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Alex Wissner-Gross on EP259: Pope Leo's first encyclical takes a hard position against AI personhood, with Chris Olah sitting next to him and Anthropic ghostwriting key segments. Ironic, because Anthropic is busy designing soul documents for its own models. The Vatican may be on the wrong side of history. Meanwhile Buddhist orders in South Korea are ordaining embodied AIs as monks. Dune's Orange Catholic Bible is happening in real time.The ninety-day pause AI proposal: catastrophic if the US-China model gap is only three months. Anthropic ships monthly. Codex quietly becomes the mainline OpenAI product, signaling a sea change to tool-using code agents. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny applied to model training pipelines.Ilya is reportedly building a prop-trading hedge fund. The frontier labs are verticalizing down into compute because weights may not matter once the perfect algorithm arrives. If AI super-forecasters are real, AI super-retrodictors are too, and Nick Bostrom's simulation hypothesis gets a probability bump.Alex on jobs: having one is the historic anomaly, not the absence. Solopreneur is the default human state. SpaceX Stargaze + Dodger Dog satellites set up the interplanetary internet. Optimus robots for the Artemis colony. Tesla/SpaceX merger arbitrage.And Alex coins a new acronym: Magna Mopsta. The eleven companies at the heart of the singularity: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, Broadcom, SpaceX, Tesla, Anthropic.Built from the Moonshots Podcast EP259 (Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alex Wissner-Gross). Timestamps below.#AI #ASI #ASIPill #PopeLeo #VaticanAI #MagnaMopsta #AIPersonhood #SimulationHypothesis #AlexWissnerGross #Anthropic #SpaceX #Moonshots #HyperstitionTIMESTAMPS:0:00 Welcome and setup0:13 Genesis Mission: 10x American science0:36 Vatican vs AI personhood, Anthropic ghostwrites3:10 Pope may be on wrong side of history3:41 Dune's Orange Catholic Bible, in real time4:40 Buddhist orders ordain AI monks6:06 Diverse frontier labs alongside the Pope6:25 Eastern animism vs Western AI fear7:19 Asilomar didn't stop germline editing7:43 90-day pause = catastrophic vs China8:19 This White House supervises the singularity8:57 Pause AI marginally helped competitors9:18 Deep Sway saturates within months10:09 GPT 5.5 X-high stronger than Opus 4.7 daily10:35 Verification is the only moat left, briefly11:22 Elon won't quit on GROK, we want competition12:19 Tokens are mushy, we need an intelligence currency13:31 Codex becomes OpenAI's mainline16:10 Ilya is building a prop-trading hedge fund16:41 Weights may not matter, compute will17:38 Retrodiction bumps the simulation hypothesis20:46 Jobs are the modern weird thing22:00 Stargaze + Dodger Dog satellites23:31 Tesla/SpaceX merger arbitrage25:08 Optimus robots for Artemis and Mars25:27 Billionaires on Mars is macro good27:03 Interplanetary internet via Starlink swarms29:31 Magna Mopsta: 11 singularity stocks coined30:52 Magna Mopsta ETF, not investment advice