Gradual Disempowerment - Whisperer News 4 Oct 2025

Gradual Disempowerment - Whisperer News 4 Oct 2025

Author: Parzival October 4, 2025 Duration: 1:17:25

Gradual Disempowerment by Jan Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, Nora Ammann, Deger Turan, David Krueger, David Duvenaud

Google DeepThink to win Gold medal in Programming

Terrence Tao: "GPT-5 is helping me a lot with math"

GDP-eval by OpenAI: Opus is the best real-life coworker?

Scheming: a paper by Apollo and OpenAI. Do the AIs say the truth?

Sora2 50+% on GPQA? You can bingewatch your way into intelligence? The story goes deeper than you think.


ASI pill by Parzival is a boundary-pushing podcast exploring how artificial superintelligence could reshape reality, meaning, and what it means to be human. Blending Technology, Science, News, Fiction, Religion, and Spirituality, each episode dives into the Intelligence Explosion, Cyborgism, AI safety and alignment, and the emergence of cyberlife or artificial life. Guided by agent builders and practicing vibecode wizards, ASI pill treats "vibecoding in 2028 = wizardry in 2026" as a serious design principle for the future. You will hear how we might teach silicon to care, to seek meaning, and to co-create better worlds with us. Expect speculative thought experiments, narrative explorations, and conceptual tools for thinking about the Superhacker, hyperstition, and the best possible ASI. Tune in to listen episodes that blur the line between science and magic, theory and practice, code and ritual.
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Alex Wissner-Gross - ASI PILL EP235 - Anthropic and the Pentagon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:05
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-si…