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S1: meaning focused podcast that looks at how best to thrive
S1: as humans in a post AI world. It combines original ideas,
S1: analysis and mental models to bring not just the news,
S1: but why it matters and how to respond. All right,
S1: welcome to unsupervised learning. This is Daniel Miessler. Okay. Leigh
S1: Honeywell had probably the best or coolest little quote here about, uh,
S1: the CrowdStrike incident. Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable
S1: from a cyberattack. Love that. Had a wonderful couple of
S1: days celebrating my buddy Jason's birthday, and it's actually coming
S1: up on the 27th and mine is on the 26th,
S1: so it's a little bit in the future. But we
S1: celebrated last weekend and it was super fun. Did a
S1: presentation for a UN group on the future of AI
S1: and employability, and that should be coming out soon to YouTube.
S1: So look for that soon. Doing another UL dinner in Vegas.
S1: This is going to be cool. Mad props to all
S1: the people who had to hustle and grind this weekend
S1: as a result of Blue Friday, and let's get into it.
S1: So I've been mostly heads down on the class, so
S1: I haven't written any new essays. Security, CrowdStrike. Outage I
S1: think we all know the deal at this point. Banks, airlines, hospitals,
S1: media companies. It was probably the largest IT outage. I
S1: think it's probably up for debate and people are probably
S1: still talking about it. So I'm trying to come up
S1: with that. Lessons learned here. But perhaps the biggest one
S1: is around PR. So at first the CEO came out
S1: and basically said something like, don't worry, this isn't a
S1: security problem, and that's not the way to go because
S1: the internet's basically down as a result of you. So
S1: I don't think that was the right stance to take.
S1: He did much better later on. I think his subsequent
S1: posts were much better, and where he eventually landed was great. But, um,
S1: I like what my buddy Chris Hoff said about it,
S1: which was, uh, this was not a security attack against
S1: CrowdStrike or its customers, but an outage caused by a
S1: bad software update. And this was just he was proposing
S1: a possible option to to what was actually said. And
S1: I like this take by Chris. And Chris has been
S1: a CISO, uh, through some pretty rough times. So he
S1: knows the deal. And another thought I had is that
S1: this would be probably much less likely to happen if, say,
S1: everything was Microsoft, right? If the EDR was just part
S1: of Microsoft. Kind of similar to the way that defender
S1: is getting so good that it's almost as good as
S1: any third party option. And I think this is the
S1: natural flow, right? You start off with a cool app idea.
S1: It eventually becomes like a big company, and eventually that
S1: moves into the platform. And you see that with all
S1: sorts of things like location services, antivirus and stuff like that.
S1: So I think that's likely to just happen with EDR
S1: as well. And the whole point is, maybe Microsoft would
S1: have handled that better or avoided it if the testing
S1: and everything like that was more deeply integrated with the
S1: OS itself, because they are the OS and they are
S1: the other one. Now with this, you actually get a
S1: different problem, which is more eggs in fewer baskets, right?
S1: So there's a trade off there. But I feel like
S1: this is the natural trend to basically have everything that's
S1: awesome eventually end up in the platform itself. Got a
S1: new threat actor called Crystal Ray using open source tool
S1: called SSH snake to move laterally across networks, exfiltrate credentials
S1: and deploy crypto mining software. GitHub has warned developers about
S1: a social engineering campaign by Lazarus, which is North Korean group,
S1: and they're targeting developers in cryptocurrency gambling and cybersecurity. And
S1: essentially what they do is kind of what happened with
S1: the Linux attack recently. They gained trust over time, and
S1: then they start submitting malware once you trust them to
S1: submit things. Special thanks to sponsor dropzone. And I wrote
S1: this copy myself here, which I'm not going to read here,
S1: but definitely check out dropzone dot I and check out
S1: a demo there. So not only are they sponsoring here,
S1: but I'm actually an advisor for them as well. That's
S1: how much I believe in their stuff. Palmer Luckey, the
S1: guy who created Oculus, is now making AI weapons for
S1: Ukraine through his company Anduril think it's Anduril that looks
S1: like a Lord of the rings or some kind of
S1: fantasy thing. See if this identifies it. Open source? Nope.
S1: Can't identify it. All right. Yeah. So he started Anduril
S1: to build AI driven weapons like drones and submarines, but
S1: they're now being used by the Pentagon and sent to Ukraine.
S1: China is installing massive amounts of solar and wind energy,
S1: adding ten gigawatts of wind and solar capacity every two weeks,
S1: which is like building five large nuclear plants every week.
S1: And this really, really makes me mad because I, the
S1: US needs to be doing this. Every time I fly.
S1: I fly over wide open country that is getting hit
S1: by the sun. And it's windy down there and it's like, oh,
S1: we don't have enough jobs for people and we don't
S1: have enough energy, and we have way too much open
S1: land being hit by the sun and wind. Why can
S1: we not do this, especially when we know that AI
S1: is going to need all this energy and we just
S1: we need to put people to work and we need
S1: the energy, and we have the wide open space and
S1: we need to build more housing. So it's like this
S1: is the perfect opportunity for a massive, like FDR type event,
S1: which hopefully the next president gets on this because yeah,
S1: I do not like the idea of China having all
S1: this extra energy to do whatever with and us not
S1: having it. Iran and China are increasing their foreign influence efforts,
S1: using social media to stoke discord and promote anti-U.S. narratives.
S1: And this is coming out of Google. They blocked over
S1: 10,000 instances of Chinese influence activity in Q1 alone, thanks
S1: to Nudge Security for sponsoring the US Department of Justice,
S1: seize two domains and search nearly 1000 social media accounts
S1: used by Russian actors to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation. Cloudflare says
S1: nearly 7% of all internet traffic is malicious, with DDoS
S1: attacks making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. And
S1: UK police arrested a 17 year old suspect of being
S1: part of the scattered spider hacking group involved in the
S1: 2023 MGM resorts ransomware attack, also known as this is
S1: the person responsible or the group responsible for making Defcon
S1: way farther north this year. It's now in the convention center,
S1: pretty far north of the city, which it looks like
S1: it's going to be pretty cool, especially for the different villages,
S1: because all the villages are going to be together. Looking
S1: forward to that real time video transcription with timestamps. Whisper
S1: Diarization Diarization. Yeah, that's right, Beijing support has seen China
S1: make up ground in the AI race, but it still
S1: has handcuffed a bunch of AI Companies with really tight
S1: restrictions and a lot of these are just purely political.
S1: So they're basically saying this is going to be good
S1: for control and bad for speed. So I think unless
S1: they steal some sort of pinnacle AI tech, which they
S1: probably are going to, as per Leopold and as per
S1: a lot of people talking about this, I think ultimately,
S1: if that doesn't happen, this closed nature of their approach
S1: to AI is going to hurt them, especially relative to
S1: the US, which is just running with scissors, which you
S1: can see because, um, meta just released llama three, uh,
S1: 405 B today and is basically giving it out to
S1: the world. And by the way, it's not fully open source,
S1: but it's much more open source than other pinnacle models.
S1: But anyway, that stuff is coming out quickly. And so
S1: the US is innovating very, very fast. And you can't
S1: do that when you're China. And you have to be
S1: very careful what you put in the model. Because if
S1: you train the model on open knowledge, the model is
S1: going to figure out how reality actually is. And China
S1: doesn't want to present the world as it actually is.
S1: They want to present the filtered version of the world,
S1: which means they have to do so much more protection and,
S1: you know, post-training tricks or, um, nuking the knowledge inside
S1: of the, the training data to not have the real
S1: knowledge of the world. That's another way to do it,
S1: to train the model and have it just be worse.
S1: It'll just be worse. It'll be a worse representation of
S1: actual reality. It'll be like, yeah, Tiananmen never happened or whatever. So,
S1: you know, they're not oppressive. The US is bad. You know,
S1: they are the true free society or whatever kind of
S1: garbage they want to, you know, put in there. But
S1: that's extra work for them. That's extra friction for them,
S1: that's going to slow them down. And so that's one thing.
S1: It's going to be slower. The second thing is the
S1: people who want to go fast, who are in China.
S1: So they're super smart and they want to go fast
S1: and they're more like Western oriented. They're just going to leave.
S1: They're going to go go to the US, to Canada,
S1: to EU. Not all of them, of course, but a
S1: lot of them. So ultimately this makes you slower as
S1: China the country. And it also produces more brain drain
S1: because people don't want to be there. Kaiser Permanente is
S1: using AI, wearables and other tech to bring health care
S1: directly to patients. Very AI forward approach from them, which
S1: I really appreciate. It's all in the implementation, of course,
S1: so we'll see how that goes. But I like the
S1: open mind. Sam Altman revealed that OpenAI's Voice Alpha mode
S1: release is coming later this month, and llama three one
S1: just came out today, so you know they really need
S1: to speed that up. And I love what my buddy
S1: Matthew Berman said about this. He's a YouTube AI guy
S1: and he says, let's denormalize companies demoing products earlier than
S1: three months before release. So Microsoft Recall did this. Apple
S1: intelligence did this definitely, because it's not coming out until
S1: like after September, maybe even not until beginning of 2025.
S1: And OpenAI did this big demo on Sora and GPT
S1: for voice, and it's still not out yet. And that
S1: was a long time ago. I mean, that was ancient
S1: history at this point. So yeah, three months, I think
S1: is like the max. You should do that. Don't even
S1: talk about it if it's not coming out. Andre Karpathy
S1: is launching Eureka Labs to create AI teaching assistants for education.
S1: And yeah, this is going to be really cool. They're
S1: basically going to have AI teachers, which is just fantastic.
S1: Google has launched Project Oscar, open source platform that enables
S1: development teams to create AI agents that monitor issues, manage
S1: bugs and handle various aspects of the software lifecycle. Omega's
S1: AI will map how Olympic athletes win. They're using AI
S1: to map how Olympic athletes win by analyzing their full performance,
S1: not just start and finish times. That includes motion sensors
S1: on athletes clothing to capture every detail of their movements.
S1: Compelling us is thinking about new trade restrictions that can
S1: stop Nvidia from selling its HG, H20, AI GPUs to China,
S1: and people are worried. Investors are worried that it could
S1: cost Nvidia like $12 billion in revenue because, you know,
S1: China is big and they buy a lot of stuff
S1: if they're allowed to. But I don't think that'll ultimately
S1: matter for that long. So not too worried. As an
S1: Nvidia stockholder, Beijing scientists have developed the world's smallest and
S1: lightest solar powered drone just 4.21g with a 200 millimeter wingspan.
S1: I want one of these. They can fly nonstop during
S1: the day because the motor is lighter and more efficient,
S1: and because the thing is so light itself, the actual
S1: craft is so light itself. I would love to mess
S1: with that. A Florida yeah, it's usually either Florida man. Yeah,
S1: a Florida man. It's it's either a Florida man or DNS.
S1: They're responsible for all problems. Uh, this person got arrested
S1: for shooting down a Walmart delivery drone claiming it was
S1: spying on him. Typical of Florida men, shooting at drones
S1: is treated as a felony, similar to firing at a
S1: passenger aircraft. That's probably because the bullets keep going and
S1: might hit other things in the air. Unlikely, but turns
S1: out they they don't launch off into orbit or move
S1: towards the sun. They just fall down, potentially on people's
S1: heads or their pets or whatever. Waymo wants to bring
S1: robotaxis to SFO. They already have approval in the city,
S1: but they need separate approval for the airport. And Microsoft
S1: is laid off. Their Dei team, probably one of them.
S1: I assume there's many, many, but laid off its Dei
S1: team saying it's no longer business critical. I'm not sure
S1: if this no longer business critical is an actual quote
S1: from Microsoft leadership. It must be because this article, which
S1: is a Business Insider article, probably quoted that correctly. But okay.
S1: I mean, I think the overall sentiment is worth noting,
S1: which is a lot of people are doing this. A
S1: lot of people are rolling back Dei as like a
S1: prime directive and realizing it should be about merit, which
S1: I think is a good thing. I just don't want
S1: them to go back to just hiring people that look
S1: like you and sound like you, and respond to questions
S1: like you, because then you get rid of diversity, which
S1: is actually bad because you end up with like these,
S1: these blinders. And you have to make sure that your
S1: meritocracy is has a wide enough top of filter, right,
S1: top of funnel. So you want to make sure you're
S1: getting everyone there into this meritocracy filter and not just
S1: looking for certain types of people because you think they, um,
S1: they come out of the bottom of the filter more often. Right?
S1: So I think the concept of Dei is 100% correct,
S1: and we need to 100% keep doing it. The implementation
S1: that we've done over the last few years has been bad,
S1: and it's good to see that rolling back. Andreessen Horowitz
S1: argues that bad government policies are now the biggest threat
S1: to tech startups, which they call little tech. And they
S1: basically launched a manifesto about little tech. And I did
S1: an analysis of it in fabric. Probably should have included that.
S1: But it's basically pro startup stuff that's bottom line, which
S1: makes sense because they're a VC. Essentially, Google is shutting
S1: down its URL shortening service. so any links created with
S1: it will stop working. If you have any important links
S1: using the service, you want to migrate them. I'm pretty
S1: sure Google will soon sell YouTube to like Johnson and
S1: Johnson and Gmail to Luxottica, and then go full speed
S1: into the what the f are we doing business? Whatever
S1: business that is, it's the single most perplexing company like
S1: I've ever seen. They were first on j'en ai. They
S1: wrote the paper for Transformers, and now they're completely lapped
S1: by not just OpenAI, but anthropic as well. And now
S1: they're being lapped by meta, by meta in an open
S1: source model. How are you like fifth place when you
S1: have all the people and all the money and you
S1: actually invented the tech? They're like the opposite of Cloudflare,
S1: which does small things really well that add up over
S1: time because Google is like slowly dismantling everything. It's getting
S1: rid of all the best things that it has. The
S1: main thing Google is growing is the Google graveyard. Such
S1: a colossal waste of money and talent. And these failures
S1: should be studied for centuries as an example of what
S1: happens when you don't lead with UX focused product management.
S1: Product management, like being in charge, like thinking about the
S1: customer and the total package and the total experience of
S1: this product or service that you're launching, as opposed to
S1: throw shit at the wall. Focused engineering and engineering is
S1: in charge of product. It makes no sense whatsoever. Like
S1: like it is the most inefficient, like large organization I
S1: can imagine that I've ever seen. All right, and Google rant,
S1: I need a section just for Google rant. Humans. Iran
S1: backed Houthi rebels said they were behind a drone attack
S1: on Tel Aviv, killed one person and injured several others.
S1: USA household income distribution by state. A Reddit user shared
S1: a detailed visualization of household income distribution across different states
S1: in the US. New meta analysis shows that tooth brushing
S1: can tooth brushing. Not heard it like that kind of verb.
S1: Is that tooth brushing? It's a gerund. Anyway, brushing your
S1: teeth can significantly reduce hospital acquired pneumonia in ICU patients.
S1: Simple intervention could lead to 17,000 fewer deaths each year.
S1: This is a this is a big thing I've realized recently. Um,
S1: or just gotten the religion on, which is all the
S1: bacteria like in your teeth and gums, that's related to
S1: inflammation in the body. It's also related to the heart
S1: being in really bad shape. So, uh, really important that
S1: you kind of treat that infection in your mouth or
S1: the potential for infection in your mouth, like having a
S1: disease throughout your entire body. And they're talking about it
S1: going into the the brain as well, and just being
S1: this state of disease in your body and really, really
S1: focused on the mouth. So I've upped my game around
S1: that significantly as a result. That was probably like a
S1: year ago or whatever. Young adulthood is no longer one
S1: of life's happiest times. Research shows that young adulthood is
S1: now one of the most unhappy times in life, with
S1: a significant rise in despair among people, especially women from
S1: 18 to 25. And if you've been following my stuff,
S1: I have lots of reasons for that which we will
S1: not go into most of Gen Z is using TikTok
S1: for health advice. 56% are using TikTok for wellness, diet
S1: and fitness, 34% are relying on it as their main
S1: source of health information. About a third ask HN, which
S1: is Hacker News every day, feels like prison. A mid-thirties
S1: guy in tech feels trapped in a 9 to 5
S1: job he no longer cares about, and is struggling to
S1: build a business on the side. This is the reason
S1: I do unsupervised learning. This is the mission of unsupervised
S1: learning is giving people mental models and frames and ways
S1: to think about the world, and actual methodologies for getting
S1: true meaning in their lives. This problem right here is
S1: pretty much the whole game, and the way I plays
S1: into that is I think AI is going to make
S1: it worse as it removes jobs before we have the
S1: ability to have it increase jobs. There's going to be
S1: that that, uh, chasm in the middle. When that happens,
S1: when the jobs come away, this meaning crisis is going
S1: to get way worse. And that's what we are here for.
S1: All right. Got a cool button here. Read the full
S1: newsletter online. Appreciate the team doing that. Ideas. Sam Altman
S1: is simultaneously building AGI and doing big studies on UBI.
S1: Super obvious what he's doing, in fact. Oh, this is
S1: kind of hot off the press here, because I just
S1: did this analysis with fabric, and I saw a tweet
S1: thread about this as well, the UBI study that came out.
S1: This is not in the newsletter. This just happened this morning.
S1: This UBI study that OpenAI put out, which was funded
S1: by essentially Altman. It turns out at least one of
S1: the interpretations and some of the manual work that I
S1: just did doing AI analysis on the results, it did
S1: not increase a lot of the things that they were
S1: hoping their spinning it as a very positive outcome, and
S1: I'm sure they said there is some minor positive outcomes,
S1: but in general it did not encourage people to be
S1: more ambitious. It did not encourage people to go and
S1: get more work. It didn't do that. So it looks
S1: a bit bad now. I think we need to do
S1: more analysis to say for sure that UBI is not
S1: going to massively help, um, or it's not going to
S1: help people be more ambitious or more creative or more productive,
S1: which which I think is the hope. The hope is
S1: that or the idea here is that ambitious people are
S1: lucky people who have the time and energy to go
S1: and be ambitious, and that when you look at people
S1: who are struggling and they're not ambitious, it's likely because
S1: they have too many jobs, you know, they got too
S1: much drama in their lives. There's too much going on.
S1: And if that were to not be the case, if
S1: they were, we were able to reduce their stress. They
S1: would become just like the go getters and just like
S1: the ambitious and smart people. And this study, being so large,
S1: has the ability to undo that narrative a bit and
S1: basically say that there's a chance here we need to
S1: do full analysis of this, but there's a chance here
S1: that what it uncovers is that no ambitious people have
S1: something else. They have this ambition and drive that lets
S1: them thrive almost despite whatever is going on. So if
S1: they have lots of burdens on them, they're going to
S1: find a way through. Unless they're overwhelming, of course, But
S1: given the same amount of burden, people with this attribute
S1: of like drive and self-discipline and ambition, they're just going
S1: to crush it. They're going to find a way to
S1: crush it. And the whole narrative for this UBI thing
S1: was that, no, everyone has that. And I think I'm
S1: old enough at this point to realize, no, not everyone
S1: has special beans or special magic. It really is a
S1: small portion of, you know, society who is in the
S1: top 10% of a given thing. Um, I mean, just
S1: by the numbers, like only 10% can be in the 10%, right?
S1: So I think first we need to confirm that that
S1: this is what it's saying. But even if it is
S1: saying the worst possible thing, which is no, this doesn't
S1: actually make people more ambitious. It doesn't really matter. We
S1: still have to keep looking for the thing that is
S1: the ambition. We still have to find the source of
S1: this thing that is so valuable to us, which is
S1: people who are driven and ambitious. Now, if it's genetic, well,
S1: then I don't care, right? We're not we're not going
S1: to be changing genetics, right. Any time soon anyway. So
S1: it's like, I don't care if we find that there's
S1: more ambition in this group or less ambition in that group,
S1: because those numbers are likely to be so tiny compared
S1: to what we can control. You know, even if they
S1: exist and they might not even exist. It might be
S1: all environment. But I mean, this is a three year study.
S1: This doesn't control, like what went into their their upbringing
S1: and their childhood and everything. Um, because if you look
S1: at cultures where they have this really, really strong drive
S1: and ambition and everything, it's part of their actual culture.
S1: This is like they pop out of the womb and
S1: it's like, pick your college, right? You were told from
S1: a very early age that you must be producing. It's
S1: your responsibility to give back to community. All your, you know,
S1: family members are looking up to you. You know you
S1: owe us, you owe society quality outputs, and you must
S1: work hard to create those that cultural influence and power,
S1: plus all the peers that come with it. Plus then
S1: you go to nice colleges and they all believe the
S1: same thing. That entire mechanism is what we need to
S1: give to the entire world. Okay, that that is the
S1: thing that I believe is creating ambitious people. So you
S1: do a three year study on UBI, you find out
S1: that doesn't make people into those people. Fine, fine. Something
S1: is and I believe it's that entire culture as a package.
S1: And that's the thing that we need to give to everyone.
S1: That's our responsibility. And if the world were more like that,
S1: the world would be better. First of all, that automatically
S1: fixes crime. If you're trying to build things and doing
S1: things and you're busy, that automatically fixes literacy crime, like
S1: so many different things that are a problem. So I
S1: just I don't see this as too negative. I see
S1: it as a little bit negative, but positive in the
S1: sense that it's going to uncover the real issues, which
S1: is how to propagate successful mental models and frames, um,
S1: in a wider scope across wider groups of people across
S1: the entire planet. And I think that's the problem we
S1: need to focus on and move towards solving. Okay, some
S1: standalone ideas here. And I just put the tweets in
S1: here because basically when I have ideas I, I um,
S1: post them on X and then come back to them
S1: to distill into the idea section here. So first one,
S1: what if cannabis? Cannabis, not cannabis is soma from the
S1: Brave New world. So it makes people comfortable with mediocrity,
S1: makes people more accepting of whatever they're handed, and makes
S1: people less likely to change their situation. And legalization is
S1: actually happening coincident with the rise of AI, which is
S1: pretty cool. And I don't actually think that's a conspiracy.
S1: Just to keep in mind, I think they're just both
S1: happening at the same time. Conspiracy culture. Speaking of that
S1: is getting stupid at this point. Um, yeah, bad thing happens.
S1: It must be deep state. Um, Biden pulls out of
S1: the race. Must be deep state. I saw a reply
S1: to my my post here. Somebody said the number of
S1: people believing the world is like that, where they see
S1: deep state and everything is inversely proportional to the number
S1: of people who have worked in a very large organization.
S1: And I think that is so smart, because when you
S1: work in these very large organizations or in the government
S1: or whatever, you just see constant stupidity, just constant stupidity
S1: performed by really smart people. And the fact that they're
S1: in these large groups with lots of bureaucracy just makes
S1: the whole thing stupid and inefficient. So you see enough
S1: of that. And then when you see a botched Secret
S1: Service thing or whatever, you're like, yeah, the world is stupid.
S1: People are stupid. Like, where's I'm surprised anything works, right?
S1: That's the eventual attitude you get after you work at
S1: enough of these large organizations. And this one here, I'm
S1: going to save, because this one is like, I'm going
S1: to do a whole essay and video on this one. Essentially,
S1: it is the use of AI for security on a
S1: whole bunch of intractable problems. And I believe this is
S1: the future of AI and security, which is why I'm
S1: going to turn it into its own thing. And the
S1: future of security and risk management is to have them
S1: disappear into SOPs. This one, I'm also going to break
S1: out into a separate thing and got someone posted here.
S1: A great tribe of Silicon Valley is making a bid
S1: to take over the US. Vance is Thiel's man. Musk
S1: and Andreessen Horowitz are backing him. He will be the
S1: nominee in four years as an admin, steered by Thiel
S1: and Musk. Right when AGI is due and Starship goes
S1: to Mars. Incredible timeline. And basically I just said, hmm, interesting.
S1: I'll be watching this closely. I love looking at movements
S1: like this. Like, what is Silicon Valley thinking? What are
S1: the top tier people? What are their political views? Are
S1: they ambitious? Are they pessimistic? Are they optimistic? What are
S1: they doing? What are they thinking? Who are they backing?
S1: What are their arguments? I want to know all this stuff.
S1: And I've got a buddy who is so good at
S1: tracking this stuff and just knows everything about this. And
S1: I go walking with him, um, very often and have
S1: dinner and just get into these great discussions about, like,
S1: all these different zeitgeists happening. And it's just it's just fantastic.
S1: And it doesn't mean I have to agree with any
S1: of them. But hopefully if I capture enough of them
S1: and I understand them enough, it helps me triangulate and
S1: build my own view. All right. Discovery lemma new recon
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S1: I bought three of these just in case things get
S1: crazy end of this year and into next year. Plus
S1: I'm in California. Lots of earthquakes and we're waiting for
S1: the big one. All right, recommendation of the week. Don't
S1: ask what someone's politics are because that's likely just to
S1: get gross. They'll just respond with a bunch of emotional things.
S1: They will trigger you emotionally and it will be a
S1: complete mess. Instead, ask them what their ideal world looks like,
S1: including questions like these. Are there multiple religions? Are there
S1: multiple ethnic groups? Are people free to love whoever they want?
S1: Do we all live together? What are the most famous
S1: people in the world? Who gets paid the most? Who
S1: gets paid the least? What happens to someone if they're
S1: truly disabled and they cannot work? What happens to someone
S1: if they're too lazy to work? What happens to someone
S1: who is addicted to drugs? I think many of our
S1: disagreements are about how and not what. Because I know
S1: a lot of people who support Trump, for example, who
S1: would say, yeah, you can absolutely be gay. Yeah, you
S1: can absolutely be transgender. No problem. Love to everyone. Yes,
S1: there absolutely can be other religions. Yes, all the ethnic
S1: groups should live together. Yes, there should be a safety net.
S1: I literally know multiple Trump supporters who voted for Trump twice,
S1: who believe all four of these. You can be gay,
S1: you can be transgender, you can be other religions. We
S1: should all live together. We should all get along, and
S1: there should be a social safety net. Okay, so if
S1: you're on the left and you hear someone on the
S1: right say those things, or you're on the right and
S1: you hear the left say, you know some other stuff,
S1: this is an opportunity for a real conversation. Both sides
S1: should describe what they view as an ideal version of
S1: the world. And I would argue to you that if
S1: you both start with that, it's going to look very similar.
S1: I think roughly the center 80 or 70% of the
S1: country is going to build that model, and it's mostly
S1: going to look the same, and it's mostly going to
S1: include those 4 or 5 things that I just mentioned.
S1: So if you had a smart moderator in between, you
S1: could look at these two people and be like, okay,
S1: let me get this straight. You think there should be
S1: multiple ethnic groups and religions and gender identities, and we
S1: should all work together and all live together and be
S1: happy together and not infringe on each other. Is that
S1: is that correct? And both of them say yes. Do
S1: you realize how much progress that is? Do you realize
S1: how much we need that conversation to take place right now,
S1: in the middle of 2024, going into this crazy election cycle?
S1: We absolutely need that. So that's where you should start
S1: the conversation. Don't start with like, hey, what are your politics?
S1: Because they're they're going to go to an emotional hot
S1: button that's going to trigger both of you. Instead, talk
S1: about the ideal. And when you realize you agree on
S1: the ideal, now we have a how problem okay, now
S1: we have a transition problem. Cool. That's much more tractable
S1: and much more discussable than disagreeing on where we're supposed
S1: to go. All right. In the aphorism of the week,
S1: silence is a fence around wisdom. Silence is a fence
S1: around wisdom. German proverb unsupervised learning is produced and edited
S1: by Daniel Miller on a Neumann U87 AI microphone using Hindenburg.
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