The Moonshots mates opened the floor for their first ever AMA. Ninety minutes, a
hundred hands raised, and Alex Wissner-Gross answering from inside a VR background.
This is his half of it, re-cut so the questions come from us.
Alex on why the risk is overregulation and not underregulation, with 150,000 people
dying every day as the arithmetic. Why "stochastic parrot" stopped being an accurate
description of a reasoning model. Why he expects a post-fusion era inside ten years,
and why there will be Dyson swarms that are not Elon's. Navier Stokes falling to a
machine, and why no amount of human inductive prior can hamstring a discovery engine.
Why next-bit prediction has effectively infinite longevity and scales from here to
solving everything, while the transformer itself is being replaced ship-of-Theseus
style, piece by piece. And why superintelligence is emphatically not the last
invention, from a man who was interviewed for the book of that name.
Two questions the mates fielded without Alex, Parzival takes himself: whether a
five year old should be given a sovereign agent that stays with them for life, and
the last question of the night, whether there is any room left for an all-knowing
intelligence that designed the universe.
Source: the Moonshots Podcast AMA with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin
and Alex Wissner-Gross.
Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ZLorBJCDk
Reshaped for the ASI pilled.
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TIMESTAMPS
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0:00 Cold open
0:35 BCIs, full-dive VR and uploading
0:44 Stochastic parrots is a misconception
1:23 Consciousness: ask again in five years
2:10 Overregulation is the risk, not underregulation
3:03 Hands off, let the industry sort it out
3:54 Should a five year old get a sovereign agent
5:34 Post-fusion energy and other Dyson swarms
7:20 Are the models trapped by our dogma
7:54 AI discovers new physics, Navier Stokes
8:46 Predicting events past the knowledge cutoff
9:38 Next-bit prediction solves everything
11:06 Superintelligence is not the last invention
11:49 The question nobody asked Alex
13:06 The Maitreya prayer
