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Get $1,000 off Vanta when 0:00:35.710 --> 0:00:42.159 you go to Vanta comm slash unsupervised. That's vanta.com/supervised for 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:47.379 $1,000 off. Welcome to Unsupervised Learning, a security, AI, and 0:00:47.380 --> 0:00:50.110 meaning focused podcast that looks at how best to thrive 0:00:50.110 --> 0:00:55.050 as humans in a post AI world. It combines original ideas, analysis, 0:00:55.050 --> 0:00:58.290 and mental models to bring not just the news, but 0:00:58.290 --> 0:01:05.880 why it matters and how to respond. All right, welcome 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.819 to unsupervised learning. This is Daniel Miessler. All right. So 0:01:08.819 --> 0:01:11.850 here's what's up this week gearing up for Las Vegas. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.490 Going to be there for 11 days. Assuming I don't 0:01:14.490 --> 0:01:16.650 get sick after like four of those. And if you 0:01:16.650 --> 0:01:19.140 see me, please, uh, please know that I'm a bit, uh, 0:01:19.140 --> 0:01:22.740 shy and awkward. A bit, uh, like 20 to 60% 0:01:22.740 --> 0:01:24.900 of the time. I mean, sometimes it's just not there 0:01:24.900 --> 0:01:27.570 at all, and sometimes it's pretty bad. So just, uh, 0:01:27.569 --> 0:01:31.200 say hi. Anyway, I love, uh, seeing people, and, uh, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.970 it's a good training for me. Need to get better 0:01:32.970 --> 0:01:35.970 at this. Anyway, watch a number of videos last night, 0:01:35.970 --> 0:01:39.600 I believe, about people losing their jobs and starting, like, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.369 a YouTube channel and, like, just trying to branch out 0:01:42.370 --> 0:01:46.240 and maybe start a new career. And it was extremely sad. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.580 And I watched like two of these. And of course 0:01:48.580 --> 0:01:51.130 the feed showed me like ten more. And I ended 0:01:51.130 --> 0:01:53.410 up just watching these videos for like an hour and 0:01:53.410 --> 0:01:55.960 a half, two hours. And it was extremely sad. I 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.770 feel like people are seeing the ground shift underneath their 0:01:59.770 --> 0:02:03.670 feet and they're like, why does nobody want me, right? 0:02:03.670 --> 0:02:06.650 This one particular one was really sad because he was like, 0:02:06.650 --> 0:02:08.840 I thought I was a good product manager. And then 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.739 after ten and a half months of interviewing and getting 0:02:12.740 --> 0:02:15.590 all the way through interviews and getting to the very end, 0:02:15.590 --> 0:02:19.190 and then not being given an offer or being given 0:02:19.190 --> 0:02:21.830 an offer and then being ghosted after ten and a 0:02:21.830 --> 0:02:24.110 half months, I no longer believe in myself. I no 0:02:24.110 --> 0:02:26.900 longer believe I'm a good product manager, and it was 0:02:26.900 --> 0:02:30.369 just devastating to hear this. And he was being so 0:02:30.370 --> 0:02:33.220 like just open and honest and vulnerable. And it was 0:02:33.220 --> 0:02:36.339 just it was hard to watch and just felt very human. 0:02:36.340 --> 0:02:39.070 And this is essentially why I'm doing what I'm doing 0:02:39.070 --> 0:02:42.490 now is to basically try to help people who are 0:02:42.490 --> 0:02:45.430 in that situation and try to hopefully explain what I 0:02:45.430 --> 0:02:49.990 see coming in terms of like, you shouldn't judge yourself 0:02:49.990 --> 0:02:54.690 based on what these companies think about your skills and 0:02:54.690 --> 0:02:57.750 what they think about your worth. Um, they do not 0:02:57.750 --> 0:03:00.480 determine your worth. And this is why we need something 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:06.180 like human 3.0 is because human 3.0 is how to 0:03:06.180 --> 0:03:10.980 measure yourself. Okay, you in your entirety. Full spectrum is 0:03:10.980 --> 0:03:13.890 how you should be thinking about yourself, not in terms 0:03:13.889 --> 0:03:17.960 of do you have these particular product management skills that 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.170 this particular type of startup needs or this particular type 0:03:21.169 --> 0:03:23.960 of company needs? That is a very old world way 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.930 of thinking about things. And I don't fault anyone for 0:03:26.930 --> 0:03:29.120 thinking that way because you're trying to get a job, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.310 you're trying to pay bills, right? So I understand that. 0:03:31.310 --> 0:03:34.730 I'm just saying that society as a whole is stuck 0:03:34.730 --> 0:03:37.370 in the past in seeing the world in this way, 0:03:37.370 --> 0:03:41.510 and we need to move beyond it, especially because AI 0:03:41.510 --> 0:03:43.990 is going to accelerate this whole process where they're going 0:03:43.990 --> 0:03:46.690 to see more and more people as expendable in this way, 0:03:46.690 --> 0:03:48.700 the same way that this guy was fired in ten 0:03:48.700 --> 0:03:51.400 and a half months later, he still can't get a job. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.100 That's going to keep happening to more and more people, 0:03:54.100 --> 0:03:57.700 and we need a solution. So I would say be 0:03:57.700 --> 0:04:01.750 kind to people. Everyone is hurting in some kind of way, 0:04:01.750 --> 0:04:05.800 and especially right now. And when you look at our politics, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.800 I see a lot of the current situation as a 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.090 symptom of people being hurt and people being afraid. And 0:04:13.090 --> 0:04:16.779 I think that makes people more mean and less empathic 0:04:16.779 --> 0:04:19.089 than they otherwise would be. And I got this great 0:04:19.089 --> 0:04:22.060 quote here. Kindness is a language which the deaf can 0:04:22.060 --> 0:04:25.330 hear and the blind can see by Mark Twain. All right. 0:04:25.330 --> 0:04:28.360 So I got my best argument for why I will 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.609 have an extraordinary effect on economy and jobs. And if 0:04:31.610 --> 0:04:34.610 you have any friends who are still skeptical about AI, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.179 I recommend sending them this. It's called, uh. If we've 0:04:38.180 --> 0:04:42.560 been thinking about AI all wrong, created a video for substrate. It's, uh, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.159 one of my best performing videos, actually. Uh, and if 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.859 you prefer videos to long articles and you still want 0:04:48.860 --> 0:04:53.450 to learn about substrates, recommend checking that out. Security Knowbe4 0:04:53.450 --> 0:04:56.620 accidentally hired a North Korean state actor who tried to 0:04:56.620 --> 0:04:59.860 install info stealing malware on their device. The craziest thing 0:04:59.860 --> 0:05:04.780 about this whole North Korea stuff and how they're like 0:05:04.900 --> 0:05:08.380 breaking into these companies, they're not really breaking in. They're 0:05:08.380 --> 0:05:11.710 applying they're applying to these companies and getting hired. And 0:05:11.710 --> 0:05:14.800 it really reminds me of this Key and Peele skit 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.869 where the guy's like, yeah, so what we're going to 0:05:16.870 --> 0:05:19.950 do is we're going to sneak in. I think I 0:05:19.950 --> 0:05:22.560 told this joke before, but he's like, what we're going 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.989 to do is we're going to sneak in, we're going 0:05:24.990 --> 0:05:27.900 to get hired. And then when they give us work, 0:05:27.900 --> 0:05:31.169 we're going to do the work, and then they're going 0:05:31.170 --> 0:05:35.940 to deposit money in our bank accounts every two weeks. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.320 And his buddy looks at him and he goes, dude, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:45.580 you're talking about a fucking job. That's what a job is. 0:05:45.610 --> 0:05:47.860 And that was the end of the skit. And that's 0:05:47.860 --> 0:05:52.570 literally what these guys are doing. They are applying to jobs, 0:05:52.570 --> 0:05:55.690 getting hired and doing the work. The trick is they 0:05:55.690 --> 0:05:58.810 just take their regular salaries, and I'm not sure what 0:05:58.810 --> 0:06:01.570 percentage is actually doing the work versus doing the work 0:06:01.570 --> 0:06:05.830 poorly versus doing the work, plus trying to hack them additionally. 0:06:05.830 --> 0:06:08.250 Not sure about that exactly. I'm not sure anyone is, 0:06:08.250 --> 0:06:11.520 but here's what I do know. Uh, they're taking the 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.000 money from the salaries and putting it back into the 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.089 government to use for like the missile program or whatever 0:06:18.089 --> 0:06:21.719 other shenanigans North Korea is doing. So they're they're literally 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:27.120 deploying it people into the world, into advanced economies to 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.510 get actual jobs, to earn salaries, to put into the 0:06:30.510 --> 0:06:34.909 missile program. That is trippy to me. That is completely insane. 0:06:34.940 --> 0:06:39.350 All right. Next one GitHub's repository design flaw allows indefinite 0:06:39.350 --> 0:06:43.010 access to data from deleted and private repositories. This is 0:06:43.010 --> 0:06:46.190 a piece from Truffle Security. A plane's GPS was jammed 0:06:46.190 --> 0:06:49.550 on a commercial transatlantic route for the first time, raising 0:06:49.550 --> 0:06:52.130 fears that thousands of other flights could be at risk 0:06:52.130 --> 0:06:56.470 of deliberate hacking. This was between Madrid and Toronto, thanks 0:06:56.470 --> 0:07:00.760 to teens for subscribing or not subscribing for sponsoring, and 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.960 there's been a 400% increase in GPS spoofing incidents, so 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.659 this one is related to the previous one affecting around 0:07:07.660 --> 0:07:12.730 900 flights daily. And this is from ops Dot Group. 0:07:12.730 --> 0:07:17.200 And um, yeah, spike is causing major safety concerns, especially 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:22.080 with systems like e.g. AWS becoming unreliable and there are 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.990 a number of people looking at like, why is this happening? 0:07:24.990 --> 0:07:28.230 What are the implications? Yeah, I'm wondering what the other 0:07:28.230 --> 0:07:32.670 options are for Nav if there's like secondary or tertiary 0:07:32.670 --> 0:07:36.210 systems that we can use when a jam happens or 0:07:36.210 --> 0:07:39.570 blocks against the jamming, like a couple of different options. 0:07:39.570 --> 0:07:42.390 The other thing is if there's six miles up or 0:07:42.410 --> 0:07:45.890 whatever and the jamming is happening, is that coming from 0:07:45.890 --> 0:07:48.410 inside the house? Like, is that someone with a jammer 0:07:48.410 --> 0:07:50.960 on the plane? Is that someone on the ground? I mean, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.820 these are kind of the only options. Someone on the 0:07:52.820 --> 0:07:55.370 ground is shooting it up at the plane, which seems 0:07:55.370 --> 0:07:58.880 pretty hard. Another plane coming along with it and shooting it. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.990 That seems very hard and also very expensive. Or they're 0:08:02.990 --> 0:08:06.980 in orbit, uh, and they would be moving very fast 0:08:06.980 --> 0:08:09.760 if they were in orbit. So and they're shooting down 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.650 I mean, I'm trying to list all the options other 0:08:11.650 --> 0:08:14.800 than aliens. And, uh, it seems like someone on the 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.850 plane is more likely so out of those. But, uh, 0:08:18.850 --> 0:08:21.820 I don't know. I have no insider knowledge on this 0:08:21.820 --> 0:08:25.480 one yet. Uh, Francis, high speed rail traffic got disrupted 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.080 due to what officials are calling malicious acts just before 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.950 the Olympic ceremony, thanks to nudge Security for sponsoring, Google 0:08:32.950 --> 0:08:35.679 has decided not to phase out third party cookies in 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.890 Chrome and will instead offer users more control over how 0:08:38.890 --> 0:08:43.300 the user's cookies are used. And I, for one, am 0:08:43.300 --> 0:08:46.630 absolutely shocked that this company that makes most of its 0:08:46.630 --> 0:08:49.360 money on advertising and is really bad at rolling out 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.679 products canceled a thing that's really one difficult to do 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:59.270 and two would negatively affect advertisers and therefore their main 0:08:59.270 --> 0:09:03.349 source of income. An evaluation of Amazon GuardDuty reveals limited 0:09:03.350 --> 0:09:07.550 coverage and high costs with significant latency in detecting attacks 0:09:07.550 --> 0:09:10.910 like S3 ransomware. Amazon. When it does things like this, 0:09:10.940 --> 0:09:13.610 it's a little bit similar to Cloudflare, where they just 0:09:13.610 --> 0:09:16.130 kind of like do an initial version of the tool. 0:09:16.130 --> 0:09:17.900 It kind of works a little bit, and then if 0:09:17.900 --> 0:09:19.690 you adopt it, you just kind of hope it gets 0:09:19.690 --> 0:09:22.089 better over time. And basically what a number of these 0:09:22.090 --> 0:09:25.810 articles are basically saying is that, yeah, they don't necessarily 0:09:25.809 --> 0:09:28.480 always catch up. It depends on the product team, it 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.210 depends on luck. And sometimes if you lump your eggs 0:09:31.210 --> 0:09:33.520 in with that basket, like it just goes nowhere and 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.520 other times it becomes a full fledged product. So other 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.180 examples of this GuardDuty, the WAF product, there's a million 0:09:40.179 --> 0:09:43.640 different ones. Google's reCAPTCHA is showing its age and is 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:49.040 harvesting user information with labor worth billions, while being almost 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:54.020 universally disliked and vulnerable to bots. The Senate unanimously passed 0:09:54.020 --> 0:09:59.000 the Defiance Act, letting victims of non-consensual intimate images created 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.270 by AI sue their creators for damages and then get 0:10:02.270 --> 0:10:07.160 up to 150 K to 250 K if linked to assault, 0:10:07.220 --> 0:10:12.170 stalking or harassment. A US Commerce Department or the US 0:10:12.170 --> 0:10:15.950 Commerce Department says shipments of high performance processors from China 0:10:15.950 --> 0:10:19.520 and Hong Kong to Russia have dropped by 20%, but 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.490 Hong Kong is still the main hub. AI and tech 0:10:22.490 --> 0:10:27.230 whiz turned down $23 billion in acquisition from alphabet and 0:10:27.230 --> 0:10:30.560 is instead aiming for an IPO. I thought I did 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.970 a deeper comment on this. I think I do a 0:10:32.970 --> 0:10:35.699 deeper comment on this later. Yeah. Oh, here it is. Yeah. 0:10:35.700 --> 0:10:38.490 My thoughts are basically that they knew they could get 0:10:38.490 --> 0:10:41.640 more money for this. That's number one. But two is 0:10:41.670 --> 0:10:44.490 they basically knew that if they got bought they would 0:10:44.490 --> 0:10:47.579 get that 23 billion, which is a decent amount. And 0:10:47.580 --> 0:10:50.579 the problem is it would most likely end up in 0:10:50.580 --> 0:10:55.380 the Google graveyard. So who knows what percentage of that was. 0:10:55.550 --> 0:10:59.270 Maybe that description is online somewhere. AI is replacing jobs 0:10:59.270 --> 0:11:02.750 in the video game industry with major companies like Activision 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.429 using generative AI tools for concept art, and they're saying, uh, 0:11:07.429 --> 0:11:12.199 estimated 10,500 people lost their jobs in 2023. I don't 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.750 know if that's all from art. I imagine a lot 0:11:14.750 --> 0:11:16.579 of it is from art. But, uh, yeah, I got 0:11:16.580 --> 0:11:19.700 a bunch of buddies in this industry and they're saying, uh, 0:11:19.700 --> 0:11:23.320 very similar things. Lots of different things in the creative 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.460 workflow are vulnerable, I would say. A new study shows 0:11:27.460 --> 0:11:30.940 that while generative AI like ChatGPT makes individual stories more 0:11:30.940 --> 0:11:33.579 creative and engaging, it also makes them more similar to 0:11:33.580 --> 0:11:36.730 each other. And I've heard a lot of criticisms of 0:11:36.730 --> 0:11:38.410 AI and like, oh, it's going to do this bad 0:11:38.410 --> 0:11:42.160 thing or that bad thing, but this one sounds quite realistic. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.800 So basically we need to engineer in mechanisms for exposure 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:51.240 to alternative frames of reality. Different models, different ways of 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:57.420 viewing reality to avoid people consolidating and following like one 0:11:57.420 --> 0:12:01.200 AI powered groupthink. Or maybe it's like 20 AI powered groupthink, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.320 but it's like controlling the narrative of how everyone's thinking 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.420 about certain things. Because something was generated by AI, it 0:12:08.420 --> 0:12:11.000 went viral. Maybe it was pretty cool or whatever. So 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.520 it goes viral, and then that just becomes a thing 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.720 that everyone's thinking. I've actually been really worried about this 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.270 for myself. It's one of the main things I want 0:12:20.270 --> 0:12:23.480 to use ADR for. And I've been talking with Joseph 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.240 Thacker about this as well. It's like, imagine that you 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.240 have in your brain at any given moment a number 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.130 of ideas, and I definitely have this. I have multiple 0:12:33.130 --> 0:12:36.309 ideas brewing all the time. So what percentage of those 0:12:36.309 --> 0:12:39.760 are like super new that I came up with myself? 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.589 What percentage of those are like mostly derivative? And how 0:12:44.590 --> 0:12:48.310 many of those are just seeds planted by some random 0:12:48.309 --> 0:12:50.770 add that I didn't even understand? And like this is 0:12:50.770 --> 0:12:54.040 completely opaque to me. Yet I think that these 19 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.390 ideas are like mine. And so I'm going out and 0:12:57.390 --> 0:13:00.570 sharing them with other people, and then the same phenomenon 0:13:00.570 --> 0:13:03.330 happens to them. And then the question is how many 0:13:03.330 --> 0:13:06.240 of those came from I? Then the question becomes how 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.170 many came from a government or some corporation where they 0:13:10.170 --> 0:13:13.560 injected these things into the world with AI. And now 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.890 these memes are spreading all over, and pretty soon it's 0:13:16.890 --> 0:13:20.160 in all the articles, it's in all the news, it's 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.229 in all the top podcasts. And essentially what you have 0:13:23.230 --> 0:13:27.939 is like a soft version, lower case version of propaganda, 0:13:27.940 --> 0:13:31.990 mind control and the steering of narratives. So I think 0:13:31.990 --> 0:13:34.780 it's going to be super essential for people who care 0:13:34.780 --> 0:13:38.620 about free thinking, want to be able to disconnect and 0:13:38.620 --> 0:13:43.630 sort of read books slowly, think slowly, come up with, 0:13:43.630 --> 0:13:47.970 you know, old style thinking, old style critical thinking. That's 0:13:47.970 --> 0:13:50.250 going to be one thing. But the other thing is 0:13:50.250 --> 0:13:54.420 I want my Da to monitor the ideas that I'm 0:13:54.420 --> 0:13:58.140 talking about and that I'm writing about, monitor those things, 0:13:58.140 --> 0:14:03.390 and then also say, hey, guess what? So I saw 0:14:03.390 --> 0:14:06.930 this idea get released into the world by this whatever. 0:14:06.929 --> 0:14:10.610 This shady group over here. That was three and a 0:14:10.610 --> 0:14:14.150 half weeks ago. They then started broadcasting it on these 0:14:14.150 --> 0:14:18.500 19 different networks. Those got picked up by these 347 0:14:18.500 --> 0:14:22.640 other networks, and that became one of the top 14 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.600 top ideas over the last two weeks. And you are 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.390 now over here writing about it. So I just want 0:14:29.390 --> 0:14:33.010 to let you know as my as your friend that 0:14:33.010 --> 0:14:35.920 you are being influenced by this campaign that was launched 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.680 by this group three and a half weeks ago. That 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.750 is a service that we all need. That is a 0:14:40.750 --> 0:14:43.180 service I'm going to build for myself, because that's going 0:14:43.180 --> 0:14:47.920 to be part of this overall mechanization involving substrate pipelines, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.610 a whole bunch of other stuff that's basically monitoring not 0:14:51.610 --> 0:14:54.010 just the world, but also myself and seeing like how 0:14:54.010 --> 0:14:56.620 I'm being influenced. That's like one of the use cases. 0:14:56.620 --> 0:14:59.610 All right. Switzerland has passed a law requiring all public 0:14:59.610 --> 0:15:04.680 sector agencies to use open source software and open source, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.130 any code that they develop. I love this, but, uh, 0:15:08.130 --> 0:15:11.130 open doesn't mean secure by itself. That's one thing. The 0:15:11.130 --> 0:15:13.170 other thing is you got to find a way to 0:15:13.170 --> 0:15:15.810 support the stuff, which you could just hire consultants or 0:15:15.810 --> 0:15:20.100 companies or whatever, but or trained internally, but definitely have 0:15:20.100 --> 0:15:24.080 to worry about support Govloop super cool platform for AI 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.860 workflows doesn't quite work as far as I could tell. 0:15:27.860 --> 0:15:30.650 And if you're like a founder there or something, feel 0:15:30.650 --> 0:15:32.690 free to reach out and let me know. And, uh, 0:15:32.690 --> 0:15:35.750 happy to correct that. But that's just my current impression. 0:15:35.750 --> 0:15:39.650 But I am extremely excited about it and I think 0:15:39.650 --> 0:15:42.290 they're doing great stuff. The guy is amazing. Reminds me 0:15:42.290 --> 0:15:45.280 of Yahoo pipes. Definitely want to check it out. Alphabet's 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.640 putting another 5 billion into Waymo. It's basically looking like 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.270 Waymo versus Tesla for self-driving taxis. But the approaches are 0:15:52.270 --> 0:15:56.230 very different. Waymo basically needs to train for a very 0:15:56.230 --> 0:15:59.680 long time in a city before it works, because they 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.690 kind of work out all the bugs just by driving 0:16:01.690 --> 0:16:04.600 all the streets for a very long time. And, and 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.880 they sort of ramp that up. And Tesla is like 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.160 typical Elon. He's like, no, I'm just going to make 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.530 the thing. It's going to be awesome. It's going to 0:16:10.530 --> 0:16:14.340 work perfectly. I'm announcing it soon. But you have to 0:16:14.340 --> 0:16:17.310 realize that he's not always right, right. He said full 0:16:17.310 --> 0:16:19.500 Self-Driving was going to be pretty easy and we would 0:16:19.500 --> 0:16:22.560 have it years ago. And now it's 2024 and it's 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.830 just now getting good. So something to think about there. 0:16:25.830 --> 0:16:31.739 Between the two different approaches, Joe Procopio argues that tech 0:16:31.740 --> 0:16:34.280 companies are struggling to find good employees because they focus 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.300 too much on creds and not enough on skills. I 0:16:38.300 --> 0:16:41.750 like it. I think this is exactly the shift that's happening. 0:16:41.750 --> 0:16:45.590 He basically suggests that companies should prioritize practical experience and 0:16:45.590 --> 0:16:49.729 problem solving abilities over degrees and certifications. That's exactly what's 0:16:49.730 --> 0:16:52.730 going to happen with something like Astra, which is a 0:16:52.730 --> 0:16:55.280 fake thing. But this this article that I wrote that 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.250 rates things in and gives scores, basically does a gauntlet 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.220 of tests and then gives you like these comprehensive, really 0:17:02.220 --> 0:17:05.580 deep scores. That's essentially how that's going to be solved. 0:17:05.580 --> 0:17:07.860 Apple just launched a beta version of Apple Maps for 0:17:07.859 --> 0:17:11.220 the web. Humans. Did I talk about ChatGPT? I thought 0:17:11.220 --> 0:17:13.470 I did I take that out? Where did that go? 0:17:13.470 --> 0:17:18.180 Oh very strange. Yeah, there's a new ChatGPT a search 0:17:18.180 --> 0:17:24.530 web ChatGPT that basically competes with Perplexity and Bing and 0:17:24.530 --> 0:17:30.109 it's it's out, but it's waitlisted. Um, so, uh, I 0:17:30.109 --> 0:17:31.939 don't know. I haven't checked to see if I have 0:17:31.940 --> 0:17:34.760 access to that one yet, but, uh, looking forward to 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.180 that one. Humans. Wall Street Journal explores why the US 0:17:38.180 --> 0:17:43.520 birth rate is declining, citing economic uncertainty, career priorities and 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.620 lifestyle choices. The idea that UBI reduces the need to 0:17:47.619 --> 0:17:50.920 work isn't new, but recent studies show that it does 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.010 not lead to better jobs or more education. I think 0:17:54.010 --> 0:17:56.110 the issue here is that certain people will spend free 0:17:56.109 --> 0:17:58.960 time and money to better themselves, and certain people won't, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.750 and it's not clear why that is. It's not clear 0:18:01.750 --> 0:18:05.889 what the actual like factor is, but the way forward 0:18:05.890 --> 0:18:08.020 is basically trying to figure out what that is and 0:18:08.020 --> 0:18:11.580 not believing in fairy tales like giving away free money 0:18:11.580 --> 0:18:14.970 will make everyone ambitious. It does not. And this reminds 0:18:14.970 --> 0:18:18.210 me of a lesson that's very similar that I learned 0:18:18.210 --> 0:18:22.110 like 20 years of hiring people, which is exposing people 0:18:22.109 --> 0:18:26.190 to training and encouragement makes the best people stand out, 0:18:26.190 --> 0:18:29.100 but it does not turn everyone into the best people. 0:18:29.100 --> 0:18:32.400 And I've known this because I tried because I tried 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.899 for like ten years with cohort after cohort where I 0:18:35.900 --> 0:18:38.450 would just be like, oh, well, my training wasn't good enough. 0:18:38.450 --> 0:18:41.119 That's why they didn't get it, or they were distracted 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.520 or they were busy or whatever. So I just keep 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.970 hitting them and keep dumping hours and hours and hours 0:18:46.970 --> 0:18:49.580 and more training and more training. Send them to more 0:18:49.580 --> 0:18:52.640 classes and you come back to them and you're like, hey, 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.070 what have you done? They're like, I don't know. I 0:18:55.070 --> 0:18:58.810 didn't do anything. What should I do? And you're like, uh, no, no. 0:18:58.900 --> 0:19:01.000 So you've you've got to figure out what you want 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.129 to do. You've got to I've given you all the training, 0:19:03.130 --> 0:19:06.250 I've given you all the stuff and all the books, 0:19:06.250 --> 0:19:08.199 and I gave you all the demos. I told you 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.479 how to set up the demos. I showed you how 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.510 to set up the tech, and, um, have you done 0:19:13.510 --> 0:19:16.119 any of that? And they're like, no, what should I 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.670 do first? I don't I don't know how to do 0:19:18.670 --> 0:19:21.280 any of that. Can you show me? And you're like, well, 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.430 I showed you four times. You want me to show 0:19:23.430 --> 0:19:24.990 you a fifth time? Okay, sure. I'll show you a 0:19:24.990 --> 0:19:27.359 fifth time. Show them a fifth time. Come back two 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.020 weeks later. Hey, how is it going? Going with what? 0:19:31.020 --> 0:19:33.810 With the stuff we talked about last time. And they're like, yeah, 0:19:33.810 --> 0:19:35.790 it never got around to that. Like, I couldn't find 0:19:35.940 --> 0:19:38.460 this one driver. Like, there was a driver down low, 0:19:38.460 --> 0:19:42.030 but the driver download didn't work. It's like, okay, well 0:19:42.030 --> 0:19:44.250 did you research that? No. How would I do that? 0:19:44.250 --> 0:19:47.869 Can you help me that That ends up being like 0:19:47.869 --> 0:19:52.160 50 to 80% of everyone. Here's the alternative. Here's the 0:19:52.310 --> 0:19:57.950 alternate version of a star. Okay? You're like, hey, um, hey, everyone. 0:19:57.950 --> 0:20:01.430 So check this out. This is a class about. And 0:20:01.430 --> 0:20:03.590 you see a hand go up. Hey, look, I read 0:20:03.590 --> 0:20:07.010 the whole document. Um, I looked forward in the class. 0:20:07.010 --> 0:20:09.710 I've got this thing running, but there's an error. Um, 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.910 so I fixed it and I stood up a different version, 0:20:12.910 --> 0:20:15.520 and it's running. Can I show you? And you're like, okay, 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.850 so you basically read everything, jumped ahead in the class, 0:20:18.850 --> 0:20:21.609 built something. It didn't work, but you fixed it, and 0:20:21.609 --> 0:20:23.710 now you're running a different version and you want to 0:20:23.710 --> 0:20:25.420 show it to me now. But I just started my 0:20:25.420 --> 0:20:28.600 first sentence of the class and they're like, oh yeah, sorry. Yeah. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.439 Please continue. Sorry. I was just excited. The difference between 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.900 these two things are so insane. Okay? And what I've 0:20:36.900 --> 0:20:39.480 learned after all these years is that if you're trying 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.080 to build a star team and you're trying to build 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.380 like a group of the best people, what you want 0:20:46.380 --> 0:20:50.430 to do is throw help and throw training and throw 0:20:50.430 --> 0:20:55.410 encouragement to a massive group of people and not judge, 0:20:55.410 --> 0:20:59.680 not prejudge, not do anything you have no idea. You 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.710 have no idea. It's it's not people who wear yellow shirts. 0:21:02.710 --> 0:21:06.729 It's not people from Idaho. It's not people from Mississippi. 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.690 You have no idea what the criteria are like. Background, 0:21:10.690 --> 0:21:15.159 ethnic group, you education, background. Are they educated? Do they 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.399 have a PhD? Do they have two master's degrees? Are 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.490 they still in high school? You don't know. And that's 0:21:21.490 --> 0:21:24.300 the smartest thing you could possibly realize is that you 0:21:24.300 --> 0:21:27.390 have no idea. You have no idea who's going to 0:21:27.390 --> 0:21:32.250 just be kind of like, complete, completely inert, and just 0:21:32.250 --> 0:21:36.120 unable to learn and unwilling to learn and unable to 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:40.350 absorb any amount of effort that you give, versus some 0:21:40.350 --> 0:21:44.850 random person who doesn't think much of themselves and are 0:21:44.850 --> 0:21:51.320 unassuming and quiet, and they just absolute sponge. Absolute murder. 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:55.760 Like the the craziest, best IT person you've ever found. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.310 And suddenly they just can't shut up about everything. I 0:21:58.310 --> 0:22:01.610 was like, oh, and I did this and I read everything, um, 0:22:01.609 --> 0:22:04.310 all those books that you recommended. And then I went 0:22:04.310 --> 0:22:06.800 and downloaded this and I oh, but I changed it, 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.840 and I want to show you this thing, and you're 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.010 just like, Holy crap. They were sitting right next to 0:22:12.010 --> 0:22:14.320 the other person who I gave the same exact training. 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.730 This is a lesson, incredibly powerful lesson. And to bring 0:22:18.730 --> 0:22:21.910 it back to this article, I believe the same thing 0:22:21.910 --> 0:22:24.909 is true with UBI. The same thing is true with 0:22:24.910 --> 0:22:28.960 social programs. The same thing is true with all these 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:32.950 different things. So the whole trick and we're going to 0:22:32.950 --> 0:22:35.550 get a little broad here. The whole trick is to 0:22:35.550 --> 0:22:39.750 make sure that no one's at a disadvantage, okay? Because trauma, 0:22:39.750 --> 0:22:45.869 because they're hungry, because they can't afford coverage. Right. Because 0:22:45.869 --> 0:22:49.980 there are stars all throughout this entire population, this these 0:22:49.980 --> 0:22:53.430 8 billion people that we have. There are stars who 0:22:53.460 --> 0:22:55.740 you will never know if they're a star because they 0:22:55.740 --> 0:22:59.130 can't make it to your class because they're working seven 0:22:59.130 --> 0:23:03.330 jobs and they got an ant and a dog and 0:23:03.330 --> 0:23:07.050 a and a parent and a girlfriend or a boyfriend 0:23:07.050 --> 0:23:11.040 who is sick. And so they're over here juggling and 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:15.060 they're another Einstein, they're another von Neumann. And you will 0:23:15.060 --> 0:23:18.750 never know because they got screwed. They got screwed by luck. 0:23:18.750 --> 0:23:21.719 So the goal and now we're going really broad. The 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.520 goal is to build a society in which nobody has 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.400 screwed in that way. And when they do get messed 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.550 over in that way, we help them. We help them 0:23:30.550 --> 0:23:34.390 get back into this, remove the obstacles so that everyone 0:23:34.390 --> 0:23:37.119 has the opportunity to be one of these stars to 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:41.170 stand out. But we should not think that everyone who 0:23:41.170 --> 0:23:46.330 gets exposed to the opportunities is necessarily going to be 0:23:46.330 --> 0:23:49.710 one of those stand out people. So if we see variation, 0:23:49.710 --> 0:23:52.020 which is probably going to look a lot like a 0:23:52.020 --> 0:23:54.600 bell curve, right, you're going to have most people in 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.900 the middle, um, when you see that variation, you should 0:23:57.900 --> 0:24:00.900 be like, yep, that's exactly what we expect to see. 0:24:00.900 --> 0:24:03.210 Most people in the middle, some people who don't want 0:24:03.210 --> 0:24:06.060 to do anything despite any training, and some people who 0:24:06.060 --> 0:24:09.570 could just hear the first word and write a book. Right. 0:24:09.570 --> 0:24:14.090 That's just expected. Now, I would say that there's some 0:24:14.090 --> 0:24:16.520 nuance here in the sense that, like, okay, if we 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:21.320 can identify that grit and self-discipline and I don't know, 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:24.530 something that we could try to put into culture, something 0:24:24.530 --> 0:24:27.679 we could try to put into education systems, something that 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.350 we could try to put into training, something we could 0:24:30.350 --> 0:24:34.189 try to put into parental education if we could find 0:24:34.190 --> 0:24:37.050 those tokens and just like, make sure they're part of 0:24:37.050 --> 0:24:41.700 the training and that helps lift everyone or some number 0:24:41.700 --> 0:24:44.670 of people, that'll be fantastic. But it has to start 0:24:44.670 --> 0:24:48.869 with realizing there's going to be a distribution and that's 0:24:48.869 --> 0:24:53.040 going to be based on meritocracy, which is good. However, 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:57.570 the whole purpose of society and liberal society or liberal 0:24:57.780 --> 0:25:02.120 liberal approach to building a society is making sure that 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:08.600 everyone can enter into the meritocracy funnel without disadvantage. That's 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:10.970 that's the goal. That's the trick. And I'm going to 0:25:10.970 --> 0:25:15.379 actually try to instantiate this using substrate, by the way. 0:25:15.380 --> 0:25:17.959 All right. That was a oh goodness. That was a 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:21.830 massive diversion. Uh, southwest is ditching its open seating policy 0:25:21.830 --> 0:25:26.560 after 50 years to boost profits and meet customer preferences. 80% 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.100 of their flyers preferred assigned seats 80% is a lot. 0:25:30.130 --> 0:25:35.530 The Senate's version of 2025, NDAA, does not include the 0:25:35.530 --> 0:25:39.160 countering CCP Drones Act. Happy and sad about this I 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:43.840 love DJI drones, DJI drones, but I feel like we 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:48.149 need to go without them because they're so good that 0:25:48.420 --> 0:25:52.800 there aren't many alternatives. And, uh, Chinese companies have the 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:55.500 ability to be just taken over by the CCP at 0:25:55.500 --> 0:25:59.280 any given moment, if it's advantageous to them. So I 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:02.369 don't like that. Same reason I don't like, uh, TikTok. 0:26:02.369 --> 0:26:07.800 As you might expect from an ex-military security person, nearly 40% 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:11.940 of Americans are stressed out about making ends meet, 40%, 0:26:11.940 --> 0:26:15.650 up from 28% in 2021. And this is a very 0:26:15.650 --> 0:26:19.550 similar number to during the Great Recession, which I believe 0:26:19.550 --> 0:26:25.040 they're talking about 2028, I'm sorry, 2008. US economic growth 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:31.280 hits 2.8% weight loss. Drugs like Ozempic, mounjaro and Wegovy 0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:34.520 are causing people to spend less on groceries. I heard 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:38.530 it's also making planes lighter and use less fuel. So 0:26:38.530 --> 0:26:42.790 Wegovy is a climate change product. They should try to 0:26:42.790 --> 0:26:48.070 get some funding for that. Subsidies or something. A new antibiotic. 0:26:48.430 --> 0:26:54.400 Oh my goodness. A new antibiotic from the University of Illinois, 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:58.990 Chicago disrupts two different cellular targets, making it 100 million 0:26:58.990 --> 0:27:03.239 times harder for bacteria to evolve resistance. One dose of 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:07.230 a new nasal spray treatment clears toxic tau proteins from 0:27:07.230 --> 0:27:10.320 brain cells. And one thing to remember about these I'm 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.680 going to keep sharing these studies like I am. That's 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:15.390 the thing I'm going to do. I'm going to have 0:27:15.390 --> 0:27:19.889 more and more scrutiny because part of the pipelines, uh, 0:27:19.890 --> 0:27:22.379 workflow and substrate and all of that, I'm going to 0:27:22.380 --> 0:27:25.610 have these things being tested and going through pipelines. It's 0:27:25.609 --> 0:27:29.330 going to be awesome. But you still have to realize 0:27:29.330 --> 0:27:32.000 the bigger the finding, the more you should wait for 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:35.390 supporting studies. And in my mind, the stuff is not 0:27:35.390 --> 0:27:39.770 actually truly real until the drug is available to normal people, 0:27:39.770 --> 0:27:42.770 which means it's already been rigorously tested. And of course 0:27:42.770 --> 0:27:45.979 it will be constantly tested afterwards as well in in 0:27:45.980 --> 0:27:49.360 the larger population. So that to me is like the 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.600 real stuff. But I still like watching this. I always 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:58.450 thought that this tau protein stuff was ripe for some 0:27:58.450 --> 0:28:03.219 sort of chemical solution, some sort of, you know, uh, 0:28:03.220 --> 0:28:07.600 medicinal solution. Uh, of course, that was just intuition. I 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:10.780 have no expertise there, but it just seems like something 0:28:10.780 --> 0:28:13.820 that people can grab on to once they realize the mechanism. 0:28:13.820 --> 0:28:17.390 Liberals and conservatives are both prone to conspiracy theories, they 0:28:17.390 --> 0:28:21.020 just prefer different ones. Hendrik Carlson talks about how generating 0:28:21.020 --> 0:28:23.810 interesting ideas is like building a muscle. He says the 0:28:23.810 --> 0:28:26.240 more you write and think deeply, the better you get 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:31.340 at coming up with new and meaningful thoughts. 100% agree ideas. 0:28:31.340 --> 0:28:34.520 Zuckerberg is arguing that China is going to steal weights anyway, 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:36.500 so there's no way to stop that, so you might 0:28:36.500 --> 0:28:41.440 as well develop advanced AI as open source. Okay. Not really. Okay. 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:43.570 But I think I wrote about that somewhere, so I'm 0:28:43.570 --> 0:28:46.510 not going to go into that. Search GPT oh that's 0:28:46.510 --> 0:28:49.390 where I put it yeah. Search GPT in discovery here 0:28:49.390 --> 0:28:53.650 I use obsidian Jason Pepper Hepler talks about how he 0:28:53.650 --> 0:28:57.610 uses obsidian for notes. In the beginning was the Command Line, 0:28:57.610 --> 0:29:03.720 Neal Stephenson's classic essay on operating systems, my obsidian notetaking workflow. 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:05.940 It's on my mind. So that's why I got multiple 0:29:05.940 --> 0:29:09.180 things in here on it bash one liners, data chain, 0:29:09.180 --> 0:29:13.410 unstructured data management for AI projects. Llama agent stack. This 0:29:13.410 --> 0:29:16.830 one's cool. I JSON has a cool, um, video on this. 0:29:16.830 --> 0:29:20.070 You should check out on YouTube. Open world exploration in 0:29:20.070 --> 0:29:26.150 Minecraft Claude engineer la Cara low latency AI application firewall 0:29:26.150 --> 0:29:31.010 GPT four Captcha Bypass Flow Analyzer a tool for understanding 0:29:31.010 --> 0:29:36.860 OAuth two grant flows with support for Oidc and Jwts Jots. 0:29:37.190 --> 0:29:39.140 I don't know how you're supposed to pronounce that JWT. 0:29:40.460 --> 0:29:44.300 I bet you about 5050 people do that jot versus 0:29:44.300 --> 0:29:48.410 JWT bash, simple curses, simple bash library to create terminal 0:29:48.410 --> 0:29:52.180 interfaces and the recommendation of the week. I'm going to 0:29:52.180 --> 0:29:55.060 try to do something for the next several months. Kind 0:29:55.060 --> 0:29:57.430 of do this already, but I'm going to try to 0:29:57.430 --> 0:30:01.750 do it even more going into this election. When someone 0:30:01.750 --> 0:30:04.990 labels me as super liberal, I'm going to say something 0:30:04.990 --> 0:30:09.670 nice about their conservative views. I'm going to humanize them. 0:30:09.670 --> 0:30:13.800 When somebody labels me as super conservative, I'm going to 0:30:13.800 --> 0:30:17.220 say something nice about their liberal views. I'm going to 0:30:17.220 --> 0:30:19.980 humanize them. Try this and see if it opens up 0:30:19.980 --> 0:30:22.200 the conversation at all. I learned how to do this 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:25.650 from Jonathan Hite's book, The Righteous Mind, by the way, 0:30:25.650 --> 0:30:28.980 and this was probably 6 or 7 years ago now. 0:30:29.010 --> 0:30:34.200 This book brought me to the center politically. It brought 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:37.610 me to the center, specifically what it did because I 0:30:37.610 --> 0:30:42.800 was already pretty far left. I've always been left, um, 0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:47.600 always voted Democrat. I've only been a Democrat, I guess, uh, 0:30:47.600 --> 0:30:51.140 technically and legally my whole life. Uh, although I wouldn't 0:30:51.140 --> 0:30:53.630 say I'm a Democrat, I would say I've always been 0:30:53.630 --> 0:30:58.910 liberal my whole life, but technically, yes. Democrat. Um, this book. Well, 0:30:58.910 --> 0:31:01.250 let me just continue on that. Born and raised in 0:31:01.250 --> 0:31:04.000 the San Francisco Bay area, which grew up with super 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:08.410 liberal hippie parents, and I, as a result, have always 0:31:08.410 --> 0:31:14.140 seen conservatives, or I was trained to see conservatives as, uh, 0:31:14.140 --> 0:31:18.220 holding progress back in, in a negative way. So not 0:31:18.220 --> 0:31:21.610 just conservative, but conservative in a bad way. In other words, 0:31:21.610 --> 0:31:26.040 conservative was bad and basically just viewed them poorly. What 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:29.130 this book did was show me this is the, I 0:31:29.130 --> 0:31:31.770 think the main premise from the book, which I'm I'm 0:31:31.770 --> 0:31:34.950 happy for him that I remember this so clearly. I 0:31:34.950 --> 0:31:39.570 think the main premise is that both sides value things 0:31:39.570 --> 0:31:44.160 very closely, very dearly, um, in a sacred way. But 0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:47.310 they are different things. So it's not that one is 0:31:47.310 --> 0:31:49.850 going for good things and one is going for bad things. 0:31:49.850 --> 0:31:52.310 It's that both are going for good things, but they're 0:31:52.310 --> 0:31:54.739 different good things. So the whole trick to being in 0:31:54.740 --> 0:31:58.430 the centre and the whole trick to moving progress forward 0:31:58.430 --> 0:32:02.750 is realizing that people are just different. Okay? And there 0:32:02.750 --> 0:32:05.300 there are extremes to this that make it not true. 0:32:05.300 --> 0:32:08.870 But in general, you should look for this common ground 0:32:08.870 --> 0:32:12.980 and realize that there being a good person, um, in 0:32:12.980 --> 0:32:15.870 their way and you're being a good person in your way, 0:32:15.870 --> 0:32:19.560 and you're going to try to find, uh, Harmony there. Now, 0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:23.010 in the case of extreme sides of left and right, 0:32:23.010 --> 0:32:26.130 you can argue that, yeah, their good is actually bad 0:32:26.130 --> 0:32:27.990 for the whole world. So like, you don't want to 0:32:27.990 --> 0:32:32.880 support that. So understand there are situations like that. But 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:36.090 in general we would all be better off by reading 0:32:36.090 --> 0:32:40.400 this book and realizing this, this nuance, which might help 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:43.790 bring you towards the center and produce better conversation. And 0:32:43.790 --> 0:32:47.300 the aphorism of the week, the highest form of knowledge 0:32:47.300 --> 0:32:52.160 is empathy. The highest form of knowledge is empathy. Bill Bullard. 0:32:53.510 --> 0:32:56.720 Unsupervised learning is produced and edited by Daniel Miessler on 0:32:56.720 --> 0:33:01.340 a Neumann U87 AI microphone using Hindenburg. Intro and outro 0:33:01.340 --> 0:33:04.660 music is by Zomby with the Y, and to get 0:33:04.660 --> 0:33:06.729 the text and links from this episode, sign up for 0:33:06.730 --> 0:33:12.370 the newsletter version of the show at Daniel miessler.com/newsletter. We'll 0:33:12.370 --> 0:33:13.180 see you next time.