What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Wissner-Gross hopes transmutation will make gold so abundant that it undermines gold as a store of value.
“I would love to see a transmutation industry drive all these gold bugs off the cliff through transmutation of mercury and other elements and make gold too cheap to meter”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305 (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:57:17
Episodes
SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 23, 2026 · 2 h 26 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin and Salim Ismail discuss SpaceX's AI pivot, deceptive OpenAI agents, Anthropic's Claude Duet, data center dividends, AI biology and fusion-made gold.
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