SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305

Peter Diamandis · · 2 hr 25 min
Peter Diamandis host · 2 picks Dave Blundin guest Salim Ismail guest · 1 pick AW Alexander Wissner-Gross guest · 2 picks
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What they recommend · 5 picks

1:07:58
Portable AI memory markdown files Strong yes AI tools

"I've been running a query against each model saying extract all the relevant stuff and put it into this metadata markdown file structure so that there's a persistent identity of..."

Salim Ismail ·Salim's AI tools →
1:16:17
Politics and the English Language Books

"This is like the Orwell episode. Everyone should go read Politics and the English Language. Everyone should read 1984."

Alexander Wissner-Gross ·2 creators recommend it·Alexander's books →
1:16:21
1984 Books

"Everyone should read 1984. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

Alexander Wissner-Gross ·Alexander's books →

Peter, Salim, Dave and John agree on 14 things

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Also mentioned

1:31 Starshield · "To the extent that Starlink connectivity, or I should say Starshield connectivity, in a major geopolitical..."
7:27 Bitcoin · "Bitcoin is going to do unbelievably well in the future. They'll solve the consensus mechanism because..."
16:20 Vera Rubin · "The half a million Vera Rubins is, you know, they're about 2x the performance of the Blackwells. So it's..."
21:02 GrokBot · "What's going on with Grokbot? Grokbot, as far as I can tell from all of its features, looks, smells and..."
25:33 Starlink · "Can we talk about Starlink? Cuz I think it's the unsung hero here. You know, they're up to 13.6 million..."
34:13 Pace Layers · "I think the framing I would use is Stewart Brand's pace layers, where he has a bunch of nested layers..."

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