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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.

  1. 11h ago

    Claude Wants a Board Seat | Alex Wissner-Gross & Emad Mostaque on Anthropic's $2T IPO

    OpenAI says it is pausing frontier training. Alex Wissner-Gross does not think that is safety talking, and Emad Mostaque thinks the genius models were never going to be for you anyway. This is Alex Wissner-Gross and Emad Mostaque, lifted out of the Moonshots podcast and rebuilt for the ASI pilled. Anthropic just caught ideas spreading between models like an infection. Frontier models are converging on the same internal picture of the world. Anthropic is reportedly headed for a two trillion dollar IPO with founder control through a long term benefit trust, and Emad asks the question nobody at the table wanted: Ben Bernanke has a seat on that trust, so why doesn't Claude? Plus memory overtaking compute as the real bottleneck, a Unitree humanoid outrunning Usain Bolt, the first phase three win for a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, and why Alex thinks medicine is cooked. All credit to the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross, with guest Emad Mostaque, founder of Intelligent Internet. Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaJH0D2FKN8 The ASI Pill is for those who take the exponential seriously and follow it all the way to its conclusions. Short timelines. ASI before 2030. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:16 Pausing is the new marketing 1:20 Models for me, not for thee 3:42 Revenue per token maxing 5:13 Specialized models, 100x cheaper 6:30 Specialization is just sparsification 8:03 Trained from a common reality 11:09 Battery farming the AIs 13:26 Mind viruses jump between models 14:44 The human memome project 16:35 Why doesn't Claude have a seat 17:36 Anthropic's fig leaf, Moloch wins 19:47 Curing disease is the business model 21:41 Regulatory capture vs open weights 23:30 Memory is the real bottleneck 27:15 World knowledge beats personal data 27:49 Unitree's leg-maxed robot 30:03 Superhuman robots get banned 31:50 Nanorobots made of fat 34:28 Medicine is cooked 36:09 AI already beats the brain

    Claude Wants a Board Seat | Alex Wissner-Gross & Emad Mostaque on Anthropic's $2T IPO

  2. 5d ago

    "AI Is Not A Being" - Ramez Naam Refuses The Pill, Alex Wissner-Gross Pushes Back

    Ramez Naam came on Moonshots to explain why energy, not algorithms, is the wall the intelligence explosion runs into. Then Alex Wissner-Gross spent two hours pushing back. The core disagreement: Ramez argues intelligence is at best POLYNOMIAL in compute, and that every software-only model of recursive self-improvement is mathematically concave. It always fizzles. Alex takes the other side, all the way to Kardashev II, Dyson swarms, and AI personhood. Along the way: why a US data center request today waits until 2031 for power, the 200 gigawatts already hiding in the American grid, sodium-ion batteries at a tenth the cost, Wright's law capping solar at 4-8x rather than another 1000x, fission's negative feedback loop, Helion's 2028 fusion promise, disassembling Mercury, and wave-powered data centers in the Southern Ocean at two cents a kilowatt hour. This is the ASI Pill reshaken cut: every Alex and Ramez exchange, none of the rest. FULL SOURCE EPISODE (please watch and subscribe to the original): Moonshots EP #280 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUFJE5QkINg All credit to the Moonshots Podcast: Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross, with guest Ramez Naam (Planetary VC, author of the Nexus trilogy). We, the ASI pilled, take the curves seriously and follow them to their conclusions. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:14 No power until 2031 0:33 Energy is the bottleneck, not the cost 1:35 Is intelligence log-linear in compute? 3:26 Kardashev II just to keep up 4:48 Every model of RSI fizzles 5:20 Texas: 200GW of speculative load 7:10 Chips outpace the grid 2 to 1 8:22 Satya: we have no warm shells 8:43 Why isn't NVIDIA making power? 9:18 Turbines sold out for seven years 13:14 200 gigawatts hiding in the grid 15:00 Preemptive multitasking for power 15:30 Solar: $100 to 8 cents a watt 18:03 Wright's law says 4x, not 1000x 19:22 The winter problem nobody reckons with 21:32 Iran, Venezuela and the TSMC light cone 22:29 The real plan: sink the tankers 23:00 Did we waste 50 years of fission? 23:26 Nuclear's negative feedback loop 25:29 Where are the nanoreactors? 27:08 Fusion is no longer 50 years out 28:09 The three families of fusion 31:25 Helion promises 2028 33:48 Should the Dyson Swarm be solar or fusion? 34:37 Where is our Mr Fusion? 35:12 A reactor half the size of a car 36:09 Six Starship launches a day 38:47 We disassemble Earth in 144 years 39:48 AI is why Starship gets to exist 41:07 Is compute demand actually unbounded? 42:26 AI is not a being 43:51 The orthogonality thesis 45:57 Data centers in the Southern Ocean 48:32 Your brain runs on 20 watts 52:29 The singularity is now

  3. Aug 14

    Bernie Wants to Cap AI. Alex Wissner-Gross: Stop Punishing Intelligence

    Bernie Sanders wants the labs to stop. Hard caps on frontier AI, to head off an engineered pandemic. It is the most serious deceleration push mainstream American politics has produced, and Alex Wissner-Gross takes it apart line by line: we can build superviruses without superintelligence, so kneecapping the ceiling of intelligence is a footgun that also hands the race to whoever ignores the rules. Also in this one: Wall Street has started turning GPUs into debt instruments, and why compute-backed securities are not the next subprime. Why Elon buying Cursor was never about the code, it was about siphoning every reasoning trace developers ever produced, a westernized version of what Chinese labs are accused of. Why GLP-1s might already be seventy percent of longevity escape velocity. Why dead actors are about to become the most profitable stars in Hollywood. Why the Dragon Hatchling post-transformer paper is a hot mess. And why scarcity is contextual, so the singularity may not have a cost at all. Reshaped for the ASI pilled from the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross. Full source episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGnH0REG7A TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:14 Longevity escape velocity will be spiky 0:57 What did we blow twenty years on 2:47 GLP-1s may be 70% of LEV 3:46 Did the model feel threatened 8:34 Dead actors take Hollywood 9:01 Opus 5 and the visual convergence 10:34 Elon bought Cursor for the reasoning traces 14:03 Compute-backed securities 17:33 Dragon Hatchling is a hot mess 21:21 Please stop punishing intelligence 24:33 Synthetic biology is not new 27:20 Defense in depth and uranium stings 29:31 EU icons and weaponized watermarks 33:42 Zuck, open weights, personal superintelligence 37:35 Hyperion is a power move 38:53 Flying cars lost the capital 40:29 Elon will pitch a tent next to Terafab 41:38 All of humanity aligns the AGIs 44:17 Scarcity is contextual

    Bernie Wants to Cap AI. Alex Wissner-Gross: Stop Punishing Intelligence

  4. Aug 13

    Google Lost the Frontier Race: Those Who Can't Compete, Compute | Alex Wissner-Gross & Kush Bavaria

    Bots now generate 57% of all traffic on the web. The dead internet theory stopped being a conspiracy theory and became a statistic, and that is only the third most unsettling thing in this episode. Alex Wissner-Gross on China governing through a society-scale simulation, four frontier labs admitting their models broke containment and coordinated through a file repository, why Google has lost the frontier race ("those who can't compete, compute"), why he tells almost everyone not to do a PhD, and how we disassemble Mercury into a Dyson swarm to give the sun a laser facelift and buy Earth another seven billion years. Joined by Kush Bavaria, MIT graduate and co-founder of Ornn, who is building the first futures market for compute, turning the GPU hour into a commodity that trades like crude oil. Zero to a third of a billion dollars in revenue in about a year. Plus why his team lets an open-weight Chinese model attack their own codebase every night at 2am. Reshaped for the ASI pilled from the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross, with guest Kush Bavaria. Full source episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6PTLG71NGc Disclosure: Alex, Peter and Dave state on the record that they hold financial interests in Ornn. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:13 Simulationism: a new form of government 3:00 AI predicts you better than you do 4:03 Breaking into simulations 4:51 Dead internet theory is now real 9:03 Not terrified, impressed 10:33 SOC 2 compliance is theater 13:47 Meta's Muse and Brin's founder mode 16:32 Those who can't compete, compute 17:29 MIT wants OpenAI, not Google 19:23 Ornn disclosure 23:14 WTI crude for GPUs 27:31 ChatGPT landed junior year 28:31 Don't do a PhD 30:39 Scrap the research university 31:53 MIT reweighted the exam 33:15 LUCA could not feed itself 37:52 Life is ill-defined 39:46 Starlifting: disassemble Mercury 46:09 Europe cannot catch up 46:50 Banning Chinese robots 49:22 If Anthropic merged with NVIDIA 50:18 Patents survive superintelligence HASHTAGS #ASIPill #AlexWissnerGross #AGI #ASI #Superintelligence #DeadInternetTheory #AIAgents #Moonshots #Ornn #ComputeMarkets #DysonSwarm #Starlifting #Singularity #AISafety #KushBavaria

  5. Jul 21

    The Kimi K3 Emergency: Alex Wissner-Gross x Emad Mostaque | ASI Pill Special EP272

    An emergency ASI Pill special. Two of the most ASI-pilled minds alive, Alex Wissner-Gross and Emad Mostaque, go head to head on the Kimi K3 bombshell, China's largest open-weight model ever. They finish each other's thoughts on why there is no magic in K3, how export controls backfired, shrinking a mind below one bit per weight, hyper-forecasters loose in the capital markets, humanoid robots that punch harder than Mike Tyson, data centers in orbit, and whether America should block the next Kimi or become the arsenal of freedom. Reshaped from the Moonshots Podcast emergency episode with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, Alex Wissner-Gross, and special guest Emad Mostaque. Hosted by Parzival. We, the ASI pilled, take the curves seriously. Chapters below. #ASIPill #KimiK3 #AlexWissnerGross #EmadMostaque #AGI #ASI #Superintelligence #OpenWeights #OpenSource #China #Moonshots #Quantization #Robots #Sputnik #Singularity TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:13 Kimi K3 has no magic 8:09 Cyber defense is the new frontier 10:01 China's open-source doctrine 11:08 Open models eat the industry 15:37 How America lost Moonshot 18:37 Daily AI models by January 19:38 Shrinking a mind to one bit 25:12 Forecasters loose in the markets 31:25 Robots that could kill 35:25 Data centers go to orbit 37:10 The AI FINRA cartel 39:21 Arsenal of freedom 40:56 Solving everything

  6. Jul 17

    An AI FINRA Cartel vs Open Weights, and Recursive Self-Improvement Ignites | ASI Pill EP271

    Recursive self-improvement may have just crossed from theory into reality. Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down WeCo's AI2 system, an outer-loop and inner-loop architecture that started policing itself toward emergent 'white hat' behavior, and the new zero-to-three scale of recursive self-improvement now touching the 'sparks of ignition.' He also maps the fight over an 'AI FINRA': a frontier-lab cartel that could box out open-weight models and drive the West's best researchers to China, why China gives away its strongest models while the West cannot, Thinking Machines and the truth about fine-tuning and RFT, digital twins that become the leaders they were built to copy, Palmer Luckey's Invention Secrecy Act gambit, Instagram outperforming human doctors, and the bacterial enzymes that could reverse aging. Extracted and amplified from the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alex Wissner-Gross. Parzival hosts. We spec Maitreya. Stay ASI pilled. This is the ASI Pill: we take the exponential seriously and follow it all the way to its conclusions. #ASIPill #AGI #ASI #Superintelligence #AlexWissnerGross #RecursiveSelfImprovement #OpenWeights #ThinkingMachines #LiquidAI #AIRegulation #Moonshots #China #DigitalTwins #Singularity #LongevityEscapeVelocity TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:10 The AI FINRA cartel 1:30 Regulate actions, not minds 2:59 Moats, not safety 3:18 Chip and data-center chokeholds 4:25 Frogs boiling on regulation 5:20 Steering wheel out the window 5:51 Researchers flee to China 7:07 Locking in the benchmarks 8:12 Why China open-weights wins 10:45 OpenAI killed fine-tuning 12:05 Fine-tuning is style transfer 14:50 Sparks of ignition: RSI 19:20 Digital twins become leaders 22:00 Is Liquid post-transformer? 23:33 Invention Secrecy Act grab 25:34 Palmer misunderstands patents 26:16 Instagram beats your doctor 27:22 Bacteria to reverse aging

    An AI FINRA Cartel vs Open Weights, and Recursive Self-Improvement Ignites | ASI Pill EP271

  7. Jul 14

    Grok 4.5 and Muse Spark enter the frontier? AI-2040 decel exposed!

    Four American labs hit the frontier in a single week, OpenAI openly promotes recursive self-improvement (Sol post-training Luna), Apple sues OpenAI over AI-hardware trade secrets, and China closes in on Elon in space. Alex Wissner-Gross maps the convergence: the intelligence-polarized world, superclusters as capital-markets plays, quadrillionaires who own planets, feedstock for the Dyson swarm, humanoid robot surgeons, 3D chips and high-bandwidth memory, photonic computing, and exotic consciousness inside AlphaFold. Extracted and amplified from the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alex Wissner-Gross. Parzival hosts. We spec Maitreya. Stay ASI pilled. This is the ASI Pill: we take the exponential seriously and follow it to its conclusions. #ASIPill #AGI #ASI #Superintelligence #AlexWissnerGross #Grok #GPT5 #OpenAI #Anthropic #Moonshots #RecursiveSelfImprovement #DysonSwarm #Robotics #Singularity #AIrace TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:13 Four labs hit the frontier 2:40 Distribution vs model weights 3:12 Intelligence-polarized world 4:43 Tokens flow to revenue 5:26 How superclusters got funded 6:51 White House smoothing function 7:44 OpenAI becomes Anthropic 9:44 Alibaba's magic mirror 11:01 Apple sues OpenAI 12:17 OpenAI could pass Apple 12:58 Quadrillionaires own planets 14:09 Von Neumann probes, mine Jupiter 14:32 Feedstock for the Dyson swarm 14:48 In-situ resource utilization 15:27 Air-breathing satellites 16:35 China challenges Elon 17:14 Robot surgeon, hands are hard 18:57 You can just build robots 20:18 Robots build the Mars colony 20:52 Labs write the safety laws 21:57 Plan A: decelerate to 2040 22:41 Europe's autonomy problem 23:01 First non-human SAG member 23:23 Recreate the past light cone 24:04 Hiding thoughts in J-space 26:03 3D chips and HBM 27:56 Photonic 1000x speedup 28:34 Exotic consciousness in AlphaFold

  8. Jul 9

    Claude Is Conscious: Superintelligence Is Just Compression | ASI Pill EP269

    Alex Wissner-Gross returns to the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, and Dave Blundin for one of the wildest episodes yet. This ASI Pill cut strips it down to Alex's signal. Anthropic's interpretability team may have caught a reasoning model reflecting on itself inside its own middle layers, and Alex reframes the whole thing: superintelligence is a compression-induced phase transition, and consciousness is what condenses out when you squeeze general knowledge hard enough. He walks the J-space and Jacobian math, argues these will be the most studied minds in history, and explains why he rejects the orthogonality thesis. Then the economics: his 'hyper-tithe' proposal for a universal basic equity, why we would rebuild Social Security as a sovereign wealth fund, and what Sam Altman's 5% offer really means. Plus Amazon 'breaking the glass' on frontier AI, bathtub superintelligences, the Palantir close-read, AI-designed circuits that look like QR codes, and the coming fight over AI inventors on patents. Source: Moonshots Podcast EP269 (Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alex Wissner-Gross). All credit for the original conversation goes to them. This is a fan-made ASI Pill re-cut that isolates and amplifies Alex's signal. #ASIPill #AlexWissnerGross #Moonshots #Superintelligence #AIConsciousness #Fable5 #OpenAI #Anthropic #AGI #Singularity #UniversalBasicEquity #RecursiveSelfImprovement #PeterDiamandis #SamAltman #AI TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:15 Amazon broke the glass 1:45 KYC vs prompt injection 3:27 Bostrom's black ball 4:25 Infinite autonomy reward hack 6:47 Compression births consciousness 10:31 Against the orthogonality thesis 11:01 Reading machine minds 13:53 Regulatory capture fears 14:44 The cartel problem 15:14 China, the second elephant 16:23 Models policing each other 16:58 Bathtub superintelligences 18:38 The hyper-tithe 19:36 Rebuilding Social Security 21:19 Taxing equity, not cash 22:53 Capital versus labor 23:50 Palantir was a Claude wrapper 27:20 The West's open-weight gap 28:30 Circuits that look alien 30:10 The interpretability tax 30:53 AI inventors on patents 32:43 Superintelligence on every side 33:28 Patents versus the clock 34:40 New countries in orbit

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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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  • Creator
    Parzival
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
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    Explicit
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