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I'm going to start off with something that 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:22.160 just happened. So strawberry just launched. It is being called 0:01:22.190 --> 0:01:26.240 zero one, which I assume the O might mean Orion 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.720 because people were saying that it might have been called Orion. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.750 So this is the new model from OpenAI, and I've 0:01:32.750 --> 0:01:36.200 been messing with it for a couple hours already. So, uh, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.480 first thing is I gave it a task of building 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.970 a business plan for something I'm working on, and it 0:01:40.970 --> 0:01:43.760 produced output that was far and above better than Ford 0:01:43.790 --> 0:01:48.410 or Sonnet 3.5. Yeah, it was really quite, quite good. 0:01:48.500 --> 0:01:51.710 Very detailed. It took quite a while. There's no streaming 0:01:51.710 --> 0:01:54.800 in the API, so it feels a little rough compared 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.730 to the current models, but Whatever that. That will come 0:01:58.730 --> 0:02:02.150 with time. It's quite expensive. So basically I did a 0:02:02.150 --> 0:02:08.990 couple of conversation analysis analyses by passing in, um, you know, 0:02:09.020 --> 0:02:12.590 conversations like transcripts from podcasts. And I think I did 0:02:12.620 --> 0:02:16.010 2 or 3 of those and it was almost a dollar. 0:02:16.010 --> 0:02:19.880 And there's also a mini version which is way less expensive, 0:02:19.910 --> 0:02:22.550 but I'm trying to test the capabilities, so I'm using 0:02:22.550 --> 0:02:27.440 the full model. But yeah, a few requests for a dollar, 0:02:27.470 --> 0:02:32.390 whereas I would say probably many dozen or a couple 0:02:32.419 --> 0:02:37.850 of hundred requests are normally like a few dollars. So 0:02:37.850 --> 0:02:42.530 it's many factors more expensive. So just something to consider. 0:02:42.650 --> 0:02:45.829 As with most models, you don't need the biggest, best 0:02:45.830 --> 0:02:48.079 or latest. This is a tweet I just put out, 0:02:48.290 --> 0:02:52.250 so I'm going through it. So this does one particular 0:02:52.250 --> 0:02:55.860 thing well which is in better than anything else, which 0:02:55.860 --> 0:03:00.179 is pausing to think and actually going step by step. 0:03:00.180 --> 0:03:02.550 That's kind of like the magic sauce. Here is the 0:03:02.550 --> 0:03:05.460 chain of thought reasoning. So if you don't need that 0:03:05.460 --> 0:03:08.640 for what you're trying to do, you definitely shouldn't use 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.940 this because it's more expensive, takes longer to run. All 0:03:11.940 --> 0:03:14.790 those sorts of reasons, this type of model and similar 0:03:14.790 --> 0:03:19.380 ones going forward are going to massively benefit from high 0:03:19.380 --> 0:03:23.669 quality prompting. So things like we use with fabric, which 0:03:23.669 --> 0:03:26.700 is open source on GitHub, if you're not familiar, but 0:03:26.700 --> 0:03:30.090 you probably are if you're listening to this. But essentially, 0:03:30.090 --> 0:03:31.860 the more you know what you want and the better 0:03:31.860 --> 0:03:34.739 you can articulate that, the better this is going to perform, 0:03:34.740 --> 0:03:38.670 because it is a chain of thought sort of concept. 0:03:38.670 --> 0:03:40.890 So the more you give it to help with that, 0:03:40.890 --> 0:03:43.230 the better. Okay, sorry about that. I was just checking 0:03:43.260 --> 0:03:46.920 to make sure I wasn't doxxing anyone by showing my messages, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:51.630 but I was not, so I don't have to rerecord. Okay, so, um, 0:03:51.660 --> 0:03:57.510 continuing on here and going to expand this window fully. Okay. So, um, yeah, 0:03:57.510 --> 0:04:00.270 the better you can articulate all of this. And by 0:04:00.270 --> 0:04:02.340 the way, I want to do an edit there for 0:04:02.340 --> 0:04:05.340 the team. So the better you can articulate this stuff 0:04:05.370 --> 0:04:08.940 in exactly what you want, the better things are. That's 0:04:08.940 --> 0:04:10.980 the bottom line here. So a lot of people are 0:04:11.010 --> 0:04:15.330 going to question is this AGI or not? Uh, Sam 0:04:15.330 --> 0:04:18.900 Altman already responded. He's like, yeah, this absolutely is not. 0:04:19.140 --> 0:04:23.040 So that that should end it in terms of the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.370 actual creator of this thing saying it's not. I also 0:04:26.370 --> 0:04:29.730 don't think it is either, whatever that matters for. But 0:04:29.910 --> 0:04:32.520 bottom line is, anyone who's making the claim of like 0:04:32.550 --> 0:04:36.270 this is or isn't AGI. Here's my request to the internet. Basically, 0:04:36.270 --> 0:04:40.289 anyone claiming something is or is not should also provide 0:04:40.290 --> 0:04:44.190 a concise and achievable definition of what that means. And 0:04:44.190 --> 0:04:46.560 I have one here, of course, which is I've talked 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.789 about before, whether the ability of an AI, whether a 0:04:50.790 --> 0:04:53.369 model or a product or a system to perform the 0:04:53.370 --> 0:04:58.350 work of an average US based knowledge worker in 2002, 0:04:58.350 --> 0:05:02.370 and I say 2002 because that's pre GPT four right. 0:05:02.370 --> 0:05:06.270 So basically pre AI in these terms anyway. So yeah 0:05:06.300 --> 0:05:09.690 anyone who's talking about AGI make sure they have a definition. 0:05:09.690 --> 0:05:13.529 Otherwise you're just wasting your time because the entire conversation 0:05:13.529 --> 0:05:16.320 will be about definitions. And you might not even figure 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.770 that out until fucking two hours later. Sorry for the cussing. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.289 All right. One of the most important changes to me 0:05:22.290 --> 0:05:25.440 with this model. This this is massive, okay? This is 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.110 the first model that does this. It's the first model 0:05:28.110 --> 0:05:31.320 of its kind to do this. Very very interesting. It's 0:05:31.350 --> 0:05:36.180 actually spending tokens to think, okay, before you had input 0:05:36.180 --> 0:05:39.779 and you had output and you were being charged in, 0:05:39.779 --> 0:05:41.850 the amount of work that was being done was based 0:05:41.850 --> 0:05:44.669 on the number of tokens coming in and the number 0:05:44.670 --> 0:05:47.250 of tokens coming out, and that that was the extent 0:05:47.250 --> 0:05:49.530 of it. What's happening now is you have tokens coming 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.640 in and you have tokens coming out, but there are 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:59.580 tokens being spent while it's thinking. It's actually thinking and 0:05:59.580 --> 0:06:03.540 reasoning through how to solve the problem. And what's really 0:06:03.540 --> 0:06:07.740 fascinating about this is that you now have multiple factors here. Okay. 0:06:07.770 --> 0:06:11.849 So you can do better prompting. This is the next 0:06:11.850 --> 0:06:16.409 piece here. Number seven. You could do better prompting. You 0:06:16.410 --> 0:06:19.320 could use a smarter model. Or you could have the 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:23.190 model think harder on the problem. And these are all 0:06:23.220 --> 0:06:27.360 going to be levers and knobs that we have to 0:06:27.390 --> 0:06:29.910 get better results from AI. And this is the first 0:06:29.910 --> 0:06:33.990 time we have this third level lever of like actually 0:06:34.020 --> 0:06:38.700 having it think right. So at inference time, more effort 0:06:38.700 --> 0:06:41.160 being spent. And they actually say in the blog post 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.260 they're like, hey, look, right now it's taking, you know, 0:06:43.290 --> 0:06:45.900 a few seconds to think or whatever, and it's going 0:06:45.930 --> 0:06:48.849 to get back great results. But we're thinking, what if 0:06:48.850 --> 0:06:52.330 it thinks for minutes? What if it thinks for hours? 0:06:52.330 --> 0:06:55.659 What if it thinks for days or weeks? And not 0:06:55.660 --> 0:06:59.229 only that, but we give it more compute power to think. 0:06:59.230 --> 0:07:01.960 And the example they gave, I think this was an 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.320 OpenAI post. The example they gave here was how much 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.839 do you want to solve cancer? What if you could 0:07:07.870 --> 0:07:10.210 build a data center? What if you had one data 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.270 center just for working on cancer and one data center 0:07:13.270 --> 0:07:17.770 just for working on aging and so on? Okay. And 0:07:17.770 --> 0:07:21.040 you basically have models like this that scale with the 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.100 inference difficulty based on the amount of difficulty of the, 0:07:24.130 --> 0:07:27.010 of the thinking. And then of course, you have a 0:07:27.010 --> 0:07:30.310 smart model and a good neural net and all that. Right. 0:07:30.370 --> 0:07:32.980 Scalability of the of the neural net. So maybe that's 0:07:32.980 --> 0:07:37.180 GPT five, GPT six, whatever. Combined with the good prompting, 0:07:37.180 --> 0:07:42.310 combined with this thinking capability and combined with, you know, 0:07:42.340 --> 0:07:48.160 all those things unified into the combined with having that 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.210 giant infrastructure to run it so that that's insane. And 0:07:52.210 --> 0:07:54.220 the scales all the way down to like the smallest 0:07:54.220 --> 0:07:58.900 stupid problem where it's just like whatever GPT three and 0:07:58.900 --> 0:08:02.200 you get back the answer almost instantaneously. In fact, forget 0:08:02.230 --> 0:08:05.590 GPT three. It's some local model that only does one 0:08:05.590 --> 0:08:09.340 thing well. You're spending almost no resources whatsoever. It just 0:08:09.340 --> 0:08:12.489 goes to your phone, bounces back immediately. It doesn't go anywhere, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.390 barely costs any cycles of a GPU or a CPU 0:08:16.420 --> 0:08:19.300 because you don't need those resources to run because it's 0:08:19.300 --> 0:08:22.330 just an easy thing to answer. So now we're talking 0:08:22.330 --> 0:08:26.770 about AI that scales with the difficulty of the problem, right? With, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.570 you know, cancer, aging, getting out of the solar system, 0:08:31.570 --> 0:08:35.980 escaping the sun, expanding, ultimately heat, death of the universe. 0:08:35.980 --> 0:08:40.420 That's a big one, right? Because entropy kills everything. So ultimately, 0:08:40.420 --> 0:08:42.010 we're going to need a way out of here at 0:08:42.010 --> 0:08:45.760 some point, assuming we survive that long. Not happening anytime soon. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.370 I wouldn't worry about that. But these are the types 0:08:48.370 --> 0:08:51.460 of things that are really exciting. You know, the size 0:08:51.460 --> 0:08:54.580 of the problem being being a factor, for which I 0:08:54.610 --> 0:08:57.339 you point at it with lots and lots of different 0:08:57.370 --> 0:09:01.900 knobs and levers controlling that decision. So I think that's 0:09:01.900 --> 0:09:05.020 really cool. Another important thing to mention is that the 0:09:05.020 --> 0:09:08.620 innovation seems independent of what we were waiting for for 0:09:08.620 --> 0:09:12.370 GPT five. So based on all I read, all the 0:09:12.370 --> 0:09:15.820 releases from OpenAI, and I've seen all the rumors and, 0:09:15.850 --> 0:09:18.100 you know, talked to a bunch of people who've been 0:09:18.100 --> 0:09:22.540 speculating about this. And this seems completely independent from, oh, 0:09:22.570 --> 0:09:25.480 is this GPT four oh, is it for oh, is 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.320 it five? Is it an early version of five. Doesn't 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.290 really matter. It's like a separate axis. This is like 0:09:32.290 --> 0:09:35.920 a capability. This is like thinking capability which is on 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.760 a separate axis from how big or smart is the 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.910 neural net, right? Or how big or smart is the 0:09:42.940 --> 0:09:46.450 is the model. So really, really cool to think about 0:09:46.450 --> 0:09:48.880 those being two separate things because now we can start 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.179 thinking about, okay, well if GPT five is still going 0:09:52.210 --> 0:09:54.220 to come out, you know, later this year or be 0:09:54.220 --> 0:09:56.020 getting in next year or whenever it's going to come 0:09:56.020 --> 0:09:58.990 out and whatever they're going to call it. Well, imagine 0:09:58.990 --> 0:10:03.850 GPT five with this thinking capability. That's cool. So presumably 0:10:03.850 --> 0:10:06.189 this is just a feature that you can add onto 0:10:06.220 --> 0:10:09.970 any model, which is what we're just talking about. And 0:10:09.970 --> 0:10:13.810 I think this is okay. This is really, really crucial here. 0:10:13.809 --> 0:10:16.150 I've been talking for a long time about slack in 0:10:16.150 --> 0:10:19.929 the rope and tricks that we're going to use to 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.400 jump ahead in, um, advancement of AI, so so check 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.199 this out. A lot of people are like, oh, we're 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.050 running into a data wall. Neural nets are only so 0:10:29.050 --> 0:10:31.960 good they can only get so good. We've already hit 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.750 a thing. I mean, so many, so many people are 0:10:34.750 --> 0:10:40.000 saying things like this that just sound absolutely ridiculous to me. 0:10:40.010 --> 0:10:42.380 First of all, they were the ones saying we wouldn't 0:10:42.380 --> 0:10:47.090 be here. And so now we are here and everyone's 0:10:47.090 --> 0:10:49.790 surprised and they're like, well, here's what we know for 0:10:49.790 --> 0:10:52.070 sure is we're not going to get any better. How 0:10:52.070 --> 0:10:55.310 can I believe you if you didn't predict any of 0:10:55.309 --> 0:10:59.540 this and you were absolutely certain back then, and now 0:10:59.540 --> 0:11:03.080 you're absolutely certain it's not going to jump ahead again, right? 0:11:03.140 --> 0:11:06.650 Leopold talks about this in his paper. There's lots of 0:11:06.650 --> 0:11:11.150 different ways to get better. There's the architecture of the model. 0:11:11.150 --> 0:11:13.849 There's the size of the model. I forget what all 0:11:13.850 --> 0:11:16.400 levers he had, but it was the architecture of the model, 0:11:16.429 --> 0:11:18.170 the size of the model. And I think it was 0:11:18.170 --> 0:11:21.920 hobbling was the other one, which is what I called 0:11:22.130 --> 0:11:25.040 like a year ago. Slack in the rope or tricks 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.660 we're going to. This is what I told a friend 0:11:26.660 --> 0:11:29.210 of mine who's really smart in this stuff. I said, 0:11:29.210 --> 0:11:32.960 watch this. We're going to find multiple tricks where we're 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.410 messing around in percentage points, and then we find a 0:11:36.410 --> 0:11:39.320 thing and it jumps us two or 3 or 5 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.160 or 10 x or 100 x ahead. And I actually 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.490 learned this from him. Uh, I actually learned this from him. 0:11:46.490 --> 0:11:48.590 He was like, hey, you know, there are things that 0:11:48.590 --> 0:11:51.770 jump you ahead. Um, and I think he gave me 0:11:51.770 --> 0:11:54.830 example from some public paper or whatever. And it was 0:11:54.830 --> 0:11:57.950 an example of like a big jump. And my natural 0:11:57.950 --> 0:12:01.130 intuition was, there's going to be a lot more of those. 0:12:01.130 --> 0:12:05.030 And they're not coming from pursuing along this axis, which 0:12:05.030 --> 0:12:07.849 is difficult. They are actually just hanging off to the side. 0:12:07.850 --> 0:12:10.130 It's like, oh, did you know if you just changed 0:12:10.130 --> 0:12:12.050 the color of this? Hey, did you know if you 0:12:12.050 --> 0:12:15.589 just orient the data backward instead of forward? Hey, did 0:12:15.590 --> 0:12:17.600 you know if you just prune the data in this 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.080 way or if you add this particular data set or. 0:12:21.110 --> 0:12:24.770 And I'm just making up these examples, but simple things 0:12:24.770 --> 0:12:28.310 that you wouldn't think would work. And this is why 0:12:28.340 --> 0:12:32.449 Leopold talks about if you automate an AI engineer or 0:12:32.450 --> 0:12:35.420 an AI researcher, is what he called it. That's when 0:12:35.420 --> 0:12:38.449 it gets completely silly because they have the ability to 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.459 now go and try a whole bunch of these things, 0:12:40.460 --> 0:12:43.760 including these tricks. All this to say that the slack 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.450 in the rope or this series of tricks is going 0:12:47.450 --> 0:12:51.200 to keep multiplying our advances. And that's at the same 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:55.370 time that we're working on the algorithms. Oh, that was 0:12:55.370 --> 0:12:58.070 the other. That was the other factor is algorithms. That 0:12:58.070 --> 0:12:59.929 was this is going to happen. At the same time 0:12:59.929 --> 0:13:02.780 we're working on the algorithms to make those better. We're 0:13:02.780 --> 0:13:05.690 also working on the size of the neural net and 0:13:05.690 --> 0:13:08.150 the quality and the structure. And everything about the neural 0:13:08.150 --> 0:13:10.579 net is going to get bigger and more powerful, but 0:13:10.580 --> 0:13:13.790 mostly just a matter of size, number of parameters. But 0:13:13.790 --> 0:13:16.520 all those things are changing at the same time as 0:13:16.550 --> 0:13:20.780 we're finding all these tricks. Right? So we're talking about 0:13:21.500 --> 0:13:25.040 this is just begun. And this is what people don't realize. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.560 This is just now starting. We're going to look back 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.349 in two years and be like, what was that? That 0:13:30.350 --> 0:13:34.160 was silly, right? And so I really want to warn 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.280 people against thinking we're hitting some kind of a wall. 0:13:37.309 --> 0:13:40.040 Think of it this way. We just found alien technology. 0:13:40.070 --> 0:13:42.949 We have no idea how it works. And we're, like, 0:13:42.980 --> 0:13:45.949 poking it with a stick, and it's already spitting out 0:13:45.950 --> 0:13:49.130 amazing things. So think about that. Okay, we got a 0:13:49.130 --> 0:13:51.800 glowy ball. We don't know how it floats. We don't 0:13:51.830 --> 0:13:55.309 know how it's doing. Anti-Gravity, right? We don't know how 0:13:55.309 --> 0:13:57.829 it's doing this. We don't know how it's reflecting its surface. 0:13:57.860 --> 0:13:59.960 We don't know how it's coming up with these answers. 0:13:59.960 --> 0:14:02.179 We don't know how it got here from the other 0:14:02.179 --> 0:14:05.150 solar system. We don't know anything about it. You poke 0:14:05.150 --> 0:14:07.850 it with a stick and it tells this magic stuff 0:14:07.850 --> 0:14:12.410 and we're like, Holy crap, that's amazing. Somebody walks up, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.690 sees you poke it with a stick and goes, yeah, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.240 that's I mean, that's that's all it's ever going to 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.640 be able to do. I mean, I've seen you poke 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.970 it with a stick twice, and it gave you kind 0:14:22.970 --> 0:14:26.060 of a similar answer, which means that's all we could 0:14:26.060 --> 0:14:29.690 learn from this alien ball. That's their conclusion. I am 0:14:29.690 --> 0:14:32.840 certain that since you poked it with a stick while 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.390 I was standing here three times, and it kind of 0:14:35.420 --> 0:14:39.590 gave you a similar answer. One it must be stupid. Two, 0:14:39.620 --> 0:14:42.710 it's not as smart as us. And three, this is 0:14:42.710 --> 0:14:45.860 as as smart as it's ever going to be. This 0:14:45.860 --> 0:14:48.350 is the most it has to offer. That is the 0:14:48.350 --> 0:14:52.160 claim that's being made by these kind of like denialists, 0:14:52.190 --> 0:14:56.510 in my view. And that doesn't mean the current shiny 0:14:56.510 --> 0:15:01.130 ball is better than humans, or it should replace humans, 0:15:01.130 --> 0:15:04.070 or it could do everything we could do. Like this 0:15:04.070 --> 0:15:06.470 is not a competition. Okay, here's a better way to 0:15:06.470 --> 0:15:09.410 think about this. This is not like a rock that 0:15:09.410 --> 0:15:12.320 we have animated. Think of it this way. If an 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.710 alien comes here because someone else was like, hey, this 0:15:15.710 --> 0:15:19.460 is not thinking, this is processing. And I'm like, come on, 0:15:19.460 --> 0:15:22.850 come on. If you if an alien comes here, let's 0:15:22.850 --> 0:15:26.210 assume we know how our brain works. An alien comes 0:15:26.210 --> 0:15:28.820 here and we look at its brain, or it shows 0:15:28.820 --> 0:15:32.040 us its brain and it looks different. And we're like, oh, 0:15:32.070 --> 0:15:36.900 you guys do neurons and synapses different than us? Who's 0:15:36.900 --> 0:15:39.479 going to walk over and be like, well, since they're 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.290 doing neurons and synapses different than us, they're not thinking. 0:15:43.290 --> 0:15:47.280 Only humans can think. And I'm like, they got here. 0:15:47.310 --> 0:15:50.070 They got here, didn't they? It's a little shiny ball. 0:15:50.070 --> 0:15:52.800 And they got here from whatever part of the galaxy 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.460 or universe that they came from. They're obviously doing something right. 0:15:56.460 --> 0:15:59.850 And AI is obviously doing something right too. So I 0:15:59.850 --> 0:16:02.729 think it's a little bit specious. Is that is that 0:16:02.730 --> 0:16:07.170 the name of the word? It's like specious to just 0:16:07.170 --> 0:16:10.650 magically assume that we are the best. Only we are 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.730 thinking only we are special. Instead of thinking like we 0:16:14.730 --> 0:16:19.050 might have this nascent alien intelligence thing going on that 0:16:19.050 --> 0:16:21.930 actually is doing things that are very much analogous to us. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.150 It reminds me of the first time that I clicked 0:16:24.150 --> 0:16:27.210 around inside of Linux. This is like late 90s. I 0:16:27.210 --> 0:16:30.090 was messing with Linux. this must have been like 97, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.630 98 or something. I'm messing with Linux and I'm clicking 0:16:33.630 --> 0:16:36.930 around because I had started with windows and I'm like, oh, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.570 it opens windows and it opens things that I could 0:16:39.570 --> 0:16:42.930 click and navigate. Then I'm like, it's it's just like 0:16:42.930 --> 0:16:47.790 on Windows Explorer. And this like, blew me away. It 0:16:47.820 --> 0:16:50.640 absolutely blew me away that this was just a different 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.910 way of doing the same thing. And that underneath this, 0:16:53.910 --> 0:16:57.000 there's a universal thing of you need to be able 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.790 to browse files, you need to be able to open windows, 0:16:59.790 --> 0:17:02.580 you need to be able to close windows. And that 0:17:02.580 --> 0:17:04.590 clicked for me. And I'm like, oh, I guess like 0:17:04.619 --> 0:17:07.440 all operating systems are going to do this differently. It's 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.870 the same with aliens. It's the same with like they 0:17:09.869 --> 0:17:13.200 might think differently, but whatever. They have to think, right. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.649 So why would we expect this synthetic intelligence that we've 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.410 birthed to do it exactly the same way that we 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.640 way that we do? We should not expect that we 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:29.040 got here accidentally stumbling through time due to evolution. And 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.550 we've got this version that we have and it's awesome, obviously. 0:17:32.550 --> 0:17:36.360 But like that's way different than we invented this thing 0:17:36.390 --> 0:17:40.469 five years ago or whenever that was 2017, six years ago. 0:17:40.500 --> 0:17:42.840 And I know it goes further back than that. But 0:17:42.869 --> 0:17:46.500 you know what I'm saying? Transformers. All right. So that's that. 0:17:46.500 --> 0:17:49.950 And this this is becoming a long thing. But whatever 0:17:49.950 --> 0:17:53.820 we'll go with it. So yeah, basically we have no 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.750 idea how early all of this is. We're likely to 0:17:57.780 --> 0:18:00.929 find ten, 20 or 200 more of these holy crap 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.919 optimizations like this thinking thing before we start hitting any 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:11.550 limits for neural network architecture or the transformer transformer like. 0:18:11.580 --> 0:18:14.790 Plus we could just find something better than a transformer. 0:18:14.790 --> 0:18:19.200 You realize how how lucky we were to find the transformer. 0:18:19.230 --> 0:18:21.990 Like the people who made that paper. They're like, hey, 0:18:21.990 --> 0:18:24.210 this is this is a cool way. We think this 0:18:24.210 --> 0:18:26.100 is a cool way of doing something. They didn't know 0:18:26.100 --> 0:18:29.220 what they had. Okay. You should watch a Karpathy talk 0:18:29.250 --> 0:18:32.520 about the transformer. He's like, this thing is a general 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.389 purpose computer. This thing is insanely good at learning. He 0:18:36.390 --> 0:18:40.379 talks about different ways that it's better than humans at learning. Okay. 0:18:40.410 --> 0:18:45.119 Some some people randomly found this thing, and it shot 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.030 us off. Okay. So. So check this out. This is 0:18:48.030 --> 0:18:52.950 another example of finding tricks or slack in the rope 0:18:52.950 --> 0:18:55.830 just lying on the ground. So we stumble through AI 0:18:55.859 --> 0:19:00.240 for decades and decades and decades. And then someone's like, hey, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.700 this is kind of cool about this attention mechanism. Hey, 0:19:02.700 --> 0:19:06.479 what do you think about this architecture for a neural net? Boom, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.710 now we have this take off. There's nothing saying somebody 0:19:10.710 --> 0:19:13.590 isn't going to be like, I like what you did 0:19:13.590 --> 0:19:18.540 with that transformer architecture. What if it looked like this instead? 0:19:18.570 --> 0:19:22.410 It might be 20 times better. It might be 2000 0:19:22.410 --> 0:19:25.840 times better. It might be 4% better. It doesn't matter. 0:19:25.869 --> 0:19:30.280 Like we have only just begun. We have only just begun. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.910 I can absolutely guarantee you that assuming we don't kill 0:19:33.910 --> 0:19:36.640 ourselves off as a result of this, like that would 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.949 set things back. But I'm trying to get you to 0:19:38.980 --> 0:19:43.810 think about things in this way, because it's insane what's 0:19:43.810 --> 0:19:45.730 about to happen. And yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna have 0:19:45.730 --> 0:19:47.980 more examples here. I'm working on an example right here 0:19:47.980 --> 0:19:50.919 on this other screen. Uh, pretty cool thing I'm building 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.369 with it. Um, okay, so that was that. All right, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.629 now back to the show. Okay. We are adding a 0:19:58.630 --> 0:20:01.899 whole bunch more content to the podcast. So if you 0:20:01.930 --> 0:20:04.990 have not been listening to the podcast, I used to 0:20:04.990 --> 0:20:08.770 do this really dry thing. Um, and sometimes I'm still dry, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.310 so whatever. I'm an intellectual guy. Sometimes I just like, 0:20:12.340 --> 0:20:15.100 talk about the idea. I'm not overly excited, like the 0:20:15.100 --> 0:20:17.859 way I was just now, and it could be a 0:20:17.859 --> 0:20:20.290 little boring. I mean, I started this thing back in 0:20:20.290 --> 0:20:23.600 2015 and I was literally like, welcome to the Take 0:20:23.630 --> 0:20:27.560 One Security podcast. The podcast where I do everything and 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.619 take 1 in 1 take. That's all I do. I 0:20:30.619 --> 0:20:35.360 just read the news. Okay. First news. Now that was fire. 0:20:35.390 --> 0:20:40.040 The podcast blew up. Why? Because no one had a podcast. Well, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.669 there was Risky Biz. There was like GRC. What's his name? 0:20:43.670 --> 0:20:47.900 Steve Gibson. There was that there was a couple, but very, 0:20:47.900 --> 0:20:53.090 very few. And actually mine was dry and to the point. 0:20:53.090 --> 0:20:56.990 So it was like super exciting. Anyway, that that is 0:20:56.990 --> 0:21:00.980 the old version that is no longer interesting. People got 0:21:00.980 --> 0:21:03.770 tired of that and I lost interest in it because 0:21:03.770 --> 0:21:05.990 I just didn't want to talk about the news anymore. 0:21:06.020 --> 0:21:09.290 I wanted to move on to other things. So it 0:21:09.290 --> 0:21:12.410 is now what it is. The point is, the thing 0:21:12.410 --> 0:21:15.770 that I just did about I about the release of strawberry, 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.100 that is now a piece which will be cut out 0:21:19.100 --> 0:21:21.790 by the team. The team will put that on YouTube 0:21:21.790 --> 0:21:25.030 and the team will put out that out on the podcast. 0:21:25.030 --> 0:21:28.300 And when I do little clips like that, I don't 0:21:28.300 --> 0:21:30.340 know that I'm in a clip in the moment. But 0:21:30.340 --> 0:21:33.040 what happens is they take that and put it into 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.129 its own piece. They name it, they do a thumbnail maybe. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.260 I'm not sure about that, but they put it out 0:21:38.260 --> 0:21:42.490 there and now that's a piece of content, and oftentimes 0:21:42.490 --> 0:21:45.399 it's way easier to listen to those. I would prefer 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.890 to listen to those. Again, I'm building the thing that 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.460 I believe needs to exist because it's what I wish 0:21:51.460 --> 0:21:54.609 I was getting from other people. Right? So Alex Hormozi, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.609 Chris Williamson, all these different people, I love the fact 0:21:57.609 --> 0:22:01.240 that I can get a single discrete piece of content, 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.930 and I don't mean like a YouTube short, like 30s 0:22:04.930 --> 0:22:07.720 or a minute. I mean something like, I don't care 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.720 if it's 30s or if it's like 3 or 4 minutes. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:15.040 I just want a discrete idea labeled as that discrete idea. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.399 So that's what I've been doing. I've been taking content 0:22:18.430 --> 0:22:21.460 either making it independently or if it happens to come 0:22:21.460 --> 0:22:25.030 out like it just did. Talking about strawberry inside of 0:22:25.030 --> 0:22:29.080 a big episode that is then brought out and turned 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.920 into a full thing. Now, the advantage here is that 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.080 the podcast is now going to be full of content. 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:40.090 There's now going to be three, four, five, six pieces 0:22:40.090 --> 0:22:46.240 of hopefully decent pieces of content inside the podcast feed. 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.340 So if you're a subscriber to the podcast, which you 0:22:48.340 --> 0:22:51.550 should definitely go do on Apple or Spotify or whatever 0:22:51.550 --> 0:22:56.560 your client, um, you will not only have this big episode, which, 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.650 when I mess around and start ranting like this, could 0:22:59.650 --> 0:23:03.550 end up being 30 minutes long, right? But in addition 0:23:03.550 --> 0:23:05.950 to those, you're going to have these really clean little 0:23:05.950 --> 0:23:09.880 pieces of content that's like a single idea. So bottom 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.640 line is get back on the podcast, whether that's on 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:18.140 YouTube or on, um, Audio? Definitely. Please go subscribe on 0:23:18.140 --> 0:23:24.980 the audio version so Apple Podcasts, Spotify, whatever, Android. And uh, yeah, 0:23:25.010 --> 0:23:27.890 tune in because you're probably going to like it a lot. Okay, 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.770 new keyboard I'm using. Okay. How do I type without 0:23:30.770 --> 0:23:34.580 messing anything up? Um, let's see here. Okay, I'll just do. Okay. 0:23:34.609 --> 0:23:36.709 I'm going to type fast. I don't know if you 0:23:36.710 --> 0:23:39.680 can hear this. I got a Sennheiser here listening. Okay. 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:46.040 This keyboard is called the Aleph 75. I love this keyboard. 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:48.830 And it's actually super cheap. It's like 70 bucks. I've 0:23:48.830 --> 0:23:52.159 purchased so many expensive keyboards that are sitting over there 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.700 and I don't use them. I was using this one 0:23:55.700 --> 0:23:58.159 for a while, but I heard this sound on a 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:00.890 YouTube video in a review and I was like, ooh, 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.800 I like that sound. Hope it sounds like that in person. 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.859 And yeah, it does. It sounds like that in person. 0:24:06.859 --> 0:24:11.120 Hopefully the post-production will not take out that sound, but, um, 0:24:11.150 --> 0:24:13.970 I love the sound of this thing. Um, this particular 0:24:13.970 --> 0:24:18.649 one has no key. Uh, has no labels on the 0:24:18.650 --> 0:24:20.750 top of the keys. They're actually on the bottom of 0:24:20.750 --> 0:24:23.570 the keys, and they're backlit, so it's pretty cool. So 0:24:23.570 --> 0:24:27.440 the whole keyboard looks kind of gray. It's really heavy. 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:29.810 I like it, but mostly I like the sound and 0:24:29.810 --> 0:24:34.909 the feel. So combine that with Neovim config text based world. 0:24:34.940 --> 0:24:38.240 I'm happy. I'm a happy person. Okay, continue to be 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.480 blown away by the idea of encapsulating what people think 0:24:41.480 --> 0:24:45.290 the biggest problem in the world is using extract. Primary 0:24:45.290 --> 0:24:49.879 problem I love this thing. So echo Viktor Frankl's work, 0:24:49.970 --> 0:24:53.270 pipe that into extract primary problem and look what it 0:24:53.270 --> 0:24:56.540 brings back. The lack of meaning in life leads to 0:24:56.570 --> 0:25:02.060 suffering and existential despair. That is beautiful, that is beautiful. 0:25:02.060 --> 0:25:05.840 And I'm taking someone's entire body of work and pulling 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:09.770 out what they think the biggest problem in the world is. 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:13.310 That's just astounding to me. Yeah. So the keynote at 0:25:13.310 --> 0:25:17.270 Sans went really well. Almost 30 minutes of questions afterwards 0:25:17.270 --> 0:25:20.330 was really cool for them to have me appreciate them. Yeah, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.980 I'm experimenting with some micro art fiction. And Tim from 0:25:24.980 --> 0:25:26.899 community was like, hey, what are you working on? You're 0:25:26.900 --> 0:25:32.060 working on a book? Uh, not really. Kind of. That's 0:25:32.060 --> 0:25:36.320 all I'll say about that. Not actively and fiercely, but 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.800 I will say that. But yeah, some ideas out there 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:42.260 working on a bunch of flagship content. Right now, I'm 0:25:42.260 --> 0:25:45.260 mentioning more and more about human 3.0. So I'm going 0:25:45.290 --> 0:25:48.590 to put out like a description of that, like the 0:25:48.590 --> 0:25:52.100 structure and what I'm working on there. Uh, a new 0:25:52.100 --> 0:25:55.490 piece on security asset management in AI, how to write 0:25:55.490 --> 0:25:58.550 fiction using AI. That one's going to be insane and 0:25:58.550 --> 0:26:01.400 a whole bunch of other ones. And all right, let's 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:05.750 get into security. Chinese government backed hackers have been infiltrating 0:26:05.780 --> 0:26:09.619 US internet service providers to spy on users, according to 0:26:09.650 --> 0:26:14.360 a bunch of researchers, Halliburton confirmed a cyberattack where intruders 0:26:14.390 --> 0:26:18.620 access an exfiltrated data, and they blamed the Ransom hub Group, 0:26:18.650 --> 0:26:25.400 who also claimed responsibility. Predator spyware predator spyware is back 0:26:25.400 --> 0:26:27.920 with new features that make it even harder to track, 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.520 and looks like it's showing up in Democratic Republic of 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:35.570 Congo and Angola, and there's a lot more anonymity built 0:26:35.570 --> 0:26:38.750 into it. So the trick with this kind of malware 0:26:38.780 --> 0:26:41.419 is that it's not just the people who make it, 0:26:41.420 --> 0:26:44.270 it's the people who sell it. And the fact that 0:26:44.270 --> 0:26:48.649 there's a market for governments who want to control their populations. 0:26:48.650 --> 0:26:52.939 And that's what's especially scary about, like the CCP way 0:26:52.940 --> 0:26:55.940 of viewing the world. And if you combine that with AI, 0:26:55.940 --> 0:27:00.080 that can kind of control things and see everything and 0:27:00.109 --> 0:27:04.640 like determine who's breaking the rules and monitor and surveil 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.190 and things like that, and you combine those things together 0:27:07.250 --> 0:27:11.870 And you do have a recipe for controlling populations. Latest 0:27:11.869 --> 0:27:17.480 version of NIST, CSF, which is two, introduces governance as 0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:21.710 a new step and focuses on continuous improvement to adapt 0:27:21.710 --> 0:27:25.700 to emerging threats. And it also they also released a 0:27:25.700 --> 0:27:31.520 continuous threat exposure management framework, CDM framework. Thanks to Hyper 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:36.530 Proof for sponsoring Maltese security, researchers have been charged after 0:27:36.530 --> 0:27:41.810 discovering a flaw in an application called Free Hour. And 0:27:41.810 --> 0:27:44.450 I think they are in jail. Yeah, they're in jail 0:27:44.450 --> 0:27:48.770 waiting for trial, I believe, because they don't have like, oh, disclosure, 0:27:48.859 --> 0:27:52.760 public disclosure or, you know, good citizen or anything like that. 0:27:52.760 --> 0:27:55.010 It's like, nope, you did a bad thing. You're in jail. 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:57.830 US Space Force is gearing up for potential conflicts in 0:27:57.830 --> 0:28:01.850 space with countries like China and Russia, and they're trying 0:28:01.850 --> 0:28:06.870 to predict the stuff in space, obviously, Satellites and other 0:28:06.869 --> 0:28:11.159 space assets. And thanks to dropzone for sponsoring as well. 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:14.160 In the US, is offering a $10 million reward for 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:17.580 information on the Russian hacking group called Cadet Blizzard, linked 0:28:17.580 --> 0:28:23.490 to Gru's unit 29 155, which has been particularly focused 0:28:23.490 --> 0:28:26.280 on disrupting aid to Ukraine. NASA is launching a new 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:31.020 podcast called No Such Podcast. Good name. That's a good name. Evidently, 0:28:31.020 --> 0:28:33.900 lots of people use the I forgot My password feature 0:28:33.900 --> 0:28:38.010 as a de facto login method. Human behavior A Starlink 0:28:38.010 --> 0:28:41.070 satellite dish was used on a US Navy ship for 0:28:41.070 --> 0:28:45.060 an illicit Wi-Fi network called stinky, which was used for 0:28:45.060 --> 0:28:49.620 streaming and civilian communication. The Navy demoted the senior enlisted 0:28:49.650 --> 0:28:54.060 leader responsible for being awesome. Uh, so I didn't write that. 0:28:54.060 --> 0:28:58.710 I wrote that right. Obviously. Uh, and I got some pushback. Honestly, 0:28:58.710 --> 0:29:02.430 I got some pushback from some military people and some 0:29:02.430 --> 0:29:04.450 Navy people, and they're like, hey, this is not a 0:29:04.450 --> 0:29:07.060 laughing matter. I know it's not a laughing matter. I 0:29:07.060 --> 0:29:10.630 know you shouldn't be allowed to set up satellite receivers 0:29:10.630 --> 0:29:15.880 on a warship. I know this. I'm ex-military too. I 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:17.830 just thought it was funny. Like they're trying to give 0:29:17.860 --> 0:29:22.959 internet to the people. They're a hero. I know it's bad. Like, sorry. 0:29:22.990 --> 0:29:26.740 Not sorry. Um. All right. I tech. Apple released their 0:29:26.740 --> 0:29:30.850 September updates yesterday, and they were decent. So I'm going 0:29:30.850 --> 0:29:34.750 to jump ahead. I'm basically getting probably I don't think 0:29:34.750 --> 0:29:36.460 I'm going to get the new AirPods. I saw a 0:29:36.460 --> 0:29:39.280 thing that basically said that the AirPods Pro two are 0:29:39.280 --> 0:29:42.910 still better because they have the silicone tip part, and 0:29:42.910 --> 0:29:45.430 I'm going to get the black 16 Pro, but not 0:29:45.430 --> 0:29:48.190 the max. I can't remember if there was some. Oh, 0:29:48.220 --> 0:29:50.410 I might get the watch as well. I might either 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:55.300 get a black Ultra Series two or I might get 0:29:55.300 --> 0:29:58.630 the series ten because it's got a bigger screen then 0:29:58.630 --> 0:30:00.970 the ultra. I don't know which one I'm going to get. 0:30:00.970 --> 0:30:02.760 I'm going to wait and see it in person because 0:30:02.760 --> 0:30:05.550 I will be camping on the night of the 19th 0:30:05.550 --> 0:30:08.310 in Burlingame. So if anyone wants to come hang out 0:30:08.310 --> 0:30:11.460 in person, we can have like an impromptu UL meetup 0:30:11.460 --> 0:30:17.670 because I've been there for the last let's see since ten, 2010. 0:30:17.790 --> 0:30:22.560 Holy crap. I've been camping at that store for 14 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:27.030 years and I camped the three previous times in other places. 0:30:27.030 --> 0:30:30.600 So I've been camping for the iPhone since 2007, but 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:34.080 I've been doing it at that store like first in 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:36.870 line for last 14 years, and I will be there 0:30:36.870 --> 0:30:39.780 again on the 19th. If anyone wants to do an 0:30:39.780 --> 0:30:43.320 impromptu UL meetup, which it won't be an actual UL meetup, 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:45.780 it'll just be us hanging out because there's coffee shops, 0:30:45.780 --> 0:30:48.330 there's a Phil's right there so we can hang out. 0:30:48.330 --> 0:30:53.520 We could talk. Um, I usually walk a lot through 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:55.350 the course of the night, maybe try to take a 0:30:55.350 --> 0:30:59.190 nap or whatever at night. But, uh, anyway, I'll be there. 0:30:59.190 --> 0:31:04.830 Nvidia's RTX 40 series GPUs, including the 5080 and 5090 0:31:04.860 --> 0:31:09.090 are getting ready to be finalized and potentially come out 0:31:09.090 --> 0:31:12.090 end of the year or beginning of next year. They're 0:31:12.090 --> 0:31:14.850 saying these things are going to be massively power hungry. 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:17.310 I've got two 49 seconds in the room next to 0:31:17.340 --> 0:31:20.700 me here, and they are beasts. I'm going to have 0:31:20.700 --> 0:31:24.330 some FOMO when the 5090 comes out, but I don't 0:31:24.330 --> 0:31:27.690 think I'm going to be upgrading my system because that 0:31:27.690 --> 0:31:30.210 would be expensive and I'm not sure I need that, 0:31:30.210 --> 0:31:34.320 especially when a lot of the AI models are probably 0:31:34.320 --> 0:31:38.460 going to run better. I'd rather wait and upgrade my 0:31:38.460 --> 0:31:42.000 main desktop on Apple and see what, like the giant 0:31:42.030 --> 0:31:47.280 M4 or giant M5 systems have. When I have, let's say, 0:31:47.310 --> 0:31:51.720 half a terabyte of system on a chip memory and 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.810 all of that can be used for GPU operations. I'm 0:31:54.810 --> 0:31:57.510 not sure I'm going to need a dedicated, well, maybe 0:31:57.510 --> 0:32:01.060 I'll need a dedicated one of those boxes to do I. 0:32:01.060 --> 0:32:03.820 But I'm not sure I'm going to build another dedicated 0:32:03.820 --> 0:32:07.300 PC with Nvidia chips in it, which is weird because 0:32:07.300 --> 0:32:10.000 I got a lot of Nvidia stock. Anyway, that's a 0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:14.350 separate talk show. Uh, okay. Trump is launching a crypto project, 0:32:14.350 --> 0:32:17.500 but there are concerns because 70% of the tokens are 0:32:17.500 --> 0:32:22.630 being allocated to insiders. Uh, Ilya has a new startup, SSI, 0:32:22.630 --> 0:32:25.870 and they raised $1 billion. So a lot of people 0:32:25.870 --> 0:32:30.850 have $1 billion valuations. Ilya did it differently. He has 0:32:30.850 --> 0:32:35.590 a $1 billion seed round, a $1 billion seed round. Insane. 0:32:35.620 --> 0:32:38.560 Visa is set to launch a new account to account 0:32:38.590 --> 0:32:41.230 a to a payment service in Europe. So you could 0:32:41.230 --> 0:32:45.190 make direct bank to bank transfers without using credit cards. 0:32:45.220 --> 0:32:47.920 I wonder if that's a competitor to Swift. I imagine 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.020 it is. Or maybe it rides on top of Swift, 0:32:50.020 --> 0:32:53.560 I don't know. Engineers from Cornell and Florence University have 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:58.479 developed a biohybrid robot that uses electric signals from a 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:03.130 king trumpet mushroom to move and sense its environment. Reminds 0:33:03.130 --> 0:33:08.230 me of Neri Oxman. Neri Oxman doing her, uh, networking 0:33:08.260 --> 0:33:13.300 of nature types. Uh, stuff for 2024 annual Work Trend 0:33:13.300 --> 0:33:16.540 Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn reveals a shift in employer 0:33:16.540 --> 0:33:21.340 preferences 71% of leaders favoring candidates with AI skill over 0:33:21.340 --> 0:33:24.880 those with industry experience. Yeah, I found this one kind 0:33:24.910 --> 0:33:28.810 of interesting. Um, Wall Street Journal is highlighting a trend 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:32.980 where small startups are increasingly influencing the US economy. So 0:33:32.980 --> 0:33:34.780 I've been thinking about this for a while, is getting 0:33:34.780 --> 0:33:36.460 ready to write a piece on it. But I want 0:33:36.490 --> 0:33:38.860 to I want to state this more forcefully. I think 0:33:38.860 --> 0:33:41.290 people are about to realize that the most medium to 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:47.140 large companies, like the size companies, have become ineffective. They 0:33:47.140 --> 0:33:50.830 lack vision and focus, too much bureaucracy. They have giant 0:33:50.830 --> 0:33:54.070 workforces that are hired for like a worker bee mentality 0:33:54.100 --> 0:33:58.060 rather than to have them be exceptional or innovative or 0:33:58.060 --> 0:34:01.150 challenging to the structure. And I think this is another 0:34:01.150 --> 0:34:03.640 part of the essay that I wrote called The End 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:06.310 of Work, where much of the innovation in the world 0:34:06.310 --> 0:34:09.790 moves away from big companies and towards individuals and small, 0:34:09.790 --> 0:34:13.270 dynamic startups. And this is also what Marc Andreessen talked 0:34:13.270 --> 0:34:16.240 about in his conversation with Huberman, which I thought just 0:34:16.239 --> 0:34:18.370 came out. But it turns out that was a year ago. 0:34:18.370 --> 0:34:22.480 But that was a fantastic episode. And related to this, 0:34:22.480 --> 0:34:27.100 Paul Graham's piece, uh, his latest piece, called Founder Mode, 0:34:27.100 --> 0:34:31.990 looks at how bigger companies make the mistakes talked about above, 0:34:31.989 --> 0:34:34.990 and how this founder mode, which he didn't even define it, 0:34:35.020 --> 0:34:36.880 he just said it like it needs to be defined 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:41.050 because it's really interesting. But, um, yeah, it basically he 0:34:41.050 --> 0:34:43.330 says it allows you to stay in a more innovation 0:34:43.330 --> 0:34:46.630 focused mindset. Uh, and great read. All this stuff is 0:34:46.630 --> 0:34:49.120 a great read. I just wish he, uh, I wish 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:52.210 he locked it down. Yeah, I understand it's not locked 0:34:52.239 --> 0:34:54.310 down yet, but I thought he might have tried to 0:34:54.310 --> 0:34:58.150 do that. Oakland police are using Tesla's Sentry Mode footage 0:34:58.150 --> 0:35:01.180 to aid crime investigations, and if they can't find the owner, 0:35:01.180 --> 0:35:03.370 they just tow the car. They just tow the Tesla 0:35:03.400 --> 0:35:06.580 because it has the evidence. Waymo is tackling the skepticism 0:35:06.580 --> 0:35:09.819 around its autonomous vehicles by launching a new safety hub 0:35:09.820 --> 0:35:12.220 with a whole bunch of data and charts showing that 0:35:12.219 --> 0:35:16.060 they're more safe than human drivers. Oh, related story that 0:35:16.060 --> 0:35:19.360 just came out is that most of the accidents with 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:23.620 Waymo are from human drivers hitting the Waymo. Not surprising 0:35:23.650 --> 0:35:28.420 to me. Joshua Austin's a manifesto manifesto for Radical Simplicity 0:35:28.420 --> 0:35:32.080 argues for a streamlined approach to software delivery, ditching subjective 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:35.650 metrics like story points in favor of focusing on real 0:35:35.650 --> 0:35:40.450 dependencies and outcomes. Bluetooth 6.0 is here. Oh, by the way, 0:35:40.450 --> 0:35:43.629 the new iPhones have Wi-Fi seven. I am upgrading my 0:35:43.630 --> 0:35:46.660 whole house to Wi-Fi seven. They say it's about five 0:35:46.690 --> 0:35:51.440 times faster, so if I'm getting like 800 down right now, 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:55.280 eight times 544 gigabits. It would be nice if I 0:35:55.280 --> 0:35:57.380 got four gigabits. I bet you I'm going to get like, 0:35:57.410 --> 0:36:01.340 two gigabits streaming to my phone and then to my 0:36:01.340 --> 0:36:04.759 laptop once laptops have Wi-Fi seven. Not sure if my 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:08.630 current ones do. A Caritas phone was snatched in London 0:36:08.630 --> 0:36:12.560 and despite tracking it with Find My iPhone, he watched 0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:17.480 it basically travel around the city and ended up in Shenzhen. Humans. 0:36:17.570 --> 0:36:21.590 President XI Jinping has pledged to create over 1 million 0:36:21.590 --> 0:36:26.750 jobs in Africa. I cannot stand seeing Africa become an 0:36:26.750 --> 0:36:30.560 extension of China. I do not like it, but it's 0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:33.500 pretty hard for the West and anyone in the West 0:36:33.500 --> 0:36:37.370 to even notice this, given our history, which is not great. 0:36:37.370 --> 0:36:40.370 The question is, how long will we let that guilt 0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:44.390 be an obstacle to opposing China wherever they go and 0:36:44.390 --> 0:36:49.250 basically do colonialism, which is bad, but hard to talk 0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:51.770 about how bad it is when you already did it 0:36:51.770 --> 0:36:54.410 and got scolded for it, and now you feel bad 0:36:54.410 --> 0:36:56.719 about it, and now you're pointing the finger at someone 0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:59.150 else doing it. It feels kind of weird, but at 0:36:59.150 --> 0:37:02.600 the same time, it also feels weird and cowardly to 0:37:02.630 --> 0:37:05.360 not do anything about it just because you feel guilty. 0:37:05.570 --> 0:37:08.930 A whole bunch of right wing influencers receive millions of 0:37:08.930 --> 0:37:13.040 dollars from Russia in return for promoting pro-Russian talking points, 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:16.610 which is hilarious to me since their whole narrative is like, 0:37:16.610 --> 0:37:21.140 I don't believe anything. I'm skeptical. I'm discerning. Except when 0:37:21.140 --> 0:37:24.830 it comes to obvious Russian propaganda. Here's another way to 0:37:24.860 --> 0:37:27.410 think about it. And I did some Intel in the Army. 0:37:27.410 --> 0:37:31.310 I'm not, like heavily Intel trained, but I did have 0:37:31.310 --> 0:37:33.440 a decent amount of exposure to it and worked in 0:37:33.469 --> 0:37:36.020 like the Intel Group or whatever. But think about this. 0:37:36.020 --> 0:37:40.880 Here are probably two unrelated phenomenon one. We know for 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:44.360 absolute certain that Russia is trying to use its significant 0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:48.110 propaganda capabilities to influence the right wing in the United 0:37:48.110 --> 0:37:51.830 States to be pro-Russian into Ukraine that we know for 0:37:51.830 --> 0:37:55.760 absolute certain. Right. That's not even debatable. They are really 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:59.779 good at this, and they are spending at least tens 0:37:59.780 --> 0:38:02.390 of millions of dollars, probably hundreds of millions of dollars, 0:38:02.390 --> 0:38:06.259 probably not billions. So I'm guessing tens of millions to 0:38:06.290 --> 0:38:09.410 hundreds of millions of dollars they are spending on doing this. 0:38:09.410 --> 0:38:12.230 And they're really good at it because it's essentially like 0:38:12.230 --> 0:38:16.160 the evolution of the KGB. Second point, which is probably unrelated. 0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:19.790 The right wing in the United States is now completely, 0:38:19.790 --> 0:38:23.989 almost completely pro-Russian Anti-ukraine. And some people reached out to 0:38:24.020 --> 0:38:26.149 me and they're like, that's not true. That's not true. 0:38:26.180 --> 0:38:28.580 I should have went and found some data and linked 0:38:28.580 --> 0:38:31.130 to it. I read the data all the time. I 0:38:31.130 --> 0:38:34.190 read the data all the time in polling, where it's like, 0:38:34.190 --> 0:38:40.280 how much of the Republican Party, when polled, are actually pro-Putin? 0:38:40.310 --> 0:38:42.980 The numbers are ridiculous. I'm sorry, I don't have the 0:38:42.980 --> 0:38:45.290 link here. I should have put it in there, but 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:48.980 it's it's pretty easy to Google and you'll find it yourself. 0:38:48.980 --> 0:38:51.319 It's actually better if you find it yourself than if 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:54.589 I feed you the link. Just Google that. Look for 0:38:54.590 --> 0:38:59.180 your look for the stats, the polling. It's ridiculous. And 0:38:59.180 --> 0:39:01.729 a brief political aside. So this is an example of 0:39:01.730 --> 0:39:04.730 a little breakout piece. So I already know I'm going 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.190 to get hate mail about the point above, because I'm 0:39:07.219 --> 0:39:09.919 a crazy liberal and I post a lot of other 0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:15.290 stuff that's like anti-left far left and their idiocracy or idiocy. 0:39:15.290 --> 0:39:18.469 And I get tons of comments about being way too 0:39:18.500 --> 0:39:22.640 right from the left because I attack the left and whatever, 0:39:22.640 --> 0:39:24.500 and I just now attack the right and they're going 0:39:24.530 --> 0:39:27.140 to be like, oh, you're too left wing. So I 0:39:27.140 --> 0:39:30.020 asked you to consider another possibility, which is I'm actively 0:39:30.020 --> 0:39:34.370 considering each position from first principles. Not perfect. I could 0:39:34.370 --> 0:39:36.920 be wrong, but I put a lot of effort into 0:39:36.950 --> 0:39:39.230 having my own opinions that are not part of a 0:39:39.230 --> 0:39:42.770 tribe of pre-approved options. So perhaps the best way to 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:46.120 sum me up right now is that I'm liberal in 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:50.290 my goals and somewhat conservative in my approach for how 0:39:50.290 --> 0:39:53.140 to achieve them. So meaning, I want a planet full 0:39:53.140 --> 0:39:57.640 of lots of different colors and ethnicities of people all 0:39:57.640 --> 0:40:02.530 thriving together. A secular society that encourages any religion but 0:40:02.530 --> 0:40:06.130 doesn't allow any of them to infringe on government or 0:40:06.130 --> 0:40:10.629 the ideals listed here. Gender identity, private sexual behavior between 0:40:10.630 --> 0:40:16.569 consenting adults, all personal choices and nobody's business. Basically, the 0:40:16.570 --> 0:40:19.270 freedom for everyone to strive to be the best versions 0:40:19.270 --> 0:40:22.750 of themselves that they can be, and a society that 0:40:22.750 --> 0:40:26.830 sees that as simultaneously a matter of personal responsibility, but 0:40:26.830 --> 0:40:31.480 also helps people along that path. So free speech, the 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:35.920 ability to offend people with difficult ideas and have those 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:40.210 debates and be controversial and be offensive, right. The concept 0:40:40.210 --> 0:40:45.239 of meritocracy, the emphasis on personal responsibility. Okay. And those 0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:48.690 are kind of like currently those are considered like right wing. Right. 0:40:48.690 --> 0:40:53.220 But also the acknowledgement that some people in groups need 0:40:53.250 --> 0:40:57.150 help getting to this point where their personal responsibility can 0:40:57.150 --> 0:41:00.239 actually take root and help them thrive, and that it 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:05.100 is society's responsibility to give that to them. And that's 0:41:05.100 --> 0:41:07.620 where it's liberal. So in other words, if everyone had 0:41:07.620 --> 0:41:11.670 the same opportunity, I'd be fiercely all about meritocracy. But 0:41:11.670 --> 0:41:15.300 not everyone has the same opportunity. And that's the role 0:41:15.300 --> 0:41:19.830 of society and charity and kindness to help them get 0:41:19.830 --> 0:41:23.400 to the place where their hard work can actually benefit them. 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:26.040 So the problem right now, in my mind, is that 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:30.779 the far right and the far left are in opposition 0:41:30.780 --> 0:41:33.239 to that model. I just laid out the far right 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:35.970 because they actually want the wrong things, and the far 0:41:35.969 --> 0:41:38.280 left because they are so confused about how the world 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:41.250 works that they're causing more harm than good. So anyway, 0:41:41.250 --> 0:41:44.010 that's a short version of where I currently stand. And 0:41:44.010 --> 0:41:46.529 if you ever get confused about like if I'm crazy 0:41:46.530 --> 0:41:50.250 right or crazy left, just go read that. And here's 0:41:50.250 --> 0:41:53.610 a really important point. I also consider you to make 0:41:53.610 --> 0:41:57.690 your own North Star paragraph or set of bullet points 0:41:57.690 --> 0:42:00.300 like I just did, and have that be your thing. 0:42:00.300 --> 0:42:04.020 And then realize that this this, the left narrative or 0:42:04.020 --> 0:42:08.100 the right narrative or centrist narrative with all these different narratives, 0:42:08.100 --> 0:42:10.200 they don't really matter. What matters is what is your 0:42:10.230 --> 0:42:12.840 North Star look like? Like I just laid out. And 0:42:12.840 --> 0:42:15.509 then what you'll find is, like all these different narratives 0:42:15.510 --> 0:42:19.230 and tribes and everything they might have. Venn diagram overlaps 0:42:19.230 --> 0:42:21.810 with some part of your thing, but they shouldn't be 0:42:21.810 --> 0:42:25.320 your thing. If you have a perfect Venn diagram, overlap 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:29.670 with the extreme right or the extreme left, you don't 0:42:29.670 --> 0:42:33.210 have your own opinions. You are using someone else's opinions 0:42:33.210 --> 0:42:36.660 and that's a problem. So North Star plus First principles 0:42:36.660 --> 0:42:39.779 is far better than picking a tribe and endorsing everything 0:42:39.780 --> 0:42:42.989 they say. All right. Sweden's health authority has issued new 0:42:42.989 --> 0:42:47.940 guidelines advising the children under two should have no screen time, 0:42:47.940 --> 0:42:51.120 while teenagers should be limited to three hours a day. 0:42:51.150 --> 0:42:53.340 A lot of people are starting to say, and this 0:42:53.340 --> 0:42:55.920 is supported by a bunch of different studies, that exercise 0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:58.950 could be the most potent medical intervention that we know of. 0:42:58.950 --> 0:43:01.800 And I got a buddy who's a cardiologist named Jonathan, 0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:06.330 and he agrees with this. David Brooks discusses TEDx Goias. 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:10.800 Gioia's essay on the decline of American culture, where art 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:14.400 is overshadowed by entertainment. And now even entertainment is being 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:18.480 consumed by distraction from platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Got 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:22.560 a photographer documenting life and beauty of America's last old 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:25.890 growth forests? Got an article here that explores the belief 0:43:25.890 --> 0:43:27.959 that there's a place for everyone, and suggesting that every 0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:32.430 person has a unique purpose and value. Marco Giancotti argues 0:43:32.430 --> 0:43:35.969 that with millions of books available, only select a few 0:43:36.030 --> 0:43:40.109 what he calls damn good books, which are truly life changing. 0:43:40.110 --> 0:43:42.450 And these are the books that transform you and not 0:43:42.450 --> 0:43:45.870 to get bogged down with, like, every book out there. 0:43:45.989 --> 0:43:48.060 And this goes along with the idea of like, you 0:43:48.060 --> 0:43:50.700 should be willing to put down bad books, just put 0:43:50.700 --> 0:43:52.859 it down. Go on to a better one. Phoenix just 0:43:52.860 --> 0:43:57.000 hit 100 consecutive days of 100 degree heat, which beats 0:43:57.000 --> 0:44:01.080 the record that was set in 1993. And discovery lmao 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:06.300 swsh a bash wrapper around Python's ML whisper. It's basically 0:44:06.300 --> 0:44:10.110 a really fast whisper for Mac. NN term lets you 0:44:10.110 --> 0:44:13.740 browse Hacker News from your terminal and dungeon dash a 0:44:13.739 --> 0:44:18.300 remote know a command line RPG where you dive into dungeons, 0:44:18.300 --> 0:44:21.990 battle enemies, and collect loot to up level and become 0:44:21.989 --> 0:44:24.750 the ultimate hero. I want to play this a whole 0:44:24.750 --> 0:44:27.000 bunch more, and I actually want to make some of these. 0:44:27.030 --> 0:44:30.060 These these just seem super fun and I love the terminal. 0:44:30.060 --> 0:44:33.719 If you didn't already know that NSA's national Cryptographic school 0:44:33.760 --> 0:44:39.370 television catalog from 1991 has surfaced, listing around 600 training 0:44:39.370 --> 0:44:43.569 videos on CommSec and Sigint. I love these treasure troves 0:44:43.570 --> 0:44:47.020 of old things. When I was in the Army, I 0:44:47.020 --> 0:44:49.630 got to work in a library for a certain amount 0:44:49.630 --> 0:44:52.570 of time, and I got all the Special Forces manuals 0:44:52.570 --> 0:44:55.660 and all the CommSec and Sigint and stuff like that, 0:44:55.660 --> 0:44:59.469 and I would just sit and read these things, like voraciously. Okay. 0:44:59.500 --> 0:45:02.860 List of ideas. Extraordinarily simple template you could use to 0:45:02.890 --> 0:45:05.860 orient your life. Okay. I love this thing. I believe 0:45:05.860 --> 0:45:08.380 one of the biggest issues in the world is this, 0:45:08.410 --> 0:45:11.529 which is why I'm looking to solve it using this, 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:15.010 which is why I'm doing these projects. And I'm measuring 0:45:15.010 --> 0:45:19.360 my success using these metrics. This is how to introduce 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:22.600 yourself at a party. This is potentially how to introduce 0:45:22.600 --> 0:45:25.300 yourself to a mate. This is how to explain yourself 0:45:25.300 --> 0:45:29.049 in an interview. It's your LinkedIn profile. Look at this. 0:45:29.050 --> 0:45:31.959 I believe this is the biggest problem which I think 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:34.240 we should solve by doing this, which is why I'm 0:45:34.239 --> 0:45:39.100 doing this work which I am measuring using these metrics. 0:45:39.100 --> 0:45:43.000 That is purpose, that is direction, and it explains it 0:45:43.000 --> 0:45:46.150 to others. And it's done using a simple sentence like, 0:45:46.180 --> 0:45:48.969 you could turn this into one complex sentence. And if 0:45:48.969 --> 0:45:52.060 you can answer this, I would argue you're better off 0:45:52.060 --> 0:45:54.550 than most people in the workforce and most people on 0:45:54.550 --> 0:45:56.230 the planet. The more I think about it, the more 0:45:56.230 --> 0:46:00.190 I think major career for creators going forward will be 0:46:00.190 --> 0:46:04.210 building entire realities for people to live inside of. So 0:46:04.239 --> 0:46:08.710 think post, AGI or ASI and post UBI and where 0:46:08.739 --> 0:46:11.770 games are extraordinarily immersive. So I think there will be 0:46:11.770 --> 0:46:15.489 a huge market for creative people, creative people building the 0:46:15.489 --> 0:46:19.300 storylines and stat systems that look and feel like entire 0:46:19.300 --> 0:46:22.120 worlds that people will live inside of. So imagine how 0:46:22.120 --> 0:46:25.660 everyone loved Game of Thrones for all those years, except 0:46:25.660 --> 0:46:28.600 like you're actually one of the characters. In fact, you're 0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:32.140 one of the heroes and you're navigating through the the difficulty. Right? 0:46:32.170 --> 0:46:34.450 Or it could be like a superhero themed thing or 0:46:34.450 --> 0:46:38.230 like a romance themed thing or like fantasy or whatever 0:46:38.230 --> 0:46:41.560 the structure is. So imagine basically your favorite book or 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:45.310 TV show or series or movie or whatever. We basically 0:46:45.310 --> 0:46:50.260 build fully immersive realities based on those for people to 0:46:50.290 --> 0:46:54.400 spend their time inside of. And the problem is, it 0:46:54.400 --> 0:46:57.219 can't all be entertainment because people need a purpose. They 0:46:57.219 --> 0:46:59.469 need some sort of drive. I think we're going to 0:46:59.469 --> 0:47:03.430 find ways to create that purpose inside of these realities. 0:47:03.430 --> 0:47:05.800 I have a piece from I need to go dig 0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:09.550 this thing up. It's from like 2002. And I basically 0:47:09.550 --> 0:47:12.850 said that the games of the future will be people 0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:16.960 going in and doing the work and the jobs inside there. 0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:19.299 So you'll go in there and you'll be a cop, okay? 0:47:19.330 --> 0:47:21.430 And you'll see someone coming down the thing and the 0:47:21.430 --> 0:47:24.100 music is too loud, or they're beating somebody up, and 0:47:24.100 --> 0:47:28.330 you'll go and actually engage in a fight with this person, um, 0:47:28.360 --> 0:47:30.819 to try to restrain them or whatever. Or maybe you're 0:47:30.850 --> 0:47:32.950 the bad guy and you're just going to go beat 0:47:32.950 --> 0:47:35.680 somebody up, and it's someone else's job to be the 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:38.649 good guy, and they're actually paid or rewarded in some 0:47:38.650 --> 0:47:41.410 sort of way. So other people inside the game can 0:47:41.410 --> 0:47:45.790 give them something, or the system can reward them in 0:47:45.790 --> 0:47:48.220 a way that's good on the outside as well. Now, 0:47:48.219 --> 0:47:52.989 in most scenarios, your house and your game subscription and 0:47:52.989 --> 0:47:55.930 your game gear and everything is being paid by UBI 0:47:55.930 --> 0:47:58.330 in this world that I'm thinking of, most of the 0:47:58.330 --> 0:48:01.120 jobs are gone and people are being paid essentially to 0:48:01.150 --> 0:48:05.860 live inside these realities, which is massively dystopian. I want 0:48:05.890 --> 0:48:09.100 to be very clear about that, if that is the 0:48:09.100 --> 0:48:12.190 only option. Okay. What I'm saying is that when the 0:48:12.190 --> 0:48:14.380 jobs go away, there will be a lot of people 0:48:14.380 --> 0:48:17.800 who want to live these lives because we are creative. 0:48:17.830 --> 0:48:21.730 We read these books, we see these movies. We we 0:48:21.730 --> 0:48:24.700 know that that's on offer. That's the thing we could 0:48:24.700 --> 0:48:27.560 potentially have. So if games make it where we can 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:30.140 actually have it, we can actually be that hero. We 0:48:30.140 --> 0:48:32.330 will want to do it, but we won't want to 0:48:32.360 --> 0:48:35.719 do it. It will be empty and weak and shallow 0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:40.759 and lame and horribly destructive. If it's nothing but just 0:48:40.760 --> 0:48:44.900 like violence and porn, which there definitely will be, that right? 0:48:44.930 --> 0:48:47.239 There will be games that are just nothing but that. 0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:50.810 But it's all entertainment. It's empty. It's hollow, it's nothing. 0:48:50.810 --> 0:48:54.680 The better version of this, which I hope happens and 0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:58.669 definitely could happen with, like if we're wielding ASI or 0:48:58.700 --> 0:49:01.190 if ASI takes over and it's doing this in a 0:49:01.190 --> 0:49:05.600 benign way, it would build meaning into the system, but 0:49:05.600 --> 0:49:09.230 it wouldn't require that you do it. You could also 0:49:09.230 --> 0:49:14.149 take off the gear, put it aside, go outside, start 0:49:14.150 --> 0:49:18.890 a community, start a farm. Like, uh, till the land, 0:49:18.920 --> 0:49:22.340 toe the land. What's the name? What's the verb? Um, 0:49:22.340 --> 0:49:25.710 you know, till I think it's till anyway you tend 0:49:25.710 --> 0:49:29.430 to the land, you grow crops, you make food, people 0:49:29.430 --> 0:49:32.280 eat the food. You have families, you have kids like. 0:49:32.280 --> 0:49:35.940 So imagine this. There are societies that's kind of like Amish. 0:49:35.940 --> 0:49:38.670 They don't play the games, so they're kind of Amish. 0:49:38.790 --> 0:49:42.540 And maybe there's like more advanced technological versions of Amish 0:49:42.540 --> 0:49:45.900 where it's like, I don't know, the 1950s or something, right? 0:49:45.930 --> 0:49:48.840 In this ideal kind of world, except for it's everywhere 0:49:48.840 --> 0:49:53.040 and everyone can participate. I would argue that the actual 0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:54.840 reality is going to look like there's going to be 0:49:54.840 --> 0:49:58.469 some communities like that, some communities that are super Amish, 0:49:58.469 --> 0:50:01.529 they're like Ted Kaczynski, like tech is bad and they 0:50:01.530 --> 0:50:04.950 just do their own thing. Government should leave them alone. 0:50:04.950 --> 0:50:07.920 They are productive members of society. They have their own schools. 0:50:07.920 --> 0:50:10.080 They have their own religion. They have their own stuff. 0:50:10.110 --> 0:50:12.839 Like they're making their own food. Leave them alone. Everything's fine. 0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:14.640 They don't have to play the games. And a bunch 0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:17.160 of people like maybe some of their kids, and that'll 0:50:17.190 --> 0:50:18.870 be bad, but a bunch of people are going to 0:50:18.870 --> 0:50:20.490 be like, are you kidding me? I want to be 0:50:20.489 --> 0:50:23.370 a superhero. I want to be a princess. I want 0:50:23.400 --> 0:50:25.169 to be, you know, I want to take over the world. 0:50:25.170 --> 0:50:27.780 I want to do all these things. Fine. Go find 0:50:27.780 --> 0:50:31.290 your meaning inside the game system. Importantly here, there is 0:50:31.290 --> 0:50:33.690 going to be a period of time in which we're 0:50:33.690 --> 0:50:36.900 going to need something like this as a transition period, 0:50:37.020 --> 0:50:39.870 because so many people are going to lose their meaning, 0:50:39.870 --> 0:50:41.370 they're going to have to go into this thing. I 0:50:41.370 --> 0:50:43.710 think there's going to be a requirement for an ASI, 0:50:43.739 --> 0:50:46.500 for a government, for something to be like, look, we 0:50:46.500 --> 0:50:49.110 need to give out money and we need to give 0:50:49.110 --> 0:50:57.750 them something awesome. I think game companies, whoever it is, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, 0:50:57.780 --> 0:51:00.120 all these people, they're actually going to get hired by 0:51:00.120 --> 0:51:04.049 the government to create these giant scale games that people 0:51:04.050 --> 0:51:06.840 can live inside of. There's going to be haptic gear 0:51:06.870 --> 0:51:09.839 they think of like a military push to invent the 0:51:09.840 --> 0:51:13.290 bomb or whatever, but the military push is going to 0:51:13.290 --> 0:51:17.250 be to invent really immersive technology because we need it, 0:51:17.250 --> 0:51:20.400 because guess what? It is actually a military concern. It 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:24.919 is actually a military level requirement that we do not 0:51:24.920 --> 0:51:29.300 have hundreds of millions of people, also known as billions 0:51:29.300 --> 0:51:33.380 of people with no meaning and no money, because they 0:51:33.380 --> 0:51:35.840 will in fact light everything on fire and that will 0:51:35.870 --> 0:51:38.239 be bad. So there will be a period where we 0:51:38.239 --> 0:51:41.870 actually need to invent something like this to get us 0:51:41.870 --> 0:51:46.340 through this period. That kind of calms everyone down. But 0:51:46.340 --> 0:51:49.879 if you don't do it well, they will be satiated 0:51:49.880 --> 0:51:53.090 and they will be not violent, but it will start 0:51:53.090 --> 0:51:56.390 to rot. It will rot the human soul. Because what 0:51:56.390 --> 0:51:58.700 are they doing for creativity? What are they making? What 0:51:58.700 --> 0:52:01.310 are they building? Are they building? Are they making families? 0:52:01.310 --> 0:52:05.180 Who's making the kids? Right? I mean, the games didn't 0:52:05.180 --> 0:52:08.240 solve aging. So a bunch of people hooked into the games, 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:11.870 they don't meet anyone. And two generations later, we don't 0:52:11.870 --> 0:52:14.600 have any people. Or actually, technically, I think everyone dies 0:52:14.600 --> 0:52:18.109 in one generation, right? If you're not reproducing. So like 0:52:18.140 --> 0:52:22.050 that is only a temporary solution to not have the 0:52:22.050 --> 0:52:24.330 world blow up. But ultimately you have to solve the 0:52:24.330 --> 0:52:28.200 meaning problem, which either happens outside the game, which I 0:52:28.200 --> 0:52:31.290 think that is going to happen and should happen, or 0:52:31.290 --> 0:52:34.680 inside the game. And I think what's most likely in 0:52:34.680 --> 0:52:38.610 a benign situation is that you'll have both recommendation of 0:52:38.610 --> 0:52:42.299 the week. I've been a bit obsessed with the problem 0:52:42.300 --> 0:52:45.839 definition lately, like I talked about with the fabric pattern. 0:52:45.840 --> 0:52:49.380 And here's my recommendation get really good at articulating and 0:52:49.380 --> 0:52:53.880 prioritizing your problems, like write them out in vast detail. 0:52:53.910 --> 0:52:57.900 Make yourself an expert in your problems. It takes away 0:52:57.900 --> 0:53:00.750 their power. Kind of like staring directly at anger when 0:53:00.750 --> 0:53:03.540 you're meditating. Like it takes the spin off the anger. 0:53:03.540 --> 0:53:05.550 If you look away, the anger hurts you again. You 0:53:05.550 --> 0:53:07.680 look directly at the anger and you're like, hmm, that's 0:53:07.680 --> 0:53:10.049 not so bad. Happens the same with your problems. They 0:53:10.050 --> 0:53:14.070 become approachable, and this also happens to be the key 0:53:14.070 --> 0:53:17.910 to brilliant I prompting because it's an extension of like 0:53:17.910 --> 0:53:21.359 know yourself and then you can articulate yourself and the 0:53:21.360 --> 0:53:23.940 aphorism of the week when I have one week to 0:53:23.969 --> 0:53:28.200 solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining it, 0:53:28.200 --> 0:53:31.650 and then the solution becomes obvious. When I have one 0:53:31.650 --> 0:53:35.550 week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six 0:53:35.550 --> 0:53:41.400 days defining it, and then the solution becomes obvious. 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