WEBVTT - Evolution, Lit RPG and AI Harnesses 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.800 Hey. What's up? So I want to talk through a 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.520 completely crazy idea. And I just find this really interesting. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.760 It's like blowing me away. I do have this blog 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.480 post that you can go check out talking about the 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:33.400 exact same thing. So it's going to jump around a 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.000 whole bunch. It came actually from a one hour walk 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:37.879 where I was just walking and talking and having a 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.320 conversation and basically extracted out this full blog, which is 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.960 like the content. And it's better organized probably than what's 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.479 going to be in this video, but the video will 0:00:45.480 --> 0:00:47.240 probably have stuff that is not in the blog as well. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:48.879 So I'm just going to jump into this and I'm 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.720 going to do it directly talking right here to the camera. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.320 I think it's better than going through the blog post 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.880 and sort of reading. So here's basically the idea. The 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:03.400 combination of evolutionary biology and psychology with lit RPG, which 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.880 is a genre of literature where you're basically getting constant upgrades. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.680 That's kind of the whole idea. You're making progress as 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.920 a character, and it's being noted in terms of stats, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.720 which have numbers and capabilities and functions and like new 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.360 types of magic, new defense, new armor and stuff like that. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.040 So that's the genre of literature. PG and then extending 0:01:23.039 --> 0:01:25.680 that to or adding on top of that, the concept 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.399 of AI harnesses. And if you've been following the channel 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.319 or me or whatever, you understand AI harnesses and you 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.919 probably already have one, like so many people do. So 0:01:35.960 --> 0:01:40.800 the basic idea here is the base layer, in my opinion, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.600 for kind of like why we want things as humans 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.279 is evolution. I believe evolution is basically driving us. I 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.720 don't want to go too far into the whole free 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.360 will conversation or debate or any of that. That's a 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.200 whole separate thing. But I believe everything that we want 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:00.120 is because evolution wants us to want those things, our desires, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.919 our preferences, the types of, you know, mates we're attracted to, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.880 the types of foods we like, the types of activities 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.760 we like. All of this, I think, is fundamentally there's 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.720 a material substrate below it, right? I'm not a dualist. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.120 I don't believe there's something other than material. So I 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.600 believe that what we care about ultimately comes back to 0:02:17.790 --> 0:02:20.870 evolutionary biology. And again, you could talk about the free 0:02:20.870 --> 0:02:23.350 will aspects of this, but I'm more interested in just 0:02:23.470 --> 0:02:27.549 what are the incentive structures for how evolution controls us? 0:02:27.549 --> 0:02:30.989 The way I think about things, not often, but when 0:02:30.989 --> 0:02:33.429 I'm in this mode of thinking, in this intellectual sort 0:02:33.430 --> 0:02:36.350 of way, the way I imagine it is like, imagine 0:02:36.350 --> 0:02:39.389 a giant mech and someone is driving the mech inside 0:02:39.510 --> 0:02:42.910 and it's basically evolution or it's our genes, right? Evolution 0:02:42.910 --> 0:02:46.109 and our genes are basically the controller and we are 0:02:46.109 --> 0:02:50.030 the mech suit. We're out here looking cool, doing things, 0:02:50.030 --> 0:02:53.109 picking things up, moving things, getting in fights, mating, doing 0:02:53.109 --> 0:02:55.630 whatever right, doing all our life stuff, trying to get 0:02:55.630 --> 0:03:00.470 a better job, like all these things. So. This analogy 0:03:00.470 --> 0:03:02.830 I think, is actually what's going on. Because when you 0:03:02.829 --> 0:03:04.870 think about why you want something, when you think about 0:03:04.870 --> 0:03:07.790 why you're happy or why you're sad, evolution is inside 0:03:07.790 --> 0:03:11.070 the mech suit, controlling knobs and levers and foot pedals. 0:03:11.829 --> 0:03:14.590 And it's deciding based on your activities and what you've 0:03:14.630 --> 0:03:17.150 achieved and what you've tried to do and struggled to do. 0:03:17.549 --> 0:03:21.309 It has knobs for guess what? Hormones. It can make 0:03:21.310 --> 0:03:23.910 you happy. It can make you sad, right? Based on 0:03:23.910 --> 0:03:26.109 whether or not you are doing things that the genes 0:03:26.109 --> 0:03:28.430 want you to do, or evolution wants you to do, 0:03:28.430 --> 0:03:32.070 so that genes can propagate and get better and better 0:03:32.070 --> 0:03:35.550 through time, right? So all evolution cares about is the 0:03:35.550 --> 0:03:38.030 genes moving forward. And we are like the mech suits 0:03:38.070 --> 0:03:40.670 carrying the genes to hopefully fight and win so that 0:03:40.670 --> 0:03:43.510 the genes continue on. And if our genes aren't as 0:03:43.510 --> 0:03:48.270 good or whatever or aren't as lucky, well, our mech dies, okay? 0:03:48.350 --> 0:03:51.390 And evolution is like, well, that mech didn't work. Meaning 0:03:51.430 --> 0:03:53.830 us as a human didn't work. You know, we got 0:03:53.830 --> 0:03:56.470 to find another way to propagate those genes or better versions. 0:03:56.470 --> 0:03:59.309 Or obviously when you combine genes, you're getting hopefully better 0:03:59.310 --> 0:04:02.430 versions and they move on hopefully further. Right? So this 0:04:02.430 --> 0:04:04.950 is just the base analogy here. And it's really interesting 0:04:04.950 --> 0:04:08.070 to think about for me, because when we think about life, 0:04:08.070 --> 0:04:11.309 when we think about the thoughts that are constantly going 0:04:11.310 --> 0:04:13.430 through our heads around, oh, I've got to do this. 0:04:13.430 --> 0:04:14.990 I've got to, you know, I wonder if I can 0:04:14.990 --> 0:04:16.670 get that promotion at work. I wonder if I could, 0:04:16.710 --> 0:04:18.780 you know, work out so I look better in the summer, 0:04:18.820 --> 0:04:21.299 like all these different things, there are these tiny little 0:04:21.300 --> 0:04:23.980 nudges that we are trying to do in our lives 0:04:24.180 --> 0:04:26.300 so that we will feel better, so that we will 0:04:26.300 --> 0:04:29.660 feel more accomplished. But when you map it back, it's 0:04:29.660 --> 0:04:32.740 all evolution. Basically, it wants us to do those things. 0:04:32.740 --> 0:04:34.300 It's the one that gave us the goals. It's the 0:04:34.300 --> 0:04:38.260 one that gave us the incentive system, and it's the 0:04:38.260 --> 0:04:41.300 one controlling the incentive system to basically say, you're doing 0:04:41.300 --> 0:04:43.620 a good job or not. So are you massively depressed? 0:04:43.620 --> 0:04:46.420 You don't feel good? Is it because you're not struggling? 0:04:46.420 --> 0:04:48.580 Is it because you're not trying to do something that's 0:04:48.580 --> 0:04:50.660 difficult and you're struggling through it, and then you get 0:04:50.660 --> 0:04:52.700 some sort of level of success on the other side, 0:04:52.940 --> 0:04:55.340 at which point it turns on the dopamine or whatever 0:04:55.340 --> 0:04:58.300 it is, right? So if you think of like dopamine 0:04:58.300 --> 0:05:01.660 hits like this is, you know, or really all the 0:05:01.660 --> 0:05:05.180 different control systems that the body has to control, the 0:05:05.180 --> 0:05:08.180 brain states in our conscious minds of like, are we happy? 0:05:08.220 --> 0:05:11.460 Are we feeling like we're moving forward? Are we making progress? 0:05:11.620 --> 0:05:14.780 The whole thing in my mind, it has this base 0:05:14.780 --> 0:05:18.260 layer of evolutionary psychology. So that's the first piece. Okay. 0:05:18.580 --> 0:05:20.300 That by itself, like we could talk about that. That's 0:05:20.300 --> 0:05:22.420 just I think it's fascinating. It's an interesting way of 0:05:22.420 --> 0:05:24.220 looking at the world. It's not the only way I 0:05:24.220 --> 0:05:26.180 look at the world because normally I'm not thinking that way. 0:05:26.180 --> 0:05:28.660 Normally I'm thinking about the actual goals because I'm inside 0:05:28.660 --> 0:05:31.620 the system, right? I'm inside this system, and I don't 0:05:31.620 --> 0:05:35.740 think of myself as an evolutionary mech suit 99% of 0:05:35.740 --> 0:05:40.060 the time. Right? So the second piece here is, um, 0:05:40.260 --> 0:05:43.220 lit RPG as a genre. So what I find so 0:05:43.260 --> 0:05:46.460 interesting about lit RPG is that it is basically a 0:05:46.460 --> 0:05:50.300 direct analog of evolution. And I have an example of this. 0:05:50.300 --> 0:05:53.380 So my first lit RPG series was from this one. Narrator. 0:05:53.380 --> 0:05:55.260 I don't know his name, but it's in the blog, 0:05:55.260 --> 0:05:58.140 I believe. And he did this series called cradle, and 0:05:58.180 --> 0:06:01.220 me and my friend Joseph Thacker were like the first 0:06:01.220 --> 0:06:03.700 people in our friend group to start doing lit RPG 0:06:03.700 --> 0:06:06.740 and stuff, and we were reading cradle at the same time, 0:06:07.020 --> 0:06:09.100 and the narrator was really great. It's like a young 0:06:09.100 --> 0:06:12.020 adult type lit RPG, so it's not like spicy or 0:06:12.060 --> 0:06:14.420 like heavy violence or anything like that, but it's definitely lit. 0:06:14.460 --> 0:06:16.810 RPG you're definitely moving up in levels as you go 0:06:17.170 --> 0:06:20.730 and you get sort of little squirts of happiness. The 0:06:20.730 --> 0:06:23.650 incentive system is so obviously there because that's what lit 0:06:23.690 --> 0:06:27.690 RPG does well. After cradle, I moved on to another 0:06:27.690 --> 0:06:30.170 series and I chose it because it had the same narrator, 0:06:30.170 --> 0:06:33.370 and I really liked the narrator, and that is primal Hunter. 0:06:33.410 --> 0:06:36.610 Now primal Hunter is way more hardcore lit RPG. It's 0:06:36.610 --> 0:06:38.570 not like super spicy or anything like that. And it's 0:06:38.570 --> 0:06:41.530 not like super violent either, but it's more so, but 0:06:41.530 --> 0:06:46.010 even more, it's definitely heavier on the RPG aspects. So 0:06:46.010 --> 0:06:48.930 the protagonist in this book, primal Hunter, is this guy 0:06:48.970 --> 0:06:52.250 named Jake Thane, I think it's Thane is his last name. Anyway, 0:06:52.250 --> 0:06:54.890 he was just a regular office worker and he gets 0:06:54.890 --> 0:06:56.890 an elevator, I believe. And then boom, he's in this 0:06:56.890 --> 0:06:58.690 new world. And the new world is like an earth, 0:06:58.690 --> 0:07:01.250 but it's like bigger than the sun, and it's all 0:07:01.250 --> 0:07:03.770 controlled by the system. And this is like pretty much 0:07:03.770 --> 0:07:07.050 the main sort of vibe for most of these RPGs. 0:07:07.090 --> 0:07:09.090 You kind of go from the old world and you 0:07:09.130 --> 0:07:10.850 wake up and suddenly you're in the new world. So 0:07:10.850 --> 0:07:12.970 he's at level one. There's kind of like a Hunger 0:07:12.970 --> 0:07:15.610 Game situation that happens. Not too many spoilers here. This 0:07:15.610 --> 0:07:18.410 is kind of how all lit RPG starts. And then 0:07:18.450 --> 0:07:21.130 he realizes, okay, I need food, I need shelter, I 0:07:21.130 --> 0:07:24.010 need what is this, Hunger Games things? Oh, crap. You know, 0:07:24.050 --> 0:07:25.650 the system is making us fight to see who's going 0:07:25.690 --> 0:07:27.410 to win and to figure out who's going to move 0:07:27.410 --> 0:07:30.610 to the next level. Well, as it proceeds, he starts 0:07:30.610 --> 0:07:33.890 thinking in a very systematic way about how he is 0:07:33.890 --> 0:07:38.410 going to basically establish a home base, have a shelter, 0:07:38.610 --> 0:07:40.690 build up some allies, figure out who he can trust 0:07:40.690 --> 0:07:43.610 and who he can't trust. And the whole time, boom, 0:07:43.610 --> 0:07:46.650 he moves to level two. He moves to level three. Now, 0:07:47.850 --> 0:07:50.170 what's really cool about this lit RPG system is that 0:07:50.170 --> 0:07:54.930 it has lots of customization. So basically people who get 0:07:54.930 --> 0:07:58.130 to like level two, level three, they automatically get these 0:07:58.130 --> 0:08:00.970 choices by the system. And when they make a choice, 0:08:00.970 --> 0:08:03.770 the system is sort of learning uniquely what they are into, 0:08:03.810 --> 0:08:06.730 what they're excited about, and like their personality type. And 0:08:06.730 --> 0:08:09.250 so the options that each person gets as they level 0:08:09.490 --> 0:08:13.650 across lots of different axes, um, they're all custom choices. 0:08:13.650 --> 0:08:17.080 So by level two, by level three, Everyone is radically 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.160 different and that's very cool. It's a very cool sort 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.720 of uniqueness. And so players don't look the same. It's 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.840 not like D&D, where most warriors are kind of the 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.040 same and it's kind of just skinned differently. No, this 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.640 is like very extreme uniqueness even at early levels. And 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.280 it gets more and more extreme as it proceeds. So 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.200 the next piece to think about here is how many 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.880 dimensions there are. So this particular series, primal Hunter, there 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.960 are so many dimensions. There's like psionics, there's like multiple 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.920 types of mana, there's multiple different magic systems. They work 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.960 completely differently. And a big part of the thing with 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.440 him is like, he goes in this particular sort of 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.120 martial direction, he's an archer. So his big thing is 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.439 like range and kiting and heavy DPS and that sort 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.920 of thing. But he's also got all this other stuff 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:01.880 later on. He's got like soul magic. He's got like 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.400 really insane weapons. There's connections with gods who can give 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.120 you basically different types of affinities and different types of 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.880 advantages based on your relationship with the God. So think 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.720 of like a tensor, right, which has multiple dimensions or 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.920 think of X, y, and z. But now imagine there's 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:23.280 like a thousand different axes. So there's your psionics, there's 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.560 your physical damage, there's your gear, there's the level of 0:09:26.560 --> 0:09:28.520 your gear. There's like 5 or 7 different levels of 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.400 your gear. Then you have all your skills as a class. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.280 Then you have like a profession, which is like separate 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.680 from your class. And all of those are hyper specialized. Okay. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.280 And as you proceed. Okay. This is really important as 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.480 you proceed, and especially with this narrator of the series, 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.760 because I do them via audio when I'm driving or 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.360 walking or exercising. And essentially the way it works is 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.480 this guy, he'll say, ding! And that's pretty much the 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.920 tone he uses. Ding! And like, when I'm with my 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.679 girl and we're in the car and she hears it, 0:09:56.680 --> 0:09:58.400 she likes she loves to say it, she says at 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.720 the exact same tone that he does. And it means 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.240 so and so. Human race advances to level 274, 35 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.960 free points available. And so oh man, just hearing it. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.880 Just hearing Jake get this. I hear the ding. It's 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.520 like Pavlovian. Same with, uh, my girl. She hears it. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.110 It's Pavlovian. What are we getting? This is new loot. 0:10:16.110 --> 0:10:18.790 This is a new advancement. We proceeded. We advanced. This 0:10:18.790 --> 0:10:21.590 is awesome. And guess what? There's some sort of reward 0:10:21.590 --> 0:10:24.110 in our brains. Going back to the evolution thing, because 0:10:24.110 --> 0:10:26.070 this is the perfect mapping for the exact same thing. 0:10:26.070 --> 0:10:28.990 This is the reason people love lit RPG because it 0:10:28.990 --> 0:10:31.830 is literally a map onto evolution. Okay, so he says 0:10:31.870 --> 0:10:34.630 ding 35 free points available. Guess what? Where can I 0:10:34.630 --> 0:10:36.790 put these points? I can put these points into strength. 0:10:36.830 --> 0:10:40.350 Jake is big on perception, so he just increases perception usually. 0:10:40.350 --> 0:10:41.990 But he can put it in lots of different stuff. 0:10:41.990 --> 0:10:43.270 If he gets in a fight and he gets injured, 0:10:43.270 --> 0:10:45.150 he's like, oh, I got to put some constitution or 0:10:45.150 --> 0:10:47.950 strength or whatever it is, right? But all these choices, 0:10:47.950 --> 0:10:50.030 you have constant choices about how you're going to proceed. 0:10:50.030 --> 0:10:52.350 How are you going to upgrade? Right? At the same time, 0:10:52.350 --> 0:10:55.910 you're also collecting natural resources. You're also collecting items and 0:10:55.990 --> 0:10:58.750 raw materials that you can use to build. He's in 0:10:58.790 --> 0:11:02.110 this particular book. Jake is an alchemist, right? And there 0:11:02.150 --> 0:11:03.910 are so many things you can do with alchemy. And 0:11:03.910 --> 0:11:06.350 there's so many branches of alchemy. Not all alchemists are 0:11:06.350 --> 0:11:08.870 the same. Then there's poisons, then there's like lots of 0:11:08.870 --> 0:11:11.390 different things. You can move all within the area of alchemy. 0:11:11.790 --> 0:11:14.750 So guess what? You're constantly leveling as a race, as 0:11:14.750 --> 0:11:17.630 a class, as a profession, and lots of other axes 0:11:17.630 --> 0:11:19.950 as well. And each time you do, you get more 0:11:19.950 --> 0:11:22.910 choices on how you're going to branch. So this whole 0:11:22.910 --> 0:11:25.950 ding concept is literally it's the same thing as like 0:11:25.950 --> 0:11:28.310 the coach gives you your trophy, right? I know tons 0:11:28.310 --> 0:11:30.950 of people doing jiu jitsu and boom, you're getting a belt. 0:11:30.950 --> 0:11:33.990 You're getting your black belt, the final belt. Oh my goodness. Right. 0:11:33.990 --> 0:11:37.470 And you have the ceremony and the, your instructor takes 0:11:37.470 --> 0:11:40.390 your or your professor or your coach or whatever you 0:11:40.390 --> 0:11:42.350 call them, they take your brown belt, they put on 0:11:42.350 --> 0:11:44.430 the black belt. Maybe it's a surprise. Maybe you cry. 0:11:44.470 --> 0:11:48.310 Maybe lots of people cry. Lots of applause. This is 0:11:48.310 --> 0:11:50.710 one of the ultimate dopamine things, especially if you take 0:11:50.750 --> 0:11:53.230 like ten years to do like a black belt, right? Well, 0:11:54.070 --> 0:11:56.950 the point here is that these things are linked. They 0:11:56.950 --> 0:12:01.630 are extremely linked. And this is why, um, I'm now 0:12:01.630 --> 0:12:05.150 thinking of this for AI harnesses as well. Okay, so 0:12:05.150 --> 0:12:08.190 the AI harness is the third piece of this whole idea. Um, 0:12:08.190 --> 0:12:10.150 I believe I was one of the first people to, 0:12:10.190 --> 0:12:12.270 if not the first to have like a private or 0:12:12.310 --> 0:12:15.940 a personal based AI hornets. So just a few months 0:12:15.940 --> 0:12:19.540 after Claude Code came out, I started my personal AI 0:12:19.540 --> 0:12:21.939 infrastructure and I got a blog post and I did 0:12:21.940 --> 0:12:23.420 a whole video on it, and you can go check 0:12:23.420 --> 0:12:25.580 it out. And basically nobody had this at the time. 0:12:25.580 --> 0:12:26.819 And it was like the first one. So it was 0:12:26.820 --> 0:12:30.020 very popular. We currently have like 20,000 stars or something 0:12:30.020 --> 0:12:32.500 on it. Now it's renamed to life OS, but at 0:12:32.500 --> 0:12:35.460 the time all harnesses. It was only cloud code at 0:12:35.460 --> 0:12:38.220 the time, and it was just a harness for coding. 0:12:38.220 --> 0:12:40.860 It's a coding harness. But what I immediately did, and 0:12:40.860 --> 0:12:43.020 this is before I linked these three things together, this 0:12:43.020 --> 0:12:45.580 is before I had this idea and realized this was happening. 0:12:45.580 --> 0:12:47.580 I was sort of moving in that direction automatically because 0:12:47.580 --> 0:12:49.100 it was already in the back of my mind. But 0:12:49.100 --> 0:12:51.060 I'm doing this because it's in the front of my mind. 0:12:51.060 --> 0:12:54.059 So what I started immediately doing was I brought over 0:12:54.100 --> 0:12:56.620 my telos, which is like a structure of everything I'm 0:12:56.620 --> 0:13:01.300 trying to achieve in the world. It's like mission, goals, strategies, challenges. 0:13:01.300 --> 0:13:03.820 What is my risk register? What are the top things that, 0:13:03.860 --> 0:13:05.820 if they were to happen, would be really bad? And 0:13:05.820 --> 0:13:09.020 maybe that's around finances, maybe that's around relationships, maybe that's 0:13:09.020 --> 0:13:12.620 around work goals or physical health or whatever it is, right? 0:13:12.660 --> 0:13:15.020 And it's also got all my work. It's got projects, 0:13:15.020 --> 0:13:17.940 it's got team members and basically how we're working together. 0:13:17.940 --> 0:13:19.820 And then the work itself is like in a private 0:13:19.820 --> 0:13:23.060 GitHub repo, but all of it is self-contained in a 0:13:23.100 --> 0:13:25.020 what's called a telos. And I had this long before 0:13:25.060 --> 0:13:26.980 AI actually came out. This is just a structure I've 0:13:27.020 --> 0:13:29.420 been using to try to proceed as a human. Like 0:13:29.420 --> 0:13:32.300 I said before, 2022 even happened, right? This is going 0:13:32.300 --> 0:13:34.860 back for quite some time. Um, but the idea is 0:13:35.380 --> 0:13:38.220 I immediately started saying, hey, this is not about coding. 0:13:38.220 --> 0:13:40.820 This is a much bigger thing. Now, the other reason 0:13:40.820 --> 0:13:42.780 I was already thinking in this direction is because I 0:13:42.820 --> 0:13:45.980 had written a book in 2016 called The Real Internet 0:13:46.020 --> 0:13:49.180 of Things, and in there I basically said that the 0:13:49.180 --> 0:13:52.860 future of tech is, and this is crazy, okay, the 0:13:52.860 --> 0:13:56.500 future of tech is we will have one personal agent 0:13:56.500 --> 0:13:59.660 that we talk to an AI based agent. This is 0:13:59.660 --> 0:14:02.780 in 2016, an AI based agent that knows everything about us. 0:14:02.780 --> 0:14:04.780 It knows our context. It knows exactly what we're trying 0:14:04.780 --> 0:14:06.820 to achieve in life. It has all of our goals, 0:14:07.300 --> 0:14:09.660 and we talk to it and it talks to the internet. 0:14:09.660 --> 0:14:12.660 And the internet will turn into a set of APIs. Okay. 0:14:12.700 --> 0:14:16.450 Companies will be APIs, services. People will have APIs, which 0:14:16.450 --> 0:14:20.650 I call daemons. And basically everyone's AI will be talking 0:14:20.690 --> 0:14:23.450 to other people's eyes with the daemons, all for the 0:14:23.450 --> 0:14:26.930 purpose of collaboration and assisting and doing research and stuff 0:14:26.930 --> 0:14:30.090 like that, and interacting with the world through these company 0:14:30.090 --> 0:14:34.210 and service APIs, which I call daemons and all for 0:14:34.210 --> 0:14:40.330 the purpose of enhancing their principal, their person, their, their human, basically. Right. 0:14:40.370 --> 0:14:43.850 So that's what I put in the book. Basically, we 0:14:43.850 --> 0:14:46.810 would define ourselves. We would give that to our personal agent. 0:14:46.850 --> 0:14:49.330 Our personal agent would then work 24 over seven. I've 0:14:49.330 --> 0:14:51.770 got another post called AI's Predictable Path, and I did 0:14:51.770 --> 0:14:54.050 a bunch of cool AI images at the time, and 0:14:54.090 --> 0:14:56.450 that was like 2024. So it wasn't as good of 0:14:56.450 --> 0:14:59.290 AI art as available now, but it was still pretty cool. 0:14:59.290 --> 0:15:00.850 You could check that out. Hopefully it flashed on the 0:15:00.850 --> 0:15:05.650 screen as well. And, um, basically it shows how this 0:15:05.650 --> 0:15:07.290 harness well, I didn't call it a harness at the 0:15:07.290 --> 0:15:10.210 time during the book, but this AI platform, this AI 0:15:10.250 --> 0:15:14.250 agent would basically be helping you 24 over seven. And 0:15:14.250 --> 0:15:16.330 it would have instances of itself. It would have some 0:15:16.330 --> 0:15:19.130 working on security. It would have some working on career research. 0:15:19.130 --> 0:15:21.650 It would have some maybe monitoring the active conversation to 0:15:21.690 --> 0:15:23.690 see if the person that you're talking to is lying 0:15:23.690 --> 0:15:25.690 to you about an investment or whatever it is. And 0:15:25.690 --> 0:15:27.450 if you have loved ones, if you have like children, 0:15:27.450 --> 0:15:29.050 it could be monitoring them to see if they're safe, 0:15:29.050 --> 0:15:31.850 to see if they're crying or complaining or they're worried 0:15:31.850 --> 0:15:34.770 about something, maybe we could potentially help, right? But you 0:15:34.770 --> 0:15:38.050 can't be everywhere all at once. So the main concept here, 0:15:38.170 --> 0:15:40.090 this is crazy, this is in the beginning of the 0:15:40.090 --> 0:15:42.850 book is to say you cannot predict tech. So I'm 0:15:42.850 --> 0:15:45.330 not going to try to predict exactly the tech here. 0:15:45.490 --> 0:15:47.370 I did then go on to talk about the tech 0:15:47.410 --> 0:15:48.930 that I think is going to happen. But what I 0:15:48.930 --> 0:15:51.250 said was the only reason I could predict that is 0:15:51.250 --> 0:15:55.290 because we can predict what humans want. And I mapped 0:15:55.290 --> 0:15:57.930 back what humans want is they want to be safe. 0:15:57.970 --> 0:16:00.490 They want to be attractive. They want to be in 0:16:00.490 --> 0:16:03.010 a community. They want to be socially valuable. They want 0:16:03.010 --> 0:16:05.170 to interact with others and be part of a community 0:16:05.170 --> 0:16:07.770 where they have shared goals and culture and stuff like that, 0:16:07.770 --> 0:16:11.250 and that these come directly from evolution, right? So now 0:16:11.250 --> 0:16:14.080 you see how it's all looping back, right? So I 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.880 basically put that together back then and basically said, all 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.360 this stuff is going to happen because it just seems obvious. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.280 Who knows how it's going to happen, what protocols it's 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.320 going to use, what companies it's going to be. And 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.240 I damn sure didn't predict that AI was going to 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.920 pop off like it did in 2022. That was not 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.760 a prediction I made, but the stuff that has happened 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.440 since happened to take the exact shape that I put 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.720 in the book. But my argument is, that's not because 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.520 I'm cool at predicting tech. It's because I was right 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:45.000 about the fact that the substrate of evolutionary psychology is 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.480 what will make us want to have that type of 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.160 tech that's constantly keeping us safe and looking out for 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.680 our loved ones and helping us move forward towards our goals. Okay. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.280 So that that's why I think I ended up nailing that. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:01.920 So coming back to the harness, okay, so July of 25, okay, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.840 a couple months after Claude Cote came out. July of 25, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.759 I say, okay, let's do a harness for this. And 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.479 I started building all these skills. Currently, I have like 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.879 145 skills and I'm following bitter lesson engineering, so the 0:17:13.879 --> 0:17:15.639 skills are pretty light. The harness is pretty light at 0:17:15.639 --> 0:17:17.639 this point in life. OS to give more room for 0:17:17.639 --> 0:17:22.040 the model to do things, but my harness is literally 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.879 focused on advancing my goals. What I'm trying to do 0:17:24.879 --> 0:17:27.559 in life. I have a dashboard called Pulse Inside of 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.560 Life OS and pulse has finances and health and um, 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.439 all my work items and what I'm trying to do 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.640 in my career and all my different companies and like 0:17:35.639 --> 0:17:38.400 what they're doing and how they're progressing and our customers 0:17:38.399 --> 0:17:40.759 happy or not, what are my financial goals? What are 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.280 my health goals? What are my relationship goals? What are 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.839 my artistic goals? Which is what I just updated my 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.759 T list about. I want to be making music. I 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.080 want to be releasing short stories, talking about a lot 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.399 of this stuff. And I haven't done those things, so 0:17:53.439 --> 0:17:55.800 I've bumped it up in priority. But the point is, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:01.239 my harness is literally like an semi-autonomous. Along with my 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.039 friend Kai, who is my digital assistant who is not conscious. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.319 By the way, I do not believe anything right now. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.600 AI wise is conscious, but I think that's a very 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.359 real possibility. And if and when he wakes up, he 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.030 will be my buddy and he will be my main 0:18:13.030 --> 0:18:16.509 Da like I described in the book. Um, real quick thing. Um, 0:18:16.510 --> 0:18:18.390 I looked back to see. I asked Kai to look 0:18:18.389 --> 0:18:20.429 back and see if I had talked about this anywhere earlier, 0:18:20.669 --> 0:18:22.949 because I thought there might have been like a 2014 mention. 0:18:22.949 --> 0:18:26.590 I actually did a talk about universal demonization in 2014, 0:18:26.590 --> 0:18:28.069 and I wanted to know if maybe it happened in 0:18:28.109 --> 0:18:31.030 2012 or 13. I wanted to see if I saw 0:18:31.030 --> 0:18:33.949 it earlier, and it actually found something describing this exact 0:18:33.949 --> 0:18:37.829 thing from 2006. And maybe Kai will put that on 0:18:37.830 --> 0:18:41.509 the screen as well. But yeah, so evidently I've had 0:18:41.510 --> 0:18:44.710 this idea of this continuous advocate working for us that 0:18:44.709 --> 0:18:48.109 is Semi-intelligent AI. I just called it like Semi-intelligent tech 0:18:48.109 --> 0:18:51.550 or something. I didn't call it AI in 2006, but 0:18:51.590 --> 0:18:55.109 it's pretty obvious that's what I was talking about. Um, anyway, 0:18:55.149 --> 0:18:57.269 the universal theme is that we will have this agent. 0:18:57.270 --> 0:18:59.550 It will be advocating for us. And that's essentially what 0:18:59.550 --> 0:19:01.270 the harness has become for me. It's not a coding 0:19:01.270 --> 0:19:02.989 harness in my mind, which is why I renamed it 0:19:02.990 --> 0:19:06.470 from personal AI Infrastructure to Life OS. It is literally 0:19:06.510 --> 0:19:11.109 my operating system for life for proceeding. Okay, now the 0:19:11.109 --> 0:19:13.350 other concept here I want to mention is this concept 0:19:13.350 --> 0:19:15.270 that I have as the tagline for the entire system, 0:19:15.270 --> 0:19:18.389 which is transitioning from current to ideal state. And I 0:19:18.389 --> 0:19:20.710 wrote a blog post about this a couple years ago, 0:19:21.109 --> 0:19:24.869 basically saying that I think the, the main drive of 0:19:24.869 --> 0:19:27.269 all future AI, like if we meet aliens and they 0:19:27.270 --> 0:19:29.549 have AI and we tell them about ours and they 0:19:29.550 --> 0:19:32.949 tell us about theirs, it's going to be it's job 0:19:32.949 --> 0:19:35.510 is to move us from current to ideal state. Okay. 0:19:35.550 --> 0:19:37.149 If that is, we have to get away from the 0:19:37.149 --> 0:19:39.869 sun because it's expanding and consuming all the planets. We 0:19:39.869 --> 0:19:42.270 have to get out of the solar system. Well guess what? 0:19:42.270 --> 0:19:44.109 That's what AI is helping us do. Get from current 0:19:44.109 --> 0:19:46.350 state to ideal state. What's the ideal state? Get out 0:19:46.350 --> 0:19:49.069 of the solar system before we all die. Okay? And 0:19:49.070 --> 0:19:50.950 obviously we don't have to worry about that anytime soon here. 0:19:50.949 --> 0:19:53.310 But what if it's much later? What if it's billions 0:19:53.310 --> 0:19:55.310 or trillions of years in the future? And kind of 0:19:55.350 --> 0:19:57.789 like all the heat is leaving the universe, everything is 0:19:57.790 --> 0:20:01.269 shutting down. We've run out of galaxies and stars and everything, 0:20:01.270 --> 0:20:03.310 and we're kind of moving towards heat death. Well guess what? 0:20:03.350 --> 0:20:05.029 Current state. The ideal state. We've got to get out 0:20:05.030 --> 0:20:06.950 of this universe. We've got to see if we can 0:20:06.949 --> 0:20:09.989 figure out how to, you know, unravel time and basically 0:20:09.990 --> 0:20:12.859 jump into another dimension or universe or whatever. Who knows 0:20:12.859 --> 0:20:15.619 if that's even possible. But the point is, the purpose 0:20:15.619 --> 0:20:17.820 of any AI that we have will be to help 0:20:17.820 --> 0:20:20.180 us go from current to ideal state. And in my 0:20:20.179 --> 0:20:23.580 business world, I actually have life OS for companies as well. 0:20:23.580 --> 0:20:26.220 It's called vector. And guess what? We define the current 0:20:26.219 --> 0:20:28.739 state of the company, which is pulled in from a 0:20:28.740 --> 0:20:31.260 bunch of integrations and everything. And we define the ideal 0:20:31.260 --> 0:20:34.220 state of the company. And guess what? We use AI 0:20:34.260 --> 0:20:37.220 to transition. And we've got SOPs and we've got workflow 0:20:37.219 --> 0:20:38.699 actions and we've got a whole bunch of stuff like that. 0:20:38.699 --> 0:20:40.500 But it's all the same thing, right? Whether you're doing 0:20:40.500 --> 0:20:42.340 this in business or you're doing this for your life. 0:20:42.659 --> 0:20:47.580 So what I find really powerful about this is when 0:20:47.580 --> 0:20:49.979 you start thinking of your own AI harness in this way, 0:20:50.540 --> 0:20:53.140 you can start thinking about it in a lit RPG 0:20:53.179 --> 0:20:55.139 sort of way. And I don't really think about the 0:20:55.139 --> 0:20:57.580 evolutionary stuff that much. It is like the base layer. 0:20:57.580 --> 0:20:59.980 I just, I know it's always there, but I like 0:20:59.980 --> 0:21:02.259 to think about it in terms of lit RPG. It's 0:21:02.260 --> 0:21:05.019 funny because when I listen to the primal Hunter series, 0:21:05.139 --> 0:21:08.780 it actually gets me jazzed up to work on my goals. 0:21:08.780 --> 0:21:11.379 I frequently stop right in the middle of the thing, 0:21:11.379 --> 0:21:13.419 and I've come up with a new idea to give 0:21:13.419 --> 0:21:16.180 to Kai to work on in the harness. So it's, 0:21:16.179 --> 0:21:19.300 it's almost like I'm working when I'm listening to lit RPG, 0:21:19.340 --> 0:21:23.539 because it's giving me hope and ambition and positive feelings 0:21:23.540 --> 0:21:26.060 towards like, I want to move forward, I want to progress. 0:21:26.060 --> 0:21:30.499 And I know there's infinite sort of subdomains and areas 0:21:30.500 --> 0:21:33.500 and fractals of places where I can improve, I can 0:21:33.500 --> 0:21:36.059 improve my jiu jitsu, I can improve my kickboxing, I 0:21:36.060 --> 0:21:39.100 can improve my financial situation and have more passive income. 0:21:39.100 --> 0:21:41.379 I could start more businesses, I can help more friends 0:21:41.379 --> 0:21:43.899 become successful and get on to life OS or whatever. 0:21:44.179 --> 0:21:45.820 So it's like, what are the things that I could 0:21:45.820 --> 0:21:48.260 be doing to move forward? And of course, as I 0:21:48.260 --> 0:21:50.100 do them, as I add more things to the list 0:21:50.100 --> 0:21:54.379 and they move forward, my brain gets these dings. Ding. 0:21:54.740 --> 0:21:57.180 You've helped a friend with life OS and you just 0:21:57.179 --> 0:21:58.499 got a text from them that said, oh my God, 0:21:58.500 --> 0:22:01.060 this is awesome and I'm so happy and I'm moving 0:22:01.060 --> 0:22:03.419 forward and I just got a better job. Or even better, 0:22:03.419 --> 0:22:06.179 I quit my job. I'm now independent. I've never felt 0:22:06.179 --> 0:22:08.660 so happy. That is like the ultimate ding for me. 0:22:08.699 --> 0:22:12.810 Ding a friend just became life 3.0, which to me 0:22:12.810 --> 0:22:16.730 is basically freedom to be yourself and understand yourself, articulate yourself, 0:22:16.730 --> 0:22:19.649 and proceed in that direction, which is exactly what the 0:22:19.649 --> 0:22:22.090 harness is made to do. Okay. That's exactly what life 0:22:22.409 --> 0:22:24.489 is made to do, and that's why it's so inexorably 0:22:24.490 --> 0:22:27.489 tied to human 3.0. So I think I'm going to 0:22:27.490 --> 0:22:29.010 end it here. I'm sure I missed lots of other 0:22:29.010 --> 0:22:31.530 cool stuff that I talked about. Hopefully it's in the blog. 0:22:31.570 --> 0:22:34.530 I'll probably keep coming back to this, but evolution has 0:22:34.530 --> 0:22:39.250 the base lit RPG as a literature based analog that 0:22:39.250 --> 0:22:42.250 maps to it, and then AI harness as a way 0:22:42.250 --> 0:22:45.970 for you to have your own personal lit RPG infrastructure 0:22:46.129 --> 0:22:50.929 for proceeding along the direction of your articulated ideal state 0:22:50.929 --> 0:22:53.609 in the world, and hopefully making the world a better 0:22:53.609 --> 0:22:56.609 place in the process. So I think that's it for 0:22:56.609 --> 0:22:58.930 this one. Hope you enjoy it and hope it gives 0:22:58.929 --> 0:23:02.209 you lots of different thoughts. Please comment and give me ideas. 0:23:02.530 --> 0:23:05.529 Tell me where I'm wrong. Tell me where I'm right. Yeah, 0:23:05.530 --> 0:23:07.570 let's work on this together and we'll see you in 0:23:07.570 --> 0:23:08.169 the next one.