ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Watch the full film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tL3U9vEj69Q
On October 23, 2026, Physical Superintelligence PBC (PSI), the AI-native physics lab where Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross is Chief Scientist, published new results on five problems from IQOQI Vienna's list of Open Quantum Problems, and announced them on X on October 26. The tweets read like Chinese, so the ASI Pill translates all five into plain English with a 3D picture for every idea: what each problem is, why anyone cares, what was proven, and what is still open.
PSI's announcement: https://psi.inc/research/oqp-batch-2026/
The thread on X: https://x.com/psipbc/status/2114865747294056793
The papers, Lean proofs and verification code: https://github.com/physical-superintelligence/oqp-batch-2026
The Open Quantum Problems list (IQOQI Vienna): https://oqp.iqoqi.oeaw.ac.at/
Disclosure: Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, PSI's Chief Scientist and Chief of Strategy, co-hosts Moonshots and appears often on this channel. This video is independent and not sponsored; PSI did not review it.
Who PSI is (Matthew Pines, Alex Wissner-Gross, Alex Klokus, Alessandro Morari; 25+ researchers; $58M+ led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures), how the work was done (human scientists steering AI models such as Claude Fable and GPT-6-Astra, every result with a paper and a Lean proof), and Get Physics Done. Then the five problems: OQP 12, whether empty space can win the Bell game at any distance (no, past a finite distance, for a massive field, though it stays entangled); OQP 27, the best settings for the many-outcome Bell game (Fourier-phase measurements, proven optimal for a maximally entangled pair); OQP 2, whether three copies of noisy Werner pairs can be distilled (no, for alpha up to 0.4625 in every dimension, and the exact line in dimensions 3 and 4); OQP 38, the PPT-squared conjecture (killed by an OpenAI preprint; PSI proves 2(d-1) passes always break entanglement); OQP 43, whether every causal process comes from a reversible one (no: a four-qubit counterexample). Plus an honest scorecard (what is fully answered, what is a step, peer review, the other teams racing on the same problems), and why solving physics amounts to magic.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open
0:52 Intro: five tweets that read like Chinese
3:36 01 The List
4:42 02 The Bell Game
5:45 03 Empty Space
7:36 04 The Dial Game
9:38 05 The Refinery
10:49 06 Three Copies
12:47 07 The Photocopier
14:36 08 Tangled Time
17:02 09 Low-hanging Fruit?
18:37 10 Physics Is Magic
19:38 Outro and the Maitreya prayer
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All 35 sources are linked in the pinned comment.
CREDITS
Script written with Claude from PSI's papers, repository and announcement, the Open Quantum Problems list (archived copies: the live site was down on October 27) and the papers they cite. Narration in the ASI Pill's own words. PSI's film (the last 34 seconds) and its homepage are shown for commentary; all rights with Physical Superintelligence PBC. The first pages of PSI's papers and of OpenAI's preprint are shown for commentary. Article, Wikipedia and paper screenshots are shown briefly for commentary; all rights stay with their publishers. The 3D scenes are the ASI Pill's own renders; the analogies (the Bell game, the refinery, the photocopier, the reversible machine) simplify the physics on purpose.
Narration: Parzival, the host's own cloned voice. AI-generated pictures: the illustrations and the closing still of Parzival. Photos of the people quoted: see the pinned comment.
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