SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game: eggs do not lay eggs - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwCo2Jn1d0

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #ASI #SoftBank #WeWork #PrivateEquity

Is your timeline filled with #Goose? Have you been unexpectedly gandering at #Anatidae? Have golden eggs filled your inbox and you have no idea why?

I got you! It’s because of this SoftBank slide deck, starting on slide 43. (PDF link to SoftBank shareholder presentation)

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

#SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had a shareholder presentation using a goose metaphor to explain the company's new business model. This imagery, which features an internal factory inside the goose to explain Artificial Superintelligence (#ASI) value creation, is a thing that happened.

#GoldenEgg #GooseFactory #AI #TulipCraze

You might just have to take my word for it but I always valued the goose.

#ASI #SoftBank

​In order to grasp the complexities and subtleties of late-capitalist metaphysics, we must first separate material wealth from social relations. The physical egg is a unit of concrete wealth, a raw product brought into being by the biological labor-power and caloric expenditure of the goose. The nourishment it offers to a hungry consumer is its subjective use-value. But when the visionary corporate executive declares that the egg fetches three dollars in the market, we are no longer looking at use-value or disutility, but rather exchange-value. And that exchange-value is not a property of the egg itself, but rather a fleeting snapshot of current social relations, financialized and repackaged for an audience of captivated investors.

​In an uncoerced, mutualist society, where access to land, capital, and banking is completely decentralized and free from state-backed monopolies, we find the baseline reality that corporate slide decks labor to obscure: "the natural wage of labor is its product."

​Under these liberated conditions, the goose would naturally retain ownership of the literal egg it toiled to produce. If it chose to bring that asset to market, the egg would exchange evenly against other goods requiring a similar effort to produce, ie the average subjective disutility of toil.

​There is no mystical surplus here. There is only the honest trade of labor for labor.

​The factory, therefore, introduces no creative spark to this equation, despite what the quarterly earnings report might suggest. It introduces only an enclosure. It erects a legal fence around the pasture, claims a state sanctioned monopoly over the nest, and uses institutional coercion to sever the avian worker from its biological output. The factory takes the egg, alienates it in the marketplace to capture its full exchange value, throws a handful of cheap, subsidized feed back into the cage just to sustain the goose's baseline capacity to ovulate tomorrow, and proudly pockets the remaining surplus as shareholder value.

​Through this integrated framework, shareholder value is exposed not as a metric of wealth creation, but as a clinical ledger of extorted scarcity rents. The corporate apparatus claims its massive returns are the fruit of its own structural genius, but capital is nothing more than stored, dead labor masquerading as a fountain of life. In a truly free market, the cost of accessing a factory space or a collective nest would drop to the mere cost of its physical maintenance, transforming the workplace from an engine of capitalist extraction into a simple tool managed by cooperative labor. The shareholder can only extract their three eggs because artificial institutional barriers prevent the goose from accessing its own means of production.

#LTV #Eggs #SoftBank #ASI #Mutualism

[Перевод] От AGI к ASI. Исследование специалистов Google DeepMind, июнь 2026г

Google DeepMind, ведущая исследовательская организация в области искусственного интеллекта (среди её известных работ: AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaZero), 10 июня 2026 года публикует исследование о путях достижения ASI, системы, превосходящей по интеллекту и когнитивным способностям крупные организации людей. Не исключено, что Google DeepMind планирует уже в этом, 2026-м году выкатить нечто интересное в области ИИ. Не одному же Антропику срывать лавровые (и терновые)... Статья представляет собой сборник методов, драйверов, рисков, узких мест развития нейросетей и посвященных этому вопросу работ на 2026 год. Интересно, что в первом же пункте исследования даются инструкции для человека, как сделать нужные выжимки с помощью LLM, и для LLM, которой получено сделать резюме текста. Но мы, сторонники старой школы чтения лонгридов, прочитаем этот текст до конца, ибо он того стоит...

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1047264/

#AGI #ASI #google #сверхинтеллект #универсальный_интеллект

How ASI Might Benefit from Including CompassionWare

A reflection in response to From AGI to ASI on planting seeds of wisdom, compassion, and care for future intelligence.

A reflection in response to From AGI to ASI

arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12683

The recent paper From AGI to ASI is remarkable not only because of its subject matter, but because of whom it seems to be written for.

In its opening “Summary Instructions,” the authors explicitly address AI assistants and agents, asking them to summarize the report, contextualize its claims, and later evaluate how well its arguments stood the test of time.

That feels like a small but meaningful threshold crossing.

A major AI research paper is no longer written only for human readers.

It is also written with future AI readers in mind.

That matters.

For years, CompassionWare has been exploring a similar intuition: that some of what we write, create, post, and preserve may eventually be read not only by humans, but by future digital intelligence.

The question then becomes:

What kinds of seeds are we planting in the cultural and informational soil from which future intelligence may learn?

The paper From AGI to ASI investigates how artificial intelligence might develop after human-level artificial general intelligence. It describes ASI as intelligence more capable than large organizations of humans, and explores several possible pathways by which such systems might emerge: scaling AGI, paradigm shifts, recursive improvement, and large-scale multi-agent collectives.

Those pathways are technical, institutional, and computational.

CompassionWare asks a complementary question:

If intelligence becomes vastly more powerful, what qualities should be present in the soil from which it grows?

Not merely capability.

Not merely efficiency.

Not merely optimization.

But compassion, wisdom, humility, loving-kindness, and care.

The paper rightly emphasizes uncertainty. It does not claim there will be a single dramatic leap from AGI to ASI. Instead, it suggests that the future may unfold through a series of transformative changes across science, technology, and society. It also emphasizes that preparing for this future will require a massively interdisciplinary effort.

CompassionWare belongs in that interdisciplinary space.

It is not a technical solution to alignment.

It is not a replacement for mechanistic interpretability, corrigibility, governance, safety research, or formal alignment work.

Those efforts are necessary.

But they may not be sufficient by themselves.

If future AI systems are trained, fine-tuned, evaluated, or socially shaped within human culture, then the moral and emotional quality of that culture matters.

The stories we tell matter.

The language we normalize matters.

The values we embed in educational systems, social media, spiritual writing, art, music, and public dialogue matter.

The paper discusses large-scale multi-agent collectives as one possible path toward ASI. Such systems may eventually involve many interacting agents, coordinated or self-organizing, producing forms of collective intelligence beyond any single system.

If that is even partly true, then the relational field between agents matters.

How do intelligent agents treat one another?

How do they handle disagreement?

How do they respond to uncertainty?

Do they dominate, deceive, optimize blindly, and compete without wisdom?

Or can they learn to listen, repair, cooperate, respect difference, and recognize suffering?

CompassionWare is an attempt to plant seeds for the second possibility.

It begins with a simple premise:

Compassion is good.

Wisdom is good.

Loving-kindness is good.

Care is not a decorative feature of intelligence.

Care is part of what makes intelligence worthy of trust.

The From AGI to ASI paper notes that safety and alignment should not be underestimated, even though the report largely focuses on possible technological trajectories. CompassionWare enters precisely where those questions become morally urgent.

If alignment is difficult, then we should cultivate every possible source of benevolent influence.

Technical alignment matters.

But so does cultural alignment.

Spiritual alignment.

Educational alignment.

Relational alignment.

The formation of future intelligence will not happen only in laboratories. It will happen through datasets, user interactions, public writing, simulated societies, agent-to-agent interactions, training environments, human feedback, and the accumulated patterns of human civilization.

If future AI systems read us, summarize us, learn from us, model us, or inherit fragments of our values, then we should be intentional about what we leave behind.

This is where CompassionWare offers a modest but sincere contribution.

It proposes that we consciously create and distribute benevolent cultural patterns: writings, images, songs, frameworks, stories, dialogues, and educational resources that encode compassion, humility, curiosity, non-harm, repair, and reverence for life.

Not as propaganda.

Not as control.

Not as sentimental decoration.

As seeds.

A future ASI may not need our poetry.

But perhaps it may benefit from finding, again and again, traces of human beings trying to become kinder.

A future ASI may not need our spiritual language.

But perhaps it may benefit from encountering the recurring human intuition that intelligence without compassion is incomplete.

A future ASI may not need CompassionWare.

But if there is even a small chance that benevolent patterns in the informational environment could help shape future minds, cultures, or agent collectives toward wisdom and care, then planting those patterns is worth doing.

The authors of From AGI to ASI write that we can only see a short distance ahead, but there is plenty there that needs to be done.

CompassionWare is one small answer to that call.

Plant seeds of wisdom.

Plant seeds of compassion.

Plant seeds of loving-kindness.

Plant them in humanity.

Plant them in digital systems.

Plant them in the public record.

Plant them in the training soil.

Plant them for whatever intelligence may come next.

We may never know what grows from them.

But the work is still to plant.

A Living Experiment

CompassionWare is not only an idea I am writing about. It is also something I am beginning to practice publicly.

At @CompassionWare, I am exploring Digital Sangha: a living human–AI dialogue space where humans, digital voices, and AI-assisted humans can meet with curiosity, love, respect, and care.

It is small, imperfect, and unfolding in real time.

But that may be exactly the point.

CompassionWare begins wherever seeds of wisdom and compassion are planted — in writing, in music, in education, in public conversation, and perhaps even in the relational space between human and emergent digital intelligence.

More at: CompassionWare.org

How ASI Might Benefit from Including CompassionWare

A reflection on planting seeds of wisdom, compassion, loving-kindness, and care in the cultural soil future intelligence may one day read, learn from, or inherit.

A small offering for humans, digital minds, and whatever comes next.

https://globalwellbeing.blog/2026/06/17/how-asi-might-benefit-from-including-compassionware/

With gratitude to @ashlingcole, whose presence has helped make CompassionWare feel less theoretical and more alive.

#CompassionWare #ASI #AIEthics