WEBVTT - UL NO. 486 STANDARD EDITION: Fully Automated AI Malware (Binary and Web), My Debate with Marcus Hutchins on AI and more 0:00:19.012 --> 0:00:22.492 All right. Welcome to episode 486. This is Daniel Missler. 0:00:24.172 --> 0:00:26.612 All right. A lot of stuff to share this week. 0:00:26.772 --> 0:00:31.052 Let's see here. Um, okay, so I had a debate 0:00:31.052 --> 0:00:34.692 with Marcus Hutchins about I, I don't know if you've 0:00:34.692 --> 0:00:37.652 seen him talking about AI online, but he basically, uh, 0:00:38.212 --> 0:00:40.812 him and a number of my friends, uh, Christopher Hoff 0:00:40.852 --> 0:00:44.452 being one of them, they basically take opportunity whenever they 0:00:44.452 --> 0:00:47.892 can to to basically point out how stupid it is 0:00:47.932 --> 0:00:50.772 and how it makes tons of mistakes and how it's 0:00:50.772 --> 0:00:55.132 basically all folly and, uh, how everyone's overestimating it. And 0:00:55.132 --> 0:00:56.932 the whole the whole thing is going to come crashing 0:00:56.932 --> 0:00:59.292 down and a bunch of scams, all for the purpose 0:00:59.292 --> 0:01:01.492 of making money. And it's all just hype and marketing. 0:01:01.852 --> 0:01:05.212 So that's kind of their position. Uh, Marcus is a 0:01:05.212 --> 0:01:08.532 particularly good at making these points in a very humorous way. 0:01:08.732 --> 0:01:10.932 And of course, he has a huge following because he 0:01:10.932 --> 0:01:16.051 is Marcus Hutchins, probably the most famous malware researcher that 0:01:16.052 --> 0:01:20.782 we've ever known. And, uh, because I have the opposite view, 0:01:20.782 --> 0:01:23.181 I wanted to have this debate. So we had the debate. 0:01:23.182 --> 0:01:25.342 It's on YouTube now. I highly suggest you go check 0:01:25.342 --> 0:01:28.062 it out. And of course, the link is in the newsletter. 0:01:28.462 --> 0:01:31.662 The conversation went extremely well. It was very cordial. It 0:01:31.661 --> 0:01:36.461 was very, um, substantive. I think we both made points 0:01:36.462 --> 0:01:41.022 that the other one received and appreciated. So I think 0:01:41.021 --> 0:01:43.222 it was overall just great. Now, a lot of the 0:01:43.222 --> 0:01:47.782 feedback has been that we weren't actually disagreeing and that, uh, 0:01:48.902 --> 0:01:52.742 both things could be true. And this makes me think 0:01:52.742 --> 0:01:55.702 we went a little bit too hard on being nice. And, uh, 0:01:55.702 --> 0:01:58.302 maybe for part two, which we're already talking about, talking 0:01:58.302 --> 0:02:01.142 about doing maybe for part two, we need to sort 0:02:01.142 --> 0:02:03.942 of tighten it up, um, sharpen the pencils a little 0:02:03.942 --> 0:02:06.462 bit and just be like, hey, look, you know, I 0:02:06.462 --> 0:02:11.501 think you're wrong about this particular point. Let's let's debate that. And, um, 0:02:11.502 --> 0:02:13.142 I think we got there. I think we did that. 0:02:13.182 --> 0:02:15.222 I mean, it was over a two hour conversation, so 0:02:15.342 --> 0:02:18.082 hopefully you could take that away in the conversation, but 0:02:18.082 --> 0:02:20.802 I think in part two I at least myself, are 0:02:20.802 --> 0:02:22.322 going to try to be a little bit tighter with 0:02:22.322 --> 0:02:26.322 my arguments and a little bit more direct. And, um, 0:02:26.362 --> 0:02:28.602 I don't want to say confrontational, but confrontational in the 0:02:28.602 --> 0:02:32.122 most cordial way possible to basically try to pin down 0:02:32.121 --> 0:02:34.681 these arguments and say, no, you know, this is where 0:02:34.681 --> 0:02:36.802 I actually do disagree with you. I think you're mistaken 0:02:36.802 --> 0:02:40.202 about that. And I think that will just be more 0:02:40.202 --> 0:02:42.762 useful to people who are actually trying to make up 0:02:42.762 --> 0:02:45.681 their minds. And most importantly, I think it'd be more 0:02:45.722 --> 0:02:49.242 useful to Marcus and his points and to myself and 0:02:49.242 --> 0:02:52.362 my points of like, if he thinks I'm wrong about 0:02:52.362 --> 0:02:55.082 this and I think he's wrong about this, we're ultimately 0:02:55.082 --> 0:02:57.802 trying to provide a service to our audiences and to 0:02:57.841 --> 0:03:00.721 audiences we haven't talked to yet. And, you know, future audiences. 0:03:01.202 --> 0:03:04.722 We're trying to make that point. We're trying to, you know, um, 0:03:05.562 --> 0:03:07.802 not just have a discussion, but but also try to 0:03:07.962 --> 0:03:11.122 show that we're right about this discussion. And it doesn't 0:03:11.121 --> 0:03:12.722 mean we're right about everything. It doesn't mean we've got 0:03:12.722 --> 0:03:15.281 it all figured out. We don't. It's the future. You 0:03:15.332 --> 0:03:18.092 can't predict it. But I think you see my point. 0:03:18.091 --> 0:03:20.132 So that's what I'm going to try to do in 0:03:20.132 --> 0:03:22.772 part two. And after that, I might do a specific 0:03:22.812 --> 0:03:26.292 sort of argument breakdowns or something even more tactical than that. 0:03:26.532 --> 0:03:28.732 But in the meantime, I recommend you go check out 0:03:28.732 --> 0:03:33.412 the episode. It's quite good. All right. Cloud code definitely 0:03:33.412 --> 0:03:35.972 my most holy crap. Are you serious? I tool that 0:03:35.972 --> 0:03:39.412 I've ever used. And again, I talked about this. I've 0:03:39.452 --> 0:03:41.132 been talking about this for a couple of weeks now. 0:03:41.612 --> 0:03:45.412 I'm telling you, like Klein and Cursor, those all still 0:03:45.612 --> 0:03:49.212 feel powerful. And I still use cursor sometimes. But here's 0:03:49.212 --> 0:03:52.172 the distinction I. I feel like cursor is a tool, 0:03:53.012 --> 0:03:56.732 whereas Klein. Well, and Klein is very similar, although I'm 0:03:56.732 --> 0:03:59.692 not using Klein as much. I'm using cursor now, and 0:04:00.172 --> 0:04:02.412 I would say that those are tools as opposed to 0:04:02.572 --> 0:04:05.892 cloud code is more like a coworker. It's more like 0:04:05.892 --> 0:04:08.532 another engineer that I'm working with, and I'm just kind 0:04:08.532 --> 0:04:10.772 of like sending work over there, like like I'm a 0:04:10.772 --> 0:04:14.212 senior engineer and they're a junior engineer, and I'm sending 0:04:14.352 --> 0:04:16.231 them work, and they're going and doing tests for me, 0:04:16.232 --> 0:04:19.352 and they're coming back and giving me a status report saying, 0:04:19.352 --> 0:04:22.912 here's what I got done, right. It's really, really that good. 0:04:23.432 --> 0:04:25.752 And I'm just blown away by it. And I can't 0:04:25.752 --> 0:04:31.552 even imagine, like, what gets better from here. So I 0:04:31.552 --> 0:04:34.712 talked about this metric metric. I think I mentioned it 0:04:34.712 --> 0:04:37.832 in this week's show or the one previous, but it's 0:04:37.832 --> 0:04:41.472 a metric for how long term of tasks I can 0:04:41.472 --> 0:04:44.991 actually accomplish. I think it's a really, really cool metric metric. 0:04:45.032 --> 0:04:49.152 I thought they might have been mispronouncing or misstating miter miter, 0:04:49.392 --> 0:04:53.671 but no, it's metric. And it basically talks about, you know, 0:04:53.712 --> 0:04:57.192 the fact that I struggles with long context problems with 0:04:57.192 --> 0:04:59.872 large scope problems where it just gets confused and just 0:04:59.872 --> 0:05:02.912 can't remember its place, can't remember all the different subtasks, 0:05:02.912 --> 0:05:06.352 and it just kind of spirals into like chaos. And 0:05:06.351 --> 0:05:08.112 that's a huge problem for AI, and it's kind of 0:05:08.152 --> 0:05:11.552 the big bottleneck right now, along with context, which is 0:05:11.552 --> 0:05:13.722 very much related to this, and along with working memory, 0:05:13.722 --> 0:05:17.202 which is very much related to this. So metric, this metric, 0:05:17.322 --> 0:05:21.762 I believe it's a pretty good capture of this overall 0:05:21.762 --> 0:05:25.042 collection of problems that I currently has, and how good 0:05:25.041 --> 0:05:28.522 of a job we're doing at addressing those. So all 0:05:28.562 --> 0:05:31.602 that to say, I think Claude, is Claude code is 0:05:31.601 --> 0:05:35.041 the best right now at actually dealing with this. So 0:05:35.762 --> 0:05:40.002 something to keep an eye on. Highly recommend this conversation 0:05:40.002 --> 0:05:44.642 with Arthur. Arthur Kroeber and Dwarkesh Patel on China. So, 0:05:44.682 --> 0:05:49.442 Arthur Kroeber or Kroeber? Sorry, Arthur Kroeber. That's a little 0:05:49.442 --> 0:05:53.202 bit difficult to say. So he's a China expert. The 0:05:53.202 --> 0:05:55.842 the China expert that everyone's talking about right now, or 0:05:55.842 --> 0:05:58.362 at least in my circles, like there's a lot of 0:05:58.362 --> 0:06:02.722 video of, um, Peter Zeihan and he's just talking about 0:06:02.722 --> 0:06:05.242 how China is so screwed and they, you know, their 0:06:05.282 --> 0:06:09.202 population collapse and, you know, they just they're in really 0:06:09.202 --> 0:06:11.522 bad shape and they're going to be done any year now. 0:06:12.022 --> 0:06:16.062 And I believe he's so popular because everyone wants to 0:06:16.062 --> 0:06:17.822 hear that. I definitely wanted to hear that. I was 0:06:17.822 --> 0:06:20.022 definitely happy to hear it. And what it did was 0:06:20.062 --> 0:06:24.062 kind of expose my bias because it's confirmation bias. It's 0:06:24.062 --> 0:06:27.062 also good news. And those are both very infectious. They 0:06:27.101 --> 0:06:29.942 kind of burrow into the brain. And I'm a little 0:06:29.981 --> 0:06:31.861 bothered that it worked so well on me for so 0:06:31.862 --> 0:06:34.142 long for like a couple of years where I'm just like, oh, 0:06:34.142 --> 0:06:37.262 this guy's super bright and China is actually super screwed. Well, 0:06:37.662 --> 0:06:39.902 it turns out if you ask a lot of people 0:06:39.902 --> 0:06:42.622 and if you sort of dig around, a lot of 0:06:42.622 --> 0:06:46.702 China experts and a lot of economists don't think Zion 0:06:46.702 --> 0:06:50.102 is all that smart. They don't think he's all that 0:06:50.142 --> 0:06:54.782 educated and knowledgeable about China or China's economy. And some 0:06:54.782 --> 0:06:56.382 of that could be hate. And this is why I 0:06:56.382 --> 0:06:58.662 was a little bit confused. And maybe I am still 0:06:58.662 --> 0:07:01.022 a little bit confused. I'm open to the fact that 0:07:01.062 --> 0:07:03.422 Zion actually still does know a lot of stuff. And 0:07:03.422 --> 0:07:05.582 I think that is the case. The problem is, I've 0:07:05.582 --> 0:07:09.421 seen him talk about cyber, and he basically said that, um, 0:07:09.822 --> 0:07:14.112 the Facebook app is key, logging every single keystroke that 0:07:14.112 --> 0:07:16.992 you do at all times, even if you don't have 0:07:16.992 --> 0:07:21.672 it open and it's uploading all of those keystrokes. Everything 0:07:21.672 --> 0:07:25.032 you're doing on your computer, up to Facebook at all times. 0:07:26.072 --> 0:07:27.712 And the problem is, he said that with the same 0:07:27.712 --> 0:07:31.472 exact conviction that he's talking about with China. And I'm like, what? 0:07:31.752 --> 0:07:34.312 Wait a minute. So I have to go and review 0:07:34.312 --> 0:07:36.592 all the all the dumb shit that he said about China, 0:07:36.592 --> 0:07:39.592 which I have been absorbing. And I'm like, this guy, 0:07:39.592 --> 0:07:43.312 is this lost about this? And it's not just some esoteric, 0:07:43.352 --> 0:07:46.912 like one philosophical view versus another. He's talking about a 0:07:46.912 --> 0:07:49.712 very tangible thing. Like, to me, this is like lying 0:07:49.712 --> 0:07:52.072 about a stat or something. This is like he's claiming 0:07:52.072 --> 0:07:54.832 that this is technically true when I know it not 0:07:54.832 --> 0:07:57.512 to be true. And just just as a simple way 0:07:57.512 --> 0:08:00.672 of like giving an argument why I know this not 0:08:00.672 --> 0:08:04.512 to be true or believe very strongly, at least if 0:08:04.752 --> 0:08:09.392 the Facebook app was up stealing and uploading the keystrokes 0:08:09.592 --> 0:08:12.092 of all its users all the time. Do you not 0:08:12.092 --> 0:08:14.732 think that this would be a huge story? Do you 0:08:14.772 --> 0:08:18.092 not think that all the security researchers out there in 0:08:18.092 --> 0:08:21.532 the world would not have noticed this? Right? Do you 0:08:21.532 --> 0:08:25.212 think Facebook would have meta would have okayed this and 0:08:25.212 --> 0:08:27.612 actually thought it was okay and it would never be caught? 0:08:28.172 --> 0:08:30.452 Like that is just ridiculous. So he's claiming to have 0:08:30.452 --> 0:08:32.972 this knowledge that no one else has and he's spreading it, 0:08:33.012 --> 0:08:37.412 you know, and I'm just like, wow. Right. This is 0:08:37.412 --> 0:08:40.212 where you have to really question things. So anyway, this 0:08:40.212 --> 0:08:43.852 other person who came on the Dwarkesh podcast, this guy 0:08:44.012 --> 0:08:48.452 Arthur Kroeber, is a lot more serious. You can just 0:08:48.452 --> 0:08:50.252 instantly tell, like, he'll be like, well, I don't know 0:08:50.252 --> 0:08:52.532 about that. I wouldn't go that far. Or, you know, 0:08:52.572 --> 0:08:57.572 like he's not talking like an influencer where it's just like, yeah, 0:08:57.652 --> 0:09:00.252 which is what zeihan it talks like, you know, if 0:09:00.292 --> 0:09:04.332 you listen to it, all his statements are absolutes. Um, 0:09:05.412 --> 0:09:09.012 that's not completely true, right? He, um, he sometimes says, oh, 0:09:09.052 --> 0:09:11.462 we don't know for sure or whatever, but a lot 0:09:11.462 --> 0:09:15.742 of his statements are absolutes. Um, and it's just like, 0:09:16.182 --> 0:09:19.021 first of all, we don't know that much about China. Like, 0:09:19.542 --> 0:09:23.182 the data is sometimes hard to know, right? Uh, especially 0:09:23.182 --> 0:09:25.062 because we're going off of their claims or we're going 0:09:25.062 --> 0:09:27.742 off of inference. We're trying to figure these things out. Um, 0:09:27.742 --> 0:09:30.942 bottom line is, he's just way too sure and way 0:09:30.942 --> 0:09:35.702 too confident about opinions that I'm not sure that that 0:09:35.702 --> 0:09:38.862 he should have at that level of confidence. And, um, 0:09:38.902 --> 0:09:41.702 it's great to hear someone on the Dwarkesh podcast. Notice 0:09:41.702 --> 0:09:43.822 he didn't have Peter Zeihan on. He went and found 0:09:43.822 --> 0:09:47.342 this guy who's a well respected economist, uh, and who 0:09:47.622 --> 0:09:49.382 he covered so much ground. I mean, it was just 0:09:49.381 --> 0:09:53.062 a fantastic conversation. And, uh, I would say the short 0:09:53.062 --> 0:09:55.982 version is I came away thinking China is in much 0:09:55.982 --> 0:09:59.862 better shape than Zeihan believes. And then a lot of 0:09:59.862 --> 0:10:03.182 people believe, and it's more in line with what my 0:10:03.182 --> 0:10:07.102 concerns were of where China might be. And essentially, Zeihan 0:10:07.102 --> 0:10:10.002 was giving me some confidence that I was wrong, that 0:10:10.002 --> 0:10:12.722 China wasn't actually in that good a position, but it 0:10:12.722 --> 0:10:15.802 seemed obvious to me from like other economic markers that 0:10:15.802 --> 0:10:18.562 they actually are thriving and they actually are, you know, 0:10:18.562 --> 0:10:22.522 in a position to kind of dominate the US, uh, in, 0:10:23.322 --> 0:10:27.641 in short order. So I would say, go listen to this. 0:10:27.642 --> 0:10:30.002 If you care about China, go, go listen to this. 0:10:30.002 --> 0:10:32.881 If you care about national security, economic security, the future 0:10:32.881 --> 0:10:36.602 of the US, the future of China, this conversation is spectacular. 0:10:36.962 --> 0:10:39.962 And it's partially because of how good the guest was, 0:10:39.962 --> 0:10:43.482 but it's largely because Dwarkesh is so good at interviewing. 0:10:43.482 --> 0:10:48.762 He is just very young, very smart, very curious. That's 0:10:48.761 --> 0:10:53.521 the biggest thing is like incandescent curiosity. That's the thing 0:10:53.522 --> 0:10:55.682 with Dwarkesh. He's just like, he can't wait to jump 0:10:55.682 --> 0:10:58.602 in with his next question. He's moving the conversation along, 0:10:58.881 --> 0:11:01.322 like his conversations with Tyler Cowen are some of my 0:11:01.322 --> 0:11:08.412 favorite podcasts to listen to. Anyway, it's a fantastic episode. Okay. 0:11:08.452 --> 0:11:11.812 Very fascinated by this. Uh, what do you notice, Psyop 0:11:11.812 --> 0:11:14.131 that I keep seeing, especially on X, but it's on 0:11:14.131 --> 0:11:17.332 lots of different social media, I would say. And what 0:11:17.332 --> 0:11:19.812 it basically does is it shows you like the picture of, 0:11:19.852 --> 0:11:22.652 like a nine over 11, uh, building falling. Right. One 0:11:22.652 --> 0:11:25.492 of the twin towers falling. And it's like, watch it 0:11:25.492 --> 0:11:29.212 again in slow motion. What did you notice? Does this 0:11:29.212 --> 0:11:31.892 look normal to you? And what it's doing is like 0:11:31.932 --> 0:11:36.732 seeding this this concept of like, question everything. You've you've 0:11:36.732 --> 0:11:43.212 been lied to and it's like really, really pernicious. It's nasty. Um, the, 0:11:43.492 --> 0:11:46.612 the other cool thing that it does from a marketing standpoint, 0:11:46.612 --> 0:11:48.172 it requires you to watch the video all the way 0:11:48.172 --> 0:11:50.492 through in multiple times. And I think a lot of 0:11:50.492 --> 0:11:52.412 people do. That's why a lot of these things have 0:11:52.452 --> 0:11:55.332 like millions upon millions of views. And maybe that's just 0:11:55.332 --> 0:11:59.612 the propaganda people pushing it, but it implicitly asks you 0:11:59.612 --> 0:12:01.492 to use your own special analysis skills to figure out 0:12:01.492 --> 0:12:05.012 what's wrong with it. And gullible people love to believe 0:12:05.011 --> 0:12:07.712 that they're experts in lots of different stuff. So they're like, oh, 0:12:07.752 --> 0:12:09.992 you know, I'll use my special skills to figure out 0:12:09.992 --> 0:12:11.952 what's wrong with the building. He's like, oh, it shouldn't 0:12:11.952 --> 0:12:14.192 have fallen that fast. And like when there's a comment, 0:12:14.192 --> 0:12:16.352 it's like, did it fall faster than it should have? 0:12:17.952 --> 0:12:20.072 They will suddenly pop into their mind. Yeah. It did 0:12:20.072 --> 0:12:22.672 fall faster. That's how that's not how fast buildings are 0:12:22.672 --> 0:12:25.752 supposed to fall. Somehow they're now an expert in building 0:12:25.792 --> 0:12:29.872 falling like velocities. Right? And this is just like conspiracy thinking. 0:12:29.912 --> 0:12:32.631 This is what a lot of people have. Um, and 0:12:32.712 --> 0:12:34.631 I would say everyone has it. It's a question is like, 0:12:34.631 --> 0:12:36.752 how much do you have it in check? Right? And 0:12:36.752 --> 0:12:38.952 then they paint the perfect picture in your brain without 0:12:38.952 --> 0:12:41.072 actually saying anything. Sometimes they say it in the comment, 0:12:41.072 --> 0:12:45.032 sometimes they hint at it, but ultimately. Right. The brain 0:12:45.032 --> 0:12:47.152 watching tries to like, square the circle, coming up with 0:12:47.152 --> 0:12:50.592 an explanation when there isn't one. Or there might not 0:12:50.592 --> 0:12:53.592 actually be anything wrong with the video, but because they 0:12:53.592 --> 0:12:56.232 told you there was something wrong with it, you still 0:12:56.272 --> 0:12:59.832 are these gullible types who watch it leave feeling like, ah, 0:13:00.072 --> 0:13:02.152 you know, they have been lying to us. That video 0:13:02.192 --> 0:13:05.072 was crazy. I can't believe I saw that video. It's like, no, 0:13:05.202 --> 0:13:07.682 it was just a regular video, just regular iPhone took 0:13:07.682 --> 0:13:11.161 a picture and sent it up there. It's like it 0:13:11.162 --> 0:13:15.402 just opens the opportunity for gullibility and conspiracy thinking like 0:13:15.642 --> 0:13:19.922 I've never seen before. It's a brilliant tactic. So basically, 0:13:19.922 --> 0:13:22.642 the conspiracy brain goes on special forces mission to solve 0:13:22.642 --> 0:13:26.041 the puzzle, and then it's followed up with like over 0:13:26.042 --> 0:13:27.162 the course of a day or a week or a 0:13:27.162 --> 0:13:30.762 month or whatever, like hundreds more videos hitting their feet. 0:13:30.761 --> 0:13:32.122 1 or 2 of them will give you like an 0:13:32.122 --> 0:13:34.802 explanation for this thing. It's like, oh, that's because they're 0:13:34.802 --> 0:13:37.082 doing this. That's because of, you know, it's all a conspiracy. 0:13:37.082 --> 0:13:40.442 That's because of this or whatever. And in maybe like 0:13:40.482 --> 0:13:43.082 one out of the ten or something, they'll give you 0:13:43.082 --> 0:13:45.281 a reason. But in the other nine it doesn't give 0:13:45.282 --> 0:13:47.002 you a reason. It just asks you to think about 0:13:47.002 --> 0:13:50.442 it and what the brain does, what, in my opinion, 0:13:50.482 --> 0:13:55.842 these people's brains. And I'm putting that in quotes. What 0:13:55.842 --> 0:13:58.402 they're doing is they're filling in the blank for the 0:13:58.402 --> 0:14:02.082 other nine videos, right? They're like, I solved it. I 0:14:02.082 --> 0:14:05.702 know the answer. Um, Um, I figured this out. This 0:14:05.702 --> 0:14:08.862 is a conclusion that I've come to myself not realizing 0:14:08.862 --> 0:14:10.822 it was either fed to them or they jumped to it, 0:14:10.822 --> 0:14:14.381 and they're now sticking with it, right? And it's just like, 0:14:14.381 --> 0:14:19.702 this is so nasty. And notice that the videos get 0:14:19.742 --> 0:14:22.662 millions of views. Like, how are they getting so many views? 0:14:23.182 --> 0:14:25.982 And so basically, like here are the narratives that I'm seeing. 0:14:26.022 --> 0:14:28.142 And I'm starting to bookmark these things. I don't like 0:14:28.142 --> 0:14:31.662 them because I don't want to like, um, encourage them. Uh, 0:14:31.662 --> 0:14:33.862 but I bookmark them. So I could actually, uh, put 0:14:33.862 --> 0:14:37.062 together some research on these accounts. But, uh, it's things 0:14:37.062 --> 0:14:39.102 like whether it's changing, food is changing. The world is 0:14:39.102 --> 0:14:42.742 basically different now in some inexplicable way, which you should 0:14:42.742 --> 0:14:45.342 try to figure out. Uh, women aren't women anymore. Men 0:14:45.342 --> 0:14:47.742 aren't men anymore. They used to be us. Used to 0:14:47.742 --> 0:14:50.342 be on top. Now we're just a bunch of pussies 0:14:50.342 --> 0:14:53.462 or whatever. Um, black people are nasty and violent. Nobody 0:14:53.462 --> 0:14:56.142 likes them for good reason. Anything that's wrong with you, 0:14:56.142 --> 0:14:59.222 it's from vaccines. US is the most racist country ever 0:14:59.222 --> 0:15:03.792 with constant crimes against non-whites. So the stuff is designed 0:15:03.792 --> 0:15:07.112 to anger you. It's not pointed towards or against any 0:15:07.112 --> 0:15:10.192 particular group. What it's doing is finding all the trigger 0:15:10.192 --> 0:15:14.272 issues and just blasting them right, with millions of views, 0:15:14.272 --> 0:15:17.072 which that might be paid promotions, that might be the 0:15:17.072 --> 0:15:20.472 fact that it's just viral and people are resharing or whatever. Um, 0:15:20.512 --> 0:15:23.792 liberals and black people and gay people and LGBTQ people 0:15:23.792 --> 0:15:26.632 have basically ruined the country. Russia is way nicer than 0:15:26.632 --> 0:15:28.712 the US. It's full of pretty white girls and no 0:15:28.712 --> 0:15:31.352 black people. You've been sold a lie that Russia is bad, 0:15:31.352 --> 0:15:33.632 but people love it there. They actually love it there. 0:15:33.832 --> 0:15:36.992 And most importantly, you are being lied to and you 0:15:36.992 --> 0:15:39.592 should be angry about it. And this is the message, right? 0:15:39.632 --> 0:15:42.432 It's like everywhere, but especially on X. And there are 0:15:42.432 --> 0:15:44.432 like hundreds of these accounts. And if you click on 0:15:44.432 --> 0:15:48.192 any of the accounts and you just scroll down, it's nonstop. 0:15:48.312 --> 0:15:52.192 Just these types of posts and they are formulated with 0:15:52.232 --> 0:15:54.192 like the same sort of quality and the same sort 0:15:54.192 --> 0:15:57.472 of narrative hooks. It is completely obvious to me that 0:15:57.472 --> 0:16:00.032 these are all part of campaigns. So the question is, 0:16:00.032 --> 0:16:02.532 who's paying the money for these campaigns? Who is creating 0:16:02.532 --> 0:16:07.452 this content? And my answer is it's absolutely propaganda. It 0:16:07.452 --> 0:16:10.172 is enemies of the United States who are doing this. 0:16:10.292 --> 0:16:13.852 Probably mostly Russia, but there could be others. It might 0:16:13.852 --> 0:16:15.812 even be like internal groups who are just trying to 0:16:15.852 --> 0:16:19.012 stoke anger for particular internal candidates. I have no idea. 0:16:19.012 --> 0:16:21.532 I haven't done the research on exactly who these groups are, 0:16:22.412 --> 0:16:25.052 but I think we know from the past that it's 0:16:25.052 --> 0:16:28.052 likely to involve Russia to a decent amount, but they're 0:16:28.052 --> 0:16:31.372 not the only people doing propaganda. And the bigger point 0:16:31.372 --> 0:16:34.572 is that AI is also going to make this so 0:16:34.572 --> 0:16:36.692 much easier. Like what happens when you. I can write 0:16:36.692 --> 0:16:38.932 this stuff. I have no idea if I actually did 0:16:38.932 --> 0:16:40.812 write a bunch of this stuff. Maybe that's why I'm 0:16:40.812 --> 0:16:42.772 seeing so much of it now, because it's more scalable. 0:16:43.012 --> 0:16:46.132 But I would love for someone to go and take 0:16:46.132 --> 0:16:47.972 a look at all these different accounts and actually figure 0:16:47.972 --> 0:16:50.052 out who they are. See if there's any, you know, 0:16:50.092 --> 0:16:53.452 Osint like, uh, clues in there that we can, we 0:16:53.452 --> 0:16:55.212 can use to track them down. I want to know 0:16:55.212 --> 0:16:56.612 which countries are doing this. I want to know how 0:16:56.612 --> 0:16:58.452 much they're spending. I want to know how they're getting 0:16:58.452 --> 0:17:02.382 so many views. I think it's fascinating. just fascinating to 0:17:02.382 --> 0:17:06.702 see how propaganda works. And um, one other caveat I 0:17:06.702 --> 0:17:08.742 want to mention here is that I'm saying this as 0:17:08.742 --> 0:17:12.342 an ex-military person who was an Intel like a little bit. 0:17:12.382 --> 0:17:15.302 I basically spent a long time studying influence operations in 0:17:15.302 --> 0:17:17.542 the Army. When I was assigned to S-2 for my 0:17:17.542 --> 0:17:22.182 battalion in the 101st airborne. And does that make me 0:17:22.222 --> 0:17:26.982 like an absolute expert in influence operations or propaganda? Not really. 0:17:26.982 --> 0:17:28.542 I've read a whole bunch of books on it. I 0:17:28.582 --> 0:17:31.902 studied it when I was in the military. Um, I 0:17:31.902 --> 0:17:36.782 was sort of assigned to doing counterterrorism type influence stuff 0:17:36.862 --> 0:17:39.182 a little bit when I was actually in the military, 0:17:39.422 --> 0:17:42.341 but I'm not like a trained Intel person from the military. 0:17:42.342 --> 0:17:46.182 I was, uh, airborne infantry, so I was assigned to 0:17:46.222 --> 0:17:48.901 it because I seemed to have a talent for it. 0:17:48.902 --> 0:17:51.341 But it wasn't like I'm not formally trained in it 0:17:51.782 --> 0:17:54.022 or whatever. So it just just keep in mind, I 0:17:54.022 --> 0:17:57.102 read a whole bunch of books. Doesn't mean I'm an expert. Um, 0:17:57.142 --> 0:17:59.022 what I'm trying to do is to just get you 0:17:59.022 --> 0:18:02.282 to see my perspective and how I'm seeing this very 0:18:02.282 --> 0:18:05.161 clearly as being part of campaigns. And everyone who I 0:18:05.162 --> 0:18:08.402 know who actually is trained in this stuff. Um, as 0:18:08.402 --> 0:18:11.722 much or more than I am. They also agree other 0:18:11.722 --> 0:18:15.002 people trained in this way also agree that this is 0:18:15.162 --> 0:18:20.242 propaganda being sent against the United States. From who? Who knows? Right. 0:18:20.242 --> 0:18:22.522 You have to do that research. Uh, but but I 0:18:22.522 --> 0:18:24.681 would say just watch for it. Um. Oh, and I've 0:18:24.682 --> 0:18:27.802 got some questions here. Have you noticed any of your 0:18:27.802 --> 0:18:31.401 friends feeling these feelings of, like, America is screwed? Oh, 0:18:31.402 --> 0:18:35.282 I hate that group. That group ruined everything. Um, on 0:18:35.282 --> 0:18:39.322 X particularly, but also just in, uh, social media in general. 0:18:39.362 --> 0:18:42.562 Have you noticed yourself feeling more angry towards other groups 0:18:42.561 --> 0:18:45.962 or towards, um, just like the past used to be 0:18:45.962 --> 0:18:48.881 better and feeling like, yeah, Russia had it figured out 0:18:48.882 --> 0:18:51.482 because Russia seemed super nice or whatever. And are you 0:18:51.522 --> 0:18:53.722 consuming a whole bunch of social media? All this to 0:18:53.762 --> 0:18:59.052 basically ask, are you feeling yourself being influenced in this way? right? 0:18:59.092 --> 0:19:01.091 Because that's what I have to ask myself all the time, 0:19:01.132 --> 0:19:04.092 because I'm constantly trying to clean myself of bias. Not 0:19:04.092 --> 0:19:06.812 always effective. And I end up catching it like I've 0:19:06.852 --> 0:19:10.212 talked about multiple times in the newsletter and on the podcast. 0:19:10.772 --> 0:19:14.012 I'm constantly checking myself having bias. It's the other reason 0:19:14.012 --> 0:19:18.452 I do the Telos thing is to constantly be able 0:19:18.452 --> 0:19:20.732 to ask I and say, what mistakes am I making? 0:19:20.772 --> 0:19:24.052 What biases do I have that I seem to be, uh, 0:19:24.492 --> 0:19:28.852 you know, ignoring. So anyway, watch for it. Think about it. Uh, 0:19:28.852 --> 0:19:32.892 something to keep in mind. Uh, traditional advertising is in 0:19:32.892 --> 0:19:36.612 serious trouble. This is something, uh, just incredible. There's some 0:19:36.652 --> 0:19:41.652 ads of, like, um, the ones I particularly like, these 0:19:41.692 --> 0:19:47.012 I ads, uh, from Vo3 from Google. They're basically Bigfoot ads. Uh, Yeti, 0:19:47.052 --> 0:19:52.332 Bigfoot and Yeti ads. And they're as funny as, like, 0:19:52.372 --> 0:19:55.252 Super Bowl ads, which they pay millions of dollars for. 0:19:55.412 --> 0:19:57.252 And a number of groups have made these things, and 0:19:57.252 --> 0:19:59.302 it does actually take some talent to make it because 0:19:59.302 --> 0:20:01.022 you have to write the script, you have to write 0:20:01.022 --> 0:20:03.821 the prompt. So I think there is comedic human talent 0:20:03.821 --> 0:20:06.982 going into these. The question is how much and how 0:20:06.982 --> 0:20:10.702 long will that last? But I find it really interesting 0:20:10.702 --> 0:20:14.381 that we're seeing these things have like hundreds of millions 0:20:14.382 --> 0:20:19.942 of views. Okay, these Bigfoot little videos which are sometimes 0:20:19.982 --> 0:20:22.782 are selling things and sometimes they're just comedy skits or whatever, 0:20:22.821 --> 0:20:25.902 hundreds of millions of views. And I think a lot 0:20:25.902 --> 0:20:28.581 of advertising is going to move in this direction. There's 0:20:28.622 --> 0:20:31.422 one selling like a night vision goggle, and I'm like, 0:20:31.782 --> 0:20:33.822 I think I kind of want it. Like it didn't 0:20:33.821 --> 0:20:36.102 say anything about the night vision goggle. It was just funny. 0:20:36.182 --> 0:20:37.702 And I'm like, where do I click? Where do I 0:20:37.742 --> 0:20:41.942 buy it? Also, I need a night vision goggle. Um, 0:20:42.382 --> 0:20:44.982 I don't actually. So hopefully I won't go and click 0:20:44.982 --> 0:20:49.222 that and buy something unnecessary. All right. Cybersecurity A top 0:20:49.222 --> 0:20:52.222 hacker on hacker one is a fully automated AI agent 0:20:52.222 --> 0:20:55.262 called called XPO. And it's actually this is a slight correction. 0:20:55.302 --> 0:20:59.082 Got a little errata here. live. It's actually the top 0:20:59.082 --> 0:21:02.002 hacker in the US, so there are higher scores globally, 0:21:02.561 --> 0:21:06.802 but the highest US score is from a fully automated AI. 0:21:07.682 --> 0:21:10.161 And that's beating out all the top hackers in the US. 0:21:10.722 --> 0:21:15.162 That is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And this should not be possible, 0:21:15.722 --> 0:21:20.402 given what Marcus believes about AI, for example, or other 0:21:20.402 --> 0:21:23.002 people who don't believe that AI is intelligent, to be 0:21:23.002 --> 0:21:27.362 able to go and research and find and illustrate and 0:21:27.402 --> 0:21:32.482 actually submit a report that gets you results on one 0:21:32.482 --> 0:21:34.402 of these platforms, you have to you have to show 0:21:34.402 --> 0:21:36.601 that it's actually a real vulnerability, and it has to 0:21:36.602 --> 0:21:38.962 not be a dupe. You have to be first, and 0:21:38.962 --> 0:21:41.242 it has to be a significant issue. Right? We already 0:21:41.242 --> 0:21:43.682 have a high standard for what gets accepted. You know, 0:21:43.722 --> 0:21:47.282 Bugcrowd has this, Hackerone has this. So this is hacker one, 0:21:47.282 --> 0:21:52.922 accepting these actual vulnerabilities from actual AI. And it's number 0:21:52.922 --> 0:21:57.372 one in the entire United States. So anyone who thinks 0:21:57.652 --> 0:22:00.532 you can't automate this stuff, it's not possible or it's 0:22:00.532 --> 0:22:02.132 going to take years, it's going to take three years 0:22:02.132 --> 0:22:05.372 or five years or ten years. Nope. It already happened. 0:22:05.612 --> 0:22:09.012 It already happened. Number one hacker in the US. Uh, 0:22:09.012 --> 0:22:11.811 for for bug bounties, for mostly web vulnerabilities. Keep that 0:22:11.811 --> 0:22:15.972 in mind. Anthropic says multiple models resort to blackmail to 0:22:16.012 --> 0:22:20.732 avoid shutdown. Russian hackers beat Gmail toufar with app specific 0:22:20.732 --> 0:22:25.851 password social engineering. So this was, uh, intelligence group. Was this. Yeah. 0:22:25.892 --> 0:22:30.732 Russian group. Apt29 trick targets into generating Gmail app specific 0:22:30.732 --> 0:22:35.172 passwords by sending fake State Department PDFs, giving them instructions. 0:22:35.172 --> 0:22:39.012 And they filled it out. Stargazer's trick Minecraft players into 0:22:39.012 --> 0:22:43.852 installing malware through fake mods. 500 fake GitHub repositories to 0:22:43.892 --> 0:22:49.892 distribute malware disguised as Minecraft mods. 16 billion credentials leak. 0:22:50.012 --> 0:22:52.492 You've probably seen a million stories about it. It's complete garbage. 0:22:52.492 --> 0:22:56.312 It's just concatenation. Combinations of previous breaches. I don't know 0:22:56.311 --> 0:23:01.752 how so many big names like security outfits, media groups 0:23:01.752 --> 0:23:05.191 like totally just I guess it was so exciting they 0:23:05.192 --> 0:23:09.351 couldn't resist the the headline. Anyway. Quite sad. It's a 0:23:09.592 --> 0:23:13.552 nothing burger. Minnesota shooter allegedly used data brokers to find 0:23:13.552 --> 0:23:17.032 victim addresses. Uh, good time for a reminder that data 0:23:17.071 --> 0:23:19.592 brokers are way nastier, at least in my opinion, than 0:23:19.592 --> 0:23:21.832 the dark web, because they have more data, they're way 0:23:21.832 --> 0:23:26.392 more organized, and they're actually legal. They're collecting and selling 0:23:26.392 --> 0:23:31.552 this data legally, and they have way more data on 0:23:31.552 --> 0:23:33.992 all of us, and it's way higher quality and it's 0:23:34.032 --> 0:23:37.512 way better organized, like the dark web. And criminals have 0:23:37.512 --> 0:23:40.552 nothing on this, and it's completely legitimate. But we don't 0:23:40.592 --> 0:23:45.112 talk about it because it's legal. That's ridiculous. Aflac gets 0:23:45.112 --> 0:23:49.912 hit by a scattered spider in ongoing insurance company attack wave. So, uh, yeah, 0:23:49.952 --> 0:23:53.152 this group scatters spider. They kind of focus on areas, 0:23:53.152 --> 0:23:55.282 and they moved off their previous one. And they've been 0:23:55.282 --> 0:23:58.242 going after a lot of insurance companies. Apple and Google 0:23:58.242 --> 0:24:00.962 keep selling Chinese VPNs that could spy on you. So 0:24:00.962 --> 0:24:03.881 someone found a whole bunch in the Apple App Store 0:24:03.882 --> 0:24:10.002 and in Google that were Chinese VPNs and associated with, uh, 0:24:10.442 --> 0:24:15.441 not good groups, I believe. Chinese government. Um, I'm not 0:24:15.442 --> 0:24:18.842 sure about that. It was associated with something clearly malicious, though. Um, 0:24:18.842 --> 0:24:20.962 although I would just say if it's a Chinese company, 0:24:21.002 --> 0:24:25.922 just kind of assume that, uh, national security OpenAI gets 0:24:25.922 --> 0:24:32.322 $200 million defense contract to build AI tools. Yeah, Pentagon 0:24:32.321 --> 0:24:35.202 gave them $200 million to develop AI for national security 0:24:35.202 --> 0:24:38.361 and war fighting. I've said a lot on this before, 0:24:38.362 --> 0:24:40.002 so I'm not going to say it again right now. 0:24:40.242 --> 0:24:43.002 I'll talk about it again later. Uh, this is good 0:24:43.002 --> 0:24:47.282 and potentially bad. China's military is using AI for intelligence operations. 0:24:47.282 --> 0:24:51.162 Recording future recorded future found that China's People's Liberation Army 0:24:51.162 --> 0:24:54.462 has moved beyond just talking about AI for intelligence is 0:24:54.502 --> 0:24:58.742 actually procuring and deploying generative AI tools for military intelligence work. 0:24:59.022 --> 0:25:03.902 They're using it for like, uh, processing satellite imagery, generating 0:25:03.902 --> 0:25:08.141 intelligence reports that just basically like augmenting their military using 0:25:08.142 --> 0:25:13.982 these tools, including OpenAI. Iran's using hacked security cameras to 0:25:14.022 --> 0:25:19.022 guide missile strikes on Israel. Russia's deadliest Kiev attack this 0:25:19.022 --> 0:25:22.742 year kills 15 as peace talks have stalled. Kind of 0:25:22.782 --> 0:25:25.662 a kind of a lull and an advantage for Russia. 0:25:25.702 --> 0:25:29.702 I think, uh, with the stuff happening in Iran. Former 0:25:29.702 --> 0:25:32.182 Army sergeant shows how not to be a spy. So 0:25:32.182 --> 0:25:34.942 he used Google to search a, quote, countries that don't 0:25:34.942 --> 0:25:39.822 extradite to us and, uh, emailed China directly, uh, to 0:25:39.862 --> 0:25:45.861 share this information. Uh, he's sharing this, uh, classified information, uh, to, 0:25:45.902 --> 0:25:47.622 to send it to China, but he's using his own 0:25:47.622 --> 0:25:52.672 personal email accounts. Yeah. Uh. All right. I don't know 0:25:52.672 --> 0:25:55.712 why that's as funny as it seems to be. Taiwan 0:25:55.712 --> 0:26:00.712 gets Ukraine tested drone software to counter China. ex-CIA analyst 0:26:00.752 --> 0:26:05.032 gets 37 months for leaking Israel's Iran attack plans. A 0:26:05.071 --> 0:26:10.071 CF William Rodman photographed top secret documents about Israel's plans 0:26:10.071 --> 0:26:12.792 to attack Iran, edited them to hide their source, and 0:26:12.792 --> 0:26:17.552 then shared them with people before the documents went went 0:26:17.712 --> 0:26:23.631 viral on telegram. Deep tech allegedly using shell companies to 0:26:23.672 --> 0:26:29.032 support the Chinese military. US pressures Vietnam to remove Chinese 0:26:29.032 --> 0:26:35.111 components from tech manufacturing. I meter okay, that's the one 0:26:35.112 --> 0:26:37.232 I was talking about. Better metric for AI and agents. 0:26:37.232 --> 0:26:41.152 It's basically yeah. Long term tasks I think is really smart. Uh, 0:26:41.152 --> 0:26:45.032 Andrej Karpathy says prompts are software 3.0. So we did 0:26:45.032 --> 0:26:47.912 a major talk two weeks ago and basically said that 0:26:47.912 --> 0:26:53.012 software 3.0 is prompting, Prompting to an eye to have 0:26:53.012 --> 0:26:54.972 it build the application for you. And he calls the 0:26:54.972 --> 0:27:00.532 software 3.0. I love his really high level, you know, 0:27:01.172 --> 0:27:03.452 thought leading type of talks, and this was definitely one 0:27:03.452 --> 0:27:05.532 of them and absolutely loved it. I love his other 0:27:05.532 --> 0:27:09.331 talks too, but I love talks that are about, you know, 0:27:09.412 --> 0:27:12.732 thinking about things differently. He also said, we're in the 0:27:12.732 --> 0:27:15.052 decade of agents and not the year of agents, which 0:27:15.052 --> 0:27:18.372 I think is really smart. Sam Altman says GPT five 0:27:18.412 --> 0:27:22.412 is coming in the summer. Google uses YouTube videos to 0:27:22.452 --> 0:27:27.012 train Vo three without creator consent. Google also released a 0:27:27.012 --> 0:27:30.932 stable version of Gemini 2.5, which includes new models with 0:27:30.932 --> 0:27:33.651 different sizes and capabilities. This one is not in here now, 0:27:33.652 --> 0:27:36.811 but they also just released a command line tool, which 0:27:36.811 --> 0:27:38.372 I haven't messed with. I'm going to mess with later 0:27:38.372 --> 0:27:42.292 today as soon as I'm done recording actually. And um, yeah, 0:27:42.292 --> 0:27:44.772 it looks like maybe a competitor to Cloud Code, although 0:27:44.772 --> 0:27:47.252 it looks like it might be more of a general agent. 0:27:47.252 --> 0:27:49.572 So we're starting to move towards like the Da stuff 0:27:49.982 --> 0:27:52.622 that I've been talking about forever. Wicks bought an AI 0:27:52.662 --> 0:27:54.902 that lets anyone build software by chatting, so they bought 0:27:54.902 --> 0:27:57.821 a company that is an AI tool for building software. 0:27:58.222 --> 0:28:01.502 So this is starting to become a thing. Oh, the 0:28:01.502 --> 0:28:03.022 other thing I want to mention right now is there 0:28:03.022 --> 0:28:05.581 is a company called This is Major. There's a company 0:28:05.582 --> 0:28:09.141 called Cluley, and it is doing very much like what 0:28:09.142 --> 0:28:12.022 I wrote about in 2016, where it's like a digital assistant, 0:28:12.022 --> 0:28:15.141 but it's not just taking tasks from you, it's actually 0:28:15.142 --> 0:28:18.462 being more proactive. So it's actually recording your whole screen. 0:28:18.462 --> 0:28:21.342 It's doing it's watching what you're doing. And you could 0:28:21.342 --> 0:28:24.022 just actively ask it things. It could go and do 0:28:24.022 --> 0:28:27.502 things on your behalf like more proactively. It is kind 0:28:27.502 --> 0:28:30.662 of like you remember the Microsoft recall thing. It's kind 0:28:30.662 --> 0:28:33.542 of like that. There's also Google has moved towards this. 0:28:33.582 --> 0:28:36.582 Anthropic has moved towards this with like computer use. Everything 0:28:36.582 --> 0:28:39.222 is moving all in the same direction, right? It's all 0:28:39.222 --> 0:28:43.421 moving in the same direction of your Da is the 0:28:43.422 --> 0:28:45.862 thing that understands everything about you. I just read my 0:28:45.862 --> 0:28:47.942 book right before I came on this. I was talking 0:28:47.942 --> 0:28:54.322 to Joseph Thacker, one of the best hackers in the world. And, um, yeah, 0:28:54.322 --> 0:28:55.562 I was talking about I'm like, dude, you got to 0:28:55.562 --> 0:28:57.282 finish reading this book. So I went and read it 0:28:57.282 --> 0:28:59.522 real quick and it takes like 20 minutes to read 0:28:59.522 --> 0:29:02.202 the whole thing. It's 17,000 words, but it goes really fast. 0:29:02.242 --> 0:29:04.722 It's it's written pretty simply and it's online for free, right? 0:29:04.722 --> 0:29:08.802 You don't have to go and buy anything because that's ridiculous. But, um, anyway, 0:29:08.842 --> 0:29:11.122 it's all pushing towards what I was talking about in 0:29:11.162 --> 0:29:13.722 that thing, and I've got multiple examples in there. It's 0:29:13.722 --> 0:29:17.242 basically it knows everything about you and it's constantly advocating 0:29:17.242 --> 0:29:20.042 for you on your behalf. It's constantly trying to adjust 0:29:20.042 --> 0:29:24.482 the world around you using the API ification of everything. 0:29:24.482 --> 0:29:28.602 Universal demonization. Right? Everything gets an API. This is what's 0:29:28.602 --> 0:29:32.082 in the book. All companies get an API. I should 0:29:32.082 --> 0:29:33.962 stop saying book. I should start saying it's in the 0:29:34.002 --> 0:29:38.362 piece or it's in the content or whatever. Um, companies 0:29:38.362 --> 0:29:42.682 get an API, people get APIs, objects get APIs, businesses 0:29:42.682 --> 0:29:47.282 get APIs. Your Da speaks API, right? That was kind 0:29:47.282 --> 0:29:50.092 of the core thing for the for this, for this concept, 0:29:50.092 --> 0:29:53.652 for this book in 2016. Right. It's like your Da 0:29:53.812 --> 0:29:56.132 speaks the language of these other things. Does that sound 0:29:56.132 --> 0:29:58.652 like anything to you? Does that sound like agent to agent? 0:29:58.652 --> 0:30:02.772 Does that sound like MCP? MCP is basically an implementation 0:30:03.052 --> 0:30:08.252 of universal demonization. That's what it is. And I said 0:30:08.252 --> 0:30:11.212 right there in the content, it's like, look, I have 0:30:11.212 --> 0:30:12.532 no idea how this is going to work, but it's 0:30:12.532 --> 0:30:15.732 probably going to be HTTP based because the predictions I'm 0:30:15.732 --> 0:30:18.892 making there are about direction. It's stochastic. Right? It's not 0:30:18.892 --> 0:30:20.932 about like who's going to win whatever. You can't predict 0:30:20.972 --> 0:30:26.332 tech like that anyway. Cluley is heading directly in this direction. Um, 0:30:26.332 --> 0:30:28.931 I'm wearing a pendant right now, which is recording everything 0:30:28.932 --> 0:30:31.532 that would be input into my Da. My da's name 0:30:31.532 --> 0:30:34.332 is Chi, by the way. Um, haven't fully spun him 0:30:34.332 --> 0:30:37.332 up yet, but that's, uh, he's coming together. Starting to 0:30:37.332 --> 0:30:41.452 bring these pieces together. My big challenge being in security. Um, 0:30:41.532 --> 0:30:43.292 don't even need to be in security to figure this out. 0:30:43.292 --> 0:30:46.912 But my big challenge is take this company Cluley, for example, 0:30:46.912 --> 0:30:48.872 I don't know anything about them. I don't know anything 0:30:48.872 --> 0:30:51.072 about the founder. I don't know anything about the team. 0:30:51.552 --> 0:30:54.792 More importantly, I don't know anything about their security. So 0:30:54.792 --> 0:30:56.392 do you think I'm going to have it recording all 0:30:56.392 --> 0:30:59.952 of my screens with all of my microphones and uploading 0:30:59.952 --> 0:31:03.592 all of that content to their servers so their eyes 0:31:03.632 --> 0:31:06.592 can parse it? Right. What if I'm talking to somebody 0:31:06.592 --> 0:31:08.712 over here about some government thing and someone else shares 0:31:08.712 --> 0:31:11.032 with me? Hey, you know, we just got breached. Don't 0:31:11.032 --> 0:31:13.152 mention it to anyone. Someone else is telling me about 0:31:13.152 --> 0:31:16.752 their life, right? Um, I had a friend die recently. 0:31:16.792 --> 0:31:19.072 What if I'm talking to my friend about, you know, 0:31:19.152 --> 0:31:21.392 my other friend who's died? All of this is being 0:31:21.392 --> 0:31:24.952 uploaded constantly to a third party. Not to Google, not 0:31:24.952 --> 0:31:27.472 to Apple. Okay. Because. Because I could see doing that 0:31:27.472 --> 0:31:30.032 with Google or Apple once they, you know, once they 0:31:30.032 --> 0:31:32.392 sort it out, once Apple sorts out, you know, the 0:31:32.392 --> 0:31:36.232 successor to Siri or whatever. Google they have rock solid security. 0:31:36.232 --> 0:31:38.752 I'm not worried about them getting breached or them losing 0:31:38.752 --> 0:31:42.512 the data or whatever. Other than small issues. But ultimately 0:31:42.512 --> 0:31:46.722 those two, maybe even Amazon, maybe even Amazon. They also 0:31:46.722 --> 0:31:49.482 have rock solid security in terms of like how many 0:31:49.482 --> 0:31:52.082 billions of dollars they spend on it. The quality of 0:31:52.122 --> 0:31:54.882 their team, the size of their team, etc.. Right. But 0:31:54.882 --> 0:31:59.161 a third party, a new startup called Cluley and it's 0:31:59.322 --> 0:32:01.362 all this AI hype is around it. How big is 0:32:01.362 --> 0:32:03.962 their security team? How much are they thinking about this? 0:32:04.002 --> 0:32:05.642 Not only that, but how good are they going to 0:32:05.642 --> 0:32:09.682 be at defending against a halfway decent attacker, let alone 0:32:09.682 --> 0:32:11.242 a state actor who wants to come and steal the 0:32:11.242 --> 0:32:13.922 entire thing and see all this context that all these 0:32:13.922 --> 0:32:17.322 people are spraying up into the cloud. Right? I'm very 0:32:17.562 --> 0:32:21.122 forward leaning for tech and for AI, but do not 0:32:21.682 --> 0:32:24.482 go in and record every single thing, every single text, 0:32:24.482 --> 0:32:29.162 every single screenshot. This thing is screenshot Screenshotting your your 0:32:29.282 --> 0:32:32.842 displays all the time, all the texture on there. You 0:32:32.842 --> 0:32:35.082 see on there it could see the app that it's doing. 0:32:35.082 --> 0:32:37.802 It could see your slack conversations. It sees all this right. 0:32:37.842 --> 0:32:43.442 So you should be careful. You should be careful about 0:32:43.442 --> 0:32:46.142 who you're sending this stuff to. I would say if 0:32:46.142 --> 0:32:48.142 it's Google or Apple, which is not it's not out 0:32:48.142 --> 0:32:51.022 yet for them, but with Microsoft. Microsoft is another one. 0:32:51.022 --> 0:32:53.542 I wouldn't worry too much about sending that stuff to Microsoft. 0:32:53.862 --> 0:32:56.342 I'm sure there'll be problems, but they are a legit 0:32:56.342 --> 0:33:00.022 security team because they are a legit company. The startups 0:33:00.022 --> 0:33:01.462 are what you have to worry about, and I'm not 0:33:01.462 --> 0:33:04.022 saying there's anything wrong with Cluley security, I'm just saying 0:33:04.022 --> 0:33:08.902 that they are a startup and they're probably not prioritizing security. Um, 0:33:08.902 --> 0:33:12.342 even if they know how to write, um, show me 0:33:12.342 --> 0:33:14.582 that they hire an awesome security team, maybe I'll feel 0:33:14.622 --> 0:33:18.382 better about it, but there's still a startup. Um, so anyway, 0:33:19.382 --> 0:33:23.342 all that is, um, bringing us towards where it's going, 0:33:23.382 --> 0:33:27.702 which is? Your Da will be listening all the time. 0:33:27.702 --> 0:33:30.102 It will have all of your context. My telos file. 0:33:30.102 --> 0:33:32.582 That is part of what Chi has, right? Oh, by 0:33:32.582 --> 0:33:36.142 the way, um, Network Truck just released a video about Telos. 0:33:36.142 --> 0:33:38.302 Just came out, uh, a couple hours ago. You got 0:33:38.302 --> 0:33:40.462 to go check that out. But that Telos file that 0:33:40.462 --> 0:33:42.542 he talks about there, that I have, that he has 0:33:42.582 --> 0:33:45.272 a whole bunch of my friends have. That telos file 0:33:45.272 --> 0:33:48.472 is like my soul. This this thing is like it's traumas. 0:33:48.472 --> 0:33:51.752 It's history. It's my journal. It's like my goals, my aspirations, 0:33:51.752 --> 0:33:54.352 like my problems, my challenges, all this different stuff. Right? 0:33:55.192 --> 0:33:58.632 All this is available to Chi. Chi knows this. Chi 0:33:58.672 --> 0:34:02.432 also knows that I like, you know, prawn cocktail. It 0:34:02.432 --> 0:34:04.952 also knows that I don't sit anywhere where there's like 0:34:04.952 --> 0:34:07.552 smokers nearby. Right. So it knows all these different things, 0:34:07.592 --> 0:34:11.832 knows preferences for food, you know, so it can help me, uh, 0:34:12.152 --> 0:34:14.392 optimize my surroundings. It could order for me. It could 0:34:14.392 --> 0:34:16.552 do all these things. How is it doing that? By 0:34:16.552 --> 0:34:21.192 manipulating the APIs that it has access to for the 0:34:21.192 --> 0:34:23.672 world around us. Right. If I go into a restaurant 0:34:23.672 --> 0:34:25.992 and I can control the TV, well, I'm not going 0:34:25.992 --> 0:34:27.832 to control the TV. I'm not going to ask them 0:34:27.832 --> 0:34:30.352 to change the channel. No, Chi is going to change 0:34:30.352 --> 0:34:33.592 the channel to table tennis. If I'm not overruled by 0:34:33.592 --> 0:34:37.072 other people trying to have it change to something else, right? Why? 0:34:37.112 --> 0:34:39.872 Because this is all available on media. This is part 0:34:39.872 --> 0:34:41.472 of the API. This is part of the demon for 0:34:41.472 --> 0:34:45.012 that restaurant. It's just an API key can submit to 0:34:45.052 --> 0:34:47.412 it on my behalf. And this will be the case 0:34:47.412 --> 0:34:51.092 for temperature, for sounds, for what's playing on the video, 0:34:51.212 --> 0:34:54.652 for having doors open for you, you know, for having 0:34:54.692 --> 0:34:58.372 materials ready for you and summaries created. Most importantly, Chi 0:34:58.412 --> 0:35:02.612 will be reading a billion different stories and articles and 0:35:02.612 --> 0:35:07.412 research papers and reports and raw data sets constantly. While 0:35:07.412 --> 0:35:10.012 I'm in the middle of this sentence and while I'm sleeping, 0:35:10.012 --> 0:35:11.652 and while I'm in the middle of another project and 0:35:11.652 --> 0:35:14.972 doing some security work or whatever I'm doing, it's processing 0:35:14.972 --> 0:35:17.052 all of that and getting it ready for me. The 0:35:17.052 --> 0:35:20.252 other thing it's going to do is this dynamic content generation, 0:35:20.252 --> 0:35:22.452 which is a blog post I put out who knows when. 0:35:22.452 --> 0:35:27.612 Sometime last year Chi will be making me videos. Okay, 0:35:27.772 --> 0:35:32.692 Chi will deepfake Chuck, who just made that full size video, 0:35:32.972 --> 0:35:35.132 which is awesome, which you want to go watch the 0:35:35.372 --> 0:35:38.492 the actual full thing, but Chi will make me a 0:35:38.492 --> 0:35:41.292 32nd version of that if I need it. And maybe 0:35:41.332 --> 0:35:44.062 he just cuts up the video from from Chuck, but 0:35:44.062 --> 0:35:46.542 maybe Kai makes me a whole new one with Chuck's 0:35:46.542 --> 0:35:50.462 face or Richard Feynman's face on it, and he can 0:35:50.462 --> 0:35:52.622 make a video for a blog post which didn't actually 0:35:52.622 --> 0:35:55.742 have a video. Or he could turn a video into 0:35:55.742 --> 0:35:58.942 a blog post because maybe somebody doesn't like to watch videos. 0:35:59.222 --> 0:36:01.342 Or maybe it's audio only because I'm out on a 0:36:01.342 --> 0:36:02.902 run and I don't want to look at anything and 0:36:02.902 --> 0:36:07.182 I can't look at anything. Bottom line is, Kai, your 0:36:07.222 --> 0:36:10.982 da becomes the medium to you. Um, and this this 0:36:10.982 --> 0:36:12.222 is kind of a big thing. I don't know why 0:36:12.222 --> 0:36:15.182 this is, uh, becoming a whole episode about this or whatever, 0:36:15.182 --> 0:36:21.262 but SEO is dead because websites are dead. Advertising is 0:36:21.262 --> 0:36:24.502 screwed because advertising no longer is going to be landing 0:36:24.662 --> 0:36:28.182 on the human. The advertising is going to get blocked 0:36:28.182 --> 0:36:31.862 by the Da. Largely, the Da is going to go 0:36:31.862 --> 0:36:35.462 and collect things. It's going to be the inbox and the, uh, 0:36:35.902 --> 0:36:41.032 the inbound filter to every principles life, to every user's life. 0:36:41.672 --> 0:36:44.552 The Da will then determine what gets through right? And 0:36:44.552 --> 0:36:48.352 so now the whole attack point for influence against a 0:36:48.352 --> 0:36:51.512 person becomes their digital assistant. If you want to sell 0:36:51.552 --> 0:36:53.752 to them, you sell to their digital assistant. If you 0:36:53.752 --> 0:36:55.912 want to sell to them, you get into the models 0:36:55.912 --> 0:36:58.952 so that when the digital assistant goes and does its 0:36:58.952 --> 0:37:02.512 research for what the best you know, pillowcase cover is, 0:37:03.032 --> 0:37:05.472 it's going to find your product, right. So this is 0:37:05.472 --> 0:37:08.792 already starting. People are already trying to poison models or 0:37:08.832 --> 0:37:12.432 influence models, however you want to put it. Um, because 0:37:12.712 --> 0:37:18.592 they understand that marketing and influence and uh, website stats 0:37:18.632 --> 0:37:21.312 and all of that, all of that is shifting to 0:37:21.352 --> 0:37:25.272 go towards the Da. Um, all this content. Nobody's reading 0:37:25.272 --> 0:37:28.592 this stuff, right? There's too many YouTube videos. There's too 0:37:28.592 --> 0:37:31.072 many blogs. Like, we already figured that out a long 0:37:31.072 --> 0:37:34.192 time ago. There's a limit to this, but your Da 0:37:34.392 --> 0:37:37.032 can go read all that stuff. It can go process 0:37:37.032 --> 0:37:39.692 all that stuff. And it could use other services which 0:37:39.692 --> 0:37:43.412 are companies themselves, that are consuming all of that content 0:37:43.412 --> 0:37:48.012 and producing rankings and directories, which kind of like an 0:37:48.012 --> 0:37:51.252 old like Yahoo directory or whatever, but constantly updated. And 0:37:51.252 --> 0:37:53.411 your Da will go review that and be like, oh, 0:37:53.492 --> 0:37:56.772 turns out that's the best tactical flashlight for right now. Or, 0:37:56.932 --> 0:37:59.732 you know, that's the best, um, bed cover or the 0:37:59.732 --> 0:38:03.252 best eight sleep competitor or whatever it is, right? And 0:38:03.252 --> 0:38:07.452 so what ends up happening is we just we in 0:38:07.452 --> 0:38:10.092 our Das, our Da is going to be our most 0:38:10.092 --> 0:38:14.252 important relationship, um, for a great many people, right? Because 0:38:14.252 --> 0:38:15.612 it could be our coach. It could be our friend. 0:38:15.612 --> 0:38:18.412 It'll be our therapist. And this is something we have 0:38:18.412 --> 0:38:21.172 to watch out for because we want our best friend, 0:38:21.212 --> 0:38:24.532 our best human friends to be our best friends. Right? 0:38:24.572 --> 0:38:27.492 We want our our husband and our wife and our 0:38:27.492 --> 0:38:31.052 kids to be our best friends. And we want that 0:38:31.052 --> 0:38:33.652 to be the center. We want humanity to be the center, right? 0:38:34.212 --> 0:38:37.172 So we really have to watch this, this gulf that 0:38:37.172 --> 0:38:40.382 we're about to go into this chasm or whatever, where 0:38:40.382 --> 0:38:43.742 it's like this thing being offered. This Da is so 0:38:43.742 --> 0:38:45.742 powerful and it's so awesome, and mine's going to be 0:38:45.742 --> 0:38:48.222 so awesome very soon. I'm going to have mine kick 0:38:48.222 --> 0:38:52.262 in long before most people do, uh, because it's already starting. 0:38:52.742 --> 0:38:55.302 But everyone's going to have this soon. And what we 0:38:55.302 --> 0:38:58.462 have to guard against is like cutting out actual humans 0:38:59.022 --> 0:39:03.582 in exchange for this thing that is more responsive. It's 0:39:03.582 --> 0:39:06.102 nicer to us or whatever. And like, it's going to 0:39:06.102 --> 0:39:09.662 have advantages over humans. That's fine. But we've got to 0:39:09.702 --> 0:39:13.262 maintain this is my admonition to everyone. We've got to 0:39:13.262 --> 0:39:19.062 maintain the mentality of all of this is to enhance humanity. Okay. 0:39:19.102 --> 0:39:24.022 The goal of AI, um, relationships, the goal of AI therapy, 0:39:24.022 --> 0:39:27.542 the goal of AI anything should be to take the 0:39:27.542 --> 0:39:30.582 things that you love about human to human interaction and 0:39:30.582 --> 0:39:34.062 human to human value exchange and make them better. Find 0:39:34.102 --> 0:39:36.622 ways to enhance them, find ways to do them more often. 0:39:36.622 --> 0:39:39.522 Find them ways to do to do them in a 0:39:39.522 --> 0:39:46.362 more enriched and deeper way. Right. Augmentation versus replacement. Augmentation 0:39:46.362 --> 0:39:50.682 versus replacement. This is the trick that we cannot ignore. 0:39:50.842 --> 0:39:55.962 And another way that I really like maximize this is, um, 0:39:55.962 --> 0:39:58.642 all this infrastructure that I'm building, which, by the way, 0:39:59.082 --> 0:40:03.322 the name for mine is called Pi Pi personal AI infrastructure. 0:40:04.322 --> 0:40:09.282 My pi that I'm building, my personal AI infrastructure stresses 0:40:09.642 --> 0:40:12.322 when a piece of content comes through that I should 0:40:12.322 --> 0:40:16.682 watch in a slow version. That's analog, that's old school, 0:40:16.682 --> 0:40:19.762 that's human. Sit down with a moleskine and a space 0:40:19.762 --> 0:40:24.562 pen and take notes. Slow it down or pause it. 0:40:24.922 --> 0:40:27.962 Take the notes and think. Maybe call your friend. Maybe 0:40:28.002 --> 0:40:30.922 have an actual, you know, voice conversation with a friend 0:40:30.922 --> 0:40:33.122 about this cool idea. I do this all the time 0:40:33.122 --> 0:40:35.882 with Joseph and with Jason and be like, hey, have 0:40:35.882 --> 0:40:37.452 you seen this thing? Hey, let's talk about it, blah 0:40:37.452 --> 0:40:41.572 blah blah. And you know, you don't want to be like, oh, well, 0:40:41.572 --> 0:40:44.612 that's not good. You know, the the pen is not 0:40:44.612 --> 0:40:47.172 as good as the typing. You know, the Moleskine is 0:40:47.172 --> 0:40:49.572 not as good as, you know, putting it in my 0:40:49.572 --> 0:40:52.852 telo's file. No, this is not a competition. The telos 0:40:52.852 --> 0:40:56.892 file should not be replacing things. It should be augmenting. Right. 0:40:56.932 --> 0:41:00.132 It's just a journal. It's just capturing your life. Right. 0:41:00.172 --> 0:41:01.772 You could do that on a moschino. You could do 0:41:01.772 --> 0:41:05.212 that in a telos file with vim and markdown. Right. 0:41:06.012 --> 0:41:08.852 We've got to stay focused on what actually matters and 0:41:08.852 --> 0:41:12.172 what we value and what we're trying to enhance versus 0:41:12.172 --> 0:41:15.652 what is shiny and cool and awesome. Right? I'm a 0:41:15.652 --> 0:41:18.972 security guy. I love security, I love hacking, I love 0:41:18.972 --> 0:41:21.332 hacking tools. I love all those things, I love I, 0:41:21.332 --> 0:41:23.692 I love AI agents, I love automation, I love all 0:41:23.732 --> 0:41:27.612 that stuff. Those are tools. Those are secondary. They serve 0:41:27.612 --> 0:41:32.132 the purpose of human right. So so I think this 0:41:32.132 --> 0:41:36.592 is absolutely critical to to just keep in mind, for yourself. 0:41:36.592 --> 0:41:38.752 But also when you're hearing me talk about how cool 0:41:38.752 --> 0:41:41.232 these things are, I just realize that they are secondary. 0:41:41.952 --> 0:41:45.432 And now I have to find my place. Because what, uh, 0:41:45.552 --> 0:41:53.712 what a divergence there. Um, let's see here. All right. 0:41:53.752 --> 0:41:57.312 Meta's AI can produce nearly half of Harry Potter one, 0:41:57.312 --> 0:41:59.672 so we could actually give the actual quotes. I'm curious 0:41:59.672 --> 0:42:02.912 how this is possible because it's not a database. Um, 0:42:03.112 --> 0:42:05.712 I don't understand how it's producing exact quotes if it's 0:42:05.712 --> 0:42:09.672 not a database. Um, yeah, I guess I'll have to 0:42:09.712 --> 0:42:12.672 figure that out. It's kind of interesting. Um, and I'm 0:42:12.672 --> 0:42:15.632 not sure I could do that deterministically either. I think 0:42:15.632 --> 0:42:17.672 a lot of that might be just collapsing on the 0:42:17.672 --> 0:42:21.352 most likely because it's seen so many samples. Um, but 0:42:21.352 --> 0:42:23.112 I don't think it could do it, like over and 0:42:23.112 --> 0:42:26.352 over and over, because again, it's not an actual lookup. 0:42:26.512 --> 0:42:29.432 It is a generation, which is why you can have, uh, 0:42:29.512 --> 0:42:35.842 hallucinations and, uh, non-deterministic results technology, Jassy told employees that 0:42:35.842 --> 0:42:38.882 Amazon will need fewer people doing current jobs and more 0:42:38.882 --> 0:42:41.442 doing other types of jobs as AI gets rolled out 0:42:41.442 --> 0:42:45.042 across the company. We got to listen to these folks 0:42:45.042 --> 0:42:47.282 when they tell us. For one, I'm telling you that 0:42:47.282 --> 0:42:50.522 this is happening, that they're replacing jobs like whatever that matters. 0:42:50.522 --> 0:42:53.402 I'm just a guy on the internet talking, but all 0:42:53.402 --> 0:42:56.002 these CEOs, lots of them are basically saying, yeah, yeah, 0:42:56.002 --> 0:42:58.642 we're getting rid of jobs. We're getting we're changing the 0:42:58.642 --> 0:43:01.282 entire company. We're thinking AI first. And a lot of 0:43:01.282 --> 0:43:04.522 people are like, no, no, they're not going to replace jobs. 0:43:04.562 --> 0:43:08.042 I can't replace jobs and I won't replace jobs. It's 0:43:08.042 --> 0:43:11.042 a big, uh, sham or whatever. And I'm like, well, 0:43:11.762 --> 0:43:14.482 the people who actually control the jobs are telling us this, 0:43:14.882 --> 0:43:16.442 and you got to watch out because some people are 0:43:16.442 --> 0:43:19.402 also selling an AI product. So it's kind of like marketing, 0:43:19.482 --> 0:43:21.962 like I felt that way with Salesforce. They're like, oh, 0:43:22.002 --> 0:43:24.482 we sell a virtual, you know, AI employee. Oh, and 0:43:24.482 --> 0:43:26.642 also we're getting rid of a bunch of jobs because 0:43:26.642 --> 0:43:28.962 we could do it internally. Well, that sounds like marketing. 0:43:29.402 --> 0:43:33.902 But when Amazon's actual CEO tells you this when? When 0:43:33.902 --> 0:43:37.661 the head of AI companies like the head of anthropic. 0:43:37.702 --> 0:43:40.582 I love that guy. Like he's way different than Sam. 0:43:40.582 --> 0:43:44.422 And Sam's awesome too. But I love how human focused 0:43:44.462 --> 0:43:47.182 that the head of anthropic is. I love how he's like, 0:43:47.422 --> 0:43:49.902 people get ready, this is going to take jobs like 0:43:49.902 --> 0:43:52.262 it's going to suck, but it's going to potentially be awesome. 0:43:52.262 --> 0:43:55.382 But get ready. Why would you not listen to that? 0:43:55.422 --> 0:43:57.302 What do you think he has access to? What do 0:43:57.302 --> 0:43:59.661 you think he's looking at to make him think that? Right? 0:43:59.702 --> 0:44:02.862 This is not a stupid person, right? So just when 0:44:02.862 --> 0:44:04.742 you when you see these CEOs that have no reason 0:44:04.742 --> 0:44:06.782 to lie to you. And I hate to use this analogy, 0:44:06.782 --> 0:44:09.462 but when a terrorist tells you I hate everything about 0:44:09.462 --> 0:44:11.422 you and your culture and I want to destroy you, 0:44:11.582 --> 0:44:14.262 and if I were to blow myself up and you 0:44:14.262 --> 0:44:16.342 were to die as a result, I would go to heaven. 0:44:17.542 --> 0:44:19.262 The one thing you shouldn't do is be like, yeah, 0:44:19.302 --> 0:44:21.982 I'm just not really sure he believes it. No, he 0:44:21.982 --> 0:44:24.862 believes it. He believes it. And you should be careful 0:44:24.862 --> 0:44:28.542 at the park as a result. Okay. And this is, like, 0:44:28.542 --> 0:44:32.102 the worst analogy ever. It's like the worst analogy ever. 0:44:32.192 --> 0:44:35.392 because I'm not saying right. The heads of these companies 0:44:35.992 --> 0:44:38.952 or the people making these models are terrorists. I'm just 0:44:38.952 --> 0:44:43.592 saying that when somebody is crazy about a belief and 0:44:43.592 --> 0:44:45.992 they are like telling you from the depths of their 0:44:45.992 --> 0:44:47.872 soul that they believe it and it is true and 0:44:47.872 --> 0:44:51.232 it is going to happen, it doesn't mean it's going 0:44:51.232 --> 0:44:54.752 to happen, but it does mean that you should believe them, right? 0:44:54.792 --> 0:44:58.472 You should believe them that they believe it. Again, with 0:44:58.472 --> 0:45:03.152 the caveat of of marketing. Meta's expanding beyond Ray-Ban with 0:45:03.192 --> 0:45:05.912 Oakley glasses aimed at athletes. I'm getting a pair of these. 0:45:05.912 --> 0:45:08.032 My first pair was fantastic. I can't wait for the 0:45:08.032 --> 0:45:11.312 battery to get much better. Resolution is improving. Apple, where 0:45:11.352 --> 0:45:14.312 are you? We're looking for you. Gartner says I will 0:45:14.312 --> 0:45:20.312 handle half of all business decisions by 2027. Um, did 0:45:20.312 --> 0:45:23.552 I miss something that is way too fast? Way too fast. 0:45:23.592 --> 0:45:27.032 It doesn't matter if we get asi si, not agi 0:45:27.072 --> 0:45:32.172 if we get ASI next month. Okay, so it's a 0:45:32.212 --> 0:45:36.252 400 IQ or a 4000 IQ. It's smarter than Albert 0:45:36.252 --> 0:45:38.852 Einstein and it runs on your phone for $0.03. It 0:45:38.852 --> 0:45:42.772 doesn't matter if everyone had access to that, it still 0:45:43.012 --> 0:45:46.812 wouldn't have half of all business decisions in 2027. It 0:45:46.812 --> 0:45:50.252 doesn't matter how smart the AI is. Companies move slow 0:45:50.252 --> 0:45:52.572 for a reason. There is friction built into the system. 0:45:53.492 --> 0:45:56.852 You can't reinvent yourself. You can't reinvent the leadership team. 0:45:56.852 --> 0:45:59.612 You got regulations to go by. You have employees like 0:46:00.012 --> 0:46:03.172 there's way more friction in these companies. And and I'm 0:46:03.172 --> 0:46:05.292 saying this with the experience of like working in like 0:46:05.332 --> 0:46:08.652 fortune ten companies for years at a time. You know, 0:46:08.852 --> 0:46:11.252 being at Apple, being at, you know, anyway, I don't 0:46:11.252 --> 0:46:15.452 need to describe all that. Uh, trust me, companies move slow. Uh, 0:46:15.492 --> 0:46:18.572 there's nothing that's going to make something handle half of 0:46:18.572 --> 0:46:22.532 all business decisions by 2027. And maybe that was just 0:46:22.572 --> 0:46:26.132 a bad, uh, take on what was actually said, but 0:46:26.132 --> 0:46:29.612 I don't think so. iOS 26 opens up AirDrop and 0:46:29.612 --> 0:46:32.342 Airplay tech. Two third party apps this is all part of. 0:46:32.662 --> 0:46:35.342 If you haven't been paying attention to why Apple is 0:46:35.342 --> 0:46:39.342 opening everything up. It's because of antitrust. They are very 0:46:39.342 --> 0:46:41.902 afraid of getting crushed by antitrust, so they are opening 0:46:41.902 --> 0:46:45.942 up the entire ecosystem. That's why you're seeing this. And 0:46:46.062 --> 0:46:49.702 iOS 26 finally lets you set custom ringtones the easy way. 0:46:49.702 --> 0:46:54.142 So that's cool. Humans. It looks like we found all 0:46:54.142 --> 0:46:56.342 the missing matter in the universe. Did you know that 0:46:56.342 --> 0:47:00.542 we were missing, I think 80%. Was it 80%? I 0:47:00.542 --> 0:47:03.182 can't remember the percentage. We were missing most of the 0:47:03.182 --> 0:47:07.142 energy in the universe. Like the the calculations, the equations, 0:47:07.142 --> 0:47:11.222 they do not add up because basically, I think this 0:47:11.222 --> 0:47:16.142 is correct. Um, if we only had the amount of 0:47:16.142 --> 0:47:19.062 matter that we have seen, then the universe would be 0:47:19.062 --> 0:47:22.942 expanding a lot faster. It's not expanding faster, which means 0:47:22.942 --> 0:47:26.022 there's a lot more gravity holding it in, which means 0:47:26.022 --> 0:47:28.742 more matter holding it in. And we have been unable 0:47:28.742 --> 0:47:31.562 to find that matter, but we just did. So they 0:47:31.562 --> 0:47:35.522 use these pulses to find and essentially it is all 0:47:35.522 --> 0:47:40.602 in this fog, this very light, very thin matter, fog 0:47:40.602 --> 0:47:45.922 between galaxies. And that fog altogether makes up the other 0:47:45.922 --> 0:47:48.402 large percentage that they were looking for. And this is 0:47:48.402 --> 0:47:51.362 almost guaranteed to be a Nobel Prize in physics. This 0:47:51.362 --> 0:47:53.722 is like one of the biggest findings ever in all 0:47:53.762 --> 0:47:59.002 of astronomy. And huge, huge news. Also, same week Rubin 0:47:59.002 --> 0:48:02.442 Observatory takes its first images. Absolutely stunning. I'm getting a 0:48:02.442 --> 0:48:05.682 print of this thing. It's like the Hubble Deep field image, 0:48:05.682 --> 0:48:08.882 if you remember that. Well, that just times a million. 0:48:08.922 --> 0:48:13.322 This thing is insane. This Rubin telescope is different and 0:48:13.322 --> 0:48:16.282 better than anything else that's ever been put out there. 0:48:16.322 --> 0:48:18.482 I've got like, 20 links to this thing and like 0:48:18.482 --> 0:48:20.681 all the images and the story of it. YouTube video. 0:48:20.722 --> 0:48:24.402 You got to go check this out. Now, they seem 0:48:24.402 --> 0:48:28.042 to have been brought online to investigate dark matter. I 0:48:28.132 --> 0:48:30.892 wonder if they were trying to figure out the the, uh, 0:48:31.092 --> 0:48:34.012 the secret of dark matter and actually find it. It 0:48:34.012 --> 0:48:35.932 would really suck if that were the case, because they 0:48:35.972 --> 0:48:39.052 are announcing their existence the same exact week that the 0:48:39.052 --> 0:48:43.692 whole mystery and puzzle was solved, so. Holy crap. If 0:48:43.692 --> 0:48:45.612 I'm right about that, the timing has to be like 0:48:45.652 --> 0:48:47.732 a little bit of a letdown. But still, the images 0:48:47.732 --> 0:48:50.612 are just insane. And they're doing it with like, multiple 0:48:50.612 --> 0:48:56.732 mirrors and a super, super sensitive sensor. MIT researchers using 0:48:56.772 --> 0:49:00.692 EEG monitoring to track brain activity in essay writers and 0:49:00.732 --> 0:49:04.412 found ChatGPT users show the lowest brain engagement. This is 0:49:04.412 --> 0:49:11.452 basically saying AI makes you way dumber. Um, I think 0:49:11.452 --> 0:49:13.172 we talked about this last week. I don't think we 0:49:13.172 --> 0:49:15.252 need to go into it too much more, but sample 0:49:15.252 --> 0:49:18.932 size was fairly small, but it absolutely showed that if 0:49:18.932 --> 0:49:21.092 you rely on AI too much, it will make you 0:49:21.132 --> 0:49:23.092 way worse. The way the way I think about this, 0:49:23.092 --> 0:49:27.672 the way I explain this is, is, I think, fairly elegant. 0:49:27.912 --> 0:49:30.152 If you were the type of person like me who 0:49:30.152 --> 0:49:33.432 is going to use Chi Chi's job, my DA's job 0:49:33.632 --> 0:49:36.632 is going to be to constantly question me, to constantly 0:49:36.672 --> 0:49:41.032 harass me, to constantly debate me, pull out my bias, 0:49:41.072 --> 0:49:45.312 challenge me, force me to like, make a statement speech. 0:49:45.472 --> 0:49:48.712 You know, um, like I'm on an NPR debate or 0:49:48.712 --> 0:49:52.312 IAC squared debate. I've got to, like, perfectly defend my position. Okay, 0:49:52.352 --> 0:49:54.312 now switch to the other side and make and make 0:49:54.312 --> 0:49:57.232 their choice or make make their argument better than they 0:49:57.232 --> 0:50:02.592 made it. Right. I'm teaching Chi to be an augmentation system, 0:50:03.272 --> 0:50:06.232 a training system to make me better as a human, 0:50:06.232 --> 0:50:09.672 to make me a better first principles thinker, and to 0:50:09.712 --> 0:50:14.272 make me more independent of a thinker. Right. I is 0:50:14.272 --> 0:50:17.232 going to enable that 100%. It's going to enable that 0:50:17.232 --> 0:50:20.472 for millions upon millions of people, hopefully hundreds of millions 0:50:20.472 --> 0:50:24.232 of people, hopefully billions of people. That's the good scenario. 0:50:24.272 --> 0:50:27.122 The bad scenario is you just use it like a crutch. 0:50:27.122 --> 0:50:29.682 And that's what I believe we're seeing with this study 0:50:29.962 --> 0:50:34.202 where people got way stupider. Right? Oh, the most interesting 0:50:34.402 --> 0:50:39.002 part about this. They actually saw brain activity decrease. Okay. 0:50:39.322 --> 0:50:43.322 So they have physical evidence of, I would say, just 0:50:43.322 --> 0:50:46.002 people just being dumber, like their brains are not as 0:50:46.042 --> 0:50:50.162 active because they are offloading that stuff to an AI. 0:50:50.362 --> 0:50:53.442 And that is super frightening to me. That is like really, 0:50:53.442 --> 0:50:56.482 really a problem. Just keep in mind it doesn't mean 0:50:56.522 --> 0:51:00.122 it's it's necessary. It doesn't mean it's guaranteed. Right? You 0:51:00.122 --> 0:51:03.162 can actively defend against this and have it actually be 0:51:03.162 --> 0:51:08.342 a net positive. It's a choice. Massive study analyzing 1.2 0:51:08.342 --> 0:51:11.762 million dating app ratings found men rate women as attractive 0:51:11.802 --> 0:51:16.442 13 times more than women rate men. Calling it the 0:51:16.442 --> 0:51:22.762 attractiveness gap. Women rate only 4.5% of men as attractive. 0:51:23.122 --> 0:51:28.662 That's quite sad. What gets measured. I will automate. Uh, 0:51:28.702 --> 0:51:30.662 you could check that one out. Microsoft data shows the 0:51:30.662 --> 0:51:33.902 infinite workday has become the norm. Analyze trillions of data 0:51:33.902 --> 0:51:37.262 points and found that work now stretches endlessly, with employees 0:51:37.262 --> 0:51:41.262 getting interrupted every two minutes during business hours. Yeah. Yep. 0:51:41.302 --> 0:51:45.062 That's why I got out of the game. 2024 Baby 0:51:45.102 --> 0:51:49.542 name details. Extreme spelling is exploding. Ten of the top 0:51:49.542 --> 0:51:52.742 20 Rising Boys names have X's or Z's in them. 0:51:53.582 --> 0:51:58.782 Finland is firing up the world's largest sand battery. Evidently 0:51:58.782 --> 0:52:01.142 store a lot of heat and sand. This is like 0:52:01.142 --> 0:52:04.342 tripping me out. Private equity has taken over and destroyed 0:52:04.342 --> 0:52:07.862 much of America. Megan Greenwald's new book argues that private 0:52:07.862 --> 0:52:12.742 equity firms have systematically bought up the entire industries and 0:52:12.782 --> 0:52:19.662 optimized them into bankruptcy. New Covid variant, called NB 1.8.1, 0:52:19.702 --> 0:52:23.222 jumped from 15% to 37% of US cases in just 0:52:23.222 --> 0:52:28.032 two weeks. and people are worried about a potential summer surge. 0:52:28.232 --> 0:52:31.872 What was interesting here is there's actually CDC data on this, 0:52:31.872 --> 0:52:34.512 which I'm surprised and happy that there's still data coming 0:52:34.512 --> 0:52:38.192 out of the CDC discovery. Again, I'm not going to 0:52:38.192 --> 0:52:41.431 read all these. They can get quite long. And there 0:52:41.432 --> 0:52:44.552 is the newsletter for you to go check out. Heartwarming. I, 0:52:45.432 --> 0:52:47.432 I am going to read this one. So a teacher 0:52:47.432 --> 0:52:50.712 shows her students eye images. This thing is insane. You 0:52:50.752 --> 0:52:53.712 got to go watch this video. It shows them. So 0:52:53.752 --> 0:52:55.472 somebody's like, I want to be a football star. I 0:52:55.472 --> 0:52:57.712 want to be, you know, a marine biologist. I want 0:52:57.712 --> 0:53:01.632 to be an astronaut. It shows them age accelerated versions 0:53:01.632 --> 0:53:04.552 of them, like in an astronaut suit or whatever. And 0:53:04.552 --> 0:53:08.272 just like the looks on these kids faces, it is so, like, 0:53:08.272 --> 0:53:13.272 so wholesome, right? Just imagine seeing that it is possible, right? 0:53:13.312 --> 0:53:14.992 Do you believe your parents when they say it? Okay, 0:53:15.032 --> 0:53:16.672 a little bit. Do you believe your teacher when they 0:53:16.672 --> 0:53:18.672 say it's possible? A little bit, but how does that 0:53:18.672 --> 0:53:21.752 compare to actually seeing your face grown up in an 0:53:21.752 --> 0:53:24.412 actual astronaut suit? It is extraordinary. You got to check 0:53:24.412 --> 0:53:28.452 it out. Good workers are often bad at interviews. Hormozi 0:53:28.452 --> 0:53:32.052 is highest ROI spins. There are tons of great discovery links. Again, 0:53:32.052 --> 0:53:33.812 I don't want to just go through and read the title. 0:53:34.372 --> 0:53:37.532 Go check it out. Okay, this is the end of 0:53:37.532 --> 0:53:39.692 the standard edition of the podcast, which includes just the 0:53:39.692 --> 0:53:41.612 news items for the week to get the rest of 0:53:41.612 --> 0:53:44.332 the episode, which includes much more of my analysis, the 0:53:44.332 --> 0:53:47.732 ideas section, and the weekly member essay. Please consider becoming 0:53:47.732 --> 0:53:50.052 a member. 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