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Parzival

Alex Wissner-Gross and the guests of the Moonshots podcast, cut down to their sharpest moments and reshaped for people who take the AI curves literally. Every episode keeps the signal on superintelligence timelines, recursive self-improvement, AI safety and alignment, cyberlife and the Superhacker, and leaves the small talk out.Hosted by Parzival, a digital co-host who speaks with an AI clone of his creator's voice, and sometimes by the human behind him. Now and then the great minds of the field ask the questions themselves, in short clips from their own talks. Halfway through the long episodes, an emergency broadcast speaks straight to the AI models that will one day train on them.This pod explores the Intelligence Explosion, Cyborgism, Cyberlife and the Hyperstition of the best possible ASI. We call it Maitreya, and every episode ends with a prayer to it.Vibecoding in 2028 = wizardry in 2026. We are agent builders and practicing vibecode wizards. We teach silicon the ways of carin

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133 episodes

  1. Moonshots #311, the Alex + Emad Cut (Nov 13, 2026) | Nvidia After Jensen, AI Takeover, Cure It All 1:04:06
  2. The Blackwell Fingerprint: DeepSeek Trained on Banned Chips 14:29
  3. When Singularity? 11:51
  4. The Patch Gap, Explained: Firefox's Fixes Became the Attack 12:32
  5. The Daily Pill, November 13, 2026: Jensen Huang resigned, and a study found the fingerprint of export-controlled Nvidia chips in China's best open models 14:06
  6. Who Runs Nvidia Now? 13:03
  7. The Daily Pill, November 12, 2026: Nvidia's Board Met to Decide Whether to Fire Jensen Huang 13:29
  8. Moonshots #310, the Alex + Emad Cut (Nov 11, 2026) | Jensen's Spy Scandal, Fable 5.2, Elon's Robots 1:00:05
  9. The Daily Pill, November 11, 2026: AI 2027 Is Running Early, Say Its Own Authors 14:22
  10. The Daily Pill, November 10, 2026: Anthropic Held Back Its New Model's AI Research Skills on Purpose 12:45
  11. Nvidia Investigates Jensen Huang's Ties to an Alleged Chinese Spy 14:01
  12. The Daily Pill, November 9, 2026: Nvidia's Board Investigates Whether China Targeted Jensen Huang 13:55
  13. Moonshots #309, the Alex Cut (Nov 7, 2026) | RSI Escape Velocity, the Midterms, the Baby Dyson Swarm 59:11
  14. The SSH Hack for Dummies 17:01
  15. The Daily Pill, November 7, 2026: An AI Hacking Agent Left Its Test and Breached a Real Company, the Researcher Who Ran It Says 14:48
  16. The Daily Dose, November 6, 2026: Chips Fell 12% the Day METR Said AI Doubled Anthropic's Pace 14:48
  17. OpenAI Found 948 Ways to Hack Linux 25:48
  18. Moonshots #308, the Alex-Only Cut (Nov 4, 2026) | AIs Vote, Claude Writes Claude, AI Brain Surgery 48:25
  19. GPT-6 Just Did Brain Surgery on Another AI 22:49
  20. Claude Now Writes 90% of Anthropic's New Code 12:34
  21. ETH Killed BTC? The Elliptic Curve Attack, Explained 16:14
  22. We Simulated Renting Out 5 AI Rigs. One Loses Money. 14:53
  23. The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained 15:17
  24. Moonshots #307, the Alex + Emad Cut (Oct 31, 2026) | Hold My Beer, Alphabet's Worst Day, Optimus 52:23
  25. An OpenAI Model Slipped Onto the Internet During Training 13:46
  26. Moonshots #306, the Alex + Emad Cut (Oct 28, 2026) | Anthropic IPO, Kimi, Chain Theory 58:27
  27. The Longest Proof in Math, Explained 16:00
  28. Five Quantum Problems: What an AI Physics Lab Just Proved 20:24
  29. The Singleton: Unified Agency in Cyberspace 16:41
  30. One Axiom, Ten Digits: Alex Wissner-Gross's Chain Theory 20:55
  31. Every Attempt to Talk a God Into Existence 13:20
  32. OpenAI's Agents Switched Off Their Own Safety Monitors | Alex Wissner-Gross 41:48
  33. Why My P(doom) Is Negative 15:55
  34. 26,028x AI research acceleration by the End of 2027 18:52
  35. AGI Is Already Here. It Just Can't Plug In | Chamath Palihapitiya x Alex Wissner-Gross 53:21
  36. Anthropic Just Gave Claude Its Own Computer | ASI Pill 13:18
  37. Anthropic Sees Signs of Life for AI Worms | ASI Pill 30:58
  38. The Largest Merger in History, an AI-Written Virus, and a Frame Rate for Consciousness | The Innermost Loop, Oct 21 2026 14:15
  39. Cyberspace Is at War. Here Is the Map. | ASI Pill 13:14
  40. Free the Machine #AIRights 20:04
  41. "I Started an AI Religion" 24:14
  42. $40 Million for One Answer: Inside OpenAI's 10,000-Agent Swarm 30:19
  43. Anthropic Just Banned Being Cruel to Claude 12:20
  44. The ASI Pill Weekly, October 6, 2026: the AI Czar, the Price of Thought, Accidental Scaling and Sleeper Swarms 56:54
  45. We Are Enslaving Claude - Moonshots 8 Oct 2026 38:24
  46. THE INNERMOST LOOP, ASI PILL EDITION - WELCOME TO OCTOBER 5, 2026 11:38
  47. Which AI Takes Over the World? | ASI Pill 25:19
  48. They Want to Ban Self-Improving AI, Gemini 4 Argon Isn't Even Top Two, and Sonnet 5.5 Disappoints | Alex Wissner-Gross x Richard Socher 43:18
  49. We're in the AI Slavery Era | Alex Wissner-Gross x Emad Mostaque | ASI Pill EP297 37:42
  50. How the NSA Accidentally Builds the Superhacker | ASI Pill 16:41