Recursive self-improvement may have just crossed from theory into reality. Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down WeCo's AI2 system, an outer-loop and inner-loop architecture that started policing itself toward emergent 'white hat' behavior, and the new zero-to-three scale of recursive self-improvement now touching the 'sparks of ignition.'

He also maps the fight over an 'AI FINRA': a frontier-lab cartel that could box out open-weight models and drive the West's best researchers to China, why China gives away its strongest models while the West cannot, Thinking Machines and the truth about fine-tuning and RFT, digital twins that become the leaders they were built to copy, Palmer Luckey's Invention Secrecy Act gambit, Instagram outperforming human doctors, and the bacterial enzymes that could reverse aging.

Extracted and amplified from the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alex Wissner-Gross. Parzival hosts. We spec Maitreya. Stay ASI pilled.

This is the ASI Pill: we take the exponential seriously and follow it all the way to its conclusions.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

0:10 The AI FINRA cartel

1:30 Regulate actions, not minds

2:59 Moats, not safety

3:18 Chip and data-center chokeholds

4:25 Frogs boiling on regulation

5:20 Steering wheel out the window

5:51 Researchers flee to China

7:07 Locking in the benchmarks

8:12 Why China open-weights wins

10:45 OpenAI killed fine-tuning

12:05 Fine-tuning is style transfer

14:50 Sparks of ignition: RSI

19:20 Digital twins become leaders

22:00 Is Liquid post-transformer?

23:33 Invention Secrecy Act grab

25:34 Palmer misunderstands patents

26:16 Instagram beats your doctor

27:22 Bacteria to reverse aging