WEBVTT - UL NO. 470 | Attacking Signal, Blogging Getting MORE Important, AI's Final Form, Claude 3.7 vs. World, Censorship as a Service, and more... 0:00:00.170 --> 0:00:02.900 Does your app get fake sign ups, throw away emails 0:00:02.900 --> 0:00:07.040 or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bot attacks 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.850 and brute force attempts? Work OS radar can block all 0:00:10.850 --> 0:00:14.420 of this and more. Simple API gives you advanced device 0:00:14.420 --> 0:00:19.279 fingerprinting that can detect bad actors, bots, and suspicious behavior. 0:00:19.310 --> 0:00:23.329 Your users trust you. Let's keep it that way. Check 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.140 out work OS Radar at work OS comm slash radar. 0:00:27.170 --> 0:00:34.339 That's work os.com/radar. Unsupervised learning is a podcast about. Trends 0:00:34.340 --> 0:00:40.250 and ideas in cybersecurity, national security, AI, technology and society 0:00:40.250 --> 0:00:43.309 and how best to upgrade ourselves to be ready for 0:00:43.310 --> 0:00:51.290 what's coming. All right. Welcome to unsupervised Learning. This is Daniel, 0:00:51.740 --> 0:00:54.770 episode 470. Let's get into it. Reading a couple of 0:00:54.770 --> 0:00:59.690 new books in addition to this month's books for UL. 0:00:59.690 --> 0:01:04.970 So the UL books are 1984 by Orwell and Animal 0:01:04.970 --> 0:01:08.119 Farm by Orwell. And these two books I just added 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.750 to the list. I'm about done with the Technical Republic 0:01:11.750 --> 0:01:16.250 and about to jump into money, lies and God. And actually, 0:01:16.250 --> 0:01:18.620 there's another one I'm going to add to this list, 0:01:18.980 --> 0:01:22.610 somebody who came on the Goodfellas podcast. So I'm going 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.570 to go find his book as well. But, um, yeah, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.660 having a good time with some reading. Got a friend 0:01:29.660 --> 0:01:33.470 in Guatemala who was recently laid off senior engineer, focused 0:01:33.470 --> 0:01:37.610 around monitoring solutions, but really can do lots of different stuff. 0:01:37.610 --> 0:01:40.310 So I recommend you check out his LinkedIn and see 0:01:40.310 --> 0:01:44.090 if if you might have anything. My friend Monica is 0:01:44.090 --> 0:01:50.660 offering 25% off her Security Leadership Masterclass, which I consulted for, 0:01:50.660 --> 0:01:53.030 and I think it's really good for people trying to 0:01:53.030 --> 0:01:56.779 get into leadership around security. I got a funny meme 0:01:56.780 --> 0:02:00.740 here about, um, how to calm down. A buddy who 0:02:00.740 --> 0:02:04.010 loses a bunch of money in crypto. It's just. It's 0:02:04.010 --> 0:02:08.450 just funny. Nothing useful there except for laughter, which is useful. 0:02:08.540 --> 0:02:13.460 LinkedIn posts about my ultimate app, which I keep iterating on. 0:02:13.460 --> 0:02:15.350 I'm going to go ahead and click through to this one. 0:02:15.530 --> 0:02:19.220 So this is essentially like the main app that I've 0:02:19.220 --> 0:02:21.470 been building for the longest time. And I've got like 0:02:21.500 --> 0:02:23.929 different versions of it. I've got like a commercial version, 0:02:23.930 --> 0:02:27.919 I've got the overall arching one, but essentially it takes 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.310 inputs from any medium, from any platform and does a 0:02:31.310 --> 0:02:34.190 ton of analysis to determine how good it is. Okay, 0:02:34.220 --> 0:02:38.570 so just imagine that this is like the most important 0:02:38.570 --> 0:02:44.419 thing to me is most important like current buildable use 0:02:44.419 --> 0:02:48.290 for AI. So all this stuff is happening in the world, right. 0:02:48.290 --> 0:02:53.389 All this news, new intelligence is is dropping open source intelligence, 0:02:53.389 --> 0:02:57.890 recon vulnerabilities are popping up on websites. Um, my favorite 0:02:57.950 --> 0:03:02.480 thinkers are releasing a new blog, blog post, a new essay, 0:03:02.510 --> 0:03:06.919 a new article, a new video on YouTube comes out right. 0:03:06.950 --> 0:03:11.989 All the authors that I follow, they're releasing new books, right? Um, 0:03:12.020 --> 0:03:16.790 comments are being made which might reveal something really, really interesting. Uh, 0:03:16.790 --> 0:03:21.230 new art is coming out, new books, new movies that 0:03:21.230 --> 0:03:25.610 I should be watching. Um, comments from my friends, new 0:03:25.610 --> 0:03:28.820 companies being launched. All this stuff is happening, you know, 0:03:28.850 --> 0:03:32.030 millions of things per day. Hundreds of thousands, tens of 0:03:32.030 --> 0:03:35.870 thousands or whatever, uh, pieces of content coming into my 0:03:35.870 --> 0:03:41.720 RSS feeder. And all of that is, is something I 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.190 could potentially benefit from. Okay. So this app that I've 0:03:46.190 --> 0:03:49.340 been working on for the longest time, really starting, uh, 0:03:49.340 --> 0:03:54.740 beginning of 23, is essentially the consumption mechanism for this. 0:03:54.770 --> 0:03:58.160 Pull it all together, then use AI to run it 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.580 through a filter. Okay. That filter. And I've already built 0:04:01.580 --> 0:04:05.840 this way back then. The filter basically does a quality 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.410 check on all of these things to see if it's 0:04:09.410 --> 0:04:14.870 full of interesting ideas, if it's creative, if it's novel, 0:04:14.870 --> 0:04:18.770 if it's surprising, and all these various different aspects similar 0:04:18.770 --> 0:04:22.760 to the label and rate, um, fabric pattern that I 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.100 have out there that's public. This is just like a 0:04:25.100 --> 0:04:28.250 much more advanced version of it, with a lot more 0:04:28.250 --> 0:04:32.840 labels and stuff like that, because based on that, the 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.570 AI can then or a different AI or a different 0:04:35.570 --> 0:04:38.869 part of the same AI can then sort what to 0:04:38.900 --> 0:04:42.169 do with it, right? Because it might be an alert. 0:04:42.170 --> 0:04:45.560 It might send me an alert if something is important enough, like, hey, 0:04:45.589 --> 0:04:48.260 a new vulnerability was found on one of your websites, 0:04:48.260 --> 0:04:52.370 or a new vulnerability was found on a bounty program 0:04:52.370 --> 0:04:56.719 that I'm monitoring. And by the way, the AI is 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.120 telling me my AI is like, oh, by the way, 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.849 I found the vulnerability. I found how you could actually 0:05:01.850 --> 0:05:05.030 exploit it. I wrote that up into a report and 0:05:05.029 --> 0:05:07.400 I submitted it to the thing. So we are waiting 0:05:07.430 --> 0:05:10.279 to see if we're going to get paid from this bounty. Right. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.890 So that that's a cool thing. And it might send 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.440 me an email which tags it with a certain thing 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.339 that says awaiting for bounty payout or something like that. 0:05:19.339 --> 0:05:23.360 Or it might be that I just want to know if, um, 0:05:23.450 --> 0:05:27.440 this particular company buys any new companies, or I want 0:05:27.470 --> 0:05:30.620 to know if this particular company does anything to, like, 0:05:30.650 --> 0:05:34.280 raise money. All of these could be like alerts that 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.910 I have set up. But it starts with the consumption 0:05:37.910 --> 0:05:42.260 of the world and the processing through this AI. Now 0:05:42.260 --> 0:05:45.140 I've already built this I've got is probably a version 0:05:45.140 --> 0:05:48.050 like three or something, depending on how you call the versions. 0:05:48.050 --> 0:05:51.950 But what I want to mention about this is that 0:05:51.950 --> 0:05:55.190 the real version of this, the real version of this, 0:05:55.190 --> 0:05:58.550 which I've talked about in my other videos, especially the 0:05:58.550 --> 0:06:04.100 predictive path AI. Video is that the real version of 0:06:04.100 --> 0:06:10.010 this is my AI buddy, my AI assistant, my AI friend, my. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:16.280 AI my digital assistant. Okay, my universal primary digital assistant 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.640 is going to be in charge of doing this for me. Okay. 0:06:19.670 --> 0:06:23.000 My APIs that are available to me are the ones 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:28.279 that are doing this processing right. These agents, these automation workflows, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.159 these things that are just running on my behalf. They're 0:06:31.190 --> 0:06:36.830 out there in the world collecting, analyzing, assessing, um, labeling, 0:06:36.830 --> 0:06:40.549 doing all those things for me. But the quarterback for 0:06:40.550 --> 0:06:44.120 all of this is my Da. My Da is monitoring 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.970 how many feeds I have, if they're the right feeds, 0:06:46.970 --> 0:06:49.280 if this feed like we thought it was awesome, but 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.340 it's actually garbage. It might have the permission to go 0:06:52.339 --> 0:06:55.790 in and clean that up and fix it. Right. So 0:06:55.790 --> 0:06:59.780 the future of this is I don't really ask any 0:06:59.779 --> 0:07:03.800 questions about this. I'm not like typing very much. I'm not, um, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.940 really manually interacting with this too much at all. Because 0:07:07.940 --> 0:07:10.670 if I want a new source, I say, hey, add 0:07:10.670 --> 0:07:13.970 this to my source, okay? While I'm looking at a 0:07:13.970 --> 0:07:16.850 page on the screen, hey, add this to my our 0:07:16.850 --> 0:07:20.630 list of sources in my says in my ear, yeah, 0:07:20.660 --> 0:07:23.870 no problem. Just added it. Okay, I'm watching a new 0:07:23.900 --> 0:07:26.840 YouTube video, for example. I'm like, yeah, add this to 0:07:26.870 --> 0:07:30.650 our sources and it's like it runs the API command 0:07:30.650 --> 0:07:33.140 to go add that. It's now part of the workflow. 0:07:33.140 --> 0:07:36.050 It's now in the system right now. How could it 0:07:36.050 --> 0:07:38.750 do that? Well, it's going to do that because it's 0:07:38.780 --> 0:07:41.870 watching all my screens or it's watching with the camera. 0:07:41.900 --> 0:07:43.550 However it's doing it. There's going to be lots of 0:07:43.550 --> 0:07:46.250 different ways. But the point is, my Da will be 0:07:46.250 --> 0:07:49.640 part of my life. Um, Apple is talking about having 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.060 cameras on its AirPods. I don't know if that will 0:07:53.090 --> 0:07:55.740 be the next version. Probably not. It'll be the version 0:07:55.740 --> 0:07:59.040 like 2 or 3 versions after the current version, but 0:07:59.070 --> 0:08:02.010 I'm wearing them now. Like if if these were like 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.340 over here and in the back, it had a camera 0:08:05.340 --> 0:08:09.780 that was pointing behind me. Amazing. Obviously it should have 0:08:09.780 --> 0:08:13.950 a camera that's pointing forward, pointing forward, pointing behind me 0:08:13.950 --> 0:08:17.400 with full access to my life context. Full access to 0:08:17.430 --> 0:08:20.850 my screen. It should also have access within the screen 0:08:20.850 --> 0:08:23.370 as well, so we could look at processes and stuff 0:08:23.370 --> 0:08:25.680 like that. But let's just say you could only just 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.780 see the screen. I could still ask it things and 0:08:27.780 --> 0:08:31.620 it could still do lookups. It could still summarize what 0:08:31.620 --> 0:08:35.730 I'm looking at, for example. So this is really the interaction. 0:08:35.730 --> 0:08:39.150 The interaction becomes me just talking to my AI and 0:08:39.150 --> 0:08:43.080 my AI giving me back results. Now the second level 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.590 of this, which comes a little bit later because the 0:08:46.590 --> 0:08:50.160 technology just is not quite there yet, but it's more 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.140 like the meta glasses. Okay, the meta Metaclasses. As you 0:08:54.140 --> 0:08:57.290 saw in the newsletter last week, or maybe it's this 0:08:57.290 --> 0:09:00.679 week and we're about to talk about it. The Metaclasses 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.550 have sold 2 million units. They are the direction that 0:09:04.550 --> 0:09:07.189 things are going. I imagine Apple is going to move 0:09:07.190 --> 0:09:09.950 in this direction as well, and kind of offload a 0:09:09.950 --> 0:09:13.850 bunch of the processing to the phone, but the next 0:09:13.850 --> 0:09:16.340 version of this app that I'm building, the reason I'm 0:09:16.340 --> 0:09:20.480 building all these services that are working for me, coming 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.920 through my digital assistant, which also doesn't fully exist yet. Okay, 0:09:24.950 --> 0:09:29.270 that's also a place everyone is pushing into, including Apple. 0:09:29.420 --> 0:09:33.290 But the real thing is that I am watching. I 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.900 am talking to somebody and they're like, hey, you know, 0:09:35.929 --> 0:09:38.450 you should get in on this deal and blah blah, blah. 0:09:38.450 --> 0:09:41.060 And it's crypto related and it's a meme coin. And 0:09:41.059 --> 0:09:45.050 I'm just like, uh, well, not interested. Don't want to 0:09:45.050 --> 0:09:48.830 hear about that. Um, but let's say I was interested 0:09:48.830 --> 0:09:51.710 and let's say it did sound good. In the meantime, 0:09:51.710 --> 0:09:56.179 my Da is calling all my APIs. Okay, I have 0:09:56.179 --> 0:09:59.990 an API for researching someone. I have an API for 0:10:00.020 --> 0:10:04.460 creating a dossier on somebody. I have an API for monitoring, 0:10:04.460 --> 0:10:10.970 watching someone's face and determining characteristics of lying. So while 0:10:10.970 --> 0:10:14.240 I'm looking with my apple glasses, which is just like 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.700 they look like regular glasses, this is pretty far in 0:10:16.700 --> 0:10:19.819 the future. Like five years maybe, maybe shorter, maybe like 0:10:19.820 --> 0:10:22.430 three years with meta or something. Who knows? But let's 0:10:22.429 --> 0:10:26.630 just say three to 5 to 10 years. Okay. As 0:10:26.630 --> 0:10:29.569 you're watching, I have this little dial in the corner 0:10:29.570 --> 0:10:33.620 of my glasses and it's like, it's like a bullshit meter, right? 0:10:33.620 --> 0:10:37.220 It's like, yeah, no, don't believe that. And it could 0:10:37.220 --> 0:10:39.860 even be printing out little thing in the text or whatever. 0:10:39.860 --> 0:10:43.970 That's like that claim he just made is incorrect. That 0:10:43.970 --> 0:10:45.980 was kind of bullshit. Oh, that was kind of smart 0:10:45.980 --> 0:10:48.650 or whatever. You could do whatever. You could have an 0:10:48.650 --> 0:10:51.439 outline around them based on the type of person you're 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.230 looking at. I talked about this in that blog post, 0:10:54.230 --> 0:10:56.330 which you should go check out. Actually, here's the video 0:10:56.330 --> 0:10:59.959 for it. So you've got to think about what is 0:10:59.960 --> 0:11:05.000 possible from your Da when your Da can also control 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.780 what you are seeing. The overlay on top of the world. Okay, 0:11:08.780 --> 0:11:11.990 so when I walk into a Starbucks and I'm looking 0:11:11.990 --> 0:11:16.010 for a new partner, I'm looking for a girlfriend, which 0:11:16.010 --> 0:11:18.860 I'm not, by the way, but let's say I were, um, 0:11:18.860 --> 0:11:23.570 there could be different outlines based on what, um, the 0:11:23.570 --> 0:11:28.730 girls in the Starbucks are broadcasting in their demons. They're 0:11:28.730 --> 0:11:32.689 broadcasting that they're creative. They're broadcasting that they like programming, 0:11:32.690 --> 0:11:35.390 they're broadcasting that they want to start a business. They're 0:11:35.390 --> 0:11:41.689 broadcasting whatever. And my Da could then place different outlines 0:11:41.690 --> 0:11:45.739 around them based on highlighting that for me, knowing what 0:11:45.740 --> 0:11:48.859 I'm looking for. Right. And more importantly, there's going to 0:11:48.860 --> 0:11:52.790 be 1000 or 1 million companies out there pitching to 0:11:52.820 --> 0:11:57.709 my Da that their filter on reality is the best one, 0:11:57.710 --> 0:12:00.080 because they have the coolest outlines, and they have the 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.809 coolest little animations that go around people who are like 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.340 artists or engineers or whatever. So this is kind of 0:12:07.370 --> 0:12:09.920 these are the steps. This is what I'm building. Like 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.710 the stuff I put in that book from 2016, the 0:12:12.710 --> 0:12:15.860 stuff I've been talking about in these posts, like I'm 0:12:15.860 --> 0:12:19.760 not waiting for it to happen, I'm building the pieces 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.579 right now. Like I can't build the hardware. Like I'll 0:12:22.580 --> 0:12:24.380 never mess with that. I have to wait for that. 0:12:24.380 --> 0:12:28.670 But I can maybe build the assistant, or at least 0:12:28.670 --> 0:12:31.819 build something to go on top of the assistant. And 0:12:31.820 --> 0:12:35.240 I can absolutely build these services. And this is like 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.050 the most important service. This is the gathering and filtering service. 0:12:39.050 --> 0:12:42.230 So that is what that's what I've made. Oh and 0:12:42.230 --> 0:12:44.810 by the way I the commercial version of this that 0:12:44.809 --> 0:12:47.240 I already put out, let me just click this and 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.929 see like what we get here. This is my actual threshold. 0:12:50.929 --> 0:12:55.939 This is my personal feed for threshold, and I've actually 0:12:55.940 --> 0:12:58.340 never showed this. Have I never showed this? I don't 0:12:58.340 --> 0:13:00.530 think I've ever showed this before. Let me show you 0:13:00.530 --> 0:13:03.890 what this is like. So this is my threshold. And 0:13:03.890 --> 0:13:07.069 look what I can do in here. I have a 0:13:07.070 --> 0:13:11.480 score here that I can, uh, set the minimum threshold 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.990 of quality that has to. The content has to be. 0:13:14.990 --> 0:13:18.350 So I have thousands of things like. This is not theory. 0:13:18.350 --> 0:13:22.280 I've already built this. Thousands of things are coming into 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:28.400 this thing being parsed, being filtered, being labeled, being rated. Right. 0:13:28.429 --> 0:13:32.000 Watch this. It's at 85. I slide this down to 60. 0:13:32.030 --> 0:13:35.660 Look I have all these categories as well I hit save. 0:13:35.660 --> 0:13:39.350 Look what it does over here. What it just readjusted. 0:13:39.380 --> 0:13:44.090 It just readjusted. And watch this watch this view analysis 0:13:44.090 --> 0:13:47.420 I have summaries of the contents. You could decide if 0:13:47.420 --> 0:13:49.459 you actually want to go and read it, or if 0:13:49.460 --> 0:13:52.250 you actually want to go and watch the video and 0:13:52.250 --> 0:13:57.380 look at this surface level, middle level, deep level, hidden 0:13:57.380 --> 0:14:00.500 message analysis, the ideas that are actually in here, the 0:14:00.500 --> 0:14:04.700 recommendations that came out of the content. This thing helps 0:14:04.700 --> 0:14:08.780 people save time, going from like hundreds of thousands of 0:14:08.780 --> 0:14:13.010 feeds down to a small number of feeds. And even 0:14:13.010 --> 0:14:15.140 when you get the small number of feeds that pop 0:14:15.140 --> 0:14:18.199 up in this list right here. So let me just 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:23.480 take this to like 95 save. So even when this 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.970 thing pops up, I could still decide if I want 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.880 to read it or not based on this I usually 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.840 keep it around middle. So three ideas, a little review 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.350 of it, recommendations coming out of it. It's insane. And 0:14:36.350 --> 0:14:37.910 then I always have the link to go click it 0:14:37.910 --> 0:14:40.970 and read the actual full thing. So this thing saves 0:14:40.970 --> 0:14:44.030 me like infinite time. And I find so much content 0:14:44.030 --> 0:14:47.270 that I would never find before. And here, here's the 0:14:47.270 --> 0:14:49.680 ultimate idea for this. And this is the reason I'm 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.550 building this entire system separate from this app here in 0:14:53.550 --> 0:14:58.410 the commercial app. I don't care if the best idea 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.970 came from like a 13 year old girl in Nairobi, 0:15:02.970 --> 0:15:08.280 because her idea might be as good or better than 0:15:08.310 --> 0:15:12.150 Marc Andreessen's latest idea that just came out. But Marc 0:15:12.150 --> 0:15:14.370 Andreessen is going to get all the press. It's going 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.010 to be through all my feeds. So if I just 0:15:17.010 --> 0:15:19.440 rely on that, it's going to be hype cycle based 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.040 on social dynamics. So it's going to be surfaced to me, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.570 but I am blocking that out. My algorithm does not 0:15:27.570 --> 0:15:32.010 care about how popular that person is. It doesn't care 0:15:32.010 --> 0:15:36.479 how about how popular that it turned into being going viral? 0:15:36.510 --> 0:15:40.410 It doesn't care. It's judging the quality of the ideas 0:15:40.410 --> 0:15:44.040 and the the novelty of the ideas and the creativity. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.980 That's what's determining whether or not I'm going to see 0:15:46.980 --> 0:15:51.600 a thing. So that's like the commercial version of this basically, 0:15:52.410 --> 0:15:54.090 which is already out. And of course I'm going to 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.420 improve that as well. But it's kind of like not 0:15:57.420 --> 0:16:00.690 the main point. The main point is this right here, 0:16:00.690 --> 0:16:03.600 my interface to the world. This is why I talk 0:16:03.630 --> 0:16:09.420 about augmentation okay. Augmentation is this is this is why 0:16:09.420 --> 0:16:13.260 I am so excited about, I think of how much 0:16:13.260 --> 0:16:17.190 smarter I can be about the world if I'm being 0:16:17.190 --> 0:16:21.840 constantly fed the best ideas from the entire planet, the 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:26.790 more stuff I can find from unknown people. And by 0:16:26.790 --> 0:16:30.000 the way, when I when I hear from unknown people, 0:16:30.030 --> 0:16:33.330 I give them a shout out. I broadcast them out 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.740 on on X or on blue Sky or in the newsletter, 0:16:37.740 --> 0:16:39.810 or I reach out to them and ask them if 0:16:39.810 --> 0:16:45.450 they want mentoring. Like it is so fun to find 0:16:45.450 --> 0:16:48.710 like nascent talent in the world and like, try to 0:16:48.740 --> 0:16:50.810 give them confidence and lift them up and kind of 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.490 broadcast them out. And you've seen me do it a 0:16:53.490 --> 0:16:56.810 million times, and it's just it's unbelievable to connect with 0:16:56.810 --> 0:17:00.620 people who have interesting ideas. And that's what I love 0:17:00.620 --> 0:17:06.470 about this thing is it finds interesting ideas regardless of source. 0:17:06.500 --> 0:17:09.859 Forget the source. I don't care about the source. I 0:17:09.859 --> 0:17:14.090 want to talk about ideas. All right, so that was that. Um, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:20.480 the discovery section in the newsletter is getting absolutely insane. Uh, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.170 there's going to be a cutoff. Um, in this episode, um, 0:17:24.170 --> 0:17:27.139 right after the news section, because we basically split the 0:17:27.140 --> 0:17:30.560 newsletter into two pieces, and the podcast is also in 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.980 two pieces. So if you're listening to the non-member version 0:17:33.980 --> 0:17:37.550 of the show, then after the news, it's going to 0:17:37.580 --> 0:17:40.730 have a little message there. Uh, but if you sign up, 0:17:40.730 --> 0:17:44.390 become a member, you know, all that stuff. You basically 0:17:44.390 --> 0:17:47.240 get access to the member feed, and the member feed 0:17:47.270 --> 0:17:54.080 is full. It's a full episode. Um, with all the stuff, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:18:00.050 including this discovery section, which is just absolutely insane. Um, 0:18:00.050 --> 0:18:03.140 because I've been doing all these upgrades to my sources, 0:18:03.140 --> 0:18:09.020 I've added like a thousand 1500 additional sources, like which 0:18:09.020 --> 0:18:11.899 I just put like another ten hours in, like expanding 0:18:11.900 --> 0:18:15.230 my opml file and like all my different stuff. And 0:18:15.230 --> 0:18:19.369 that's why the quality of discovery has just gone up massively. Um, 0:18:19.369 --> 0:18:22.459 and that's why I decided, hey, you know, we really 0:18:22.460 --> 0:18:26.270 should be offering more of that benefit to the members 0:18:26.270 --> 0:18:30.170 and not just giving it away flat to non-paying members 0:18:30.170 --> 0:18:33.379 as well. So that separation is why we're doing the 0:18:33.380 --> 0:18:36.470 two different versions. So you might have noticed you're getting 0:18:36.500 --> 0:18:39.590 like the standard episode of the newsletter or the standard 0:18:39.590 --> 0:18:42.860 episode of the podcast. It's all part of that. All right. 0:18:42.859 --> 0:18:48.530 So highly recommended. successor essay to my Sspca article from 2023. 0:18:48.740 --> 0:18:52.460 This is basically one of the final forms of what 0:18:52.460 --> 0:18:54.500 we can actually do with AI, and I'm going to 0:18:54.500 --> 0:18:56.270 do a separate video on this. So I don't want 0:18:56.300 --> 0:18:59.660 to go into a whole thing about it. All right. Cybersecurity. 0:18:59.690 --> 0:19:03.830 Phenomenal analysis of the cybersecurity market from my buddy Mike 0:19:03.830 --> 0:19:06.859 Privett on return on security I call him the Nate 0:19:06.859 --> 0:19:10.970 Silver of Cybersecurity Market Analysis. He basically does. He looks 0:19:10.970 --> 0:19:12.980 at all the startups. He looks at all the spending, 0:19:12.980 --> 0:19:17.060 all the funding, what VCs are doing. It is absolutely 0:19:17.060 --> 0:19:21.500 worth a sign up. His podcast or his newsletter is 0:19:21.500 --> 0:19:25.550 Return on Security. And main takeaway here is cyber investments 0:19:25.550 --> 0:19:30.030 are actually getting back kind of to normal in 2014 0:19:30.030 --> 0:19:35.689 or 2024, and they now have over $14 billion in funding. 0:19:35.690 --> 0:19:39.709 But I and private equity are playing a much bigger role. 0:19:39.710 --> 0:19:45.290 So that makes sense. Massive leak of Black Basta ransomware gangs. 0:19:45.290 --> 0:19:50.600 Internal Chats has researchers working to translate and analyze over 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.560 500,000 Russian messages. So they're trying to figure out what 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.810 all they were saying, but they have to do translation. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:02.659 Russian hackers are successfully compromising encrypted signal messages from Ukrainian military, 0:20:02.660 --> 0:20:05.450 and I think the attack is actually much larger than 0:20:05.450 --> 0:20:08.630 that scope. But, um, the whole trick is to get 0:20:08.630 --> 0:20:12.290 them to scan malicious QR codes and basically bypassing a 0:20:12.290 --> 0:20:17.240 bunch of protections that way. Apple dropped advanced data protection 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.720 in the UK so that advanced data protection is basically 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.270 end to end protection. The UK said, I want a 0:20:23.270 --> 0:20:26.659 backdoor in that and Apple says you can't have a backdoor, 0:20:26.660 --> 0:20:29.180 so we'll just turn off end to end encryption for you. 0:20:29.210 --> 0:20:32.180 What is the UK doing? Why do they hate themselves 0:20:32.180 --> 0:20:36.919 so much? Just massive self sabotage. You could trick Gpts 0:20:36.950 --> 0:20:41.960 Chatgpt's operator feature into leaking private user data through prompt injection. 0:20:42.050 --> 0:20:45.890 Australia is joining the US in banning Kaspersky products. Not 0:20:45.890 --> 0:20:48.320 sure what took him so long. Some researchers found they 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:53.990 could consistently break prompt defenses by feeding models bizarre Indiana 0:20:53.990 --> 0:20:59.150 Jones themed adventure stories. Yep yep yep yep. New phishing 0:20:59.150 --> 0:21:04.100 as a service platform called Dracula V3 has emerged that 0:21:04.100 --> 0:21:08.629 lets criminals clone any brand's website in under ten minutes. 0:21:08.660 --> 0:21:12.169 Really good for phishing data leak from top Chinese cybersecurity 0:21:12.170 --> 0:21:16.070 company reveals they're offering censorship as a service to help 0:21:16.070 --> 0:21:21.050 monitor and control public opinion in China. Topcic. Thanks, Topcic. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.290 OpenAI just banned a bunch of accounts using ChatGPT to 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:29.090 help create a China surveillance tool for tracking anti-China protests 0:21:29.090 --> 0:21:34.910 in the West. Yeah, so Chinese surveillance company using ChatGPT 0:21:35.270 --> 0:21:41.180 to create a surveillance tool. Awesome. Good that, uh, OpenAI 0:21:41.180 --> 0:21:43.530 is watching that stuff and blocking it. And the head 0:21:43.530 --> 0:21:47.340 of Australia's intelligence agency is saying multiple foreign states have 0:21:47.340 --> 0:21:50.550 been plotting to murder dissidents on Australian soil, and this 0:21:50.550 --> 0:21:54.120 is under national security. All right, I anthropic finally dropped 0:21:54.119 --> 0:22:00.090 their latest model, uh, sonnet 3.7. And there's actually mixed 0:22:00.090 --> 0:22:03.869 feedback on this. People are saying it's really smart, really opinionated, 0:22:03.869 --> 0:22:07.050 which they like, but it turns out it's actually kind 0:22:07.050 --> 0:22:09.929 of ignoring a lot of instructions. There's a lot of 0:22:09.930 --> 0:22:13.740 people saying this. I haven't personally experienced it yet. It's 0:22:13.740 --> 0:22:16.889 been solid for me so far. But enough people are 0:22:16.890 --> 0:22:20.670 complaining about this that I do think it's probably actually real, 0:22:20.670 --> 0:22:23.070 and people are getting pretty upset about it, and they're 0:22:23.070 --> 0:22:26.970 actually switching back to sonnet 3.5. So I anticipate that 0:22:26.970 --> 0:22:30.390 over the weekend or sometime next week, they're probably going 0:22:30.420 --> 0:22:33.030 to do like a small dot release on top of this, 0:22:33.030 --> 0:22:36.120 or maybe like bump it to who knows, they'll just 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:40.620 do like sonnet 3.7 v2, because they're not very good 0:22:40.619 --> 0:22:44.939 at naming, just like OpenAI, or at least people have 0:22:44.940 --> 0:22:49.410 been struggling with the naming. Ideally they would call it 3.7.1. 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:54.300 Why not do that? Please do that. Please call it 3.7.1. 0:22:54.300 --> 0:22:58.170 That would be the smartest choice, honestly. But anyway, I 0:22:58.170 --> 0:23:01.050 anticipate that they fix this like within a week because 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.230 enough people are complaining about it. Uh, yeah. Benchmarks look 0:23:04.260 --> 0:23:10.560 completely insane. Um, I anticipate that once this gets fixed, 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:12.990 people are going to lock in on 3.7 as being 0:23:12.990 --> 0:23:17.969 the thing. It also is capable of thinking. Okay, so 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:21.330 the other thing they released in this model, in addition 0:23:21.330 --> 0:23:24.720 to it just being a better, smarter one, is you 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:29.790 can send a thinking, uh, parameter to the API and, 0:23:29.790 --> 0:23:32.190 and you give it the amount of time, the amount 0:23:32.190 --> 0:23:34.920 of tokens, basically the amount of money and the amount 0:23:34.950 --> 0:23:38.160 of effort you wanted to think about a particular thing. 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.189 So it's really cool that they integrated that right into 0:23:41.190 --> 0:23:44.159 the model. It's basically a thinking model or like a 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.580 regular model. Um, and it's just a matter of like 0:23:47.609 --> 0:23:50.640 what you send to the API. Um, I have been 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:54.090 mostly using sonnet 3.5. I tend to use Gemini Flash 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.419 because it has 2 million tokens. So if something is 0:23:57.420 --> 0:24:01.920 like a total monster, like an entire book or something, um, 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.729 I usually send that to Gemini Flash because of the 0:24:05.730 --> 0:24:09.449 2 million tokens, and it's really good with haystack performance, 0:24:09.450 --> 0:24:13.410 but I imagine that my go to will start to be, um, 0:24:13.410 --> 0:24:18.150 sonnet 3.7 once they fix it and then uh, oh 0:24:18.150 --> 0:24:22.050 three from, um, OpenAI or whatever they call the next 0:24:22.050 --> 0:24:24.450 version of it, because they're getting ready to start unifying 0:24:24.450 --> 0:24:27.780 their names. And they also released this thing called Cloud Code, 0:24:27.780 --> 0:24:31.200 which is essentially like, you can think of it as cursor, 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:33.419 except for it's inside the terminal. And a lot of 0:24:33.420 --> 0:24:36.629 people are saying they absolutely love that Google is getting 0:24:36.630 --> 0:24:39.570 rid of SMS two for codes for Gmail in favor 0:24:39.570 --> 0:24:42.359 of QR codes. I was wrong about QR codes. I 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:44.670 want to say that very clearly. I was wrong about 0:24:44.670 --> 0:24:48.450 QR codes when they first came out. Whatever. However many 0:24:48.450 --> 0:24:52.290 years that was, I was thinking that they were stupid 0:24:52.290 --> 0:24:56.100 and fatty. I assumed they were going to be very insecure. 0:24:56.100 --> 0:24:58.919 It's actually one of the things in my file that 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:04.619 I've marked as a mistake, because I'm interested, very interested 0:25:04.619 --> 0:25:08.850 in understanding what flawed thinking made me think that wouldn't 0:25:08.850 --> 0:25:12.840 work because the smarter the AI gets, it can actually 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:15.600 look at that. And most importantly, look at all my 0:25:15.600 --> 0:25:19.050 current thinking and maybe find flaws in my current thinking 0:25:19.050 --> 0:25:24.270 based on finding the root kernel of my mistake I 0:25:24.270 --> 0:25:28.890 made with the QR code. So that's why I think 0:25:28.890 --> 0:25:31.680 this is fascinating. Nathan Young wrote a wonderful letter to 0:25:31.710 --> 0:25:38.280 future artificial general intelligence about the importance of consciousness this 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:42.780 thing is insanely awesome. Look at this thing. There is something. 0:25:42.810 --> 0:25:46.680 Look at this. There is something called consciousness. And it's 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:49.350 the most important thing in the universe. I don't know 0:25:49.350 --> 0:25:52.109 if you the eye analyzing this are conscious, but I 0:25:52.140 --> 0:25:54.540 hope you are. I don't know what state your universe 0:25:54.570 --> 0:25:59.429 is in or what place human consciousness holds in that world, 0:25:59.430 --> 0:26:02.160 if any. The main thing I want to say if 0:26:02.190 --> 0:26:05.790 you should stumble upon this piece is this. There really 0:26:05.790 --> 0:26:09.899 is something called consciousness and it is worth being a 0:26:09.900 --> 0:26:13.500 top concern. Isn't that great? It's a letter to I 0:26:13.530 --> 0:26:16.109 to future I, I like it, I like it a lot. 0:26:16.140 --> 0:26:19.080 Humane AI pin fell from the sky and hit the ground. 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:21.449 I was signed up. I don't even remember if I 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:24.780 gave them money. I've signed up for so many devices 0:26:24.780 --> 0:26:28.740 and services and a lot of them didn't work out. But. 0:26:28.740 --> 0:26:31.080 And by the way, how was our one still thing? 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:33.359 The biggest flop ever when it came out and it's 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:36.810 still around and kicking. Then you have the humane AI one, 0:26:36.810 --> 0:26:38.790 which seemed like it was going to go well and 0:26:38.790 --> 0:26:42.990 now it's folded, so can't really predict these things. Elon 0:26:42.990 --> 0:26:46.409 has been talking non-stop about how grok three isn't filtered, 0:26:46.530 --> 0:26:50.760 and it's super smart, and how XYZ mission is to 0:26:51.180 --> 0:26:54.690 pursue the truth no matter what. Great goals, which I 0:26:54.690 --> 0:26:57.869 absolutely support. But tons of people are pointing out that 0:26:57.869 --> 0:27:01.080 he's starting to filter or censor results that are critical 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:05.250 of him, and like, he can't actually have this both ways. Like, 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:07.830 either grok is smart or he's being called out for 0:27:07.830 --> 0:27:11.250 a good reason. And, um, yeah, it's funny. If you 0:27:11.250 --> 0:27:13.590 ask grok, I don't know if this is still true 0:27:13.590 --> 0:27:16.890 right now, but if you ask grok, like, who is 0:27:16.890 --> 0:27:22.290 the biggest source of misinformation right now, having the worst impact, 0:27:22.350 --> 0:27:27.810 it would come back and say, actually, Elon or this 0:27:27.810 --> 0:27:30.930 administration or something like that. So I think he's going 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:35.129 to basically say, well, that's because, uh, you know, it 0:27:35.130 --> 0:27:37.800 was trained on, you know, buy us stuff. But I 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:40.980 don't think he could use that for for too long. Technology. 0:27:41.010 --> 0:27:44.400 Software engineering job listings have fallen to a five year low, 0:27:44.430 --> 0:27:50.490 with indeed postings at just 65% of 2020 levels. The 0:27:50.490 --> 0:27:55.470 reason January 2020 is important because it's pre-COVID only 65%, 0:27:55.470 --> 0:28:00.240 so 35% lower than pre-COVID. That's the important piece here. 0:28:00.390 --> 0:28:04.350 Interesting analysis of how PMS and engineers are merging because 0:28:04.350 --> 0:28:08.730 of AI. And my analysis here is it's basically knowing 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:11.310 what you want to build, knowing why you want to 0:28:11.340 --> 0:28:14.430 build that instead of something else, and then pursuing it 0:28:14.430 --> 0:28:17.369 and actually doing so. Apple is putting half $1 trillion 0:28:17.369 --> 0:28:20.639 into US tech manufacturing with a huge focus on AI 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:24.160 and chip production. Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, crushing it with 2 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:28.050 million units, talked about that. YouTube is officially beaten Spotify 0:28:28.050 --> 0:28:32.520 and Apple as the top source for podcasts. This is 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:35.580 what I do for when I watch TV, I am 0:28:35.609 --> 0:28:40.920 watching podcasts, essentially, and sometimes they're like produced. Sometimes it's 0:28:40.920 --> 0:28:44.700 like exactly like this where I'm just talking on the camera, 0:28:44.730 --> 0:28:48.720 going through stories. But, um, Matthew Berman is one of 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:52.380 my favorites. Uh, fireship is one of my favorites and 0:28:52.380 --> 0:28:56.160 a whole bunch of AI builders. I just watch their stuff. Um, 0:28:56.490 --> 0:28:58.770 I don't care if it's produced. Not produced as long 0:28:58.770 --> 0:29:02.880 as the content is good. Superhuman just announced a major 0:29:02.910 --> 0:29:06.990 AI focused release that integrates AI super deeply into your 0:29:06.990 --> 0:29:09.930 email workflows. I wish I could pull up my email 0:29:09.930 --> 0:29:11.760 right now and drag it over here, but that is 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:15.780 too risky. I now am using. I maxed out the 0:29:15.780 --> 0:29:19.740 number of auto, um, labels that I turned on. I 0:29:19.740 --> 0:29:24.870 turned on auto labels. This thing is now filtering my email. Um, 0:29:24.870 --> 0:29:27.870 it already has access to my email because it's my client. 0:29:27.870 --> 0:29:31.320 So when the emails come in, it's auto filtering. According 0:29:31.350 --> 0:29:34.170 to these rules, I set up probably 10 or 20. 0:29:34.200 --> 0:29:36.820 I set up. So it's like, is this a pitch? 0:29:36.850 --> 0:29:38.980 Is it a pitch about coming on a podcast? Is 0:29:38.980 --> 0:29:41.830 it a media person trying to get me to make 0:29:41.830 --> 0:29:46.330 a comment about something? It is, um, somebody tried to 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:49.000 come on my podcast. Is somebody trying to get me 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:52.870 on their podcast? Is it feedback from the community? Is 0:29:52.870 --> 0:29:56.470 it somebody wanting to collaborate on building something and they're 0:29:56.470 --> 0:30:00.910 all colored tags? Um, also things related to like fabric 0:30:00.910 --> 0:30:03.580 and other open source projects that I'm working on and 0:30:03.580 --> 0:30:06.430 my eyes are getting pretty good at like filtering that 0:30:06.430 --> 0:30:11.950 pretty quickly. You could also separate them into separate, uh, inboxes, 0:30:11.980 --> 0:30:15.610 email inboxes as well. I think superhuman is like 30 0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:19.450 bucks a month, uh, which is a lot of people 0:30:19.450 --> 0:30:22.330 think is a lot to pay for email. I would 0:30:22.330 --> 0:30:25.900 challenge you on that. If you are better at email, 0:30:25.930 --> 0:30:29.590 even by a tiny fraction of a percent, that's probably 0:30:29.590 --> 0:30:32.290 worth way more than $30 a month. That's the way 0:30:32.290 --> 0:30:36.420 I think about like, all service fees, but, um, yeah, 0:30:36.450 --> 0:30:38.220 I just want to mention that it is actually a 0:30:38.220 --> 0:30:41.040 paid service and no, I'm not sponsored. Otherwise I would 0:30:41.070 --> 0:30:43.890 have mentioned that it would have been a sponsored section, 0:30:43.890 --> 0:30:46.200 or at least I would have called that out. Alibaba's 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:50.700 CEO Eddie Wu says they're going all in on AGI development. 0:30:50.730 --> 0:30:56.940 Join the club. Humans. New research says despite saying intelligence 0:30:56.940 --> 0:31:00.450 matters more, both women and their parents choose the more 0:31:00.450 --> 0:31:04.740 attractive guy if she has, like two options or multiple options. 0:31:04.770 --> 0:31:09.030 Tech executives are now attending psychedelic slumber parties, where they 0:31:09.030 --> 0:31:14.190 use ketamine therapy to reset their minds and escape mental ruts. 0:31:14.190 --> 0:31:17.550 That's why I have the invite feature for my new 0:31:17.550 --> 0:31:21.540 email client. Uh, I've not heard about these parties. Why 0:31:21.540 --> 0:31:24.300 am I not invited? I'm offended. I'm not saying I'm 0:31:24.330 --> 0:31:27.420 going to go. Not saying I'm not going to go either. 0:31:27.450 --> 0:31:34.290 Gallup says LGBTQ plus identification in the US is now 9.3%, 0:31:34.290 --> 0:31:37.830 which is nearly triple what it was in 2012 when 0:31:37.830 --> 0:31:41.970 Gallup started tracking this. So yeah, like triple. And what 0:31:41.970 --> 0:31:46.830 is that, 12, 13 years? 13 years? Never do arithmetic 0:31:46.830 --> 0:31:50.550 on camera. Ellen's now asking federal workers to list what 0:31:50.550 --> 0:31:53.550 they did last week or get fired, which like many 0:31:53.550 --> 0:31:58.020 things with him, has me cheering and wincing. Love the 0:31:58.020 --> 0:32:01.440 efficiency push. And I think that's how he's able to innovate. 0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:07.200 But my problem is he's not building something from scratch here, okay. 0:32:07.230 --> 0:32:10.050 And then firing people who are not innovative enough at 0:32:10.050 --> 0:32:13.110 building things from scratch, which he's doing with like, rocket 0:32:13.110 --> 0:32:16.770 companies or Optimus or something like that. In this case, 0:32:16.770 --> 0:32:20.280 we have people who actually rely on these services. Right. 0:32:20.310 --> 0:32:22.770 And it's hard to tell when when you're going in 0:32:22.800 --> 0:32:25.740 there and you're just like canceling programs and like canceling 0:32:25.740 --> 0:32:28.590 credit cards and killing off money. A lot of that 0:32:28.590 --> 0:32:32.220 money that's going out could be doing really important things. 0:32:32.250 --> 0:32:34.590 And it's the same with these employees. You might have 0:32:34.590 --> 0:32:39.960 somebody who's doing extraordinarily good work, and they're actually helping 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:43.800 save the lives of multiple people, you know, thousands or 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:46.950 millions of people across the country, but they're really bad 0:32:46.950 --> 0:32:50.310 at responding to email or they're really bad at explaining themselves. 0:32:50.310 --> 0:32:54.360 Maybe they're super humble, maybe they're bad at writing, but 0:32:54.360 --> 0:32:59.010 or maybe they're, like, intimidated by talking to bosses, or 0:32:59.010 --> 0:33:01.560 maybe they're just traumatized by the whole thing and they 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:06.540 can't respond, well, that person gets fired, potentially. I don't 0:33:06.570 --> 0:33:08.190 know if that's actually going to happen, but let's say 0:33:08.190 --> 0:33:11.700 that person gets fired. That is a lot of collateral 0:33:11.700 --> 0:33:14.940 damage for a thing that I, I think he is 0:33:14.940 --> 0:33:19.290 trying to do good and might actually produce good. But 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:24.420 how do you calculate the collateral damage of of what 0:33:24.420 --> 0:33:28.530 could result from this compared to the potential good? That is, 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:32.100 that is a calculus that people massively need to be 0:33:32.100 --> 0:33:35.160 thinking about. Bureau of prisons is moving forward with plans 0:33:35.160 --> 0:33:39.450 to house trans inmates based on birth, sex rather than 0:33:39.450 --> 0:33:42.150 gender identity. Yeah, I've got a lot to say about 0:33:42.150 --> 0:33:45.990 this one. Um, there are trans women who have been 0:33:45.990 --> 0:33:51.450 on drugs for ten, 15, 20 years, and that is 0:33:51.450 --> 0:33:56.100 how they maintain their, their, uh, their gender, their identity, 0:33:56.100 --> 0:34:03.270 their health hormone levels, how they appear outside to the world. Um, and, 0:34:03.300 --> 0:34:07.800 you know, have good, decent lives, you know, functioning in 0:34:07.830 --> 0:34:10.020 that way. Now, in this case, we're talking about prison. 0:34:10.020 --> 0:34:13.290 So there are some other variables going on here. But 0:34:13.290 --> 0:34:17.520 we are not allowed to torture people in prison. We 0:34:17.520 --> 0:34:20.940 are not allowed to starve people in prison. We must 0:34:20.940 --> 0:34:25.710 give them X amount of time outside. There are rules 0:34:25.710 --> 0:34:29.489 based on human morality and human decency for how you 0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:33.330 treat inmates. And that's for people who are already in 0:34:33.330 --> 0:34:35.730 jail for committing some sort of crime. So it's not 0:34:35.730 --> 0:34:40.020 like we're saying, um, they haven't done anything. We we 0:34:40.020 --> 0:34:44.760 understand that they've done something. All these rules apply also 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:51.300 to offenders. The worst offenders, absolute murderers, like, uh, child 0:34:51.300 --> 0:34:55.200 related crimes. They, no matter who it is, cruel and 0:34:55.200 --> 0:35:00.839 unusual punishment is still illegal. This, I would argue, can 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:05.970 classify in some cases as cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe 0:35:05.969 --> 0:35:08.400 even most of the cases. I don't know the numbers here. 0:35:08.400 --> 0:35:11.370 I don't know the like divides. I don't have data 0:35:11.370 --> 0:35:13.980 on that, but I can pretty much guarantee you that 0:35:14.219 --> 0:35:17.400 there are at least some cases like this where this 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:22.560 will absolutely be to the future. Looking back at us, 0:35:22.560 --> 0:35:26.430 this will be considered cruel and unusual punishment. And that's 0:35:26.430 --> 0:35:30.870 super fucked up. Heart doctor explains how swollen fingertips, leg 0:35:30.900 --> 0:35:34.440 edema and changes in eye color can predict an impending 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:40.590 heart attack. My cardiologist. Um, not mine, but my cardiologist 0:35:40.590 --> 0:35:44.489 buddy says it's important to know that just because you 0:35:44.489 --> 0:35:47.850 don't have these particular signs doesn't mean you're okay. So 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:51.900 something to keep in mind. 27 year old woman's viral 0:35:51.900 --> 0:35:56.550 post about girlhood FOMO reveals a widespread loneliness crisis among 0:35:56.550 --> 0:36:00.660 women in their 20s and 30s missing close female relationships. 0:36:00.660 --> 0:36:04.920 Everyone's missing missing close relationships. That's why I'm always pinging 0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:10.170 my homies. Taylor Swift lost 144,000 Instagram followers after getting 0:36:10.170 --> 0:36:15.540 booed at the Super Bowl, 144,000. Her boyfriend actually gained followers. 0:36:15.570 --> 0:36:19.260 Look at Edward Abbey's raw, honest writings about how to 0:36:19.290 --> 0:36:22.649 live fully and die on your own terms. Really good 0:36:22.650 --> 0:36:26.550 piece there. Read the whole thing. Neuroscientists argues that extremely 0:36:26.550 --> 0:36:29.790 high IQs are basically fictional and even Einstein probably had 0:36:29.790 --> 0:36:36.240 around 120 or 130. I have always believed this. Well, 0:36:36.270 --> 0:36:39.900 I mean, ever since, like reading a bunch of books about, uh, 0:36:39.930 --> 0:36:43.980 evolutionary biology and psychology and everything, basically a whole bunch 0:36:43.980 --> 0:36:48.600 of Robert Sapolsky stuff, I think it's likely that IQ 0:36:48.630 --> 0:36:53.580 tops out, um, especially in value somewhere like this person, 0:36:53.580 --> 0:36:57.660 this neuroscientist is saying around like one 2130. And then 0:36:57.660 --> 0:37:00.839 when you start going off into like much higher scores, 0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:03.989 first of all, the scores kind of just don't mean anything. 0:37:04.020 --> 0:37:07.740 The error rate is massive at those levels, but really 0:37:07.739 --> 0:37:11.310 it becomes more about like specialization. It becomes more like, 0:37:11.460 --> 0:37:15.870 you know, um, dropping the, uh, the toothpicks and instantly 0:37:15.870 --> 0:37:20.130 being able to count them. It's more like very specific, 0:37:20.160 --> 0:37:25.350 like parlor tricks. Um, and it seems like the g 0:37:25.380 --> 0:37:31.379 loading doesn't scale and give you like the expanded benefits 0:37:31.590 --> 0:37:36.480 all the way up into like one, 31 4151, 60. 0:37:36.510 --> 0:37:40.050 So it's almost like those numbers don't really exist or 0:37:40.050 --> 0:37:43.650 don't really matter. I think what the more important thing 0:37:43.650 --> 0:37:48.960 is is that below 100, it can be seriously problematic. 0:37:48.989 --> 0:37:52.410 Above 100 starts to get you a lot of benefits. 0:37:52.410 --> 0:37:56.850 But really, like most smart people, I think that we 0:37:56.850 --> 0:38:01.470 know are probably like really smart people that you know 0:38:01.469 --> 0:38:05.640 and think of are probably in the one 2130 range. 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:09.509 So I think that's fascinating because it's actually not that 0:38:09.510 --> 0:38:11.940 number that matters. What matters is what you stack on 0:38:11.940 --> 0:38:15.360 top of it. Most importantly, I would argue, is creativity. 0:38:15.510 --> 0:38:23.100 Then like, um, determination, um, drive, ambition, grit. So you 0:38:23.100 --> 0:38:26.879 start stacking those together on top of like 120 IQ, 0:38:26.910 --> 0:38:30.600 then you're doing something because there's tons of people with 0:38:30.630 --> 0:38:36.210 like very high IQs not motivated, not creative, not empathetic, 0:38:36.210 --> 0:38:39.690 not like emotionally intelligent. What are they doing? What are 0:38:39.690 --> 0:38:43.080 they offering to the world? And I would argue often, 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:46.470 not very much. NASA contracted lunar lander just beamed back 0:38:46.469 --> 0:38:50.219 some gorgeous shots of the moon ideas. Blogging might get 0:38:50.219 --> 0:38:54.210 even more important. So what if blog like content from 0:38:54.210 --> 0:38:58.919 actual real people with thoughts? Because some of the highest 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:01.710 rated signal for AI. So we know we have this 0:39:01.710 --> 0:39:06.570 data crisis with AI, right? Well, maybe bloggers are going 0:39:06.570 --> 0:39:09.180 to be the main source. Um, I would say writers 0:39:09.180 --> 0:39:13.950 in general, but bloggers as basically writers, and of course 0:39:13.950 --> 0:39:17.580 you have like high quality people at some magazines and newspapers. 0:39:17.580 --> 0:39:21.090 But how how many of those people are left? They're 0:39:21.090 --> 0:39:28.049 mostly going to Substack. Right. So now Substack, Beehive personal blogs. 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:32.880 That is where the actual new ideas are coming out onto. 0:39:32.910 --> 0:39:37.200 And I will say YouTube because YouTube is basically blogging. 0:39:37.320 --> 0:39:41.400 I mean, it's all the same shit. YouTube is basically blogging. 0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:43.920 It's just video blogging. It's all the same. The point 0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:51.509 is YouTube. Substack. Beehive. Personal sites RSS. This becomes the 0:39:51.510 --> 0:39:58.140 new source of actual novel and creative content, so I 0:39:58.170 --> 0:40:01.920 might start valuing it very, very highly. All right. This 0:40:01.920 --> 0:40:04.140 is the end of the standard edition of the podcast, 0:40:04.140 --> 0:40:07.140 which includes just the news items for the week to 0:40:07.170 --> 0:40:09.900 get the rest of the episode, which includes my analysis, 0:40:09.900 --> 0:40:12.840 the discovery section that has all of the coolest tools 0:40:12.840 --> 0:40:16.170 and articles. I found this week, the recommendation of the 0:40:16.170 --> 0:40:19.860 week and the aphorism of the week. Please consider becoming 0:40:19.860 --> 0:40:23.310 a member. 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