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S1: it works. That's callide.com collide.com/unsupervised learning. Welcome to Unsupervised Learning,
S1: a security, AI and meaning focused podcast that looks at
S1: how best to thrive as humans in a post AI world.
S1: It combines original ideas, analysis, and mental models to bring
S1: not just the news, but why it matters and how
S1: to respond. All right. Welcome to unsupervised learning. This is
S1: Daniel Missler. I have been traveling like a crazy person,
S1: but have got to get this podcast out. Don't like
S1: skipping weeks, so let's jump in. So it has been
S1: a crazy week. Started for the last episode. Bit overexposed,
S1: been doing lots of travel, interacting with humans and stuff
S1: like that. Got some minor con flu or whatever it is,
S1: but I didn't actually get it. I didn't get it bad.
S1: It's just slightly congested. Can't tell if it's allergies or whatever,
S1: but everything's fine. Got a new pattern here. Analyze presentation.
S1: Say a new fabric pattern that looks at the transcript
S1: of a presentation and tells you how much the presenter
S1: is like trying to brag versus how much they're trying
S1: to entertain versus how much they're actually trying to inform.
S1: So it tells you essentially how self versus other centered
S1: that they are. I spoke at equilibrium conference last week.
S1: It was fantastic. Got to meet Chris Hughes for the
S1: first time in person and appreciate the invite from Rohit.
S1: It was a great event, just absolutely loved it and
S1: got to attend a live UFC event for the first time.
S1: It was so great. It was a UFC 300. It
S1: was supposed to be like the best UFC ever. You
S1: know how they always say that, but it turned out
S1: it actually was. It was unbelievable. Especially the major fight
S1: between Cage and Holloway. It was beyond all expectations. It
S1: was just so great going to be speaking at Hardly
S1: Strictly Security soon, speaking at the Security Frontiers conference that
S1: are actually already happened, and also this one already happened.
S1: This was yesterday and this was super fun. So thanks
S1: to Jane Chief for the invite there and got to
S1: meet and hang out with song for quite a while.
S1: That was super fun to talk with her. She's super
S1: bright and awesome and yeah, gearing up for RSA and
S1: just finish reading A Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
S1: for the third time. Highly recommend you put that in
S1: your rotation for every few years. It's my favorite writing
S1: and style guide, so we talked about this one. Analyze
S1: presentation didn't really do any other essays or videos this
S1: week just because all the travel and stuff, but they
S1: are accumulating and I'm going to have a lot more
S1: content coming out soon, and it'll be both an essay
S1: form and YouTube. I'm actually transitioning really heavy towards YouTube,
S1: so go subscribe to the channel if you're not subscribed yet.
S1: It is. Unsupervised learning is the name of the channel
S1: on YouTube. All right. Security. Microsoft says Chinese hackers are
S1: using AI to inflame social tensions in the US. And
S1: every time I hear about these, I can't wait to
S1: build my propaganda tracker, because if somebody starts a campaign,
S1: I want to see where it spreads, where it becomes viral.
S1: And we have it's like Dan Kaminsky used to say,
S1: we have the technology. I don't know if that's from
S1: Bionic Man. Think it might be from Bionic Man. But anyway, yeah,
S1: we have the technology to do this type of stuff,
S1: especially once we start incorporating AI agents. So I'm really
S1: looking forward to this. Yeah. And so the thing about
S1: it is we need a combination of government and private
S1: for this. Right. Because we need the thing to be trusted.
S1: But we also need it to be dependable and actually
S1: incentivized to work. And of course it needs funding. But
S1: you got to come up with some kind of cool
S1: name prop track or something. Propaganda tracking. Okay, over 92,000
S1: D-Link NAS devices exposed nasty to IP has three high
S1: severity vulnerabilities us just blacklisted for additional Chinese companies for
S1: procuring AI chips for China's AI modernization efforts. And US
S1: and China are racing to dominate with AI driven drone swarms.
S1: Once again, you gotta check out this book by Daniel Suarez.
S1: Kill decision. Really entertaining and also very prescient at the
S1: same time. Google's contract reveals a partnership with Israel's Defense Ministry,
S1: and this caused actually like a walkout or a protest
S1: at Google. And I think it was 23 people. They
S1: all got fired, which was pretty interesting. Technology. Great New
S1: York Times piece on automating finance jobs using AI, and
S1: got a cool quote here. Some of Wall Street's major
S1: banks are asking the same question as they test AI
S1: tools that can largely replace their armies of analysts by
S1: performing in seconds, the work that now takes hours or
S1: a whole weekend. That is a big jump. Seconds versus
S1: hours or a whole weekend. Like like we've been saying,
S1: it's like at this point, if you don't see the
S1: impact of AI and jobs, it's because you don't read
S1: enough or you don't want to see. I mean, this
S1: is willful ignorance at this point. It isn't like the.com boom.
S1: This is what everyone's saying. oh.com crypto. We got a
S1: lot of people saying things like this and it's like, no,
S1: this is tech that's instantly useful. And when Wall Street
S1: is talking about this in very concrete terms of like, yeah,
S1: we're getting rid of lots of people because seconds versus
S1: hours or a whole weekend. I mean, I don't know
S1: how you get more compelling and realistic than that, yo.
S1: He continues to do great work around AI agents. He's
S1: got one that does AI agent log visualization. Let's open
S1: this one up. So basically you click through here and
S1: yeah look at these. You click through and you can
S1: see exactly what the agent did and get like logs
S1: from it. Really cool. Project. Russia's getting 89% of its
S1: chips through China as a way of bypassing sanctions. Gary
S1: Marcus is betting 10 million that we won't have smarter AI,
S1: smarter than humans by 2025. Yeah, the whole trick there
S1: is like how they measure, right, what KPI they're actually using.
S1: But I think this person's, uh, yeah, this is going
S1: to come down to definition competition, I guarantee you. But
S1: that is a bad bet. I think Mr. Ole just
S1: released a eight times 22 billion model via torrent, which
S1: is pretty cool. It's a really big files and distributed
S1: and yeah, and the more people downloading it, the faster
S1: it gets. So this is all the reason that transformers
S1: or no torrents were made in the first place. So cool.
S1: This paper says transformers capable of acting like a general
S1: purpose computer. OpenAI is shipped new GPT four turbo. Although
S1: I have tested it, and in my most difficult AI
S1: jobs that I have, which are within fabric like detect
S1: hidden message, for example, that is a extremely difficult human
S1: cognitive function, like advanced logic is really needed there. And
S1: opus still crushes, uh, GPT four in that particular one
S1: and others that are similar. And after I beat them,
S1: professional go players didn't just catch up, they became better
S1: and more creative. I love this thing where it's like
S1: we learned and we got better, but I don't want
S1: people to think that it means we'll be able to
S1: keep up. It really doesn't, but we still can find
S1: things interesting and useful, even if it's just human to human.
S1: And we're nowhere near as good as human versus computer
S1: or computer versus computer. That's fine. Right? It's not. One
S1: does not have to mean the other. So look at chess.
S1: Chess is more popular than ever. And we got crushed
S1: by computers in 97. And we're not getting much better.
S1: Nanotech Onyx is rolling out Cube Fab, a moderate, a
S1: modular chip fab powered by Nvidia to democratize semiconductor manufacturing.
S1: Human pin got flamed by Mkbhd, and I think he
S1: could say whatever he wants. I just think he was
S1: a little harsh on this thing. And to me, it's
S1: not like I want to control what he's saying. I
S1: was just a little bit let down by the vibe.
S1: I tend to think of him like as this nice,
S1: balanced person. So when I see a headline that's just
S1: like worst product ever, it just disappointed me at a
S1: personality level, not at an analysis level. Nothing about his
S1: analysis was wrong, and he actually was somewhat balanced in
S1: the quite balanced inside of the actual review. My thing
S1: is like when you put that spin of like, worst ever,
S1: it just automatically has like this negative valence to it.
S1: And it turned me off. As a fan of his reviews,
S1: but I don't think he was wrong, and I don't
S1: think anyone should be telling him what he can or
S1: cannot do. Dyson's new Clean Trace feature lets you use
S1: AR to see all the spots you missed. Okay, but
S1: what do you have to wear? Do you have to
S1: wear a resume, an Oculus, or an AVP Sequoia's arc product?
S1: This one I haven't messed with yet introduces three unique
S1: archetypes to help startups navigate their way to market success.
S1: I'm going to keep this tab open and you need
S1: to go play with that more. Tesla just dropped the
S1: FSD subscription from I think it was like 250 or 300,
S1: something like that, and now it's 100 bucks a month. Cool.
S1: So I hope mine that I was already paying for
S1: just goes down to 99 naturally. And I don't have
S1: to do something like cancel it and renew. All right, humans,
S1: right after the solar eclipse, a whole bunch of people
S1: were googling my eyes hurt, which, uh, further diminishes my
S1: hope for humanity. It's not so much that they looked
S1: at the sun. It's the two hit combo of them
S1: looking at the sun and then wondering why they couldn't see.
S1: And one of the books that will absolutely change your
S1: mind on like, so much stuff is Everybody Lies. It
S1: talks about the difference between what people say is true
S1: or what people say they believe or like versus what
S1: they actually Google for. And it's just like it reveals
S1: so much interesting stuff. It's just a fantastic book. Job
S1: interviews are pretty terrible at predicting job performance, but what's
S1: the alternative? That's my question, is, like, I see a
S1: lot of things that say it doesn't do a good job,
S1: but if you don't have a better proxy, then so what?
S1: Why are we talking about it? Over half of women
S1: experience sexual harassment at work. Homicides are on a surprising
S1: decline across major cities. I feel like we're this close
S1: and very close to an onion article where far right
S1: people are. Like, we used to have good murder rates,
S1: and now the whole country is like feminized. And the
S1: murder rates keep. Going down. And that's just further evidence
S1: of America's decline. Not trying to make fun of the right.
S1: They're just, uh. I thought that was funny. I recently
S1: re subscribed to onion, so I'm hearing onion jokes everywhere
S1: I look. Now, U.S. steel is about to become part
S1: of Japan's Nippon Steel. I think that's how you pronounce that.
S1: And Harvard is back to SAT and Act scores. It's
S1: almost like they were a good idea in the first place,
S1: which is why we had them in the first place.
S1: And my comment here, I wish the Overton Pendulum had
S1: more than two settings, which is like woke and racist. Like,
S1: can we get a middle ground? Can we get a
S1: middle setting? Compassion, logical, something like secular humanism or something,
S1: or even not secular humanism, just logical humanism getting a
S1: lot more open to some moderate religion? I think it's
S1: got a lot of positive functions. In fact, the research
S1: by Jonathan Haidt on this is pretty compelling, basically showing
S1: that kids of religious parents are doing so much better
S1: in mental health. And yeah, I'm trying to track all
S1: these threads and find a way to unify all this.
S1: Dumb phones are making comeback. You basically get to stay
S1: in contact but not be distracted. It's going to be
S1: a Dungeons and Dragons show at Madison Square Garden, which
S1: is supposedly going to sell out. That does not surprise me.
S1: I think this whole thing, which, by the way, tonight
S1: is a gaming night and I have to leave soon,
S1: so I guess I'm going to speed up. Yeah, I
S1: played D&D with my friends. It's fantastic. I'm so glad
S1: to see D&D rising up. Actually, it doesn't really matter
S1: if it's exactly D&D just getting together, doing some sort
S1: of intellectually, creatively challenging role playing game I think is
S1: super valuable. What top performers do and how to deal
S1: with their critics and detractors. Ernest Hemingway transform from a
S1: humble journalist to a celebrity, losing himself to the fame
S1: and power that came with success. Abraham Lincoln was shaped
S1: by Aesop's Fables more than any other book, including the Bible.
S1: That was a really interesting read and for my idea
S1: and analysis this week, I heard somewhere on a podcast
S1: it might have been Alex Hormones. It might have been like, no,
S1: it was so many on Chris Williams and maybe the
S1: gamer doctor or yeah, maybe. I'm not sure exactly who
S1: it was, but they didn't exactly say it this way.
S1: But it was essentially like, if you have an idea
S1: that's really exciting to you, you basically don't want to
S1: share that or you don't want to get any wins
S1: from the idea that aren't wins from actually doing the work.
S1: And so I'm expanding that out here to basically say
S1: energy you have for the idea is limited and precious,
S1: and even telling someone about it, I think they did say,
S1: actually say this. I think the guests might have said this.
S1: Even telling somebody about it removes some of its power.
S1: So instead of telling people about it, you should work
S1: on it immediately. Use that power to go right into
S1: the actual work. Otherwise, you might end up not doing
S1: anything because your your body, like evolution, thinks that you
S1: did the work because you talked about it. It's like
S1: it's a fake win and you don't want to do that.
S1: This one I'm probably going to do as a standalone essay.
S1: Reason to worry, reason to build. So I'm going to
S1: skip that one. And we got a colab notebook here
S1: that uses cloud to turn images into magic cards. Karpathy
S1: launched LMK shell history. This thing is really cool. Adder
S1: turns your terminal into a pair programming session with AI,
S1: DNS viz cohere Rerank three boosts enterprise search and drag systems.
S1: Terminal tweaks UDL turns your text prompts into music. This
S1: thing is insane. Collection of content ideas that have resonated
S1: on TikTok. Pretty cool list for creators. Fire crawls Wdev
S1: turns entire websites into data sets for LMS. Zeek turns
S1: your command line into a powerful plaintext Zettelkasten or personal
S1: wiki keeper. Kind of an alternative to some of the
S1: other ones like obsidian. And yeah, recommendation of the week
S1: is actually to read that piece, which I'm going to
S1: do a standalone episode on, and the aphorism of the
S1: week being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, but
S1: loving someone deeply gives you courage. Being deeply loved by
S1: someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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