WEBVTT - UL NO. 423: AI is Becoming Like Reading 0:00:22.363 --> 0:00:25.633 Welcome to Unsupervised Learning, a security, AI and meaning focused 0:00:25.633 --> 0:00:28.513 podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans 0:00:28.513 --> 0:00:32.743 in a post AI world. It combines original ideas, analysis, 0:00:32.743 --> 0:00:35.953 and mental models to bring not just the news, but 0:00:35.953 --> 0:00:43.143 why it matters and how to respond. All right. Welcome 0:00:43.143 --> 0:00:46.353 to unsupervised learning, Mr. Daniel Missler. All right, let's get 0:00:46.353 --> 0:00:49.503 into it here. So, yeah, doing a whole bunch of 0:00:49.503 --> 0:00:52.773 new stuff with the desktop swapped out Kitty as the 0:00:52.773 --> 0:00:56.313 new terminal got rid of alacrity, which was cool for 0:00:56.313 --> 0:00:59.043 a hot minute there, but I think that lasted about 0:00:59.043 --> 0:01:01.293 a week until I realized it had a lot of problems. 0:01:01.293 --> 0:01:05.553 Someone recommended Kitty in the GitHub project for alacrity, and 0:01:05.553 --> 0:01:07.293 I ended up switching over. And I just like a 0:01:07.293 --> 0:01:09.753 better for lots of different reasons. And both of them, 0:01:09.753 --> 0:01:12.093 in my opinion, are better than I term two. Both 0:01:12.093 --> 0:01:15.783 of them have text configuration for for configuration, you don't 0:01:15.783 --> 0:01:18.963 have to go into like settings with a UI as oxide. 0:01:18.963 --> 0:01:23.913 You buy for a window management SCT for managing shortcuts 0:01:23.913 --> 0:01:27.393 for your buy sketchy bar for this new bar. You 0:01:27.393 --> 0:01:30.843 can see it up here and uh, Sto for syncing files. 0:01:30.843 --> 0:01:33.363 Pretty cool stuff. And we're going to be talking about 0:01:33.363 --> 0:01:36.363 this a whole bunch during a UL meeting on Thursday. 0:01:36.363 --> 0:01:38.943 So that is coming up this Thursday if you are 0:01:38.943 --> 0:01:41.913 a member. And yeah, I haven't been this excited about 0:01:41.913 --> 0:01:45.063 a desktop configuration. Like I don't want to if I 0:01:45.063 --> 0:01:47.463 start flipping around right now to show you it's going 0:01:47.463 --> 0:01:49.383 to become a whole video and we don't have time 0:01:49.383 --> 0:01:51.903 for that. So I'm just going to get into the show. 0:01:51.903 --> 0:01:54.933 But I'm more excited than I've been for a very 0:01:54.933 --> 0:01:58.893 long time about desktop configuration and just optimization. I'm just 0:01:58.893 --> 0:02:01.263 I don't want to leave my home keys, right? I 0:02:01.263 --> 0:02:04.293 want to vim all the things right. And that means 0:02:04.293 --> 0:02:07.623 like screen management. I'm looking at three screens here. I've 0:02:07.623 --> 0:02:12.153 got a, you know, the Apple Z1 in the middle 0:02:12.153 --> 0:02:14.583 and I've got two LG five KS, so it's six 0:02:14.583 --> 0:02:16.683 K in the middle, two five KS on the side. 0:02:16.683 --> 0:02:19.563 I can move between them, I can move between desktops 0:02:19.563 --> 0:02:22.923 inside of it inside, you know the Mac OS management 0:02:22.923 --> 0:02:27.273 of desktops as well. And most importantly applications and windows 0:02:27.273 --> 0:02:30.603 inside of the interface. But again, I don't want to 0:02:30.603 --> 0:02:33.663 talk about it too much. Already have. All right. So 0:02:33.663 --> 0:02:37.713 fabric now supports clod opus and opus is actually the 0:02:37.713 --> 0:02:41.343 first model that I've seen that is actually better. I've 0:02:41.343 --> 0:02:45.273 seen tangibly be better than GPT four. So I didn't 0:02:45.273 --> 0:02:47.853 think that was going to happen before GPT five came out, 0:02:47.853 --> 0:02:52.053 but it did. Opus is actually better in numerous cases 0:02:52.053 --> 0:02:55.023 that I've actually physically seen, and one of them is 0:02:55.023 --> 0:02:58.173 actually finding hidden message, which I talk about right here. 0:02:58.173 --> 0:03:02.043 So this it's actually much better on this particular thing. Yeah. 0:03:02.043 --> 0:03:04.713 So this is essentially how you use it. So you 0:03:04.713 --> 0:03:08.223 do PB paste or whatever the input is. You take 0:03:08.223 --> 0:03:11.343 any input from stdin or standard in and then you 0:03:11.343 --> 0:03:14.433 send it into fabric extract ideas, and then you set 0:03:14.433 --> 0:03:17.013 it to Model cloud three opus and you give the 0:03:17.013 --> 0:03:19.143 model number. And we're actually about to make it. So 0:03:19.143 --> 0:03:20.703 you don't need the model number. You could just send 0:03:20.703 --> 0:03:23.343 it to cloud three opus and they'll use the latest one. 0:03:23.343 --> 0:03:26.013 Also added a new pattern. That's basically how you use 0:03:26.013 --> 0:03:29.913 cloud but added a new pattern called Extract Predictions. So 0:03:29.913 --> 0:03:33.123 I'm going to basically send this content from whoever. And 0:03:33.123 --> 0:03:35.853 it's going to rate including my own stuff, and it's 0:03:35.853 --> 0:03:38.343 going to rate like how certain I am about the, 0:03:38.343 --> 0:03:41.373 the prediction and also what the actual prediction was. And 0:03:41.373 --> 0:03:43.353 when I said it would happen by and I'm going 0:03:43.353 --> 0:03:45.393 to collect this for a group of people and then 0:03:45.393 --> 0:03:48.783 retroactively look back and say, you know, I'm not sure 0:03:48.783 --> 0:03:51.123 like how good they were at doing this, because it 0:03:51.123 --> 0:03:54.483 looks like all these things are wrong. And with automation 0:03:54.483 --> 0:03:56.733 plus AI, you have the ability to just like, go 0:03:56.733 --> 0:03:59.313 get everything they ever said and look at all their 0:03:59.313 --> 0:04:02.433 different predictions and see how valuable they were. And fine 0:04:02.433 --> 0:04:05.793 hidden message is now more effective. And it actually comes 0:04:05.793 --> 0:04:08.373 back and says, here's a really cynical view of what 0:04:08.373 --> 0:04:11.373 they said, a normal view and then like a favorable view. 0:04:11.373 --> 0:04:13.653 So that's pretty cool. I wrote a couple of new 0:04:13.653 --> 0:04:16.863 essays this week. AI is already becoming like reading. Kind 0:04:16.863 --> 0:04:18.903 of depressing. Not going to get into that. AI is 0:04:18.903 --> 0:04:22.083 worse if you think it's someone who's fault, somebody fault. 0:04:22.083 --> 0:04:25.263 So yeah, that one a little bit about framing essentially. 0:04:25.263 --> 0:04:29.103 All right. Security. So had a Google engineer indicted for 0:04:29.103 --> 0:04:33.033 stealing AI trade secrets to benefit China and basically took 0:04:33.033 --> 0:04:38.943 over 500 files related to TPUs. Essentially tensor processing units 0:04:38.943 --> 0:04:41.583 is what it was. And he actually lives not too 0:04:41.583 --> 0:04:44.193 far from here, a few streets from here actually, like 0:04:44.193 --> 0:04:47.163 a five minute drive and, uh, yeah, pretty, pretty sad. 0:04:47.163 --> 0:04:50.343 And what I talked about here was basically, if you 0:04:50.343 --> 0:04:54.063 don't want to like, go crazy with what's going on 0:04:54.063 --> 0:04:58.683 with like, how this keeps happening with Chinese employees because 0:04:58.683 --> 0:05:02.643 China is overreaching. China loves espionage. I mean, this is 0:05:02.643 --> 0:05:06.363 just common knowledge. And they love to tap into their, 0:05:06.363 --> 0:05:10.233 you know, people who are deployed all over the place. Right? 0:05:10.233 --> 0:05:13.653 And it doesn't I don't know the exact details of this, 0:05:13.653 --> 0:05:17.403 but it's not like they're actually deployed like a military unit. 0:05:17.403 --> 0:05:19.353 It's more like, hey, I could tap you on the 0:05:19.353 --> 0:05:24.003 shoulder at any given moment. Somebody named Andrew Bustamante talked 0:05:24.003 --> 0:05:27.393 about this in extreme detail. At one point he's like, look, 0:05:27.393 --> 0:05:31.263 this is the biggest and scariest spy service in the 0:05:31.263 --> 0:05:35.613 world because they consider all of their, all of their 0:05:35.613 --> 0:05:39.123 citizens to basically be an extension of the spy network. 0:05:39.123 --> 0:05:41.233 So at any given moment, they could. Just tap you 0:05:41.233 --> 0:05:43.663 on the shoulder and say, hey, it is your duty 0:05:43.663 --> 0:05:47.413 as a Chinese citizen to help China. And that does 0:05:47.413 --> 0:05:50.443 not mean that anyone's going to respond to that, right? 0:05:50.563 --> 0:05:52.963 I absolutely don't believe that people have been here for 0:05:52.963 --> 0:05:55.543 a long time, have loyalty to the US, that they're 0:05:55.543 --> 0:05:57.193 going to do that. Right. And that's why I talk 0:05:57.193 --> 0:06:00.193 about this. It takes a lot of courage and wisdom 0:06:00.193 --> 0:06:06.643 to simultaneously realize how bad Chinese government espionage is without 0:06:06.643 --> 0:06:09.523 giving in to racism, right? And a really good answer 0:06:09.523 --> 0:06:12.103 to this is to have a really good insider threat 0:06:12.103 --> 0:06:16.303 program that looks at behavior rather than characteristics. But the 0:06:16.303 --> 0:06:19.453 problem here is that those programs are really difficult to 0:06:19.453 --> 0:06:22.903 build and run and maintain, and so they tend to 0:06:22.903 --> 0:06:26.203 only exist in big companies like Google. And this was 0:06:26.203 --> 0:06:29.893 actually Google where this this was discovered. So the question 0:06:29.893 --> 0:06:33.223 is like where is it also happening but not being discovered? 0:06:33.433 --> 0:06:38.053 Big story. Midnight Blizzard is basically pounding on Microsoft. And 0:06:38.053 --> 0:06:42.883 that is a Russian group. Qnap alerts more Criticals. I mean, 0:06:43.333 --> 0:06:47.863 never under any circumstances put a NAS online. It's like 0:06:47.953 --> 0:06:49.963 like I say here, it's a perfect storm of the 0:06:49.963 --> 0:06:52.063 most critical data that you don't want to lose or 0:06:52.063 --> 0:06:56.623 have stolen. And then the worst possible code just absolutely nasty. 0:06:56.623 --> 0:07:00.373 And thanks to Plex Track for sponsoring North Korean spies 0:07:00.373 --> 0:07:05.053 hacked into South Korean chipmakers stealing designs A flipper zero 0:07:05.053 --> 0:07:07.153 device was used to break into a Tesla, but it 0:07:07.153 --> 0:07:10.333 was a little bit of like kind of a stretch here. 0:07:10.333 --> 0:07:12.253 First of all, they didn't have to use a flipper zero. 0:07:12.253 --> 0:07:15.193 They could have used anything that just stole Wi-Fi because 0:07:15.193 --> 0:07:18.223 it was like a fake Ssid. And then you had 0:07:18.223 --> 0:07:20.683 to have multiple things sort of stacked together. You had 0:07:20.683 --> 0:07:22.633 to be right next to it, like a bunch of 0:07:22.633 --> 0:07:25.363 stuff that didn't make it super serious, which is why 0:07:25.363 --> 0:07:27.943 I think Tesla didn't take it that serious either. Scammers 0:07:27.943 --> 0:07:31.273 are increasingly using AI to mimic the voices of loved ones, 0:07:31.273 --> 0:07:34.213 and my advice here is to let your most vulnerable 0:07:34.213 --> 0:07:38.143 family members and friends know that scammers can now fake 0:07:38.143 --> 0:07:41.713 voices and everything, and that if they think you're in trouble, 0:07:41.713 --> 0:07:44.023 they should try to get in contact with you or 0:07:44.023 --> 0:07:46.723 get in contact with someone who knows that you're okay, 0:07:46.723 --> 0:07:50.023 someone around you, in your circle and in scammers. Do, 0:07:50.023 --> 0:07:52.513 I think, try to do this? I know this for 0:07:52.513 --> 0:07:54.583 a fact that they do. Not all can do this 0:07:54.583 --> 0:07:58.003 because this takes time and effort. It it's what we 0:07:58.003 --> 0:08:01.183 call in security world. Expensive to try to determine what 0:08:01.183 --> 0:08:04.003 your current state is, but the more advanced the attack is, 0:08:04.003 --> 0:08:05.743 the more money they would get from it, the more 0:08:05.743 --> 0:08:08.743 likely it is to happen. But the point is, scammers 0:08:08.743 --> 0:08:11.533 do try to figure out how to do this when 0:08:11.533 --> 0:08:13.903 they know you won't be able to get in contact 0:08:13.903 --> 0:08:16.663 with them. Okay, if you're on a vacation or you're, 0:08:16.663 --> 0:08:19.723 you know, whitewater rafting or something and they know you're 0:08:19.723 --> 0:08:23.113 on the river, again, this is less likely. But if 0:08:23.113 --> 0:08:25.183 they know you're on a river, you don't have cell 0:08:25.183 --> 0:08:28.093 phone connection. Well, that's the perfect time to call grandma. 0:08:28.513 --> 0:08:31.783 And here's the problem. People post that they're whitewater rafting. 0:08:31.783 --> 0:08:36.073 People post and say, I'm going whitewater rafting. I will 0:08:36.073 --> 0:08:40.813 be unapproachable, unreachable for five hours. See you when I 0:08:40.813 --> 0:08:44.023 get back. Well, thanks for mentioning that because now I 0:08:44.023 --> 0:08:46.723 can call grandma and say, hey, they had a rafting 0:08:46.723 --> 0:08:50.653 accident and the whole family needs surgery and we need 0:08:50.653 --> 0:08:54.763 $80,000 to get the best doctors. And guess what? Grandma 0:08:54.763 --> 0:08:58.213 immediately calls you and gets no answer. Or even worse, 0:08:58.393 --> 0:09:01.243 the phone is out of service. Holy crap, now they're 0:09:01.243 --> 0:09:04.123 freaking out. And then they use these tactics to just 0:09:04.123 --> 0:09:06.103 make it more and more pressure. It's like, oh, the 0:09:06.103 --> 0:09:08.533 doctors really worried. They said, they have to start now. 0:09:08.563 --> 0:09:10.963 I need your credit card. And so that that sense 0:09:10.963 --> 0:09:13.543 of urgency is really, really bad. So you've got to 0:09:13.543 --> 0:09:16.603 train the more vulnerable people in your life to like, 0:09:16.603 --> 0:09:19.753 get ready for this. It's especially bad. And this is 0:09:19.753 --> 0:09:21.583 kind of the point of this one is like, what 0:09:21.583 --> 0:09:24.283 if it's in your voice? Okay, it's a voice message 0:09:24.283 --> 0:09:28.393 from you saying, please wire money to this account. Otherwise 0:09:28.393 --> 0:09:31.333 these kidnappers are going to kill me, okay? And it is. 0:09:31.333 --> 0:09:34.003 It sounds exactly like you. I mean, that that is 0:09:34.003 --> 0:09:36.133 not in the future. That's like right now they can 0:09:36.133 --> 0:09:39.553 make something sound like anyone. So you've got to prepare 0:09:39.553 --> 0:09:43.513 your family and friends for this US sanctioned individual and 0:09:43.513 --> 0:09:46.603 entities behind predator spyware. I like the fact that they're 0:09:46.603 --> 0:09:49.843 going after people like this. Cloudflare has a new firewall 0:09:49.843 --> 0:09:54.133 for AI and looking at protecting yeah, basically AI from 0:09:54.133 --> 0:09:58.693 security threats. And my my analysis here is so nimble. 0:09:58.693 --> 0:10:01.993 These guys, they they basically seep into all the cracks. 0:10:02.023 --> 0:10:06.643 They're slowly becoming the internet. I honestly believe this. Cloudflare 0:10:06.643 --> 0:10:09.763 is quietly becoming the internet, right. If Google like gets 0:10:09.763 --> 0:10:12.793 rid of Gmail and YouTube out of sheer stupidity, which 0:10:12.793 --> 0:10:16.033 is not out of question, and Akamai gets bought by 0:10:16.033 --> 0:10:19.453 whatever Johnson and Johnson and boom, suddenly Cloudflare is like 0:10:19.453 --> 0:10:23.083 the internet. Brian Krebs has a really cool analysis of radar, 0:10:23.113 --> 0:10:26.533 a data broker that sells all sorts of American data, 0:10:26.533 --> 0:10:29.443 and they've got ties to Russia and all sorts of badness. 0:10:29.443 --> 0:10:32.353 And Krebs does a great job as as always taking 0:10:32.353 --> 0:10:35.863 that down. And Russia, setting up fake news sites. Can't 0:10:35.863 --> 0:10:39.553 wait to actually start consuming these things. I'm going to 0:10:39.553 --> 0:10:43.973 start consuming. Tons of online content and actually doing multiple 0:10:43.973 --> 0:10:46.223 filters on it. And one of them is going to 0:10:46.223 --> 0:10:49.433 be looking for propaganda. So I'm hoping to detect these 0:10:49.433 --> 0:10:53.813 types of networks before anyone else does. China is increasing 0:10:53.813 --> 0:10:57.833 its defense budget by 7.2%, and this more than doubles 0:10:57.833 --> 0:11:03.203 the military budget under Xi's leadership. Technology for AI is 0:11:03.203 --> 0:11:05.813 a cold calling AI service. You have got to check 0:11:05.813 --> 0:11:08.303 this thing out. It is the craziest thing and I've 0:11:08.303 --> 0:11:10.763 got links here to the video. I don't know, I 0:11:10.763 --> 0:11:12.473 might start doing a longer version of this where I 0:11:12.473 --> 0:11:15.293 can actually play the videos, but this, this one here. 0:11:15.293 --> 0:11:20.183 New voice demo. This one actually has a female southern 0:11:20.183 --> 0:11:23.423 person calling and you can hear the accent. It's really endearing. 0:11:23.423 --> 0:11:26.003 I spent like, whatever, 12 years in Georgia, got my 0:11:26.003 --> 0:11:28.733 girl from there. And like, the accent is just amazing 0:11:28.733 --> 0:11:31.733 and it just kind of makes you open up and like, 0:11:31.733 --> 0:11:34.103 listen a little bit more, which is the whole key 0:11:34.103 --> 0:11:38.153 to a cold call. And anyway, this thing is it's insane. 0:11:38.153 --> 0:11:42.353 It's the coolest. Like sales automation thing I've ever seen. 0:11:42.353 --> 0:11:44.663 And it yeah, it uses AI. All right. So it's 0:11:44.663 --> 0:11:49.883 been giving AIS different IQ tests actually this matrix IQ test. 0:11:49.883 --> 0:11:52.943 But they're giving different LMS the matrix IQ test. And 0:11:52.943 --> 0:11:56.453 Claude three just broke over 100 for the first time. 0:11:56.453 --> 0:12:00.053 And 100 is like the average human IQ. Apple has 0:12:00.053 --> 0:12:04.193 quickly shifted from a passive stance in AI to going 0:12:04.193 --> 0:12:06.323 crazy with it, and can't wait to see what they 0:12:06.323 --> 0:12:11.033 do in September. Apple podcasts now have auto generated transcripts. 0:12:11.033 --> 0:12:14.693 Research is saying that models will soon be able to 0:12:14.693 --> 0:12:18.353 optimize prompts better than people, so prompt engineering might be 0:12:18.353 --> 0:12:22.253 just going away. I think that's kind of right, but 0:12:22.253 --> 0:12:25.973 at the same time, you can't just give it total garbage, right? 0:12:26.153 --> 0:12:28.463 I don't see some random person be able to just 0:12:28.463 --> 0:12:31.433 bark idiocy at a model and have it say, oh, 0:12:31.433 --> 0:12:35.333 you were referring to Feynman's third principle. Indeed. Let us proceed. 0:12:35.333 --> 0:12:37.043 Don't think it's going to be able to do that, 0:12:37.043 --> 0:12:40.313 but if you do voice something that's halfway decent, they 0:12:40.313 --> 0:12:42.083 might be able to like, clean it up and be like, 0:12:42.083 --> 0:12:46.643 I think you meant this. Global trust in AI is falling, waning, 0:12:46.643 --> 0:12:51.373 dropping off with a significant drop from 61% in 2019 0:12:51.373 --> 0:12:55.253 to 53% now. And this is why I wrote one 0:12:55.253 --> 0:12:57.743 of the essays that I was talking about up above 0:12:57.743 --> 0:13:02.273 France just put the right to abortion directly in the Constitution, 0:13:02.273 --> 0:13:04.973 and somebody set a new rule capping credit card late 0:13:04.973 --> 0:13:07.553 fees at $8. This is going to cost banks a 0:13:07.553 --> 0:13:10.433 lot of money. A lot of people are basically saying, hey, look, 0:13:10.433 --> 0:13:12.563 they're just going to find ways to get that money 0:13:12.563 --> 0:13:14.963 back with other fees, but it doesn't matter. I like 0:13:14.963 --> 0:13:17.603 the fact that the government is actually pushing back on 0:13:17.603 --> 0:13:23.243 this really cool, raw image. Look at this. This is insane. 0:13:23.243 --> 0:13:25.943 This is why I want to do a video podcast 0:13:25.943 --> 0:13:29.813 instead of a audio. I mean, look at this. I've 0:13:29.813 --> 0:13:32.543 already got the Hubble version of this, but this is 0:13:32.543 --> 0:13:35.453 the new one from the Webb telescope. Look at this thing. 0:13:35.453 --> 0:13:41.363 This is ridiculous. Every single thing you see is a galaxy, 0:13:41.393 --> 0:13:45.113 not a star, a galaxy. Actually, there might be some 0:13:45.113 --> 0:13:48.863 stars that that happens sometimes, but yeah, really cool. So 0:13:48.863 --> 0:13:50.993 I'm going to basically order this on a metal print 0:13:50.993 --> 0:13:53.573 like I have for the Hubble. One single dose of 0:13:53.573 --> 0:14:00.233 LSD shows promising results for treating anxiety 48% remission at 0:14:00.233 --> 0:14:03.683 12 weeks Sweden is now a NATO. New York has 0:14:03.683 --> 0:14:09.143 rolled out National Guard troops to protect its subways. That's disturbing. 0:14:09.143 --> 0:14:14.723 And Scotus ruled unanimously to keep Trump on state ballots. Yeah, 0:14:14.723 --> 0:14:18.623 I consider what Colorado and some other people tried to 0:14:18.623 --> 0:14:22.283 do to get him off the ballot as a Brexit move, 0:14:22.283 --> 0:14:24.623 and I call it a Brexit move because it's the 0:14:24.623 --> 0:14:26.933 type of thing that you try to do. You get 0:14:26.933 --> 0:14:29.363 it done and then you immediately regret that you did 0:14:29.363 --> 0:14:32.963 it right. You don't take people you dislike off the ballot. 0:14:32.963 --> 0:14:35.513 You don't do that. It's not American. It's a bad thing. 0:14:35.513 --> 0:14:38.633 And like I said down here, the moment you do 0:14:38.633 --> 0:14:41.303 it and it actually works well when you're not in 0:14:41.303 --> 0:14:43.973 control and it comes time to put up your own candidate, 0:14:43.973 --> 0:14:45.893 the opposition is just going to do it to you 0:14:45.893 --> 0:14:47.423 and it's going to get worse. And pretty soon you 0:14:47.423 --> 0:14:51.413 have Banana Republic. It's not a real democracy. And here's 0:14:51.413 --> 0:14:54.833 the other point. If somebody can be elected and you 0:14:54.833 --> 0:14:58.403 find them so detestable, but they actually get elected like 0:14:58.403 --> 0:15:02.423 they they legally are allowed to run in the country 0:15:02.423 --> 0:15:05.753 votes for them. That's the game. That is the game. 0:15:05.753 --> 0:15:08.993 And I do not like Trump. I'm not a Trump guy. 0:15:09.023 --> 0:15:11.573 Doesn't matter. And we're not going into politics here. But 0:15:11.573 --> 0:15:14.153 he's not my guy. The point is, if the country 0:15:14.153 --> 0:15:18.173 votes him in and that very well may happen, then 0:15:18.173 --> 0:15:22.043 that is American. That is American. For somebody to vote 0:15:22.043 --> 0:15:25.163 in in a free election, of course, which I think 0:15:25.163 --> 0:15:28.043 it will be. And it's like, that's what that's what 0:15:28.043 --> 0:15:31.253 America wanted. So either change the country or leave. I mean, 0:15:31.253 --> 0:15:33.683 those are my options at that point. All right. Ideas 0:15:33.683 --> 0:15:38.033 and analysis. I was troubled with Harare's analysis on Colbert. 0:15:38.033 --> 0:15:40.583 So he basically said, down here. He was talking to 0:15:40.583 --> 0:15:44.753 Colbert and he basically says, we have no idea what 0:15:44.753 --> 0:15:48.083 to teach kids growing up. Now we have no idea 0:15:48.083 --> 0:15:50.573 to tell them what kind of skills to have. And 0:15:50.573 --> 0:15:52.463 we used to be able to tell them, oh, you know, 0:15:52.463 --> 0:15:55.373 shoot a bow, you know, ride a horse, you know, 0:15:55.373 --> 0:15:58.373 farm wheat or whatever. And now we don't know what 0:15:58.373 --> 0:16:01.973 to say. And I just don't think that was good. 0:16:01.973 --> 0:16:04.763 I mean, he's he's the best. I got massive respect 0:16:04.763 --> 0:16:07.523 for him. And I also want to give him, you know, 0:16:07.523 --> 0:16:12.233 some props because like I say here, the lights are bright, right? 0:16:12.293 --> 0:16:15.143 I mean you're encouraged to give like these little soundbites. 0:16:15.143 --> 0:16:18.623 So so I'm not like throwing shade, but I just 0:16:18.623 --> 0:16:20.723 wish he didn't come out and say, we have no 0:16:20.723 --> 0:16:24.083 idea what to tell people because we actually do write 0:16:24.083 --> 0:16:28.553 clear thinking, clear communication, understanding the past, understanding the merits 0:16:28.553 --> 0:16:32.573 of various arguments, how to disagree, philosophy, critical thinking. All 0:16:32.573 --> 0:16:36.203 these things are more important than ever and more obvious 0:16:36.203 --> 0:16:38.693 than ever that we need them in the future. So 0:16:38.693 --> 0:16:40.733 it's kind of the opposite of what he's saying. So 0:16:40.733 --> 0:16:43.433 that's what I basically said in this tweet. All right. 0:16:43.433 --> 0:16:46.403 Been drawn back into the Stoics lately, been reading a 0:16:46.403 --> 0:16:49.673 whole lot of Marcus Aurelius, and really got a whole 0:16:49.673 --> 0:16:52.883 bunch of stuff from Ryan Holiday's Stoic store. And you 0:16:52.883 --> 0:16:55.163 should check that out. And oh, yeah, we're doing our 0:16:55.163 --> 0:16:58.493 mid-month on optimization. I think I talked about that already, 0:16:58.493 --> 0:17:01.133 and I should go sign up. That's the link to 0:17:01.133 --> 0:17:05.573 go sign up Daniel missler.com/premium. And yeah, this newsletter was 0:17:05.573 --> 0:17:08.603 super fun to do. Really fast, more creative than ever. 0:17:08.603 --> 0:17:11.243 Just it's going great. Don't really need to say too 0:17:11.243 --> 0:17:14.483 much about that. All right. Discovery obsidian as a graph 0:17:14.483 --> 0:17:17.093 database for Rag. This is really cool because people put 0:17:17.093 --> 0:17:20.213 so much effort into obsidian. Being able to apply AI 0:17:20.243 --> 0:17:23.333 to it is super, super cool. Male in the middle 0:17:23.333 --> 0:17:29.003 automate spearfishing. Enough said. Junaid Islam outlines a five step 0:17:29.003 --> 0:17:32.663 method for cutting cybersecurity budgets. This was a pretty cool 0:17:32.663 --> 0:17:35.813 write up. During World War Two, America fought against damaging 0:17:35.813 --> 0:17:40.223 rumors with rumor clinics in newspapers and magazines. I think 0:17:40.223 --> 0:17:43.013 we should look and do this right. We should look 0:17:43.013 --> 0:17:47.513 into this so debunked lies by fact checking and publishing 0:17:47.513 --> 0:17:52.253 the findings, helping to maintain morale and unity. Um, pretty cool. 0:17:52.373 --> 0:17:57.593 I get Julia Evans, the surprisingly complex world of Jets head, 0:17:57.593 --> 0:18:02.513 revealing its multifaceted roles. I am embarrassed by how often 0:18:02.513 --> 0:18:06.443 I realized I don't know anything about Kit. I just 0:18:06.533 --> 0:18:09.083 too many times per month, I just delete the whole 0:18:09.173 --> 0:18:12.593 I'm like, I'm confused, delete the whole repo, re clone it. 0:18:12.593 --> 0:18:15.113 And that's just sad. I need to get class. All right. 0:18:15.113 --> 0:18:17.933 It's getting harder to tell humans apart from bots, but 0:18:17.933 --> 0:18:21.503 not because bots are getting more smart or more like humans, 0:18:21.503 --> 0:18:25.313 but because humans are acting more like bots. Oh that's disturbing. 0:18:25.313 --> 0:18:28.163 How to start a home lab? Really good primer here 0:18:28.163 --> 0:18:33.293 by Hayden James. And this guy Chen is all excited 0:18:33.293 --> 0:18:36.503 about soft skills. He says 80% of failures at Amazon 0:18:36.503 --> 0:18:39.743 are due to soft skill issues, not technical ability. And 0:18:39.743 --> 0:18:43.793 it says that he got a job at Amazon even 0:18:43.793 --> 0:18:46.553 though he wasn't technical because of this skill. I'm not 0:18:46.553 --> 0:18:49.013 sure it was actually him that said 80% of failures, 0:18:49.013 --> 0:18:53.693 but I wrote that anyway. All right. Tolkien intensely disliked 0:18:53.693 --> 0:18:59.213 Dune because Tolkien wanted to talk about inherent acts of goodness, 0:18:59.363 --> 0:19:05.393 and Dune talks about consequentialist morality of action judged by 0:19:05.393 --> 0:19:08.813 their outcomes. I like it, I like it, and I 0:19:08.813 --> 0:19:10.973 also like this word. I wrote a piece about this 0:19:10.973 --> 0:19:14.933 a while back. Deontological. The morality of something depends on 0:19:14.933 --> 0:19:18.503 the effects that it has as opposed to intentions. Pretty 0:19:18.503 --> 0:19:22.853 cool concept. Someone reminisces about the simpler, less polished writing 0:19:22.853 --> 0:19:25.823 they used to do. They express a longing. This is 0:19:25.823 --> 0:19:28.583 on Reddit, by the way, a longing for their earlier, 0:19:28.583 --> 0:19:32.183 unrefined work. Feeling it had charm that their current writing lacks. 0:19:32.183 --> 0:19:35.783 This is absolutely true. I've experienced that in the past, 0:19:36.083 --> 0:19:38.873 and Kate Hall shares how anyone can learn to be 0:19:38.873 --> 0:19:42.023 more energetic. This is pretty cool. It's over on the 0:19:42.023 --> 0:19:45.623 site every, which is a really cool site from Dan 0:19:45.623 --> 0:19:49.103 Shipper and the recommendation of the week. Trust your routine. 0:19:49.103 --> 0:19:51.563 If you spend a lot of time putting together a 0:19:51.563 --> 0:19:54.383 routine that helps you feel good and positive, then you 0:19:54.383 --> 0:19:56.453 got to follow it. You got to follow your routine. 0:19:56.453 --> 0:19:59.243 Whenever I'm out of routine, I'm not feeling good. I'm like, ah, 0:19:59.243 --> 0:20:00.953 it's got to be something else. It's got to be. 0:20:00.953 --> 0:20:02.483 I got to figure out what it is. Is a 0:20:02.483 --> 0:20:06.593 supplement or something? No, it's it's not a supplement. It's 0:20:06.593 --> 0:20:09.353 not something special. You're just not on your routine. Right. 0:20:09.353 --> 0:20:13.403 What's the routine? Something like this very Huberman esque sleep, 0:20:13.403 --> 0:20:17.513 sun exercise, clean food, walking. Talk to your friends and family. 0:20:17.513 --> 0:20:20.903 Like be social. It's the basics and there's a reason 0:20:20.903 --> 0:20:23.483 you wrote them down, so go do them. And the 0:20:23.483 --> 0:20:26.813 aphorism of the week. Choose not to be harmed and 0:20:26.813 --> 0:20:30.743 you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been. 0:20:30.743 --> 0:20:33.443 Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. 0:20:33.443 --> 0:20:36.083 And if you don't feel harmed, then you haven't been. 0:20:36.083 --> 0:20:41.163 Marcus Aurelius. 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