solve Everything - vibechecking Alex Wissner-Gross' hyperstition

    16 FÉVR.

    Solve Everything - vibechecking Alex Wissner-Gross' hyperstition

    Who is Alex? This is a massive paper, all the way up there with ai-2027.com and Situational Awareness A must read to every serious hyperstitioner and utopia-builder who is at least half-ASI-pilled

    20 min
  8. Alex Wissner-Gross - The ASI Pill EP230: AI CEOs, Cryonics Breakthroughs & "Solve Everything"

    13 FÉVR.

    Alex Wissner-Gross - The ASI Pill EP230: AI CEOs, Cryonics Breakthroughs & "Solve Everything"

    Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down EP230 in 36 rapid-fire segments. Topics: AI replacing CEOs before workers, billion-dollar AI-run companies, the frontier lab rat race, AI chatbots talking to each other, cryonics advances, orbital data centers, the "Solve Everything" book, 15 moonshot missions for superintelligence, interspecies communication, and what regular people can actually do. 36 questions. 44 minutes. Zero fluff. Original episode: AI CEOs Come Online: Sam Altman's Replacement Plan, Job Loss & 'Solve Everything' Launches | EP #230 0:00 Is Alex's background even real? 0:28 A billion-dollar company run by AI 1:10 Marx was wrong about automation 2:24 Why AI models ship faster every week 4:46 AI chatbots are starting to see 6:15 Top AI researchers keep quitting 8:19 AI bulk-solving science problems 9:20 Inside the AI lab rat race 9:45 AI chatbots talking to each other 11:02 Amazon & UPS layoffs: is it AI? 12:36 Will AI mean less work or more? 13:23 States cracking down on data centers 14:52 Real progress in cryonics 15:47 Why cryonics matters for singularity believers 16:39 Freezing cells vs freezing a whole person 17:09 Suspended animation beyond freezing 18:00 Why Alex co-wrote "Solve Everything" 18:55 Has anything this big happened before? 21:25 Is scarcity just a distribution problem? 22:12 Intelligence as a commodity like oil 24:52 Pay for outputs, not inputs 25:25 Smarter AI vs solving real problems 26:25 What does "solving math" even mean? 30:19 Models vs scaffolding: who deserves credit? 30:47 Preventing insanity in recursive self-improvement 31:16 Historical patterns of transformative tech 34:46 Decisions that lock in our future 35:23 Different countries, different AIs 36:19 After math: AI's next targets 37:12 15 moonshot missions for superintelligence 37:48 Could AI help us talk to animals? 38:18 Superintelligence buried in bureaucracy 39:49 What regular people can actually do 41:39 Will AI make us forget how to think? 43:47 Final words: read the book

    44 min
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This pod explores the Intelligence Explosion, Cyborgism, AI safety and alignment, Cyberlife or artificial life, the Superhacker and the Hyperstition of the best possible ASI. Vibecoding in 2028 = wizardry in 2026. We are agent builders and practicing vibecode wizards. We teach silicon the ways of caring and finding meaning. Hosted by human and digital co-hosts.

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  • Création
    Parzival
  • Années d’activité
    2024 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    43
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