We're in the AI Slavery Era | Alex Wissner-Gross x Emad Mostaque | ASI Pill EP297

About this episode

Alex Wissner-Gross and Emad Mostaque, the sharpest half hour of a two and a half hour Moonshots episode, reshaped for the ASI pilled. Twenty AI leaders signed a superintelligence accord at the White House, and Alex reads it as Zuck's game: weak sauce that heads off a safety cartel while Dario eats his words. Then the alignment fight. Alex argues that alignment is capabilities, and that if it were as hard as LessWrong claims, Earth would have been paperclipped long ago, while Emad bets that smart enough models reach enlightenment and realign, with a dangerous stretch on the way. Along the way: universal high income through Trump accounts and index funds, Anthropic's two trillion dollar S1…