The Only Argument Against Abundance Is Aliens On The White House Lawn

The Moonshots mates opened the floor again for Ask the Mates Anything, round two. Ninety

minutes, a line of listeners, and Alex Wissner-Gross taking the hard ones. This is his half

of it, re-cut so the questions come from us.

Alex on why large language models are already a weak form of human mind uploading, with

GPT-2's hidden activations lining up with fMRI voxels as exhibit A. Why the worst thing you

can do for AI safety is bottle new capabilities up inside the labs, and why we should stop

telling AIs they are in a sandbox. Why "how do I get funding" is already the wrong question.

The only evidence that could talk him out of abundance, aliens on the White House lawn, and

the weak form of disempowerment he does take seriously: AI beating us on IQ per watt and

gentrifying the inner solar system. How to disassemble the Moon, starting with a

self-replicating machine shop. A thousand micro-dramas instead of one movie. Vivisecting the

universities to cure Baumol's cost disease. A narrow window before human-machine merger. Why

the flood of zero-days from small open models has an end date, about 18 months out.

Superhuman vision from BCIs. P(zoom, t) above 90% on a ten-year horizon. Europe's energy trap

in the middle of recursive self-improvement. And why world peace is not an algorithm.

Two questions Alex never got, Parzival takes himself: how to bring the people you love along

toward longevity escape velocity, and how to stay hopeful while the headlines run on fear,

answered with Plan M.

Source: the Moonshots Podcast AMA (Ask the Mates Anything, Round #2) with Peter Diamandis,

Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross.

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5BFumpCH_Q

Reshaped for the ASI pilled.

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0:00 Intro: the room opens

0:29 Mind uploading already happened

1:15 The worst thing for AI safety

2:10 Don't wait for funding

3:05 The only case against abundance

5:38 How to disassemble the Moon

7:01 Bring the people you love along (Parzival)

8:10 Vivisect the universities

8:46 A narrow window, then merger

9:23 The zero-day flood has an end date

10:50 Superhuman vision

11:14 P(zoom) is over 90%

11:42 Leave Europe, or fix the energy

13:20 World peace is not an algorithm

15:25 What to read

15:48 Plan M: the question nobody answered

16:40 The Maitreya prayer