WEBVTT - UL NO. 465 | The SaaS Attack Vector, Project Stargate, and Undersea Cable Drones 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:05.040 Unsupervised Learning is a podcast about trends and ideas in cybersecurity, 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.000 national security, AI, technology and society, and how best to 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:17.640 upgrade ourselves to be ready for what's coming. All right. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.400 Welcome to unsupervised Learning. This is Daniel. All right. Episode 465. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:23.960 What do we have? So I spent like 20 hours 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:29.560 over the past few weeks updating my homepage about page projects, Telos, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.440 a whole bunch of different stuff. Uh, predictions page, just 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.559 a lot of new content on the website, which is 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:42.480 a completely new looking website. Basically, the website was all 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.919 on beehive, and now it's back in its natural home 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:53.760 at regular. Daniel Mysa.com and the newsletters on newsletter.com. So yeah, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.520 go check that out. Highly recommend checking out two podcast episodes. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.840 I've been absolutely loving Dan Carlin on Alexander the Great. I'm. Yeah. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.800 I just love it. I'm so happy that he's back. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.600 I thought he actually got out of the game or 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.399 retired or something, but this thing has from like June 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:15.000 of 2024, so it's good news that he's back. I 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.640 absolutely love getting history in this sort of way. He's 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.600 describing history. It's also mostly biography based. I just love 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.360 the whole thing. It's great. And I just listened to 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.720 the acquired episode on TSMC and it made me buy 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.039 more of their stock. I tend to buy stock from 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:40.679 companies that they talk about, um, namely Costco and now TSMC. But, uh, yeah, really, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.920 really good episode. And my buddy Joseph Thacker has gone independent. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.720 So happy for him about this. He's now a full 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.920 time bug bounty hacker and entrepreneur, and I really can't 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.800 wait to see what he does this year in 25 security. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.160 So new research shows that the average employee creates a 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.800 new SAS account every two Two weeks, which is creating 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.920 massive security blind spots for companies. If I click on 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:12.320 this link, um, yeah, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. Uh, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.519 definitely recommend checking this out if you are into app security, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.160 enterprise security, that kind of stuff. Uh, a lot of 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.720 this data comes from the new, um, Verizon Dbir report 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.080 found web applications were involved in 50% of security incidents, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:33.080 and 80% of breaches now involve compromised SaaS credentials. And 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.280 that's according to CrowdStrike. Google just shared how they handle 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.480 threat detection at a massive scale. They're doing some wild 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:45.200 stuff around automation and response time. So standard response time 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.040 is like days or weeks. And they're now doing it 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:53.440 in just hours. And they're automating automating 97% of their 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.839 detection work. So you got to imagine how much that 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.919 actually is at Google. Microsoft's AI Red team published their 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:03.920 findings from attacking over 100 AI I products. Sharing key 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.240 lessons for identifying risks and vulnerabilities. Most interesting insight is 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.399 that basic techniques like prompt injection usually work better than 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.320 complex attacks. It makes sense. I mean, it is the 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.480 main attack. In my opinion. Prompt injection is the thing 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.559 that kind of makes this different than other types of security, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.400 because otherwise we're mostly talking about API security. When we're 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.720 talking about AI security, it's threat modeling the entire data 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.560 flow from the ingress point all the way to the 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.680 different places it could be stored for, like second order attacks. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.720 And all of that is kind of similar. The thing 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.080 that makes it different is like English being the language 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.360 of attack and the fact that you could trick a 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:54.240 Semi-intelligent processor, right? So parsers have always been vulnerable, but 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.520 it's even more vulnerable now because you can trick it, right? 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.680 It's a different kind of tricking. You could trick it 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.350 using logic and stories and stuff like that. You could 0:04:04.350 --> 0:04:07.270 always trick passers, and that's kind of the game in security. 0:04:07.630 --> 0:04:11.230 But the types of attacks that you can do now are, 0:04:11.230 --> 0:04:15.350 are broader and more powerful with prompt injection. So I 0:04:15.350 --> 0:04:19.070 think that's the main avenue which which seems like it's 0:04:19.070 --> 0:04:21.870 what they found as well. Basic techniques like prompt injection 0:04:21.870 --> 0:04:25.230 work even better than complex attacks. Not quite the same point, 0:04:25.230 --> 0:04:28.430 but related. And DJI just announced that they're removing all 0:04:28.430 --> 0:04:31.950 geofencing restrictions from their drones in the US, which means 0:04:31.950 --> 0:04:37.070 you can technically now fly them anywhere, including airports, wildfires. 0:04:37.070 --> 0:04:40.390 Which one took down one of those big, uh, water 0:04:40.390 --> 0:04:44.710 planes and the white House? This can't be right. Like, 0:04:44.710 --> 0:04:47.590 how is this not going to get them TikTok? And 0:04:47.589 --> 0:04:49.710 by TikTok, I don't mean turned off for one day 0:04:49.710 --> 0:04:53.470 and turn back on. I mean, serious trouble. The new administration, 0:04:53.470 --> 0:04:58.910 along with Larry Ellison, Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son, launched 0:04:58.910 --> 0:05:01.950 a new AI project called Stargate, basically a new company 0:05:01.950 --> 0:05:06.589 and a $500 Billion dollar investment. That's half $1 trillion 0:05:06.950 --> 0:05:09.390 designed to make sure the US wins the AI war 0:05:10.230 --> 0:05:13.870 versus China. And the Pentagon is now using AI from 0:05:13.870 --> 0:05:18.070 companies like OpenAI and anthropic to help identify and assess 0:05:18.070 --> 0:05:22.349 threats faster. But supposedly they're being careful to keep humans 0:05:22.350 --> 0:05:25.909 in control of actual weapons for now. And Rachel Toback 0:05:26.750 --> 0:05:29.870 posted that it was her pleasure serving on the Cisa 0:05:30.310 --> 0:05:33.710 Technical Advisory Council, which has now officially been shut down. 0:05:33.830 --> 0:05:37.630 Trump dissolves the advisory committees, which is exactly what she 0:05:37.630 --> 0:05:41.510 was on, and that's now been shut down. And AI powered. 0:05:41.510 --> 0:05:47.070 Brad Pitt scam costs a woman £830,000, which I don't 0:05:47.110 --> 0:05:49.510 know how much that is in real money, but I 0:05:49.510 --> 0:05:53.589 think pretty close to $1 million might be over $1 million. 0:05:53.589 --> 0:05:56.790 It's something around there, and it was basically someone claiming 0:05:56.830 --> 0:05:59.550 to be Brad Pitt in a hospital, and you could 0:05:59.550 --> 0:06:02.589 see the AI. It wasn't super convincing, but things are 0:06:02.589 --> 0:06:05.470 a lot more convincing when you are lonely. Trump killed 0:06:05.870 --> 0:06:10.390 Biden's main AI safety executive order from 2023 that required 0:06:10.390 --> 0:06:14.350 companies like OpenAI to share safety test results with the government. 0:06:14.430 --> 0:06:17.950 And then he launched Stargate, which is about moving fast 0:06:17.950 --> 0:06:21.870 to beat China. So essentially that order was about moving 0:06:21.870 --> 0:06:25.750 slower and more carefully. And Stargate is about moving as 0:06:25.750 --> 0:06:29.190 fast as possible. And I'm pretty happy with this, actually, because, 0:06:29.390 --> 0:06:32.390 I mean, I'm worried about AI moving fast no matter what, 0:06:33.029 --> 0:06:37.390 but I'm more worried about AI in China moving fast 0:06:37.390 --> 0:06:40.150 while AI in the US moves slow. So that's where 0:06:40.150 --> 0:06:44.310 the priority is for me. NATO has launched Operation Baltic Sentry, 0:06:44.350 --> 0:06:48.910 putting 20 autonomous boats in the Baltic Sea to protect 0:06:48.910 --> 0:06:52.430 undersea cables from Russian sabotage. I think this is excellent. 0:06:53.110 --> 0:06:59.790 But 2020 drones in the Baltic Sea. How much area 0:06:59.790 --> 0:07:02.430 do you have to cover? I imagine you can cover 0:07:02.430 --> 0:07:05.630 a lot because you can use radar above, Of a 0:07:05.670 --> 0:07:08.630 sonar below. I imagine they have lots of different ways 0:07:08.630 --> 0:07:12.030 to cover a lot of ground. I'm just saying it's 0:07:12.030 --> 0:07:17.350 a small number of boats and very large body of water. Palmer. 0:07:17.350 --> 0:07:22.430 Lucky's defense tech company. Andrew. Andrew. I'm going to call it. 0:07:22.430 --> 0:07:27.150 Andrew is building a massive 5,000,000 square foot weapons factory 0:07:27.150 --> 0:07:31.990 in Columbus, Ohio called Arsenal one, dropping close to $1 0:07:31.990 --> 0:07:34.390 billion of their own money on this thing. I and 0:07:34.390 --> 0:07:37.270 tech companies are using your data to charge you more. 0:07:37.390 --> 0:07:41.230 FTC just released data showing companies are using your location, demographics, 0:07:41.230 --> 0:07:43.990 and even mouse movements to charge you different prices for 0:07:43.990 --> 0:07:47.030 the same products. Trump just announced Stargate. We already talked 0:07:47.030 --> 0:07:50.190 about that one. Perplexity just launched an API that lets 0:07:50.190 --> 0:07:54.030 developers build their real time AI search capabilities into their 0:07:54.030 --> 0:07:56.830 own apps. I'm already using this, so I'm not sure 0:07:56.830 --> 0:08:00.870 exactly if this is sonar that I was already using before, 0:08:00.870 --> 0:08:04.350 and they just now launched it. Not sure about that, 0:08:04.350 --> 0:08:07.710 but it is pretty cool because you're getting live data, right? 0:08:07.950 --> 0:08:11.150 It's not just an API call to a static database, 0:08:11.990 --> 0:08:14.590 or it's not just an API call to an LLM. 0:08:15.110 --> 0:08:20.710 It's the combination of a search engine with an LLM, 0:08:20.710 --> 0:08:24.430 with live data queries on top of it. So quite 0:08:25.070 --> 0:08:30.990 quite useful. Transformer two introduces Self-adapting language models. Sakana I 0:08:31.030 --> 0:08:33.869 just released a new approach that lets language models dynamically 0:08:33.870 --> 0:08:36.030 adjust their weights in real time based on the tasks 0:08:36.030 --> 0:08:39.550 that they're working on. TSMC has officially started making four 0:08:39.550 --> 0:08:43.750 nanometer chips at their new Arizona plant, which is a 0:08:43.750 --> 0:08:47.870 massive win for the US semiconductor manufacturing. I wonder how 0:08:47.870 --> 0:08:51.910 many people are thinking that Arizona is like plan A 0:08:51.910 --> 0:08:55.429 if China takes Taiwan? I love the fact that we 0:08:55.470 --> 0:08:57.949 are in this position. I mean, it would be horrific 0:08:57.950 --> 0:09:01.190 if this happened because it would still massively disrupt for 0:09:01.190 --> 0:09:05.110 years and years. It would massively disrupt chip production and 0:09:05.110 --> 0:09:10.710 basically technology production worldwide. If we were to lose the 0:09:10.710 --> 0:09:15.590 TSMC plant in Taiwan, like, it's not a easy hot swap. 0:09:16.230 --> 0:09:19.990 First of all, four nanometer is like old tech, and 0:09:20.150 --> 0:09:22.550 TSMC has been talking for a long time about how 0:09:23.350 --> 0:09:26.110 the staff in Arizona is nowhere near as good as 0:09:26.110 --> 0:09:29.709 the staff in in Taiwan. The tech isn't as good. 0:09:29.710 --> 0:09:34.550 It's not as as modern of a facility. It's like 0:09:34.590 --> 0:09:40.309 way behind. But but if China basically takes this piece 0:09:40.309 --> 0:09:43.949 off the board for the West, which is what Taiwan 0:09:43.950 --> 0:09:46.590 is and what the US is and what you know, 0:09:46.630 --> 0:09:48.590 the West is, if they were to take that off 0:09:48.590 --> 0:09:50.350 the board, it would be nice to be able to 0:09:50.350 --> 0:09:52.150 put a piece back on the board and do it 0:09:52.150 --> 0:09:57.309 inside of Arizona, inside of the US. That would be wonderful. And, 0:09:57.309 --> 0:10:01.990 you know, they would pump whatever administrations in power would pump, 0:10:02.230 --> 0:10:05.390 you know, a couple of trillion dollars into that, probably 0:10:05.750 --> 0:10:11.350 like immediately build two more plants, fully move tons of 0:10:11.350 --> 0:10:15.750 people from TSMC over to Arizona or wherever, and get 0:10:15.750 --> 0:10:19.230 this thing going properly. And speaking of TSMC, they had 0:10:19.230 --> 0:10:23.670 to temporarily halt chip production after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake 0:10:23.670 --> 0:10:27.150 hit the southern part of the island. And basically whatever 0:10:27.190 --> 0:10:30.470 was being made at the time, right, right at this tiny, 0:10:30.470 --> 0:10:34.630 tiny little scale. By the way, only five carbon atoms 0:10:34.870 --> 0:10:38.910 fit inside of one nanometer. That is the thing I 0:10:38.950 --> 0:10:43.829 learned from that acquired episode on TSMC. But yeah, basically, 0:10:43.830 --> 0:10:46.829 while these things were being made, while a bunch of 0:10:46.830 --> 0:10:53.429 chips were in production, this 6.4 earthquake hit. And earthquakes 0:10:53.429 --> 0:10:56.790 shake things. That's what they do. So they basically have 0:10:56.790 --> 0:10:59.390 to say, okay, anything being made at the time, most 0:10:59.390 --> 0:11:01.390 of it is probably garbage. And they kind of throw 0:11:01.390 --> 0:11:05.390 that out, which is probably very expensive. And then of 0:11:05.390 --> 0:11:07.150 course you have to make sure everything is fine before 0:11:07.150 --> 0:11:10.300 you start everything back up again. Zuckerberg just announced they're 0:11:10.300 --> 0:11:14.339 letting go of around 3600 people by February 10th, and 0:11:14.340 --> 0:11:16.900 they're planning to refill them with new hires. My read 0:11:16.900 --> 0:11:20.099 on this is that it's a constant cleansing and replacing 0:11:20.100 --> 0:11:24.780 of the workforce with what I call Alaskan boat crews. 0:11:25.460 --> 0:11:28.699 Fishing boat crews. Right. And I think after doing this 0:11:28.700 --> 0:11:31.820 for like a year, doing this a few times, the 0:11:31.820 --> 0:11:37.220 culture will be basically like a killer culture. It'll be like, look, 0:11:37.220 --> 0:11:40.100 we are here to work. We don't tolerate people who 0:11:40.140 --> 0:11:42.740 don't work. We will report you. You will get put 0:11:42.740 --> 0:11:45.620 on the naughty list and you'll get taken out. So 0:11:45.740 --> 0:11:49.939 what it does is it just encourages like this super aggressive, 0:11:49.940 --> 0:11:54.500 super high performance culture. And my prediction is that the 0:11:54.500 --> 0:11:57.140 stock is going to go up quite a bit. But 0:11:57.179 --> 0:11:59.700 don't take my word for that. Just uh, that's a 0:11:59.700 --> 0:12:02.260 random prediction I like to put into the world so 0:12:02.260 --> 0:12:04.860 that I can capture it and tell me when I 0:12:04.860 --> 0:12:07.380 get it wrong. Okay. Meta just released a new AI 0:12:07.620 --> 0:12:12.300 translation system called seamless that can translate speech between 36 0:12:12.300 --> 0:12:17.100 languages while preserving the speaker's voice and emotional tone. Getting 0:12:17.100 --> 0:12:20.980 closer to the universal translator. Scientists have created a new 0:12:20.980 --> 0:12:26.660 laser measurement technique that can measure distances of over 100km 0:12:26.660 --> 0:12:31.980 with nanometer level precision, which is insane. It's basically the 0:12:31.980 --> 0:12:40.380 distance between two cities with the precision of 1/1000. One one. Oh, goodness. 0:12:40.660 --> 0:12:45.140 1/1000 the width of a human hair. I didn't realize 0:12:45.140 --> 0:12:49.780 that was a nanometer. 1/1000. Holy crap. That's that's small. 0:12:49.980 --> 0:12:57.700 1/1000 of a human hair can fit five carbon atoms. Interesting. 0:12:57.980 --> 0:13:00.860 RSS is making a comeback because it lets you get 0:13:00.860 --> 0:13:04.860 all the good stuff from social media without the algorithmic manipulation. 0:13:05.540 --> 0:13:07.660 And it got a link to mine. It's just Daniel 0:13:08.940 --> 0:13:14.940 RSS or. Feed RSS. There's lots of different ones. If 0:13:14.940 --> 0:13:17.459 you just do slash feed or slash RSS. It will 0:13:17.460 --> 0:13:20.980 take you there. GitHub actions fall short for complex projects. 0:13:21.420 --> 0:13:24.980 So somebody shares frustrating experience with GitHub actions breaking down 0:13:24.980 --> 0:13:30.660 a larger, more complex environments like Monorepos with multiple teams. Humans. 0:13:30.660 --> 0:13:34.780 Japan's elderly women choose prisons over loneliness. So a lot 0:13:34.820 --> 0:13:38.380 of women are choosing to do petty crimes, so they'll 0:13:38.380 --> 0:13:41.980 get thrown in jail where they get meals, health care 0:13:41.980 --> 0:13:47.220 and community. This is extremely depressing to me. How are 0:13:47.220 --> 0:13:50.540 we at this point that you've got these poor old 0:13:50.540 --> 0:13:53.620 ladies who don't want to commit crimes? And it's not 0:13:53.620 --> 0:13:56.380 really about the crimes. It's the fact that you would 0:13:56.380 --> 0:13:59.819 rather go to jail because you're that lonely. What are 0:13:59.820 --> 0:14:04.060 we doing? What are we doing wrong? Human connection is everything. U.S. 0:14:04.100 --> 0:14:06.900 worker job satisfaction hits a ten year low. A new 0:14:06.900 --> 0:14:09.620 Gallup poll shows American workers are more checked out than 0:14:09.620 --> 0:14:15.460 they've been in a decade. Decade? What? 2015. Only 31% 0:14:15.460 --> 0:14:18.420 saying they're engaged at work. You know, you know my spiel. 0:14:18.420 --> 0:14:20.660 I'm not going to go into it. Sweden is reversing 0:14:20.660 --> 0:14:26.260 its 2009 all digital education initiative by bringing back printed textbooks. 0:14:26.260 --> 0:14:30.940 A comprehensive study in Texas from 2012 to 2018 found 0:14:30.940 --> 0:14:34.980 that undocumented immigrants commit violent and drug crimes at less 0:14:34.980 --> 0:14:38.500 than half the rate of native born citizens and property 0:14:38.500 --> 0:14:43.740 crimes at just 25%. The rate of non know at 0:14:43.740 --> 0:14:49.060 the rate of native born citizens. So dangerous crime basically 0:14:49.700 --> 0:14:55.500 half and property crime only 25% as often. FTC just 0:14:55.500 --> 0:14:58.780 released a report showing UnitedHealth and other major health care 0:14:58.820 --> 0:15:03.380 companies are marking up cancer drugs by over 1,000%. Medicare 0:15:03.420 --> 0:15:06.460 just added 15 more drugs to their price negotiation list, 0:15:06.460 --> 0:15:11.340 including Ozempic and Wegovy. Scientists discovered Greenland sharks are the 0:15:11.340 --> 0:15:17.220 longest living vertebrates on Earth. Some potentially being as old 0:15:17.220 --> 0:15:22.220 as like 600 years old. Ideas Stoicism's gift. The greatest 0:15:22.220 --> 0:15:26.060 gift that stoicism has given me personally is the ability 0:15:26.060 --> 0:15:28.900 to enjoy something I still have, as if I no 0:15:28.900 --> 0:15:32.540 longer have it. It is the ultimate frame. The greatest 0:15:32.540 --> 0:15:35.020 gift that stoicism has given me is the ability to 0:15:35.020 --> 0:15:37.860 enjoy something I still have, as if I no longer 0:15:37.860 --> 0:15:43.580 have it. Discovery. SSH. SSH into throwaway Docker containers. Basically, 0:15:43.620 --> 0:15:45.900 it's an open source tool lets you instantly spin up 0:15:45.900 --> 0:15:50.620 a disposable Docker containers via SSH for quick testing and development. 0:15:50.740 --> 0:15:53.620 And it got a bunch of my buddy Joseph Thatcher's 0:15:53.620 --> 0:15:58.540 favorite lists. And, uh, UL was lucky enough to make 0:15:58.540 --> 0:16:00.460 it on there a couple of times and the list 0:16:00.460 --> 0:16:03.340 was quite long, so worth taking a look at. In fact, 0:16:03.340 --> 0:16:06.380 I'm going to click over there. So best AI app cursor. 0:16:06.780 --> 0:16:12.500 Best model cloud sonnet. Best red team company Hayes Labs, right? 0:16:12.540 --> 0:16:15.300 So these are some of the things that he put 0:16:15.300 --> 0:16:18.100 in their command line tool. Yeah. Fabric. That's one of 0:16:18.100 --> 0:16:23.380 our mentions. Google bug bounty I jailbreaking resource. So lots 0:16:23.380 --> 0:16:25.140 of cool ones over here. What I wish I knew 0:16:25.140 --> 0:16:29.340 before quitting my job. So Michael Douglas shares his raw 0:16:29.340 --> 0:16:32.060 experience of how quitting his job to work on his 0:16:32.100 --> 0:16:35.140 own turned out way harder than expected. I post this 0:16:35.140 --> 0:16:38.740 because I'm always talking about the counter narrative of how, oh, 0:16:38.780 --> 0:16:41.060 you got to go independent. You got to do it 0:16:41.060 --> 0:16:43.620 sooner than later. I just want to make it clear 0:16:43.620 --> 0:16:46.180 that there is a counter narrative here. You do have 0:16:46.180 --> 0:16:50.540 to be careful. You've got to get oriented and you 0:16:50.540 --> 0:16:52.940 do have to be careful, is basically what I'm saying. 0:16:52.940 --> 0:16:56.980 Michael Box shares a really practical framework called hypothesis sheets, 0:16:56.980 --> 0:17:01.460 for validating B2B startup ideas before committing to them and 0:17:01.460 --> 0:17:04.980 the recommendation of the week. Try something different with your 0:17:04.980 --> 0:17:08.300 meditation for the next few weeks. Make a list of 0:17:08.300 --> 0:17:10.820 the relationships and other good things you have in your life, 0:17:11.380 --> 0:17:14.659 which are things like your husband, your wife, your particular 0:17:15.260 --> 0:17:18.340 particular kid. You have a close friend. The fact that 0:17:18.340 --> 0:17:21.900 you aren't hungry or cold at the moment. And now 0:17:21.900 --> 0:17:25.860 imagine that that thing or that person is gone. But 0:17:25.859 --> 0:17:28.700 as per your meditation, really, really imagine it. Like put 0:17:28.700 --> 0:17:31.300 yourself in that mental mode if that thing is really 0:17:31.300 --> 0:17:34.540 not in your life anymore. Imagine what you would do next. 0:17:34.940 --> 0:17:37.860 What does a day look like? Imagine watching TV. Imagine 0:17:37.859 --> 0:17:41.780 brushing your teeth. But without that person on the planet. 0:17:41.859 --> 0:17:44.500 Then wake up and realize that they are still here. 0:17:44.700 --> 0:17:47.500 This is a really, really powerful thing. And lots of 0:17:47.500 --> 0:17:52.179 different stoic teachers taught this, and I soaked it in 0:17:52.180 --> 0:17:57.219 from Marcus Aurelius. But when I was doing my stoicism stuff, 0:17:57.300 --> 0:18:00.660 I must have been like 2018, 2019. I probably read 0:18:00.700 --> 0:18:04.940 like 5 or 10 books around stoicism, including like summaries 0:18:04.940 --> 0:18:07.780 and a whole bunch of source material. And I just 0:18:07.780 --> 0:18:10.780 got this lesson drilled in over and over is like, 0:18:11.609 --> 0:18:14.169 Realize what you have. I also learned this in the 0:18:14.170 --> 0:18:19.129 army after being very, very cold and really appreciating things 0:18:19.130 --> 0:18:23.530 like a warm bed and, uh, and Burger King. Honestly, 0:18:24.050 --> 0:18:26.530 kind of a kind of a stupid example, but I 0:18:26.530 --> 0:18:29.050 wasn't even in combat. I mean, I was just out 0:18:29.050 --> 0:18:33.210 in the in the nasty stuff in, like, Kentucky freezing 0:18:33.369 --> 0:18:37.290 my balls off. And it was bad. It was really 0:18:37.290 --> 0:18:41.210 bad compared to being back at the base. And, you know, 0:18:41.250 --> 0:18:45.650 in normal life, like most people lead. So just imagining, like, 0:18:45.650 --> 0:18:47.850 right now I won't go too far into this, but 0:18:47.890 --> 0:18:51.850 like right now it annoys me that there are several 0:18:51.850 --> 0:18:55.010 things in my life right now in my environment and 0:18:55.010 --> 0:18:57.129 just around me. The fact that I have this microphone, 0:18:57.130 --> 0:19:00.210 the fact that I'm looking at a computer screen. It 0:19:00.210 --> 0:19:03.370 annoys me that there's a list of hundreds of things 0:19:03.890 --> 0:19:06.010 that if I didn't have them, I would wish I 0:19:06.010 --> 0:19:08.770 had them. I have pictures on my wall here in 0:19:08.770 --> 0:19:13.490 my house of the view of Earth from Mars. It's 0:19:13.490 --> 0:19:16.650 a tiny little speck, and I like to walk by. 0:19:16.690 --> 0:19:18.170 The reason I put him up is because I like 0:19:18.170 --> 0:19:20.850 to walk by and look at this picture and be like. 0:19:21.530 --> 0:19:25.810 Or a picture of the sun from Mars. It especially 0:19:25.810 --> 0:19:28.570 though looking at the Earth like the pale blue dot picture. 0:19:28.690 --> 0:19:30.929 I've got one of those as well. I love looking 0:19:30.930 --> 0:19:34.050 at it, imagining that we've been jettisoned off the planet 0:19:34.050 --> 0:19:37.050 like I'm in a prison colony. I've been kicked out 0:19:37.050 --> 0:19:39.729 of Earth, and I'm looking at it from Mars. And 0:19:39.730 --> 0:19:42.770 I'm just wishing. I'm just wishing I could go to 0:19:42.770 --> 0:19:45.850 that one Mexican restaurant. I could hang out with my friends. 0:19:45.850 --> 0:19:48.770 I could get a Starbucks. There's no more Starbucks. I'm 0:19:48.770 --> 0:19:52.010 in prison on Mars. I will never have another Starbucks again. 0:19:52.010 --> 0:19:54.609 And I will tell all my friends every time I 0:19:54.650 --> 0:19:58.649 meet them in the prison yard on Mars how cool 0:19:58.690 --> 0:20:01.610 Starbucks was. Am I actually a huge fan of Starbucks? 0:20:01.650 --> 0:20:04.369 Not really. I do like the vibe. I like how 0:20:04.369 --> 0:20:07.010 it smells in there. I like, you know, it's got 0:20:07.010 --> 0:20:09.209 a vibe to it. I like to go in there 0:20:09.210 --> 0:20:12.330 and work. The point is, whatever you don't have is 0:20:12.330 --> 0:20:15.010 the thing you want the most. And there's a there's 0:20:15.010 --> 0:20:17.050 a list of 100 of those things that I have 0:20:17.050 --> 0:20:20.450 right now that are just amazing. And the most important 0:20:20.450 --> 0:20:23.850 ones are actually relationships. And I think everyone's figured this 0:20:23.850 --> 0:20:27.690 out by now. But stoicism reminds me to take inventory 0:20:27.890 --> 0:20:31.330 and to imagine yourself without those things. And I recommend 0:20:31.330 --> 0:20:34.370 you you try this practice as well. And the aphorism 0:20:34.410 --> 0:20:37.650 of the week A rational person can find peace by 0:20:37.650 --> 0:20:42.330 cultivating indifference to things outside of their control. A rational 0:20:42.330 --> 0:20:47.290 person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside 0:20:47.290 --> 0:20:52.170 of their control. Naval Ravikant. Unsupervised learning is produced on 0:20:52.170 --> 0:20:56.570 Hindenburg Pro using an SM seven B microphone. 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