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
