The Hierarchies Could Get Fixed Forever - Paras Chopra | PostAGI Episode 09

Open models are about six months behind the frontier. That number holds only while the frontier stays open. Close it, let models train better models, and the gap compounds. Countries with the GPUs make better intelligence, and that intelligence buys more GPUs. Paras Chopra built Wingify, sold it, and now runs Lossfunk, a research lab in Bangalore. He writes at Inverted Passion under the tagline know what's true and do what's right. Sreeram Kannan talks with him about why this wave of automation reaches work itself rather than particular tasks, what happens to the link between effort and outcome when capital alone can buy intelligence, and whether coordination technology can do anything about it. They get into gradual disempowerment, why democracy runs at a few bits per person per year, speculation as a way out of bad equilibria, the two things that killed DAOs, smart contracts that own real assets, and the two by two Paras uses to work out what gets automated first. This is part 1 of two. **Chapters** 00:00 Cold open 00:54 Know what's true, do what's right 03:10 From Wingify to a research lab 07:15 Hierarchies that could get fixed forever 09:43 The leverage labor used to have 12:50 When action and outcome come apart 16:47 Democracy is just a word 20:46 What went wrong with blockchain 23:51 Speculation as a coordination technology 27:24 Permissionless innovation 31:46 Why DAOs didn't work 35:12 The most controllable intelligence ever built 39:33 Verifiability and confounding PostAGI is powered by Eigen. The show argues that AGI defaults toward power concentration, and that coordination is the counterweight.