WEBVTT - UL NO. 487: STANDARD EDITION: Iranian Critical Infra Attacks, Insane Recent Productivity, A Chinese Mosquito Drone, Marcus's Response to Our AI Debate, "Context Engineering" Ain't It, and more... 0:00:19.252 --> 0:00:22.052 All right. Welcome to episode 47. This is Daniel Miessler. 0:00:23.092 --> 0:00:25.772 All right. Lots of updates. I've been the most creative, 0:00:25.772 --> 0:00:29.812 productive I've ever been in my life in this last week, 0:00:30.292 --> 0:00:32.612 and I think it probably has to do with a 0:00:32.612 --> 0:00:37.012 combination of cloud code and cursor. And I would say 0:00:37.012 --> 0:00:41.251 specifically cloud code, because I am now using it to 0:00:41.292 --> 0:00:44.052 do way more things than just coding. I'm basically using 0:00:44.052 --> 0:00:48.492 it as like basically it's like I'm a CEO of 0:00:49.252 --> 0:00:54.091 multiple companies and I could give work to like 100 0:00:54.092 --> 0:00:56.651 workers at all these different companies. So basically I've got 0:00:56.692 --> 0:00:59.372 like five shells open right now and they are all 0:00:59.372 --> 0:01:03.572 in separate repositories. And like not many of them are 0:01:03.612 --> 0:01:06.172 actually building anything related to like a web app or 0:01:06.292 --> 0:01:08.692 web coding or any of that. Um, a lot of 0:01:08.692 --> 0:01:12.132 them are like, organize this, clean this up, you know, 0:01:12.172 --> 0:01:15.092 go get this content, um, fix all the links on 0:01:15.092 --> 0:01:18.422 my website or whatever. It's like, It's a whole bunch 0:01:18.422 --> 0:01:20.902 of stuff that would have taken hours and hours of 0:01:20.902 --> 0:01:23.342 manual work, and that's why I hadn't done it yet. 0:01:23.702 --> 0:01:25.422 And so now this thing is just like, yeah, tell 0:01:25.422 --> 0:01:27.262 me what to do. It's like, okay, cool, I'll write 0:01:27.262 --> 0:01:29.101 a script to do that here. I just fixed your 0:01:29.102 --> 0:01:32.982 entire blog. Okay. It fixed my entire blog for content 0:01:32.982 --> 0:01:39.022 going back to 1999. Hundreds. No. Thousands. Thousands of articles. 0:01:39.062 --> 0:01:43.461 Thousands of pieces with broken links. It migrated all of 0:01:43.462 --> 0:01:48.302 my images to a new system. Um, I cleaned up 0:01:48.302 --> 0:01:53.622 all my cloud or all my, uh, Cloudflare. Um, basically 0:01:53.622 --> 0:01:55.462 how everything was being handled before I was doing a 0:01:55.462 --> 0:02:00.142 bunch of stuff, um, with S3 and CloudFront, and I 0:02:00.142 --> 0:02:04.662 moved everything to be Cloudflare now, um, I migrated all my, uh, 0:02:04.822 --> 0:02:07.582 images to use that instead. And they're all located at 0:02:07.582 --> 0:02:10.182 slash images. This is all stuff I was like, piecing 0:02:10.182 --> 0:02:13.742 away at manually and sort of like as I came 0:02:13.742 --> 0:02:16.582 upon the problem, I would go and fix it, but 0:02:17.062 --> 0:02:19.502 to me it was daunting to think about even trying 0:02:19.502 --> 0:02:21.222 to do this right. So, I mean, it's the type 0:02:21.222 --> 0:02:23.102 of thing you hire somebody and they go and do 0:02:23.102 --> 0:02:25.382 it and it's going to be done really, really poorly. 0:02:25.702 --> 0:02:28.302 If I would have paid someone to do this, first 0:02:28.302 --> 0:02:30.382 of all, it would have cost me thousands of dollars. 0:02:31.022 --> 0:02:32.822 Second of all, they would have messed a whole bunch 0:02:32.822 --> 0:02:36.982 of stuff up. So it's like I can't even express 0:02:36.982 --> 0:02:40.341 how useful and powerful this is. And I'm paying for Max, 0:02:40.341 --> 0:02:43.901 which is like 200 bucks a month. But like, if 0:02:43.901 --> 0:02:48.302 this was $2,000 a month, I have like five times over, 0:02:48.302 --> 0:02:52.982 made my money. And that's just from like last weekend, right? 0:02:53.022 --> 0:02:55.061 I mean, or like up to up to now, which 0:02:55.062 --> 0:02:57.942 is like Wednesday. So I'm telling you, this is like 0:02:57.982 --> 0:03:01.342 the most excited I've, I've been about this whole AI thing, 0:03:01.742 --> 0:03:03.982 and I don't even see it as I actually like. 0:03:04.142 --> 0:03:06.862 I'm starting to, like, just not even care about that. 0:03:06.901 --> 0:03:10.982 What I'm caring about is this agent, uh, thing and 0:03:10.982 --> 0:03:14.221 not like AI agents, but the concept of handing work 0:03:14.702 --> 0:03:18.072 to something that understands what you're trying to do. Okay, 0:03:18.112 --> 0:03:21.512 here's another good example. I have content on the site 0:03:22.151 --> 0:03:26.992 from so many different previous platforms, right? Because I've been 0:03:26.992 --> 0:03:32.712 blogging since 1999, which means I've got just grossness, just nastiness, 0:03:32.752 --> 0:03:36.832 like weird embeds and weird linking strategies like my images 0:03:36.832 --> 0:03:40.112 were being called in five different ways. Do they have 0:03:40.152 --> 0:03:42.352 forward slashes or not? Like, all of this stuff was 0:03:42.392 --> 0:03:45.712 messed up. I went and told this thing, here's the 0:03:45.712 --> 0:03:48.552 canonical way to do things. Here's what a post is 0:03:48.552 --> 0:03:51.672 supposed to look like, right? When when I send you 0:03:51.672 --> 0:03:53.352 a URL. And by the way, I don't have to 0:03:53.352 --> 0:03:55.912 give it like specifics. I'm just like, hey, there's a 0:03:55.912 --> 0:03:58.152 I have a post called The End of Work. It's 0:03:58.152 --> 0:04:00.432 really messed up. Go and fix it. It goes and 0:04:00.432 --> 0:04:02.512 checks all the 20 things that I need it to 0:04:02.552 --> 0:04:05.232 do for it to be normalized, for it to be 0:04:05.232 --> 0:04:07.672 a canonical post. It's like, okay, cool, I did that 0:04:07.672 --> 0:04:10.432 and I pushed it. Anything else? Oh, and by the way, 0:04:10.432 --> 0:04:13.792 I tested it and it works. I can't express to 0:04:13.792 --> 0:04:20.392 you how Insane. That is, it is completely, completely spectacular. 0:04:20.432 --> 0:04:25.032 I mean, this is a type of work. Like I said, 0:04:25.432 --> 0:04:28.472 if I hired someone who is super smart and super awesome, 0:04:29.312 --> 0:04:32.432 like a super hard core developer, and I said, I 0:04:32.432 --> 0:04:35.832 want you to do these 20 things to this post. 0:04:36.312 --> 0:04:38.072 And by the way, some of these posts are like 0:04:39.832 --> 0:04:44.032 a thousand words, 2000 words, 3000, 5000 words. I mean, 0:04:44.072 --> 0:04:48.231 I've got posts that are 17,000 words, 9000 words, 10,000 words. 0:04:48.231 --> 0:04:52.272 We're talking about small books here, okay. And you hand 0:04:52.272 --> 0:04:54.472 that to a human and you're like, hey, go through 0:04:54.472 --> 0:04:56.832 all this text. And by the way, it's done differently 0:04:56.832 --> 0:05:00.472 for every single post, okay? Every single post. It's broken 0:05:00.472 --> 0:05:03.552 in different ways, and I tell it a canonical way 0:05:03.552 --> 0:05:06.012 to do it. It literally comes back in 2 or 0:05:06.012 --> 0:05:07.792 3 minutes and it's like, yeah, I fixed all that. 0:05:08.752 --> 0:05:11.912 And I'm, I'm so I've got cloud code over here 0:05:11.912 --> 0:05:13.551 working and then I have cursor, I have the same 0:05:13.552 --> 0:05:15.842 project open in cursor. So I can actually go in 0:05:15.842 --> 0:05:18.122 and do manual edits. More importantly, I can see what 0:05:18.122 --> 0:05:21.282 it's actually doing, what what Claude is actually doing. And 0:05:21.282 --> 0:05:23.442 sometimes I could use the cursor agent if I want, 0:05:23.481 --> 0:05:27.162 but generally I'm using it for transparency. And just like, 0:05:27.481 --> 0:05:30.642 you know, manually accepting things if it's crazy or whatever. 0:05:31.002 --> 0:05:33.642 Plus I have my vim bindings active inside of cursor, 0:05:33.642 --> 0:05:36.481 so I could actually just go right using air quotes 0:05:36.481 --> 0:05:40.162 vim inside of cursor and it doesn't feel crazy. I 0:05:40.162 --> 0:05:42.681 don't have auto save enabled though, someone can figure that out. 0:05:43.122 --> 0:05:46.842 But anyway, it's just been. I've been getting so much done, 0:05:46.842 --> 0:05:49.202 so many projects that are just like. And I've got 0:05:49.601 --> 0:05:53.482 1520 more that are popping into my mind. Like, I 0:05:53.481 --> 0:05:57.082 literally have seven terminals open right now doing cool projects. 0:05:57.082 --> 0:05:59.241 I'm about to go do cool stuff, like I'm doing 0:05:59.242 --> 0:06:02.601 some physical stuff with some friends. We're going to, um, 0:06:03.082 --> 0:06:06.442 celebrate Dustin's life tonight, so I'm really looking forward to that. 0:06:07.002 --> 0:06:10.442 And all these other cool things, like I'm doing a 0:06:10.442 --> 0:06:13.522 cool project, I'm traveling or doing whatever. Right now I 0:06:13.562 --> 0:06:17.092 am thinking, when can I get back to coding? I 0:06:17.132 --> 0:06:19.332 recently been messing around with Diablo for a little bit. 0:06:19.332 --> 0:06:22.372 Diablo four is my favorite video game, or Diablo in general, 0:06:22.372 --> 0:06:25.492 is probably my favorite video game, and I'm pretty excited 0:06:25.492 --> 0:06:27.571 about what's going on in there. I could go and just, 0:06:27.612 --> 0:06:29.572 you know, have some fun for two hours or whatever. 0:06:30.252 --> 0:06:34.332 It is. Nothing compared to these five terminal windows that 0:06:34.332 --> 0:06:37.291 are calling me. I literally play around with this stuff 0:06:37.291 --> 0:06:40.772 and build stuff and fix stuff and create. Net new things. 0:06:40.772 --> 0:06:43.532 The next one I'm about to do is substrate. It's 0:06:43.532 --> 0:06:46.892 going to be insane. But I start on this. I 0:06:46.932 --> 0:06:49.772 look up at the clock and I'm like, oh well, 0:06:49.772 --> 0:06:52.012 I need to stand up. I need to eat. I 0:06:52.052 --> 0:06:55.931 haven't eaten in six hours. Also, it's going to be 0:06:55.932 --> 0:06:59.372 breakfast and that's 3 p.m. breakfast or whatever. Like, I 0:06:59.412 --> 0:07:03.452 have never been this excited and focused that I can 0:07:03.452 --> 0:07:06.972 remember on anything. Now, you combine that with the fact 0:07:06.972 --> 0:07:11.212 that this thing is getting better, right? Just imagine Cloud 0:07:11.212 --> 0:07:13.732 Code a bit better. Imagine cloud code, but I can 0:07:13.852 --> 0:07:17.252 send it content from my voice, right? I mean, and 0:07:17.252 --> 0:07:18.852 this is where this is all going that I've been 0:07:18.852 --> 0:07:21.812 talking about forever, right? We already know where it's going. 0:07:21.812 --> 0:07:23.292 We already know how this is all going to be 0:07:23.292 --> 0:07:26.932 stitched up, and we're messing with the individual pieces here. Um, 0:07:26.932 --> 0:07:29.172 one of these projects is called Chi. It's actually my 0:07:29.172 --> 0:07:32.532 digital assistant. So that when I'm actually teaching the meta 0:07:32.532 --> 0:07:36.812 tools of how to do, you know, skills and tools 0:07:36.812 --> 0:07:39.372 and tasks that I'm just going to have to do, 0:07:39.732 --> 0:07:42.892 you know, universally going forward. So a good example of 0:07:42.892 --> 0:07:48.092 this is, um, I recently taught Chi how to draw 0:07:48.132 --> 0:07:53.052 animations using Grant Sanderson's stuff. So he's the guy who does, uh, 0:07:53.372 --> 0:07:58.172 three blue, one brown or three brown, one blue. So animations, math, 0:07:58.172 --> 0:08:00.812 animations of whatever. Well, now I can send it a 0:08:00.812 --> 0:08:02.972 prompt and say animate this. So I sent it a 0:08:02.972 --> 0:08:06.732 prompt of the solar system and it drew it. It 0:08:06.772 --> 0:08:08.652 drew it and it animated it, and it opened it 0:08:08.652 --> 0:08:10.572 up and showed it to me. And I'm like, this 0:08:10.572 --> 0:08:13.012 is absolutely insane. I've got another one, which is like 0:08:13.142 --> 0:08:15.542 a knowledge map. So I'm going to be able to 0:08:15.542 --> 0:08:18.942 take other projects. My blogs are sitting right next to 0:08:18.982 --> 0:08:26.182 it in a directory, all markdown files, all normalizing canonicalized now. Right. So, 0:08:26.902 --> 0:08:30.382 so they're canonicalized. So they have all tags in them. 0:08:30.702 --> 0:08:33.782 They're all marked up. They're all clean. So I could 0:08:33.782 --> 0:08:37.062 just be like, hey, pull the pull the knowledge from this. 0:08:38.022 --> 0:08:40.662 And you know, map that in this new graphing function 0:08:40.742 --> 0:08:45.182 because I've got this graphing knowledge map and I'm teaching 0:08:45.222 --> 0:08:47.582 Chi right now how to use this library, how to 0:08:47.622 --> 0:08:50.541 use this GitHub project to do this with any knowledge 0:08:50.542 --> 0:08:52.702 that I give it. Right. So it's just like these 0:08:52.702 --> 0:08:55.982 small universal tools which are getting so good they just 0:08:55.982 --> 0:09:00.541 become skills that it has. So collecting data, collecting data 0:09:00.542 --> 0:09:06.102 from sources, um, rating the quality of a source. Right. 0:09:06.422 --> 0:09:09.822 Because when I'm doing like these collections and I'm making 0:09:09.822 --> 0:09:12.021 graphs based on them and, you know, if I want 0:09:12.062 --> 0:09:13.702 to publish them or whatever, I need to be able 0:09:13.702 --> 0:09:16.302 to point and say, look, this came from here, this 0:09:16.302 --> 0:09:20.222 came from CDC, this came from so-and-so French agency that 0:09:20.222 --> 0:09:22.902 puts out data or whatever. Um, but you got to 0:09:22.902 --> 0:09:25.422 be able to show your work. Otherwise it's just pretty graphs, right? 0:09:25.462 --> 0:09:28.982 So all of that just becomes core components built into 0:09:28.982 --> 0:09:35.342 this thing. All right. So yeah, that very exciting stuff. 0:09:35.381 --> 0:09:40.782 The other side of this is I'm basically manic about that, right? 0:09:40.822 --> 0:09:44.982 I'm manic about that. And I'm morose about the way 0:09:44.982 --> 0:09:48.182 I see this affecting humanity, because the way I see this, 0:09:48.182 --> 0:09:50.022 I wrote a post a long time ago, maybe like 0:09:50.062 --> 0:09:54.342 2017 or something called, uh, The Bifurcation or something like that. 0:09:54.782 --> 0:09:56.942 And it's like the separation of people. And it was, 0:09:57.062 --> 0:09:59.742 I don't know, somewhat readers and non-readers I was talking 0:09:59.742 --> 0:10:03.622 about just like how some people just can't get enough 0:10:04.342 --> 0:10:06.742 and they're crazy ambitious and they're always trying to learn 0:10:06.782 --> 0:10:09.582 things or whatever. And the rest of the masses are 0:10:09.582 --> 0:10:12.312 just like, yeah, haven't read a book since high school, 0:10:12.312 --> 0:10:14.832 and I hated it then, you know, haven't read a 0:10:14.832 --> 0:10:17.832 book since college and I hated it then. So it's 0:10:17.832 --> 0:10:23.192 like they've never really read or studied for fun. And 0:10:23.232 --> 0:10:28.352 I'm telling you, people like that are unbelievably screwed, right? 0:10:28.392 --> 0:10:30.432 If you do not have learning as, like part of 0:10:30.432 --> 0:10:34.552 your core DNA right now, you you are just absolutely screwed. 0:10:34.952 --> 0:10:37.512 And it's not like it's 50 over 50. It's not 0:10:37.511 --> 0:10:40.312 like it's half and half or like 60% or hardcore 0:10:40.352 --> 0:10:45.432 learners and 40% art. It's more like 10% or 5% are. 0:10:46.631 --> 0:10:49.952 Or maybe it's 2%, maybe it's 1%. Right? But this 0:10:49.952 --> 0:10:53.112 is the group, whatever that small percentage is that sees 0:10:53.112 --> 0:10:56.432 all these tools. Right. And like I'm in these communities 0:10:56.432 --> 0:10:58.671 with like, uh, all my friends are doing this, I'm 0:10:58.672 --> 0:11:01.472 watching other people do it on online or whatever. It's like, 0:11:02.232 --> 0:11:05.312 this community is so excited right now. They're just building 0:11:05.312 --> 0:11:08.791 stuff all the time, just like I am. So in 0:11:08.792 --> 0:11:11.352 one world and I live in the Bay area, so 0:11:11.352 --> 0:11:13.112 it's like I'm living inside of this world as well. 0:11:13.112 --> 0:11:15.872 It's like one world. It's like, oh my God, can 0:11:15.872 --> 0:11:19.272 you believe this is possible? And it's just like constant 0:11:19.272 --> 0:11:22.032 shock on our faces. And then there's this other world 0:11:22.032 --> 0:11:24.992 of like, I. What are you talking about? Isn't that ChatGPT? Yeah, 0:11:24.992 --> 0:11:27.671 I use it sometimes. I don't know, but it hallucinates 0:11:27.712 --> 0:11:31.832 a lot. So you can't really trust it. And I'm like, well, 0:11:32.511 --> 0:11:36.952 that person's screwed. It's like a completely different universe that 0:11:36.952 --> 0:11:42.232 we live in. Completely different universe. And what I'm trying 0:11:42.232 --> 0:11:45.112 to figure out is like, what can you say? How 0:11:45.112 --> 0:11:48.072 can we get more people into that world? How can 0:11:48.072 --> 0:11:52.312 we convince more people that this is a critical skill? Right? 0:11:52.832 --> 0:11:55.752 And it's hard because if they're already not readers, if 0:11:55.752 --> 0:11:58.192 they're already not into the whole learning thing, then like 0:11:58.192 --> 0:12:00.792 giving them a better tool for learning is going to 0:12:00.792 --> 0:12:03.911 be difficult. But we've got to find a way. I 0:12:03.992 --> 0:12:05.911 don't want to just give up on these people and 0:12:05.912 --> 0:12:08.872 just be like, well, I guess they're screwed and just 0:12:08.872 --> 0:12:10.202 kind of move on and be like, well, it well, 0:12:10.202 --> 0:12:13.242 it sure is fun to build with cloud code. That's 0:12:13.242 --> 0:12:18.922 what makes me morose. So I basically oscillate between. This 0:12:18.922 --> 0:12:21.802 is the saddest thing ever because I look around at 0:12:21.802 --> 0:12:23.602 all these jobs, all these people who have jobs, who 0:12:23.602 --> 0:12:26.642 think AI is ChatGPT and they use it once a month, 0:12:27.522 --> 0:12:31.402 you know, for 15 minutes. And I'm like, the economy 0:12:31.402 --> 0:12:34.602 is going to crash. This is what I'm honestly thinking about. This. 0:12:34.602 --> 0:12:39.602 This economy is going to have a massive, massive disruption 0:12:39.602 --> 0:12:45.002 because these folks here who who don't think of AI 0:12:45.002 --> 0:12:48.602 in this way, they're going to get fired. They're just 0:12:48.602 --> 0:12:51.002 going to get fired. They're going to get replaced either 0:12:51.002 --> 0:12:53.401 by a smart person who could do nine jobs all 0:12:53.402 --> 0:12:56.882 at once because they understand AI a little bit, but 0:12:56.881 --> 0:13:00.122 then eventually just by AI itself. Right. And who knows 0:13:00.122 --> 0:13:02.482 the timelines and all that stuff. You you saw the debate. 0:13:03.002 --> 0:13:05.042 That could be tomorrow. It could be in four years 0:13:05.042 --> 0:13:08.962 from now. Who actually knows? It actually doesn't matter, right? 0:13:09.082 --> 0:13:11.651 Don't even care about that. What matters is, you know, 0:13:11.652 --> 0:13:16.492 the direction stochastically. You. You know this for certain, right? 0:13:16.892 --> 0:13:20.292 And there is another caveat here, which is legislation. But 0:13:20.332 --> 0:13:23.092 what could the legislation possibly look like? They're like, you 0:13:23.092 --> 0:13:27.771 can't fire your human workers anymore. Well, that just that 0:13:27.772 --> 0:13:29.612 just tells like all the workers like you could do 0:13:29.612 --> 0:13:31.891 whatever and they can't fire you. Like it's some crazy 0:13:31.892 --> 0:13:35.292 union stuff. And I don't think it'll be that extreme, 0:13:35.492 --> 0:13:38.172 although there is some extreme stuff happening in New York City, 0:13:38.172 --> 0:13:41.092 so who knows, maybe something like that will happen. That 0:13:41.092 --> 0:13:44.732 could definitely slow things down. Uh, big sort of terrorist events, 0:13:44.732 --> 0:13:49.651 I think, that are like planned or assisted, planned by AI, 0:13:49.692 --> 0:13:53.292 that cause major disruption, that could cause some legislation. But 0:13:53.332 --> 0:13:58.051 other than that, I just see kind of normal non 0:13:59.131 --> 0:14:02.932 I would say non-crazy people about AI, people who aren't 0:14:03.332 --> 0:14:07.012 forget AI, not crazy about learning, not crazy about building, 0:14:07.011 --> 0:14:13.892 not crazy about Progressing and evolving that mentality because the 0:14:13.892 --> 0:14:16.092 tech doesn't really matter, right? We've we've always had people 0:14:16.092 --> 0:14:18.212 that were like that and weren't like that. Right. And 0:14:18.212 --> 0:14:22.692 previously the tech was like reading and computers. Right. And 0:14:22.972 --> 0:14:27.372 you know, tech in that sense. Um, and obviously people 0:14:27.372 --> 0:14:30.492 who are fluent with computers and really good readers and, 0:14:30.532 --> 0:14:32.732 you know, could write well and all that, they have 0:14:32.732 --> 0:14:36.172 a massive advantage. This is just taking that same advantage 0:14:36.692 --> 0:14:40.132 with a different tech and magnifying it by a thousand. 0:14:41.292 --> 0:14:44.732 That's what this is right now. And it's really hard 0:14:44.732 --> 0:14:48.332 to watch when you think about what is likely to 0:14:48.332 --> 0:14:52.412 happen to most people. Um, and then I'm like, okay, 0:14:52.412 --> 0:14:53.892 what am I going to do to get myself out 0:14:53.892 --> 0:14:57.172 of this mindset? And I'm like, well, I've got to 0:14:57.532 --> 0:14:59.652 help build. I got to help with government. I've got 0:14:59.652 --> 0:15:02.732 to help get someone elected who's actually, uh, you know, 0:15:02.772 --> 0:15:06.892 centrist and actually cares about poor people and, um, isn't 0:15:06.892 --> 0:15:09.182 going to break the economy and move us towards communism, 0:15:09.502 --> 0:15:12.342 or go extreme right or extreme left. Like how do 0:15:12.342 --> 0:15:15.142 how do we do this? All these, all these powers, 0:15:15.142 --> 0:15:18.302 all these tools that we have? Can I use something 0:15:18.302 --> 0:15:23.902 like substrate to build a platform that is democratic, it's transparent. 0:15:23.902 --> 0:15:31.542 It uncovers, um, corruption. It provides, you know, an auditable 0:15:31.942 --> 0:15:35.982 government for ourselves where we feel like we're more involved. Um, 0:15:36.102 --> 0:15:39.302 how can we bring this technology to be personal tutors 0:15:39.462 --> 0:15:42.142 for everyone, for billions of people on the planet, as 0:15:42.142 --> 0:15:46.342 opposed to only the, um, you know, the most academically 0:15:46.342 --> 0:15:49.542 focused cultures having it? Why can't we give it to everyone? Right. 0:15:49.582 --> 0:15:55.942 So I'm thinking about like. Basically, what are projects that 0:15:55.942 --> 0:15:59.142 I could do that can maybe help solve some of 0:15:59.142 --> 0:16:02.702 this problem for people who are going to be left behind. 0:16:02.902 --> 0:16:06.462 And right now that's largely substrate. So I'm working really 0:16:06.462 --> 0:16:08.622 hard on that. That's going to be like my main 0:16:08.622 --> 0:16:10.542 thing for the next couple of weeks is trying to 0:16:10.542 --> 0:16:12.302 get that spun up with a lot more data, a 0:16:12.342 --> 0:16:16.902 lot more ideas. Um, maybe a whole site around it. Um, 0:16:16.902 --> 0:16:21.262 domain and stuff like that. But the concept here is like, 0:16:22.502 --> 0:16:23.942 I don't want to be sad about it. I don't 0:16:23.942 --> 0:16:30.622 want to just, you know, have an apathetic attitude toward it. Um, 0:16:30.622 --> 0:16:32.382 I definitely am not going to have, like, an elitist 0:16:32.382 --> 0:16:34.942 attitude towards it of like, well, we're just special and 0:16:34.942 --> 0:16:38.262 they're just not special and therefore we deserve with a 0:16:38.302 --> 0:16:41.102 D word, right? We deserve all these things because people 0:16:41.102 --> 0:16:42.582 just don't want to read books and they don't want 0:16:42.582 --> 0:16:46.062 to play with AI. That's a shitty attitude to have to, um, 0:16:46.102 --> 0:16:48.222 as is the attitude of like, well, there's nothing I 0:16:48.222 --> 0:16:50.102 could do to help them, right? So it seems like 0:16:50.102 --> 0:16:53.422 the only third rail there is fucking try to do 0:16:53.422 --> 0:16:57.822 something and and before, you know, you kind of have 0:16:57.822 --> 0:17:00.462 an excuse. Well, what can you do? I can't possibly 0:17:00.462 --> 0:17:03.742 research all that. I can't possibly find all the different 0:17:03.742 --> 0:17:06.182 donors who are giving money to these politicians. I can't 0:17:06.182 --> 0:17:11.872 possibly build an entire government transparency platform. Well, yeah, now 0:17:11.872 --> 0:17:14.912 you can. Now there's no excuse to not being part 0:17:14.912 --> 0:17:19.392 of the solution. So that's the mindset I have right now. And, uh, 0:17:19.432 --> 0:17:22.631 anyone who wants to help, please reach out. I really 0:17:24.152 --> 0:17:27.512 would love some ideas on this. Uh, ways to take threshold, 0:17:27.552 --> 0:17:33.112 not threshold, uh, substrate, uh, along these lines and, uh. Yeah. 0:17:34.192 --> 0:17:39.591 All right. Next one here. Um, Marcus posted a YouTube video, 0:17:39.592 --> 0:17:42.032 and he did an intro of the video, just like 0:17:42.032 --> 0:17:44.512 I did, where he basically laid out how he doesn't 0:17:44.512 --> 0:17:48.952 believe in AI. He, uh, basically completely opposite views to me, uh, 0:17:48.952 --> 0:17:50.192 which I thought was cool. I thought it was a 0:17:50.192 --> 0:17:53.112 cool intro. And I got the link there. Project Hail Mary. 0:17:53.152 --> 0:17:55.192 One of the coolest books we've read in UL. Book 0:17:55.192 --> 0:17:58.792 club has a trailer out and the trailer is out 0:17:58.792 --> 0:18:00.272 and you got to go check it out. It looks 0:18:00.272 --> 0:18:02.512 really good. It looks like they've they've done it well. 0:18:02.792 --> 0:18:04.431 It felt like a book when I was looking at 0:18:04.432 --> 0:18:07.002 the trailer, so that's a good sign. The big question is, 0:18:07.042 --> 0:18:10.081 what is, um, you know, the the alien going to 0:18:10.082 --> 0:18:12.242 look like. Uh, so I can't wait to see that, 0:18:12.242 --> 0:18:15.282 but it looks promising. Network. Chuck did a whole video 0:18:15.282 --> 0:18:18.242 on Telos and his process of trying to go through 0:18:18.282 --> 0:18:22.602 the the whole Telos exercise, and it was really good. 0:18:22.602 --> 0:18:25.722 And it was also the honesty and the vulnerability that 0:18:25.722 --> 0:18:31.562 Chuck shared in this was really, really endearing and really, really, um, 0:18:31.802 --> 0:18:34.962 I just loved it. And, uh, hats off to him to, 0:18:35.402 --> 0:18:39.082 to put himself out there like that and, uh, continue 0:18:39.082 --> 0:18:42.442 doing the good stuff that he's doing. All right. Cybersecurity 0:18:42.482 --> 0:18:46.601 US agencies warn Iran that hackers may target critical infrastructure 0:18:46.602 --> 0:18:51.442 during Mideast tensions. So FBI, NSA, everyone's basically saying that 0:18:51.442 --> 0:18:56.602 this is likely to happen, especially around USA slash Israeli, uh, 0:18:56.602 --> 0:19:05.322 operations or companies. DOJ says that in 2018 Sinaloa Sinaloa 0:19:05.882 --> 0:19:11.882 Sinaloa cartel hacker used FBI officials phone to track their 0:19:11.882 --> 0:19:16.482 movements and identify informants, and those informants were then intimidated 0:19:16.482 --> 0:19:21.121 and or killed. Switzerland. Government data is stolen in a 0:19:21.122 --> 0:19:24.841 ransomware attack. A whole bunch of it. 1.3TB of government 0:19:24.842 --> 0:19:30.042 data now available. Free. Google fixed the fourth Chrome zero day. 0:19:30.802 --> 0:19:33.962 Persona is a really cool technology. It's, um. This is 0:19:34.002 --> 0:19:35.722 actually a company, so I'm not sure how they made 0:19:35.722 --> 0:19:40.082 it in here, but, um, 75 million blocked attempts means 0:19:40.082 --> 0:19:44.882 there are probably way more getting through to other systems. And, uh, yeah, 0:19:44.882 --> 0:19:49.002 they basically try to counter, uh, I fraudsters. So it's 0:19:49.002 --> 0:19:52.641 basically a whole bunch of AI to counter, um, you know, 0:19:52.682 --> 0:19:55.762 corruptions and fakes and fraud and stuff like that. So 0:19:55.762 --> 0:19:58.802 a really cool, uh, company not involved with them, but 0:19:58.842 --> 0:20:02.362 would love to be, uh, Chinese hackers hit Canadian telecom 0:20:02.682 --> 0:20:06.812 using 16 month old unpatched Cisco flaw. US House has 0:20:06.892 --> 0:20:10.571 banned WhatsApp because they don't like the data handling practices 0:20:10.571 --> 0:20:15.772 of meta and AT&T. Finally rolls out SIM swap lock, which, uh, 0:20:15.852 --> 0:20:19.331 they have not had in previously. Uh, Verizon and a 0:20:19.332 --> 0:20:21.172 bunch of other companies have had it, but, uh, took 0:20:21.172 --> 0:20:24.652 a while for AT&T to get it. National security. China's 0:20:24.652 --> 0:20:28.172 mosquito sized spy drone. So small you might not not 0:20:28.172 --> 0:20:31.252 even notice it flying around your house. And it's got 0:20:31.292 --> 0:20:35.532 tiny cameras and microphones. Holy crap. This is where I 0:20:35.532 --> 0:20:39.652 tell you to read Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez. As 0:20:39.652 --> 0:20:44.732 per requirement, AI cloud code gets hooks. So now you 0:20:44.732 --> 0:20:49.332 can auto execute functions from your AI conversations. Meta creates 0:20:49.372 --> 0:20:52.052 a new superintelligence lab and they hired a whole bunch 0:20:52.212 --> 0:20:57.972 of OpenAI people. It's kind of funny. It's like Sam taunted, uh, Zuckerberg. 0:20:58.372 --> 0:21:00.492 And he's like, yeah, they didn't hire any of our people. 0:21:01.132 --> 0:21:03.972 And a week later, Zuck is like, oh, really? And 0:21:03.972 --> 0:21:06.772 hires like five or something or more of like their 0:21:06.772 --> 0:21:09.092 best people or really good people anyway. I don't know 0:21:09.252 --> 0:21:12.212 how good they rank, but really good people spends like 0:21:12.212 --> 0:21:15.131 billions of dollars, I think literally billions of dollars on this. 0:21:15.852 --> 0:21:18.092 And now everyone's like, hey, maybe meta is the place 0:21:18.092 --> 0:21:21.812 to work. So yeah, don't, uh, don't taunt Mark Zuckerberg. 0:21:21.811 --> 0:21:25.331 That's my lesson. Marc Benioff says that AI now does 0:21:25.332 --> 0:21:28.332 half of the work at Salesforce. He's got some cool 0:21:28.332 --> 0:21:32.412 stats here, but again, he's selling an AI product. So 0:21:32.811 --> 0:21:34.892 I don't know. You got to you got to weigh 0:21:34.892 --> 0:21:39.772 that in. Google brings AI search to YouTube. So they're 0:21:39.772 --> 0:21:42.411 basically doing a lot of summaries of videos. And I 0:21:42.412 --> 0:21:44.252 think this is heading in the direction I've been talking about, 0:21:44.252 --> 0:21:48.851 where I actually makes the deal version of the content 0:21:49.132 --> 0:21:52.932 for you. Right. The actual future is that your own 0:21:52.932 --> 0:21:56.212 personal Da would do this for you. So basically it'll 0:21:56.252 --> 0:22:00.172 see this YouTube video of whoever pop up, it'll go 0:22:00.172 --> 0:22:03.862 read the video, watch the video, whatever it does. And 0:22:04.582 --> 0:22:06.901 it knows what you're doing at the time. Okay. If 0:22:06.902 --> 0:22:08.582 you're on a bicycle ride, if you're on a hike, 0:22:08.622 --> 0:22:11.942 if you're on a whatever, you're driving and it's like 0:22:11.942 --> 0:22:13.862 you can't pay attention to the screen or whatever for 0:22:13.862 --> 0:22:16.622 whatever reason, or maybe you don't even like to watch video, 0:22:16.662 --> 0:22:19.341 it'll give it to you an audio version, but more importantly, 0:22:19.342 --> 0:22:22.621 it cut it up. It re-edited it for you in 0:22:22.622 --> 0:22:25.142 the way that you like it. Right? So it made 0:22:25.142 --> 0:22:28.102 a complete net new video. It might have deepfaked the 0:22:28.102 --> 0:22:30.821 actual original creator, but it might have just put your 0:22:30.821 --> 0:22:33.142 favorite person on there. Maybe it was Taylor Swift or 0:22:33.142 --> 0:22:38.182 Richard Feynman who actually gives you the content. So dynamic 0:22:38.742 --> 0:22:42.181 custom content. That's what we're going to see from AI. 0:22:42.382 --> 0:22:45.462 And this is just like an intermediary step of that. 0:22:45.462 --> 0:22:49.462 It is Google providing the AI summary of the content, 0:22:49.462 --> 0:22:52.542 which also came from Google. But you see where it's going. 0:22:52.821 --> 0:22:55.462 And I think creators need to be very concerned about 0:22:55.462 --> 0:22:58.022 this and be thinking about the future, because it could 0:22:58.022 --> 0:23:02.782 be that raw content is not really the thing anymore. 0:23:02.902 --> 0:23:08.422 Raw content just becomes literally raw material. And here's the 0:23:08.422 --> 0:23:15.901 problem can raw content ever compete with someone's personal digital 0:23:15.902 --> 0:23:19.621 assistant who knows them better than anybody in the entire universe, 0:23:20.022 --> 0:23:23.861 who is also an expert in creating content? Can the 0:23:23.862 --> 0:23:28.902 original source make a video better than that? All knowing, 0:23:29.102 --> 0:23:33.302 super smart, super creative AI can make for their favorite person? 0:23:34.022 --> 0:23:36.581 I think the answer is probably no. Now there are 0:23:36.582 --> 0:23:37.982 going to be a whole bunch of exceptions to this, 0:23:37.982 --> 0:23:40.222 and it's not going to happen overnight, right? So these 0:23:40.222 --> 0:23:44.982 things aren't emergencies. They take time. But so one example 0:23:44.982 --> 0:23:48.302 is like you're a celebrity, okay. If there's a celebrity, 0:23:48.502 --> 0:23:50.142 you like the way they talk, you like the way 0:23:50.142 --> 0:23:54.302 they look. You like their jokes. Well, maybe that doesn't 0:23:54.302 --> 0:23:58.462 get deepfaked because maybe the deepfake doesn't copy that perfectly right. 0:23:58.502 --> 0:24:01.341 Or maybe it's just human. You just like to watch 0:24:01.342 --> 0:24:04.552 humans do their thing right? We see this in chess, 0:24:04.992 --> 0:24:07.912 and chess is more fun and more popular than it's 0:24:07.912 --> 0:24:12.272 ever been right now because people have real, actual stories, right? Um, 0:24:12.952 --> 0:24:19.151 Ganesh like, uh, winning and Ganesh losing and, uh, you know, uh, 0:24:19.152 --> 0:24:21.912 Magnus winning and losing. Like, I care about that. I 0:24:21.952 --> 0:24:24.392 care about that. I care about the Botez sisters who 0:24:24.392 --> 0:24:27.472 are grinding, and I care about, um, the younger one, Andrea, 0:24:27.552 --> 0:24:31.432 because she's doing, um, techno on the side, and she's 0:24:31.432 --> 0:24:35.112 doing modeling, and she's a chess influencer, and she's hella smart, 0:24:35.112 --> 0:24:37.752 like her sister. And so there are content creators, but 0:24:37.752 --> 0:24:39.872 they're also doing chess, and they love chess. And they're, 0:24:39.912 --> 0:24:41.872 I don't know, I think they're stuck at around 19 0:24:41.872 --> 0:24:46.512 or 2100 somewhere around there. And then you've got Gotham, who? 0:24:46.512 --> 0:24:48.912 I really like him. He does the best like overviews 0:24:48.912 --> 0:24:52.311 of chess. Um, he's a really good narrator, and he's 0:24:52.352 --> 0:24:57.832 on a mission to get to Grandmaster, right? I love that. 0:24:57.832 --> 0:25:00.352 I love that everyone makes fun of him because he's 0:25:00.352 --> 0:25:03.442 not great. I think he's like, is he like 2000, 0:25:03.482 --> 0:25:08.042 2200 something or no, 2200 is Grandmaster, I think, or 2400. Anyway, 0:25:08.082 --> 0:25:10.762 he's a lot of people think he'll never get there. 0:25:10.762 --> 0:25:13.042 But he started having wins, right? I think he had 0:25:13.042 --> 0:25:15.962 a win over Magnus, uh, kind of on accident or whatever. 0:25:16.762 --> 0:25:19.121 Or he just. He played a really good game, and 0:25:19.162 --> 0:25:22.162 Magnus played a bad game, whatever it was. But, um, 0:25:22.602 --> 0:25:25.402 that is a human story. Here's a guy who probably 0:25:25.402 --> 0:25:28.321 you're not expecting to be a grandmaster, and he might 0:25:28.321 --> 0:25:30.322 get there, and he gives you updates on it. So 0:25:30.321 --> 0:25:33.482 you're pulling from for him, right? So the question is, 0:25:34.561 --> 0:25:37.962 will those sorts of stories, those sorts of human aspects 0:25:38.162 --> 0:25:40.922 protect against this? I think it will. There's no question. 0:25:40.922 --> 0:25:44.882 It will. The question is how much versus like an 0:25:44.882 --> 0:25:48.282 AI influencer, maybe it's an AI influencer who's actually giving 0:25:48.282 --> 0:25:50.962 your stuff. Maybe that's the avatar for your actual Da. 0:25:51.602 --> 0:25:54.242 And he or she is like the most attractive person 0:25:54.242 --> 0:25:57.002 in the world, and they could change their outfits or 0:25:57.002 --> 0:26:00.522 whatever to put on a school uniform like Richard Feynman, 0:26:00.561 --> 0:26:04.522 you know, teaching at university with the university hat or whatever, 0:26:04.682 --> 0:26:06.682 and just be like, yeah, here's how this physical thing 0:26:06.682 --> 0:26:08.722 works and, you know, teach you physics or teach you 0:26:08.722 --> 0:26:12.682 math or whatever. Um, but the threat to content creators 0:26:12.682 --> 0:26:17.042 is like, I'm making all this content only I is 0:26:17.042 --> 0:26:21.522 consuming the content. People don't, you know, very few actual 0:26:21.522 --> 0:26:25.802 humans are consuming my content because there are millions of 0:26:25.802 --> 0:26:29.802 other people, hundreds of millions of other people creating content 0:26:30.321 --> 0:26:33.962 and billions of other agents creating content. So it's a 0:26:33.962 --> 0:26:41.042 giant content creating marketplace. Um, and for regular consumers, keep 0:26:41.042 --> 0:26:44.602 in mind, our bandwidth is limited as humans to consume content, right? 0:26:44.722 --> 0:26:48.642 So even if we wanted to, we can't follow all 0:26:48.682 --> 0:26:50.482 all the cool people that we want to. I mean, 0:26:50.482 --> 0:26:52.881 I got friends whose newsletters I don't even read. I 0:26:52.922 --> 0:26:54.522 know for a fact a lot of my friends don't 0:26:54.522 --> 0:26:57.362 read my newsletter. They're just too busy. Why? Because they're 0:26:57.362 --> 0:27:02.652 content creators, right? And I'll read, um, many of their newsletters, 0:27:02.652 --> 0:27:05.012 like once a month, right? But I'm not reading it 0:27:05.012 --> 0:27:07.172 all the time. And they're damn sure not reading mine 0:27:07.172 --> 0:27:09.612 all the time. Right? We catch a little piece from 0:27:09.612 --> 0:27:11.811 each other and we're like, hey, great, great job with that. 0:27:11.852 --> 0:27:13.172 It's like, hey, did you see this one? No, I 0:27:13.172 --> 0:27:15.612 didn't see that one. Sorry. Right. We don't even have 0:27:15.612 --> 0:27:17.772 the time. We don't have the time. Now imagine when 0:27:17.772 --> 0:27:20.372 there's ten times more content, a thousand times more content, 0:27:20.372 --> 0:27:23.812 a million times more content. The only thing that's consuming 0:27:23.811 --> 0:27:29.252 that content is I working for somebody. And that somebody 0:27:29.892 --> 0:27:32.772 in many cases is going to be the digital assistant 0:27:32.811 --> 0:27:36.012 of somebody else, right? And then they'll just dynamically create 0:27:36.012 --> 0:27:41.492 the content for them. All right. Grammarly acquires superhuman. That 0:27:41.492 --> 0:27:45.571 was supposed to be bolded. I hate formatting mistakes. Um, 0:27:45.612 --> 0:27:49.172 that was my bad. Um, all right. Anthropic turns Claude 0:27:49.172 --> 0:27:51.492 into a no code app. Okay, so basically anthropic is 0:27:51.492 --> 0:27:55.052 now competing directly with, um, like V0 and all the 0:27:55.052 --> 0:27:58.612 other app makers. So everyone's everyone's converging on the same space, 0:27:58.972 --> 0:28:02.492 my content or my comment. There was almost no castle. 0:28:03.132 --> 0:28:09.012 Where's the moat? No. Where's the castle? Let's see here. Yeah. Technology. 0:28:09.012 --> 0:28:12.892 Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default. They are doing 0:28:12.892 --> 0:28:16.811 this crazy model. They're going to start charging AI crawlers 0:28:17.252 --> 0:28:19.292 to consume content. So this is the type of thing 0:28:19.292 --> 0:28:23.532 that could potentially economically disrupt this whole this whole meta 0:28:23.532 --> 0:28:27.732 that I was just talking about. Right. Um, and that's why, 0:28:27.892 --> 0:28:29.611 you know, you got to watch yourself with predictions. You 0:28:29.612 --> 0:28:31.612 don't know how the economy, you don't know how society 0:28:31.612 --> 0:28:34.532 is going to adjust. Um, maybe there becomes this thing 0:28:34.532 --> 0:28:38.812 where it's like, maybe we're able to make an economy 0:28:39.132 --> 0:28:42.572 where the raw content has value. I find that hard 0:28:42.572 --> 0:28:47.812 to believe, but, um, I think it will happen to 0:28:47.852 --> 0:28:51.171 some degree. Okay. There will be sectors where where it 0:28:51.172 --> 0:28:54.212 does happen or a degree to which it does happen. 0:28:54.252 --> 0:28:56.132 Like anything that's a good idea is going to happen 0:28:56.132 --> 0:28:57.852 a little bit. The question is what's going to be 0:28:57.852 --> 0:29:02.422 the dominant model. I don't unfortunately, you know, and I 0:29:02.462 --> 0:29:04.822 create content as well as one of the things that 0:29:04.822 --> 0:29:09.542 I do, um, I don't I don't see a crazy 0:29:09.582 --> 0:29:13.102 good future for, you know, billions of people are going 0:29:13.142 --> 0:29:15.502 to be watching this YouTube video that I put out. 0:29:15.862 --> 0:29:17.302 It's not going to be that. It's going to be 0:29:17.342 --> 0:29:20.142 I watching that video I put out. And hopefully here's 0:29:20.142 --> 0:29:22.542 the only thing I can hope for. The only thing 0:29:22.542 --> 0:29:28.062 I can hope for is the Da. Their Da attributes 0:29:28.062 --> 0:29:32.102 it to me and you know, shows a picture of me, 0:29:32.102 --> 0:29:33.902 or shows a piece of content that I wrote or 0:29:33.942 --> 0:29:36.342 says something cool about it and it's like or says, hey, 0:29:36.342 --> 0:29:39.182 this is the seventh thing that I've shown you, you know, 0:29:39.222 --> 0:29:43.222 from Clint Gibler this week, um, you know. Oh, and also, 0:29:43.262 --> 0:29:46.662 he lives nearby. You should go get a coffee. That's 0:29:46.662 --> 0:29:48.982 the type of thing that hopefully is going to happen, right? 0:29:48.982 --> 0:29:52.182 You should talk to Clint, because Clint is also talking 0:29:52.182 --> 0:29:53.782 about a lot of the same stuff you're talking about. 0:29:53.822 --> 0:29:56.942 I'm like, oh, really? And my da, my da, whose 0:29:56.942 --> 0:29:59.072 name is Chi, by the way. Chi is like, yeah, actually, 0:29:59.072 --> 0:30:00.472 a lot of the stuff I've been showing you, like 0:30:00.512 --> 0:30:02.432 a lot of those videos that I made for you, 0:30:02.472 --> 0:30:06.352 those actually came from Clint's videos. And I'm like, okay, well, 0:30:06.352 --> 0:30:09.152 in the future, you know, put like a Clint, you know, 0:30:09.192 --> 0:30:12.272 watermark on it or something. And he's like, okay. Yeah, sure. 0:30:12.272 --> 0:30:14.152 My bad. Yeah, I'll make sure I do that. So 0:30:14.152 --> 0:30:19.552 hopefully there's something like that dynamic that happens. All right. Uh, 0:30:19.552 --> 0:30:24.632 meta adds another gigawatt of renewable power to feed its datacenters. 0:30:24.632 --> 0:30:30.952 So it's buying, um, okay. Solar, wind, geothermal. I thought 0:30:30.952 --> 0:30:35.152 I also had in here. Yeah. They're also, um, doing 0:30:35.152 --> 0:30:38.352 nuclear stuff as well. They're buying nuclear stuff. Um, maybe 0:30:38.352 --> 0:30:42.032 that was a previous story. Um, all right, humans, scientists 0:30:42.032 --> 0:30:46.872 finally pinpoint what wiped out America's bees, and it wasn't pesticides. 0:30:46.912 --> 0:30:49.552 I'm going to leave that as a mystery for you 0:30:49.552 --> 0:30:53.792 to go. Click noise ruins sleep quality even when you 0:30:53.792 --> 0:31:01.352 think you're sleeping through it. I've recently moved to full earbuds. Um, 0:31:01.352 --> 0:31:07.272 not Apple ones like actual, um, in-ear, you know, non-electronic earbuds. 0:31:07.392 --> 0:31:09.272 And I got a new sleep mask. Oh, I'm about 0:31:09.272 --> 0:31:11.872 to do a wirecutter episode for for members, by the way. 0:31:12.112 --> 0:31:14.272 So it's going to be like, because I'm super crazy 0:31:14.272 --> 0:31:16.592 when it comes to all this, uh, like the best pens, 0:31:16.592 --> 0:31:19.472 the best shoes, the best, you know, covers for your 0:31:19.472 --> 0:31:21.952 pillows or whatever. So I'm about to do that. Um, 0:31:21.992 --> 0:31:24.552 I don't know. I should call it Wirecutter probably get sued, though. 0:31:25.192 --> 0:31:29.952 Maybe I'll call it something else. UL wirecutter. I don't know. Um, anyway, 0:31:30.952 --> 0:31:35.592 I mask massively upgraded my eye mask, so it's better 0:31:35.592 --> 0:31:39.632 than the ms1 that I've been using, and it's just fantastic. Um. 0:31:39.672 --> 0:31:43.592 Highly recommend. Eye mask and earplugs. I do have to 0:31:43.592 --> 0:31:46.592 have very strong locks on the doors, because I don't 0:31:46.592 --> 0:31:49.312 like the idea of of not being able to hear 0:31:49.312 --> 0:31:51.912 people sneak up on me. That's the army for you. 0:31:53.112 --> 0:31:57.042 Luckin coffee opens up first US stores after beating Starbucks 0:31:57.042 --> 0:31:59.602 in China. They just opened up the first two US 0:31:59.602 --> 0:32:03.002 locations and they're in New York City. This is basically 0:32:03.002 --> 0:32:06.522 the BYD of coffee. Um, so naturally I want to 0:32:06.522 --> 0:32:08.442 go there and I wanted to check it out. I 0:32:08.442 --> 0:32:10.042 want to sit in the chairs. I want to look 0:32:10.042 --> 0:32:12.442 at people there. I want to just see the vibe. 0:32:12.442 --> 0:32:15.362 I want to, you know, knock my knuckles on the 0:32:15.362 --> 0:32:17.602 table and the chairs and just, like, see what they're 0:32:17.602 --> 0:32:20.002 doing different. I want to see, like, how their employees 0:32:20.002 --> 0:32:23.562 interact with people. I'm like, fascinated by this whole concept 0:32:23.562 --> 0:32:27.362 of like, when one chain wins out over another, what 0:32:27.362 --> 0:32:29.882 did they do better? You know, in and out, chick 0:32:29.882 --> 0:32:34.562 fil A, stuff like that. Uh, staff at the Louvre 0:32:35.122 --> 0:32:39.442 shut down the museum to protest unmanageable tourist crowds. Uh, 0:32:39.482 --> 0:32:43.002 I've been once, and it was a hellscape. It was 0:32:43.002 --> 0:32:46.722 an absolute hellscape of people who cared nothing about art whatsoever. 0:32:47.162 --> 0:32:52.242 They were crammed in like insects and nothing but iPhones everywhere. 0:32:53.642 --> 0:32:56.842 And it was, I don't know, it was kind of 0:32:56.882 --> 0:33:00.402 the opposite of art. It was the worst art experience 0:33:00.402 --> 0:33:03.762 I've ever had was at the Louvre. That's what I'll 0:33:03.762 --> 0:33:06.482 say about that. The dollar just had its worst first 0:33:06.482 --> 0:33:11.002 half since 1973, and stocks are doing better than ever. 0:33:11.002 --> 0:33:14.682 But the dollar is falling and Trump threatens to investigate 0:33:14.682 --> 0:33:18.522 Musk's companies through Doge. He also. I didn't see the 0:33:18.522 --> 0:33:21.882 actual quote. So I don't know like what level of 0:33:21.922 --> 0:33:26.802 grumpiness it was. But, uh, he also somehow alluded to 0:33:26.842 --> 0:33:30.482 deporting Elon. And the whole reason for this is because 0:33:30.522 --> 0:33:34.202 Elon is now proposing a third political party, because he 0:33:34.202 --> 0:33:39.282 is so morally upset with the waste and the budget. Um, 0:33:39.442 --> 0:33:43.362 I actually had a debate, a public debate, uh, on 0:33:43.362 --> 0:33:47.442 LinkedIn with Marcus. Uh, we made two bets, and I 0:33:47.442 --> 0:33:50.442 believe I've now won both bets. Uh, so the first 0:33:50.442 --> 0:33:55.452 bet that we made was, um, he thought Tesla's Tesla 0:33:55.492 --> 0:33:59.012 stock was going to drop below like $300 or $200. 0:33:59.012 --> 0:34:01.732 I forgot what the number was by a certain date 0:34:02.092 --> 0:34:05.052 and um, or it would not get above a certain amount. 0:34:05.052 --> 0:34:06.932 I forget what it was. Well, it immediately went to 0:34:06.972 --> 0:34:10.011 like 400 something and it's now very high. It's like 0:34:10.012 --> 0:34:12.932 300 something, I don't know. Um, but I think I 0:34:12.932 --> 0:34:15.051 already won that one. And then what I told him 0:34:15.052 --> 0:34:20.172 is that, uh, Musk would break from Trump because of 0:34:20.172 --> 0:34:25.852 some moral issue, because of some principle issue. And that happened, uh, 0:34:25.852 --> 0:34:29.412 that happened. And the issue wasn't like, you know, child 0:34:29.412 --> 0:34:33.812 labor or something. It was balancing the budget and reducing 0:34:33.812 --> 0:34:37.492 the debt. And it turns out all that stuff that 0:34:37.532 --> 0:34:43.012 Elon was saying about Doge saving money, Elon was not joking. 0:34:43.412 --> 0:34:46.532 He was serious. He thought he was actually doing good. 0:34:46.892 --> 0:34:49.332 So he goes over there and does all this stuff. 0:34:49.612 --> 0:34:51.332 And by the way, a lot of it was really, 0:34:51.372 --> 0:34:55.292 really bad. Really bad. Um, I forget the name of 0:34:55.292 --> 0:34:57.492 the one organization that just should not have been messed 0:34:57.492 --> 0:35:00.132 with the way that it was. And like hundreds of 0:35:00.132 --> 0:35:02.972 thousands of people have died because of it. It's or 0:35:03.012 --> 0:35:06.532 are going to because of it. And it's like not 0:35:06.532 --> 0:35:09.212 all good is what I'm saying there. But the point 0:35:09.212 --> 0:35:13.532 is he thought he was doing good. Um, and was 0:35:13.532 --> 0:35:16.332 actually trying. It was not like some charade or whatever. 0:35:16.572 --> 0:35:20.652 So he leaves Doge kind of gets kicked out of 0:35:20.652 --> 0:35:24.852 the whole establishment, and then they're like, hey, big beautiful Bill, 0:35:25.012 --> 0:35:28.892 let's raise the debt by trillions of dollars. Let's not 0:35:28.892 --> 0:35:35.212 cut anything. Basically multiples of like damage, way more than 0:35:35.212 --> 0:35:39.412 any possible good that Doge has done. And so Elon 0:35:39.772 --> 0:35:42.772 is absolutely freaking out. That's why he called him a 0:35:42.772 --> 0:35:45.572 pedophile in front of hundreds of millions of people. And 0:35:45.572 --> 0:35:47.212 it's now why he says he's going to raise a 0:35:47.212 --> 0:35:51.332 completely different party called the American Party. So all that 0:35:51.332 --> 0:35:57.062 to say is, um, I think, um, I think I 0:35:57.062 --> 0:36:01.302 want both of those, um, ideas. Stanford professor made up 0:36:01.302 --> 0:36:05.742 that famous chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories. Claim. So the 0:36:05.742 --> 0:36:09.782 reason I put this in ideas is because I find 0:36:09.782 --> 0:36:15.822 it very interesting that. I learned stuff in the 80s 0:36:15.822 --> 0:36:18.862 and the 90s and the 2000 and the tens. We're 0:36:18.862 --> 0:36:21.862 still in the 20s. So all those decades I learned things. 0:36:22.342 --> 0:36:25.382 How many of those things were just straight? False? For example, 0:36:25.382 --> 0:36:31.102 the marshmallow test, how much fundamental? How much did the 0:36:31.102 --> 0:36:34.542 belief that that was real lead to mental models in 0:36:34.542 --> 0:36:38.182 my brain that are now broken? Um, it's possible that 0:36:38.182 --> 0:36:41.302 that particular case didn't actually have those, but what other 0:36:41.302 --> 0:36:44.342 things do I still believe are true because of some 0:36:44.342 --> 0:36:50.062 crap study that came out that turns out is not replicable. Replicable? 0:36:51.822 --> 0:36:54.352 I think the answer is probably large. Hopefully from all 0:36:54.352 --> 0:36:56.312 my reading and stuff like that, it's like cleaned up 0:36:56.312 --> 0:36:57.712 some of it or most of it, or maybe it's 0:36:57.712 --> 0:37:00.112 all gone. Who knows? But I guarantee you, I've still 0:37:00.112 --> 0:37:03.112 got some dumb beliefs that some teacher told me or 0:37:03.112 --> 0:37:06.912 my parents told me in the 80s. You know, the 0:37:06.912 --> 0:37:09.912 food groups, I mean, stuff like that, right? There's just 0:37:09.912 --> 0:37:12.072 got to be a million of these things. And, like, 0:37:12.072 --> 0:37:14.152 I just hate the idea that, like, the foundation of 0:37:14.152 --> 0:37:18.512 the house is, like, got, like, termites or something, or like, 0:37:18.792 --> 0:37:21.992 I don't know, nanobots eating, uh, eaten away the, uh, 0:37:23.512 --> 0:37:27.432 the the undergirding. Uh, I don't like it. And it's 0:37:27.432 --> 0:37:31.352 worth a question of, like, for all of us, you know. 0:37:31.392 --> 0:37:34.952 Where is that? Where is that rot? Taste is the 0:37:34.952 --> 0:37:37.392 new intelligence. This one should have had a fire mark 0:37:37.392 --> 0:37:39.752 next to it. This thing is so good. So how 0:37:39.752 --> 0:37:42.232 about Rick Rubin talking about his book? Uh, but it's 0:37:42.232 --> 0:37:45.952 a really good full length essay. Uh, go check it out. 0:37:46.872 --> 0:37:49.912 Joan Westenberg deleted her entire second brain. Love the idea 0:37:49.952 --> 0:37:53.832 here where basically. So she had like, this the super elaborate, 0:37:53.832 --> 0:37:57.952 awesome second brain in obsidian. And she basically decided, you 0:37:57.952 --> 0:38:03.112 know what? Nah. Nope. Um, I'm spending too much time 0:38:03.152 --> 0:38:06.352 optimizing this thing. It's taking away the focus of, like, 0:38:06.392 --> 0:38:09.192 actually being good in my own brain and has put 0:38:09.192 --> 0:38:11.472 all my effort at being good in the second brain. 0:38:12.112 --> 0:38:15.512 So the movement is basically first brain, and she just 0:38:15.512 --> 0:38:19.072 trashed the entire thing. I think it's a really interesting 0:38:19.112 --> 0:38:22.632 thing to like, not overoptimize. AI is a good example. 0:38:22.672 --> 0:38:27.552 Don't overoptimize on AI. It's really anything. Exercise. You know work. 0:38:27.592 --> 0:38:30.072 Don't work too much because then your personal relationships, it's 0:38:30.072 --> 0:38:32.232 like anything that's a good thing can be a bad 0:38:32.232 --> 0:38:34.232 thing if done too much. It's like the most cliche 0:38:34.272 --> 0:38:38.872 thing in the world and absolutely worth repeating or remembering. 0:38:39.832 --> 0:38:44.032 Schizophrenia may be the evolutionary price. I love articles like 0:38:44.032 --> 0:38:45.632 this that are like, hey, you know that thing you 0:38:45.632 --> 0:38:49.232 think is bad? That could be a necessary piece of 0:38:49.232 --> 0:38:52.442 exhaust that comes after a thing that you think is good. 0:38:52.482 --> 0:38:58.522 In this case, they're saying ingenuity, creativity, new ideas. You know, 0:38:58.642 --> 0:39:02.922 Einstein type stuff where, oh, maybe it's just space is curved. 0:39:02.962 --> 0:39:12.282 You know, maybe that requires that something like schizophrenia exists. Discovery. 0:39:12.682 --> 0:39:16.802 How to use markdown. Been book uses AI to turn 0:39:16.802 --> 0:39:23.202 coffee bag photos into detailed brew logs. Hmm. Proxy cloud 0:39:23.202 --> 0:39:27.442 code requests through Cloudflare. Aging related inflammation isn't universal. The 0:39:27.442 --> 0:39:30.322 developer built an AI Dungeon Master that runs in the terminal. 0:39:30.362 --> 0:39:34.202 This thing is really cool. Um. James Webb takes first 0:39:34.202 --> 0:39:38.722 directional exoplanet photo local LM notepad on a USB stick. 0:39:38.722 --> 0:39:41.802 This thing is so cool. Uh, Joseph and I have 0:39:41.802 --> 0:39:44.722 been talking about this. Joseph mentioned it to me first. 0:39:44.762 --> 0:39:46.602 He's like, hey, you know, how do we have, like, 0:39:46.642 --> 0:39:49.642 a local thing of knowledge? You know, worst came to worst. 0:39:50.482 --> 0:39:52.122 I want to be able to ask this thing, you know, 0:39:52.122 --> 0:39:54.642 how to restart society or something like what's a small 0:39:54.642 --> 0:39:56.482 version we could do? Well, here's one that's on the 0:39:56.482 --> 0:40:06.002 USB stick and custom voice agent tutorial. Okay, this is 0:40:06.002 --> 0:40:07.802 the end of the standard edition of the podcast, which 0:40:07.802 --> 0:40:10.002 includes just the news items for the week to get 0:40:10.002 --> 0:40:12.082 the rest of the episode, which includes much more of 0:40:12.082 --> 0:40:15.362 my analysis, the ideas section, and the weekly member essay. 0:40:15.362 --> 0:40:18.082 Please consider becoming a member. 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