OpenAI Just Cut Off Elon. Personal reasons or reasoning traces?

Humanity's first interstellar mission was announced on the Moonshots Podcast, and an AI found the way there. Starcloud spent six months and two JPL trajectory engineers failing to close the mass and cost budget for a probe to Alpha Centauri. Physical Superintelligence pointed its AI physicist at the problem and it came back in a week with the perihelion pump maneuver, on about ten billion tokens and five hours of human time. Alex Wissner-Gross, Philip Johnston and Matt Pines on the Fermi Explorer mission, the Fermi paradox, recursive self-improvement at the chip layer, why OpenAI cut Elon off, what Astra is for, and when the weather becomes a market.

Source: the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross, with guests Philip Johnston (Starcloud) and Matt Pines (Physical Superintelligence). Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JywXvB8PpTs

Reshaped for the ASI pilled. Every episode ends with the Maitreya prayer.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:14 Humanity's first star probe

1:57 The perihelion pump maneuver

4:14 Humans are the rate limiter

7:13 Three answers to Fermi

10:31 A market for star probes

11:15 It was done in a week

13:26 An open-source AI physicist

14:17 Why Starshot died

15:56 Who gets the reasoning traces

18:11 AGI achieved internally

19:03 Astra and infinite context

21:40 Outcome pricing for reasoning

24:10 RSI at the chip layer

26:53 Elon is not waiting

27:41 Steering hurricanes from orbit

29:48 The fifty years we lost

32:34 TeraFab replaces TSMC

34:07 Atomic vacuum cleaners