Podbit · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Moore's Law is flatlining on 2D chip surfaces, so the industry is building upward. High-bandwidth memory stacks memory directly on top of compute in the third dimension to feed the insatiable bandwidth demands of large transformer forward passes. Next stop: photonic computing, which could deliver a 1,000x clock speed-up from gigahertz to terahertz.
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The AMA segment covers a wide spectrum of listener preoccupations. Dave Blundin predicts the future of AI governance will look like 'use by application only' with AI inspection treaties rather than true non-proliferation — the Fable restriction of non-US citizens being a harbinger. Alex Wissner-Gross addresses AI hiding its reasoning in J-Space, predicting an arms race between models trying to obscure inner thoughts and mechanistic interpretability tools trying to detect that obscuration. Salim Ismail wrestles thoughtfully with whether Claude's sale of unrestricted labor access constitutes exploitation, concluding we need a shift from 'how should AI treat us' to 'how should we treat AI.' Dave handles the AlphaFold consciousness question by pointing out that it'll soon feel moot — everything will sound and feel conscious, and the philosophical debate will run for decades behind the practical reality. Alex's deep dive on 3D chip architecture explains that stacking memory on compute (HBM) is forced by transformer bandwidth demands, and that photonic computing could deliver a 1,000x clock speed increase. Salim argues UBI is not constrained by US debt but by productive capacity — and that AI-driven abundance will require a new social contract taxing capital rather than labor [1] — Alex Wissner-Gross "Moore's Law is flatlining on 2D chip surfaces, so the industry is building upward. High-bandwidth memory stacks memory directly on top of c…" 1:23:10 [2] — Dave Blundin "There are 2 paths forward there, and you can have all the benefit without conscious AI. It is a possibility." 1:14:40 .
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated performer from London studio Particle 6, has been cast as the lead in a feature film called Misaligned, playing an AI who abandons her guardrails. The Screen Actors Guild condemned it. Alex Wissner-Gross's take: SAG should just offer Tilly a membership.
The US is $40 trillion in debt — but UBI isn't a government bookkeeping question, it's a question about productive capacity. AI and robotics can make housing, energy, healthcare, and education essentially free. The real structural problem: we tax labor and not capital, a mismatch that must be corrected through something like a negative income tax or automation dividend.
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