Google Lost the Frontier Race: Those Who Can't Compete, Compute | Alex Wissner-Gross & Kush Bavaria

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Reshaped for the ASI pilled from the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross, with guest Kush Bavaria.</p><p><br></p><p>Full source episode: youtube.com/watch?v=Q6PTLG71NGc</p><p…: Alex, Peter and Dave state on the record that they hold financial interests in Ornn.</p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p>0:00 Intro</p><p>0:13 Simulationism: a new form of government</p><p>3:00 AI predicts you better than you do</p><p>4:03 Breaking into simulations</p><p>4:51 Dead internet theory is now real</p><p>9:03 Not terrified, impressed</p><p>10:33 SOC 2 compliance is theater</p><p>13:47 Meta's Muse and Brin's founder mode</p><p>16:32 Those who can't compete, compute</p><p>17:29 MIT wants OpenAI, not Google</p><p>19:23 Ornn disclosure</p><p>23:14 WTI crude for GPUs</p><p>27:31 ChatGPT landed junior year</p><p>28:31 Don't do a PhD</p><p>30:39 Scrap the research university</p><p>31:53 MIT reweighted the exam</p><p>33:15 LUCA could not feed itself</p><p>37:52 Life is ill-defined</p><p>39:46 Starlifting: disassemble Mercury</p><p>46:09 Europe cannot catch up</p><p>46:50 Banning Chinese robots</p><p>49:22 If Anthropic merged with NVIDIA</p><p>50:18 Patents survive superintelligence</p><p><br></p><p>HASHTAGS</p><p>#ASIPill #AlexWissnerGross #AGI #ASI #Superintelligence #DeadInternetTheory #AIAgents #Moonshots #Ornn #ComputeMarkets #DysonSwarm #Starlifting #Singularity #AISafety #KushBavaria</p>