About This Episode
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