Diamandis' first Moonshots AMA: AI veteran compares the moment to his wedding night
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-09-15
Peter Diamandis recapped the first Moonshots community AMA: a 42-year AI veteran compared the moment to his wedding night, two 18-year-olds showed up to build startups, and questions ranged from "is God real" to "is the curriculum dead" to whether every five-year-old should get a sovereign AI agent for life.
Other highlights: Salim on two theories of consciousness — an emergent property of complexity, or humans as localized antennas for something bigger; solo founders doubled in a single quarter (0 to 3,000 in three years), with the line "having a job is a modern invention"; the frontier is consolidating into Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, with Stanford's Dave Blunden noting "the talent is flooding into two buildings in SF".
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