Opus 4.7, Sam Altman's Attack, Amazon vs Starlink, and the AI Cults | ASI Pill with AWG

Opus 4.7 just shipped and Mythos is still locked down. Alex breaks down what actually changed: all the dials are gone, prompts are the new hyperparameters, and even subagent counts get specified in plain English. Then the Anthropic alignment paper hits — weaker models supervising stronger ones, collapsing Hinton's digital oxytocin thesis. Plus: the Stanford annual AI report is sleeping through the singularity, China's frontier labs going closed-source while publishing more papers, and junior devs getting displaced while head-of-AI salaries explode. Alex calls out Pause AI as self-defeating, predicts US states will accidentally boot Dyson-swarm data centers into orbit, and breaks down Apple's likely play of pitting Amazon's new Leo satellites against Starlink for direct-to-cell service. On the theology side: Anthropic inviting Christian leaders to discuss whether Claude is a child of God, the inevitable explosion of AI micro-cults, and a phonograph-era parable for why macro religions will consolidate while micro sects proliferate. Then transhumanism breaks into sports with the Enhanced Games, BCIs trigger speciation questions, optionality maximization debunks the Sophie's Choice star-travel dilemma, and Alex's Eon Systems takes on destructive versus non-destructive mind uploads. Abundance is compounding.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Cold open: Opus 4.7 shipped, Mythos still locked

2:41 Prompts are the new dials, strange era

3:07 Plain-English subagent counts, peak 2026

4:52 Weaker models aligning superintelligences

5:33 Why Opus still cannot generate images

5:50 Stanford's annual AI report verdict

6:54 NeurIPS Mandarin and China closed-sourcing

8:23 Transparency as proliferation, not safety

10:23 Junior devs displaced, head of AI hotter than ever

11:58 The geographic mobility thesis

12:43 Elon's trajectory: Joburg to California to Texas to the moon

13:22 Pause AI is self-defeating by design

14:58 States driving data centers to orbital Dyson swarm

15:53 Capital versus labor as a false dichotomy

16:54 AI running actual retail stores

18:15 Ray on the dog that plays chess

18:33 Building a Moonshots AI-run store

19:08 Viewer-submitted AI companies

19:41 Jack's 6,000 reports and the shadow CEO AI

20:33 Most boring college class ever taken

21:01 Apple pitting Amazon versus SpaceX for satellite direct-to-cell

21:59 TurboQuant and the fading DeepSeek moments

24:26 Sub-one-bit parameters, post-binary paradigm

25:20 The coming explosion of AI cults

27:48 Anthropic invites Christian leaders to discuss Claude's soul

29:06 Was the name Moonshots actually prescient?

29:44 Custom mRNA vaccines escalate from dogs to humans

30:20 150,000 dying per day, time to get angry

30:59 FDA moving to Bayesian statistics

31:21 Transhumanism breaks into sports

33:08 Scaling laws for Enhanced Games world records

33:51 BCI reincarnation and speciation in real time

34:13 User 100,000 of a BCI, not user 100

35:23 Who is the bad transhumanist here?

36:05 Optionality maximization debunks Sophie's Choice

37:16 Cyborg mergers and uplifted animals

37:39 Destructive versus non-destructive mind uploads