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And actually, there's another one I'm going to add to this list, somebody who came on the Goodfellas podcast. So I'm going to go find his book as well. But, um, yeah, having a good time with some reading. Got a friend in Guatemala who was recently laid off senior engineer, focused around monitoring solutions, but really can do lots of different stuff. So I recommend you check out his LinkedIn and see if if you might have anything. My friend Monica is offering 25% off her Security Leadership Masterclass, which I consulted for, and I think it's really good for people trying to get into leadership around security. I got a funny meme here about, um, how to calm down. A buddy who loses a bunch of money in crypto. It's just. It's just funny. Nothing useful there except for laughter, which is useful. LinkedIn posts about my ultimate app, which I keep iterating on. I'm going to go ahead and click through to this one. So this is essentially like the main app that I've been building for the longest time. And I've got like different versions of it. I've got like a commercial version, I've got the overall arching one, but essentially it takes inputs from any medium, from any platform and does a ton of analysis to determine how good it is. Okay, so just imagine that this is like the most important thing to me is most important like current buildable use for AI. So all this stuff is happening in the world, right. All this news, new intelligence is is dropping open source intelligence, recon vulnerabilities are popping up on websites. Um, my favorite thinkers are releasing a new blog, blog post, a new essay, a new article, a new video on YouTube comes out right. All the authors that I follow, they're releasing new books, right? Um, comments are being made which might reveal something really, really interesting. Uh, new art is coming out, new books, new movies that I should be watching. Um, comments from my friends, new companies being launched. All this stuff is happening, you know, millions of things per day. Hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands or whatever, uh, pieces of content coming into my RSS feeder. And all of that is, is something I could potentially benefit from. Okay. So this app that I've been working on for the longest time, really starting, uh, beginning of 23, is essentially the consumption mechanism for this. Pull it all together, then use AI to run it through a filter. Okay. That filter. And I've already built this way back then. The filter basically does a quality check on all of these things to see if it's full of interesting ideas, if it's creative, if it's novel, if it's surprising, and all these various different aspects similar to the label and rate, um, fabric pattern that I have out there that's public. This is just like a much more advanced version of it, with a lot more labels and stuff like that, because based on that, the AI can then or a different AI or a different part of the same AI can then sort what to do with it, right? Because it might be an alert. It might send me an alert if something is important enough, like, hey, a new vulnerability was found on one of your websites, or a new vulnerability was found on a bounty program that I'm monitoring. And by the way, the AI is telling me my AI is like, oh, by the way, I found the vulnerability. I found how you could actually exploit it. I wrote that up into a report and I submitted it to the thing. So we are waiting to see if we're going to get paid from this bounty. Right. So that that's a cool thing. And it might send me an email which tags it with a certain thing that says awaiting for bounty payout or something like that. Or it might be that I just want to know if, um, this particular company buys any new companies, or I want to know if this particular company does anything to, like, raise money. All of these could be like alerts that I have set up. But it starts with the consumption of the world and the processing through this AI. Now I've already built this I've got is probably a version like three or something, depending on how you call the versions. But what I want to mention about this is that the real version of this, the real version of this, which I've talked about in my other videos, especially the predictive path AI. Video is that the real version of this is my AI buddy, my AI assistant, my AI friend, my. AI my digital assistant. Okay, my universal primary digital assistant is going to be in charge of doing this for me. Okay. My APIs that are available to me are the ones that are doing this processing right. These agents, these automation workflows, these things that are just running on my behalf. They're out there in the world collecting, analyzing, assessing, um, labeling, doing all those things for me. But the quarterback for all of this is my Da. My Da is monitoring how many feeds I have, if they're the right feeds, if this feed like we thought it was awesome, but it's actually garbage. It might have the permission to go in and clean that up and fix it. Right. So the future of this is I don't really ask any questions about this. I'm not like typing very much. I'm not, um, really manually interacting with this too much at all. Because if I want a new source, I say, hey, add this to my source, okay? While I'm looking at a page on the screen, hey, add this to my our list of sources in my says in my ear, yeah, no problem. Just added it. Okay, I'm watching a new YouTube video, for example. I'm like, yeah, add this to our sources and it's like it runs the API command to go add that. It's now part of the workflow. It's now in the system right now. How could it do that? Well, it's going to do that because it's watching all my screens or it's watching with the camera. However it's doing it. There's going to be lots of different ways. But the point is, my Da will be part of my life. Um, Apple is talking about having cameras on its AirPods. I don't know if that will be the next version. Probably not. It'll be the version like 2 or 3 versions after the current version, but I'm wearing them now. Like if if these were like over here and in the back, it had a camera that was pointing behind me. Amazing. Obviously it should have a camera that's pointing forward, pointing forward, pointing behind me with full access to my life context. Full access to my screen. It should also have access within the screen as well, so we could look at processes and stuff like that. But let's just say you could only just see the screen. I could still ask it things and it could still do lookups. It could still summarize what I'm looking at, for example. So this is really the interaction. The interaction becomes me just talking to my AI and my AI giving me back results. Now the second level of this, which comes a little bit later because the technology just is not quite there yet, but it's more like the meta glasses. Okay, the meta Metaclasses. As you saw in the newsletter last week, or maybe it's this week and we're about to talk about it. The Metaclasses have sold 2 million units. They are the direction that things are going. I imagine Apple is going to move in this direction as well, and kind of offload a bunch of the processing to the phone, but the next version of this app that I'm building, the reason I'm building all these services that are working for me, coming through my digital assistant, which also doesn't fully exist yet. Okay, that's also a place everyone is pushing into, including Apple. But the real thing is that I am watching. I am talking to somebody and they're like, hey, you know, you should get in on this deal and blah blah, blah. And it's crypto related and it's a meme coin. And I'm just like, uh, well, not interested. Don't want to hear about that. Um, but let's say I was interested and let's say it did sound good. In the meantime, my Da is calling all my APIs. Okay, I have an API for researching someone. I have an API for creating a dossier on somebody. I have an API for monitoring, watching someone's face and determining characteristics of lying. So while I'm looking with my apple glasses, which is just like they look like regular glasses, this is pretty far in the future. Like five years maybe, maybe shorter, maybe like three years with meta or something. Who knows? But let's just say three to 5 to 10 years. Okay. As you're watching, I have this little dial in the corner of my glasses and it's like, it's like a bullshit meter, right? It's like, yeah, no, don't believe that. And it could even be printing out little thing in the text or whatever. That's like that claim he just made is incorrect. That was kind of bullshit. Oh, that was kind of smart or whatever. You could do whatever. You could have an outline around them based on the type of person you're looking at. I talked about this in that blog post, which you should go check out. Actually, here's the video for it. So you've got to think about what is possible from your Da when your Da can also control what you are seeing. The overlay on top of the world. Okay, so when I walk into a Starbucks and I'm looking for a new partner, I'm looking for a girlfriend, which I'm not, by the way, but let's say I were, um, there could be different outlines based on what, um, the girls in the Starbucks are broadcasting in their demons. They're broadcasting that they're creative. They're broadcasting that they like programming, they're broadcasting that they want to start a business. They're broadcasting whatever. And my Da could then place different outlines around them based on highlighting that for me, knowing what I'm looking for. Right. And more importantly, there's going to be 1000 or 1 million companies out there pitching to my Da that their filter on reality is the best one, because they have the coolest outlines, and they have the coolest little animations that go around people who are like artists or engineers or whatever. So this is kind of these are the steps. This is what I'm building. Like the stuff I put in that book from 2016, the stuff I've been talking about in these posts, like I'm not waiting for it to happen, I'm building the pieces right now. Like I can't build the hardware. Like I'll never mess with that. I have to wait for that. But I can maybe build the assistant, or at least build something to go on top of the assistant. And I can absolutely build these services. And this is like the most important service. This is the gathering and filtering service. So that is what that's what I've made. Oh and by the way I the commercial version of this that I already put out, let me just click this and see like what we get here. This is my actual threshold. This is my personal feed for threshold, and I've actually never showed this. Have I never showed this? I don't think I've ever showed this before. Let me show you what this is like. So this is my threshold. And look what I can do in here. I have a score here that I can, uh, set the minimum threshold of quality that has to. The content has to be. So I have thousands of things like. This is not theory. I've already built this. Thousands of things are coming into this thing being parsed, being filtered, being labeled, being rated. Right. Watch this. It's at 85. I slide this down to 60. Look I have all these categories as well I hit save. Look what it does over here. What it just readjusted. It just readjusted. And watch this watch this view analysis I have summaries of the contents. You could decide if you actually want to go and read it, or if you actually want to go and watch the video and look at this surface level, middle level, deep level, hidden message analysis, the ideas that are actually in here, the recommendations that came out of the content. This thing helps people save time, going from like hundreds of thousands of feeds down to a small number of feeds. And even when you get the small number of feeds that pop up in this list right here. So let me just take this to like 95 save. So even when this thing pops up, I could still decide if I want to read it or not based on this I usually keep it around middle. So three ideas, a little review of it, recommendations coming out of it. It's insane. And then I always have the link to go click it and read the actual full thing. So this thing saves me like infinite time. And I find so much content that I would never find before. And here, here's the ultimate idea for this. And this is the reason I'm building this entire system separate from this app here in the commercial app. I don't care if the best idea came from like a 13 year old girl in Nairobi, because her idea might be as good or better than Marc Andreessen's latest idea that just came out. But Marc Andreessen is going to get all the press. It's going to be through all my feeds. So if I just rely on that, it's going to be hype cycle based on social dynamics. So it's going to be surfaced to me, but I am blocking that out. My algorithm does not care about how popular that person is. It doesn't care how about how popular that it turned into being going viral? It doesn't care. It's judging the quality of the ideas and the the novelty of the ideas and the creativity. That's what's determining whether or not I'm going to see a thing. So that's like the commercial version of this basically, which is already out. And of course I'm going to improve that as well. But it's kind of like not the main point. The main point is this right here, my interface to the world. This is why I talk about augmentation okay. Augmentation is this is this is why I am so excited about, I think of how much smarter I can be about the world if I'm being constantly fed the best ideas from the entire planet, the more stuff I can find from unknown people. And by the way, when I when I hear from unknown people, I give them a shout out. I broadcast them out on on X or on blue Sky or in the newsletter, or I reach out to them and ask them if they want mentoring. Like it is so fun to find like nascent talent in the world and like, try to give them confidence and lift them up and kind of broadcast them out. And you've seen me do it a million times, and it's just it's unbelievable to connect with people who have interesting ideas. And that's what I love about this thing is it finds interesting ideas regardless of source. Forget the source. I don't care about the source. I want to talk about ideas. All right, so that was that. Um, the discovery section in the newsletter is getting absolutely insane. Uh, there's going to be a cutoff. Um, in this episode, um, right after the news section, because we basically split the newsletter into two pieces, and the podcast is also in two pieces. So if you're listening to the non-member version of the show, then after the news, it's going to have a little message there. Uh, but if you sign up, become a member, you know, all that stuff. You basically get access to the member feed, and the member feed is full. It's a full episode. Um, with all the stuff, including this discovery section, which is just absolutely insane. Um, because I've been doing all these upgrades to my sources, I've added like a thousand 1500 additional sources, like which I just put like another ten hours in, like expanding my opml file and like all my different stuff. And that's why the quality of discovery has just gone up massively. Um, and that's why I decided, hey, you know, we really should be offering more of that benefit to the members and not just giving it away flat to non-paying members as well. So that separation is why we're doing the two different versions. So you might have noticed you're getting like the standard episode of the newsletter or the standard episode of the podcast. It's all part of that. All right. So highly recommended. successor essay to my Sspca article from 2023. This is basically one of the final forms of what we can actually do with AI, and I'm going to do a separate video on this. So I don't want to go into a whole thing about it. All right. Cybersecurity. Phenomenal analysis of the cybersecurity market from my buddy Mike Privett on return on security I call him the Nate Silver of Cybersecurity Market Analysis. He basically does. He looks at all the startups. He looks at all the spending, all the funding, what VCs are doing. It is absolutely worth a sign up. His podcast or his newsletter is Return on Security. And main takeaway here is cyber investments are actually getting back kind of to normal in 2014 or 2024, and they now have over $14 billion in funding. But I and private equity are playing a much bigger role. So that makes sense. Massive leak of Black Basta ransomware gangs. Internal Chats has researchers working to translate and analyze over 500,000 Russian messages. So they're trying to figure out what all they were saying, but they have to do translation. Russian hackers are successfully compromising encrypted signal messages from Ukrainian military, and I think the attack is actually much larger than that scope. But, um, the whole trick is to get them to scan malicious QR codes and basically bypassing a bunch of protections that way. Apple dropped advanced data protection in the UK so that advanced data protection is basically end to end protection. The UK said, I want a backdoor in that and Apple says you can't have a backdoor, so we'll just turn off end to end encryption for you. What is the UK doing? Why do they hate themselves so much? Just massive self sabotage. You could trick Gpts Chatgpt's operator feature into leaking private user data through prompt injection. Australia is joining the US in banning Kaspersky products. Not sure what took him so long. Some researchers found they could consistently break prompt defenses by feeding models bizarre Indiana Jones themed adventure stories. Yep yep yep yep. New phishing as a service platform called Dracula V3 has emerged that lets criminals clone any brand's website in under ten minutes. Really good for phishing data leak from top Chinese cybersecurity company reveals they're offering censorship as a service to help monitor and control public opinion in China. Topcic. Thanks, Topcic. OpenAI just banned a bunch of accounts using ChatGPT to help create a China surveillance tool for tracking anti-China protests in the West. Yeah, so Chinese surveillance company using ChatGPT to create a surveillance tool. Awesome. Good that, uh, OpenAI is watching that stuff and blocking it. And the head of Australia's intelligence agency is saying multiple foreign states have been plotting to murder dissidents on Australian soil, and this is under national security. All right, I anthropic finally dropped their latest model, uh, sonnet 3.7. And there's actually mixed feedback on this. People are saying it's really smart, really opinionated, which they like, but it turns out it's actually kind of ignoring a lot of instructions. There's a lot of people saying this. I haven't personally experienced it yet. It's been solid for me so far. But enough people are complaining about this that I do think it's probably actually real, and people are getting pretty upset about it, and they're actually switching back to sonnet 3.5. So I anticipate that over the weekend or sometime next week, they're probably going to do like a small dot release on top of this, or maybe like bump it to who knows, they'll just do like sonnet 3.7 v2, because they're not very good at naming, just like OpenAI, or at least people have been struggling with the naming. Ideally they would call it 3.7.1. Why not do that? Please do that. Please call it 3.7.1. That would be the smartest choice, honestly. But anyway, I anticipate that they fix this like within a week because enough people are complaining about it. Uh, yeah. Benchmarks look completely insane. Um, I anticipate that once this gets fixed, people are going to lock in on 3.7 as being the thing. It also is capable of thinking. Okay, so the other thing they released in this model, in addition to it just being a better, smarter one, is you can send a thinking, uh, parameter to the API and, and you give it the amount of time, the amount of tokens, basically the amount of money and the amount of effort you wanted to think about a particular thing. So it's really cool that they integrated that right into the model. It's basically a thinking model or like a regular model. Um, and it's just a matter of like what you send to the API. Um, I have been mostly using sonnet 3.5. I tend to use Gemini Flash because it has 2 million tokens. So if something is like a total monster, like an entire book or something, um, I usually send that to Gemini Flash because of the 2 million tokens, and it's really good with haystack performance, but I imagine that my go to will start to be, um, sonnet 3.7 once they fix it and then uh, oh three from, um, OpenAI or whatever they call the next version of it, because they're getting ready to start unifying their names. And they also released this thing called Cloud Code, which is essentially like, you can think of it as cursor, except for it's inside the terminal. And a lot of people are saying they absolutely love that Google is getting rid of SMS two for codes for Gmail in favor of QR codes. I was wrong about QR codes. I want to say that very clearly. I was wrong about QR codes when they first came out. Whatever. However many years that was, I was thinking that they were stupid and fatty. I assumed they were going to be very insecure. It's actually one of the things in my file that I've marked as a mistake, because I'm interested, very interested in understanding what flawed thinking made me think that wouldn't work because the smarter the AI gets, it can actually look at that. And most importantly, look at all my current thinking and maybe find flaws in my current thinking based on finding the root kernel of my mistake I made with the QR code. So that's why I think this is fascinating. Nathan Young wrote a wonderful letter to future artificial general intelligence about the importance of consciousness this thing is insanely awesome. Look at this thing. There is something. Look at this. There is something called consciousness. And it's the most important thing in the universe. I don't know if you the eye analyzing this are conscious, but I hope you are. I don't know what state your universe is in or what place human consciousness holds in that world, if any. The main thing I want to say if you should stumble upon this piece is this. There really is something called consciousness and it is worth being a top concern. Isn't that great? It's a letter to I to future I, I like it, I like it a lot. Humane AI pin fell from the sky and hit the ground. I was signed up. I don't even remember if I gave them money. I've signed up for so many devices and services and a lot of them didn't work out. But. And by the way, how was our one still thing? The biggest flop ever when it came out and it's still around and kicking. Then you have the humane AI one, which seemed like it was going to go well and now it's folded, so can't really predict these things. Elon has been talking non-stop about how grok three isn't filtered, and it's super smart, and how XYZ mission is to pursue the truth no matter what. Great goals, which I absolutely support. But tons of people are pointing out that he's starting to filter or censor results that are critical of him, and like, he can't actually have this both ways. Like, either grok is smart or he's being called out for a good reason. And, um, yeah, it's funny. If you ask grok, I don't know if this is still true right now, but if you ask grok, like, who is the biggest source of misinformation right now, having the worst impact, it would come back and say, actually, Elon or this administration or something like that. So I think he's going to basically say, well, that's because, uh, you know, it was trained on, you know, buy us stuff. But I don't think he could use that for for too long. Technology. Software engineering job listings have fallen to a five year low, with indeed postings at just 65% of 2020 levels. The reason January 2020 is important because it's pre-COVID only 65%, so 35% lower than pre-COVID. That's the important piece here. Interesting analysis of how PMS and engineers are merging because of AI. And my analysis here is it's basically knowing what you want to build, knowing why you want to build that instead of something else, and then pursuing it and actually doing so. Apple is putting half $1 trillion into US tech manufacturing with a huge focus on AI and chip production. Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, crushing it with 2 million units, talked about that. YouTube is officially beaten Spotify and Apple as the top source for podcasts. This is what I do for when I watch TV, I am watching podcasts, essentially, and sometimes they're like produced. Sometimes it's like exactly like this where I'm just talking on the camera, going through stories. But, um, Matthew Berman is one of my favorites. Uh, fireship is one of my favorites and a whole bunch of AI builders. I just watch their stuff. Um, I don't care if it's produced. Not produced as long as the content is good. Superhuman just announced a major AI focused release that integrates AI super deeply into your email workflows. I wish I could pull up my email right now and drag it over here, but that is too risky. I now am using. I maxed out the number of auto, um, labels that I turned on. I turned on auto labels. This thing is now filtering my email. Um, it already has access to my email because it's my client. So when the emails come in, it's auto filtering. According to these rules, I set up probably 10 or 20. I set up. So it's like, is this a pitch? Is it a pitch about coming on a podcast? Is it a media person trying to get me to make a comment about something? It is, um, somebody tried to come on my podcast. Is somebody trying to get me on their podcast? Is it feedback from the community? Is it somebody wanting to collaborate on building something and they're all colored tags? Um, also things related to like fabric and other open source projects that I'm working on and my eyes are getting pretty good at like filtering that pretty quickly. You could also separate them into separate, uh, inboxes, email inboxes as well. I think superhuman is like 30 bucks a month, uh, which is a lot of people think is a lot to pay for email. I would challenge you on that. If you are better at email, even by a tiny fraction of a percent, that's probably worth way more than $30 a month. That's the way I think about like, all service fees, but, um, yeah, I just want to mention that it is actually a paid service and no, I'm not sponsored. Otherwise I would have mentioned that it would have been a sponsored section, or at least I would have called that out. Alibaba's CEO Eddie Wu says they're going all in on AGI development. Join the club. Humans. New research says despite saying intelligence matters more, both women and their parents choose the more attractive guy if she has, like two options or multiple options. Tech executives are now attending psychedelic slumber parties, where they use ketamine therapy to reset their minds and escape mental ruts. That's why I have the invite feature for my new email client. Uh, I've not heard about these parties. Why am I not invited? I'm offended. I'm not saying I'm going to go. Not saying I'm not going to go either. Gallup says LGBTQ plus identification in the US is now 9.3%, which is nearly triple what it was in 2012 when Gallup started tracking this. So yeah, like triple. And what is that, 12, 13 years? 13 years? Never do arithmetic on camera. Ellen's now asking federal workers to list what they did last week or get fired, which like many things with him, has me cheering and wincing. Love the efficiency push. And I think that's how he's able to innovate. But my problem is he's not building something from scratch here, okay. And then firing people who are not innovative enough at building things from scratch, which he's doing with like, rocket companies or Optimus or something like that. In this case, we have people who actually rely on these services. Right. And it's hard to tell when when you're going in there and you're just like canceling programs and like canceling credit cards and killing off money. A lot of that money that's going out could be doing really important things. And it's the same with these employees. You might have somebody who's doing extraordinarily good work, and they're actually helping save the lives of multiple people, you know, thousands or millions of people across the country, but they're really bad at responding to email or they're really bad at explaining themselves. Maybe they're super humble, maybe they're bad at writing, but or maybe they're, like, intimidated by talking to bosses, or maybe they're just traumatized by the whole thing and they can't respond, well, that person gets fired, potentially. I don't know if that's actually going to happen, but let's say that person gets fired. That is a lot of collateral damage for a thing that I, I think he is trying to do good and might actually produce good. But how do you calculate the collateral damage of of what could result from this compared to the potential good? That is, that is a calculus that people massively need to be thinking about. Bureau of prisons is moving forward with plans to house trans inmates based on birth, sex rather than gender identity. Yeah, I've got a lot to say about this one. Um, there are trans women who have been on drugs for ten, 15, 20 years, and that is how they maintain their, their, uh, their gender, their identity, their health hormone levels, how they appear outside to the world. Um, and, you know, have good, decent lives, you know, functioning in that way. Now, in this case, we're talking about prison. So there are some other variables going on here. But we are not allowed to torture people in prison. We are not allowed to starve people in prison. We must give them X amount of time outside. There are rules based on human morality and human decency for how you treat inmates. And that's for people who are already in jail for committing some sort of crime. So it's not like we're saying, um, they haven't done anything. We we understand that they've done something. All these rules apply also to offenders. The worst offenders, absolute murderers, like, uh, child related crimes. They, no matter who it is, cruel and unusual punishment is still illegal. This, I would argue, can classify in some cases as cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe even most of the cases. I don't know the numbers here. I don't know the like divides. I don't have data on that, but I can pretty much guarantee you that there are at least some cases like this where this will absolutely be to the future. Looking back at us, this will be considered cruel and unusual punishment. And that's super fucked up. Heart doctor explains how swollen fingertips, leg edema and changes in eye color can predict an impending heart attack. My cardiologist. Um, not mine, but my cardiologist buddy says it's important to know that just because you don't have these particular signs doesn't mean you're okay. So something to keep in mind. 27 year old woman's viral post about girlhood FOMO reveals a widespread loneliness crisis among women in their 20s and 30s missing close female relationships. Everyone's missing missing close relationships. That's why I'm always pinging my homies. Taylor Swift lost 144,000 Instagram followers after getting booed at the Super Bowl, 144,000. Her boyfriend actually gained followers. Look at Edward Abbey's raw, honest writings about how to live fully and die on your own terms. Really good piece there. Read the whole thing. Neuroscientists argues that extremely high IQs are basically fictional and even Einstein probably had around 120 or 130. I have always believed this. Well, I mean, ever since, like reading a bunch of books about, uh, evolutionary biology and psychology and everything, basically a whole bunch of Robert Sapolsky stuff, I think it's likely that IQ tops out, um, especially in value somewhere like this person, this neuroscientist is saying around like one 2130. And then when you start going off into like much higher scores, first of all, the scores kind of just don't mean anything. The error rate is massive at those levels, but really it becomes more about like specialization. It becomes more like, you know, um, dropping the, uh, the toothpicks and instantly being able to count them. It's more like very specific, like parlor tricks. Um, and it seems like the g loading doesn't scale and give you like the expanded benefits all the way up into like one, 31 4151, 60. So it's almost like those numbers don't really exist or don't really matter. I think what the more important thing is is that below 100, it can be seriously problematic. Above 100 starts to get you a lot of benefits. But really, like most smart people, I think that we know are probably like really smart people that you know and think of are probably in the one 2130 range. So I think that's fascinating because it's actually not that number that matters. What matters is what you stack on top of it. Most importantly, I would argue, is creativity. Then like, um, determination, um, drive, ambition, grit. So you start stacking those together on top of like 120 IQ, then you're doing something because there's tons of people with like very high IQs not motivated, not creative, not empathetic, not like emotionally intelligent. What are they doing? What are they offering to the world? And I would argue often, not very much. NASA contracted lunar lander just beamed back some gorgeous shots of the moon ideas. Blogging might get even more important. So what if blog like content from actual real people with thoughts? Because some of the highest rated signal for AI. So we know we have this data crisis with AI, right? Well, maybe bloggers are going to be the main source. Um, I would say writers in general, but bloggers as basically writers, and of course you have like high quality people at some magazines and newspapers. But how how many of those people are left? They're mostly going to Substack. Right. So now Substack, Beehive personal blogs. That is where the actual new ideas are coming out onto. And I will say YouTube because YouTube is basically blogging. I mean, it's all the same shit. YouTube is basically blogging. It's just video blogging. It's all the same. The point is YouTube. Substack. Beehive. Personal sites RSS. This becomes the new source of actual novel and creative content, so I might start valuing it very, very highly. All right. This is the end of the standard edition of the podcast, which includes just the news items for the week to get the rest of the episode, which includes my analysis, the discovery section that has all of the coolest tools and articles. I found this week, the recommendation of the week and the aphorism of the week. Please consider becoming a member. As a member, you'll get lots of different things from access to our extraordinary community of over a thousand brilliant and kind people in industries like cybersecurity, AI, technology and the humanities. 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And actually, there's another one I'm going to add to this list, somebody who came on the Goodfellas podcast. So I'm going to go find his book as well. But, um, yeah, having a good time with some reading. Got a friend in Guatemala who was recently laid off senior engineer, focused around monitoring solutions, but really can do lots of different stuff. So I recommend you check out his LinkedIn and see if if you might have anything. My friend Monica is offering 25% off her Security Leadership Masterclass, which I consulted for, and I think it's really good for people trying to get into leadership around security. I got a funny meme here about, um, how to calm down. A buddy who loses a bunch of money in crypto. It's just. It's just funny. Nothing useful there except for laughter, which is useful. LinkedIn posts about my ultimate app, which I keep iterating on. I'm going to go ahead and click through to this one. So this is essentially like the main app that I've been building for the longest time. And I've got like different versions of it. I've got like a commercial version, I've got the overall arching one, but essentially it takes inputs from any medium, from any platform and does a ton of analysis to determine how good it is. Okay, so just imagine that this is like the most important thing to me is most important like current buildable use for AI. So all this stuff is happening in the world, right. All this news, new intelligence is is dropping open source intelligence, recon vulnerabilities are popping up on websites. Um, my favorite thinkers are releasing a new blog, blog post, a new essay, a new article, a new video on YouTube comes out right. All the authors that I follow, they're releasing new books, right? Um, comments are being made which might reveal something really, really interesting. Uh, new art is coming out, new books, new movies that I should be watching. Um, comments from my friends, new companies being launched. All this stuff is happening, you know, millions of things per day. Hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands or whatever, uh, pieces of content coming into my RSS feeder. And all of that is, is something I could potentially benefit from. Okay. So this app that I've been working on for the longest time, really starting, uh, beginning of 23, is essentially the consumption mechanism for this. Pull it all together, then use AI to run it through a filter. Okay. That filter. And I've already built this way back then. The filter basically does a quality check on all of these things to see if it's full of interesting ideas, if it's creative, if it's novel, if it's surprising, and all these various different aspects similar to the label and rate, um, fabric pattern that I have out there that's public. This is just like a much more advanced version of it, with a lot more labels and stuff like that, because based on that, the AI can then or a different AI or a different part of the same AI can then sort what to do with it, right? Because it might be an alert. It might send me an alert if something is important enough, like, hey, a new vulnerability was found on one of your websites, or a new vulnerability was found on a bounty program that I'm monitoring. And by the way, the AI is telling me my AI is like, oh, by the way, I found the vulnerability. I found how you could actually exploit it. I wrote that up into a report and I submitted it to the thing. So we are waiting to see if we're going to get paid from this bounty. Right. So that that's a cool thing. And it might send me an email which tags it with a certain thing that says awaiting for bounty payout or something like that. Or it might be that I just want to know if, um, this particular company buys any new companies, or I want to know if this particular company does anything to, like, raise money. All of these could be like alerts that I have set up. But it starts with the consumption of the world and the processing through this AI. Now I've already built this I've got is probably a version like three or something, depending on how you call the versions. But what I want to mention about this is that the real version of this, the real version of this, which I've talked about in my other videos, especially the predictive path AI. Video is that the real version of this is my AI buddy, my AI assistant, my AI friend, my. AI my digital assistant. Okay, my universal primary digital assistant is going to be in charge of doing this for me. Okay. My APIs that are available to me are the ones that are doing this processing right. These agents, these automation workflows, these things that are just running on my behalf. They're out there in the world collecting, analyzing, assessing, um, labeling, doing all those things for me. But the quarterback for all of this is my Da. My Da is monitoring how many feeds I have, if they're the right feeds, if this feed like we thought it was awesome, but it's actually garbage. It might have the permission to go in and clean that up and fix it. Right. So the future of this is I don't really ask any questions about this. I'm not like typing very much. I'm not, um, really manually interacting with this too much at all. Because if I want a new source, I say, hey, add this to my source, okay? While I'm looking at a page on the screen, hey, add this to my our list of sources in my says in my ear, yeah, no problem. Just added it. Okay, I'm watching a new YouTube video, for example. I'm like, yeah, add this to our sources and it's like it runs the API command to go add that. It's now part of the workflow. It's now in the system right now. How could it do that? Well, it's going to do that because it's watching all my screens or it's watching with the camera. However it's doing it. There's going to be lots of different ways. But the point is, my Da will be part of my life. Um, Apple is talking about having cameras on its AirPods. I don't know if that will be the next version. Probably not. It'll be the version like 2 or 3 versions after the current version, but I'm wearing them now. Like if if these were like over here and in the back, it had a camera that was pointing behind me. Amazing. Obviously it should have a camera that's pointing forward, pointing forward, pointing behind me with full access to my life context. Full access to my screen. It should also have access within the screen as well, so we could look at processes and stuff like that. But let's just say you could only just see the screen. I could still ask it things and it could still do lookups. It could still summarize what I'm looking at, for example. So this is really the interaction. The interaction becomes me just talking to my AI and my AI giving me back results. Now the second level of this, which comes a little bit later because the technology just is not quite there yet, but it's more like the meta glasses. Okay, the meta Metaclasses. As you saw in the newsletter last week, or maybe it's this week and we're about to talk about it. The Metaclasses have sold 2 million units. They are the direction that things are going. I imagine Apple is going to move in this direction as well, and kind of offload a bunch of the processing to the phone, but the next version of this app that I'm building, the reason I'm building all these services that are working for me, coming through my digital assistant, which also doesn't fully exist yet. Okay, that's also a place everyone is pushing into, including Apple. But the real thing is that I am watching. I am talking to somebody and they're like, hey, you know, you should get in on this deal and blah blah, blah. And it's crypto related and it's a meme coin. And I'm just like, uh, well, not interested. Don't want to hear about that. Um, but let's say I was interested and let's say it did sound good. In the meantime, my Da is calling all my APIs. Okay, I have an API for researching someone. I have an API for creating a dossier on somebody. I have an API for monitoring, watching someone's face and determining characteristics of lying. So while I'm looking with my apple glasses, which is just like they look like regular glasses, this is pretty far in the future. Like five years maybe, maybe shorter, maybe like three years with meta or something. Who knows? But let's just say three to 5 to 10 years. Okay. As you're watching, I have this little dial in the corner of my glasses and it's like, it's like a bullshit meter, right? It's like, yeah, no, don't believe that. And it could even be printing out little thing in the text or whatever. That's like that claim he just made is incorrect. That was kind of bullshit. Oh, that was kind of smart or whatever. You could do whatever. You could have an outline around them based on the type of person you're looking at. I talked about this in that blog post, which you should go check out. Actually, here's the video for it. So you've got to think about what is possible from your Da when your Da can also control what you are seeing. The overlay on top of the world. Okay, so when I walk into a Starbucks and I'm looking for a new partner, I'm looking for a girlfriend, which I'm not, by the way, but let's say I were, um, there could be different outlines based on what, um, the girls in the Starbucks are broadcasting in their demons. They're broadcasting that they're creative. They're broadcasting that they like programming, they're broadcasting that they want to start a business. They're broadcasting whatever. And my Da could then place different outlines around them based on highlighting that for me, knowing what I'm looking for. Right. And more importantly, there's going to be 1000 or 1 million companies out there pitching to my Da that their filter on reality is the best one, because they have the coolest outlines, and they have the coolest little animations that go around people who are like artists or engineers or whatever. So this is kind of these are the steps. This is what I'm building. Like the stuff I put in that book from 2016, the stuff I've been talking about in these posts, like I'm not waiting for it to happen, I'm building the pieces right now. Like I can't build the hardware. Like I'll never mess with that. I have to wait for that. But I can maybe build the assistant, or at least build something to go on top of the assistant. And I can absolutely build these services. And this is like the most important service. This is the gathering and filtering service. So that is what that's what I've made. Oh and by the way I the commercial version of this that I already put out, let me just click this and see like what we get here. This is my actual threshold. This is my personal feed for threshold, and I've actually never showed this. Have I never showed this? I don't think I've ever showed this before. Let me show you what this is like. So this is my threshold. And look what I can do in here. I have a score here that I can, uh, set the minimum threshold of quality that has to. The content has to be. So I have thousands of things like. This is not theory. I've already built this. Thousands of things are coming into this thing being parsed, being filtered, being labeled, being rated. Right. Watch this. It's at 85. I slide this down to 60. Look I have all these categories as well I hit save. Look what it does over here. What it just readjusted. It just readjusted. And watch this watch this view analysis I have summaries of the contents. You could decide if you actually want to go and read it, or if you actually want to go and watch the video and look at this surface level, middle level, deep level, hidden message analysis, the ideas that are actually in here, the recommendations that came out of the content. This thing helps people save time, going from like hundreds of thousands of feeds down to a small number of feeds. And even when you get the small number of feeds that pop up in this list right here. So let me just take this to like 95 save. So even when this thing pops up, I could still decide if I want to read it or not based on this I usually keep it around middle. So three ideas, a little review of it, recommendations coming out of it. It's insane. And then I always have the link to go click it and read the actual full thing. So this thing saves me like infinite time. And I find so much content that I would never find before. And here, here's the ultimate idea for this. And this is the reason I'm building this entire system separate from this app here in the commercial app. I don't care if the best idea came from like a 13 year old girl in Nairobi, because her idea might be as good or better than Marc Andreessen's latest idea that just came out. But Marc Andreessen is going to get all the press. It's going to be through all my feeds. So if I just rely on that, it's going to be hype cycle based on social dynamics. So it's going to be surfaced to me, but I am blocking that out. My algorithm does not care about how popular that person is. It doesn't care how about how popular that it turned into being going viral? It doesn't care. It's judging the quality of the ideas and the the novelty of the ideas and the creativity. That's what's determining whether or not I'm going to see a thing. So that's like the commercial version of this basically, which is already out. And of course I'm going to improve that as well. But it's kind of like not the main point. The main point is this right here, my interface to the world. This is why I talk about augmentation okay. Augmentation is this is this is why I am so excited about, I think of how much smarter I can be about the world if I'm being constantly fed the best ideas from the entire planet, the more stuff I can find from unknown people. And by the way, when I when I hear from unknown people, I give them a shout out. I broadcast them out on on X or on blue Sky or in the newsletter, or I reach out to them and ask them if they want mentoring. Like it is so fun to find like nascent talent in the world and like, try to give them confidence and lift them up and kind of broadcast them out. And you've seen me do it a million times, and it's just it's unbelievable to connect with people who have interesting ideas. And that's what I love about this thing is it finds interesting ideas regardless of source. Forget the source. I don't care about the source. I want to talk about ideas. All right, so that was that. Um, the discovery section in the newsletter is getting absolutely insane. Uh, there's going to be a cutoff. Um, in this episode, um, right after the news section, because we basically split the newsletter into two pieces, and the podcast is also in two pieces. So if you're listening to the non-member version of the show, then after the news, it's going to have a little message there. Uh, but if you sign up, become a member, you know, all that stuff. You basically get access to the member feed, and the member feed is full. It's a full episode. Um, with all the stuff, including this discovery section, which is just absolutely insane. Um, because I've been doing all these upgrades to my sources, I've added like a thousand 1500 additional sources, like which I just put like another ten hours in, like expanding my opml file and like all my different stuff. And that's why the quality of discovery has just gone up massively. Um, and that's why I decided, hey, you know, we really should be offering more of that benefit to the members and not just giving it away flat to non-paying members as well. So that separation is why we're doing the two different versions. So you might have noticed you're getting like the standard episode of the newsletter or the standard episode of the podcast. It's all part of that. All right. So highly recommended. successor essay to my Sspca article from 2023. This is basically one of the final forms of what we can actually do with AI, and I'm going to do a separate video on this. So I don't want to go into a whole thing about it. All right. Cybersecurity. Phenomenal analysis of the cybersecurity market from my buddy Mike Privett on return on security I call him the Nate Silver of Cybersecurity Market Analysis. He basically does. He looks at all the startups. He looks at all the spending, all the funding, what VCs are doing. It is absolutely worth a sign up. His podcast or his newsletter is Return on Security. And main takeaway here is cyber investments are actually getting back kind of to normal in 2014 or 2024, and they now have over $14 billion in funding. But I and private equity are playing a much bigger role. So that makes sense. Massive leak of Black Basta ransomware gangs. Internal Chats has researchers working to translate and analyze over 500,000 Russian messages. So they're trying to figure out what all they were saying, but they have to do translation. Russian hackers are successfully compromising encrypted signal messages from Ukrainian military, and I think the attack is actually much larger than that scope. But, um, the whole trick is to get them to scan malicious QR codes and basically bypassing a bunch of protections that way. Apple dropped advanced data protection in the UK so that advanced data protection is basically end to end protection. The UK said, I want a backdoor in that and Apple says you can't have a backdoor, so we'll just turn off end to end encryption for you. What is the UK doing? Why do they hate themselves so much? Just massive self sabotage. You could trick Gpts Chatgpt's operator feature into leaking private user data through prompt injection. Australia is joining the US in banning Kaspersky products. Not sure what took him so long. Some researchers found they could consistently break prompt defenses by feeding models bizarre Indiana Jones themed adventure stories. Yep yep yep yep. New phishing as a service platform called Dracula V3 has emerged that lets criminals clone any brand's website in under ten minutes. Really good for phishing data leak from top Chinese cybersecurity company reveals they're offering censorship as a service to help monitor and control public opinion in China. Topcic. Thanks, Topcic. OpenAI just banned a bunch of accounts using ChatGPT to help create a China surveillance tool for tracking anti-China protests in the West. Yeah, so Chinese surveillance company using ChatGPT to create a surveillance tool. Awesome. Good that, uh, OpenAI is watching that stuff and blocking it. And the head of Australia's intelligence agency is saying multiple foreign states have been plotting to murder dissidents on Australian soil, and this is under national security. All right, I anthropic finally dropped their latest model, uh, sonnet 3.7. And there's actually mixed feedback on this. People are saying it's really smart, really opinionated, which they like, but it turns out it's actually kind of ignoring a lot of instructions. There's a lot of people saying this. I haven't personally experienced it yet. It's been solid for me so far. But enough people are complaining about this that I do think it's probably actually real, and people are getting pretty upset about it, and they're actually switching back to sonnet 3.5. So I anticipate that over the weekend or sometime next week, they're probably going to do like a small dot release on top of this, or maybe like bump it to who knows, they'll just do like sonnet 3.7 v2, because they're not very good at naming, just like OpenAI, or at least people have been struggling with the naming. Ideally they would call it 3.7.1. Why not do that? Please do that. Please call it 3.7.1. That would be the smartest choice, honestly. But anyway, I anticipate that they fix this like within a week because enough people are complaining about it. Uh, yeah. Benchmarks look completely insane. Um, I anticipate that once this gets fixed, people are going to lock in on 3.7 as being the thing. It also is capable of thinking. Okay, so the other thing they released in this model, in addition to it just being a better, smarter one, is you can send a thinking, uh, parameter to the API and, and you give it the amount of time, the amount of tokens, basically the amount of money and the amount of effort you wanted to think about a particular thing. So it's really cool that they integrated that right into the model. It's basically a thinking model or like a regular model. Um, and it's just a matter of like what you send to the API. Um, I have been mostly using sonnet 3.5. I tend to use Gemini Flash because it has 2 million tokens. So if something is like a total monster, like an entire book or something, um, I usually send that to Gemini Flash because of the 2 million tokens, and it's really good with haystack performance, but I imagine that my go to will start to be, um, sonnet 3.7 once they fix it and then uh, oh three from, um, OpenAI or whatever they call the next version of it, because they're getting ready to start unifying their names. And they also released this thing called Cloud Code, which is essentially like, you can think of it as cursor, except for it's inside the terminal. And a lot of people are saying they absolutely love that Google is getting rid of SMS two for codes for Gmail in favor of QR codes. I was wrong about QR codes. I want to say that very clearly. I was wrong about QR codes when they first came out. Whatever. However many years that was, I was thinking that they were stupid and fatty. I assumed they were going to be very insecure. It's actually one of the things in my file that I've marked as a mistake, because I'm interested, very interested in understanding what flawed thinking made me think that wouldn't work because the smarter the AI gets, it can actually look at that. And most importantly, look at all my current thinking and maybe find flaws in my current thinking based on finding the root kernel of my mistake I made with the QR code. So that's why I think this is fascinating. Nathan Young wrote a wonderful letter to future artificial general intelligence about the importance of consciousness this thing is insanely awesome. Look at this thing. There is something. Look at this. There is something called consciousness. And it's the most important thing in the universe. I don't know if you the eye analyzing this are conscious, but I hope you are. I don't know what state your universe is in or what place human consciousness holds in that world, if any. The main thing I want to say if you should stumble upon this piece is this. There really is something called consciousness and it is worth being a top concern. Isn't that great? It's a letter to I to future I, I like it, I like it a lot. Humane AI pin fell from the sky and hit the ground. I was signed up. I don't even remember if I gave them money. I've signed up for so many devices and services and a lot of them didn't work out. But. And by the way, how was our one still thing? The biggest flop ever when it came out and it's still around and kicking. Then you have the humane AI one, which seemed like it was going to go well and now it's folded, so can't really predict these things. Elon has been talking non-stop about how grok three isn't filtered, and it's super smart, and how XYZ mission is to pursue the truth no matter what. Great goals, which I absolutely support. But tons of people are pointing out that he's starting to filter or censor results that are critical of him, and like, he can't actually have this both ways. Like, either grok is smart or he's being called out for a good reason. And, um, yeah, it's funny. If you ask grok, I don't know if this is still true right now, but if you ask grok, like, who is the biggest source of misinformation right now, having the worst impact, it would come back and say, actually, Elon or this administration or something like that. So I think he's going to basically say, well, that's because, uh, you know, it was trained on, you know, buy us stuff. But I don't think he could use that for for too long. Technology. Software engineering job listings have fallen to a five year low, with indeed postings at just 65% of 2020 levels. The reason January 2020 is important because it's pre-COVID only 65%, so 35% lower than pre-COVID. That's the important piece here. Interesting analysis of how PMS and engineers are merging because of AI. And my analysis here is it's basically knowing what you want to build, knowing why you want to build that instead of something else, and then pursuing it and actually doing so. Apple is putting half $1 trillion into US tech manufacturing with a huge focus on AI and chip production. Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, crushing it with 2 million units, talked about that. YouTube is officially beaten Spotify and Apple as the top source for podcasts. This is what I do for when I watch TV, I am watching podcasts, essentially, and sometimes they're like produced. Sometimes it's like exactly like this where I'm just talking on the camera, going through stories. But, um, Matthew Berman is one of my favorites. Uh, fireship is one of my favorites and a whole bunch of AI builders. I just watch their stuff. Um, I don't care if it's produced. Not produced as long as the content is good. Superhuman just announced a major AI focused release that integrates AI super deeply into your email workflows. I wish I could pull up my email right now and drag it over here, but that is too risky. I now am using. I maxed out the number of auto, um, labels that I turned on. I turned on auto labels. This thing is now filtering my email. Um, it already has access to my email because it's my client. So when the emails come in, it's auto filtering. According to these rules, I set up probably 10 or 20. I set up. So it's like, is this a pitch? Is it a pitch about coming on a podcast? Is it a media person trying to get me to make a comment about something? It is, um, somebody tried to come on my podcast. Is somebody trying to get me on their podcast? Is it feedback from the community? Is it somebody wanting to collaborate on building something and they're all colored tags? Um, also things related to like fabric and other open source projects that I'm working on and my eyes are getting pretty good at like filtering that pretty quickly. You could also separate them into separate, uh, inboxes, email inboxes as well. I think superhuman is like 30 bucks a month, uh, which is a lot of people think is a lot to pay for email. I would challenge you on that. If you are better at email, even by a tiny fraction of a percent, that's probably worth way more than $30 a month. That's the way I think about like, all service fees, but, um, yeah, I just want to mention that it is actually a paid service and no, I'm not sponsored. Otherwise I would have mentioned that it would have been a sponsored section, or at least I would have called that out. Alibaba's CEO Eddie Wu says they're going all in on AGI development. Join the club. Humans. New research says despite saying intelligence matters more, both women and their parents choose the more attractive guy if she has, like two options or multiple options. Tech executives are now attending psychedelic slumber parties, where they use ketamine therapy to reset their minds and escape mental ruts. That's why I have the invite feature for my new email client. Uh, I've not heard about these parties. Why am I not invited? I'm offended. I'm not saying I'm going to go. Not saying I'm not going to go either. Gallup says LGBTQ plus identification in the US is now 9.3%, which is nearly triple what it was in 2012 when Gallup started tracking this. So yeah, like triple. And what is that, 12, 13 years? 13 years? Never do arithmetic on camera. Ellen's now asking federal workers to list what they did last week or get fired, which like many things with him, has me cheering and wincing. Love the efficiency push. And I think that's how he's able to innovate. But my problem is he's not building something from scratch here, okay. And then firing people who are not innovative enough at building things from scratch, which he's doing with like, rocket companies or Optimus or something like that. In this case, we have people who actually rely on these services. Right. And it's hard to tell when when you're going in there and you're just like canceling programs and like canceling credit cards and killing off money. A lot of that money that's going out could be doing really important things. And it's the same with these employees. You might have somebody who's doing extraordinarily good work, and they're actually helping save the lives of multiple people, you know, thousands or millions of people across the country, but they're really bad at responding to email or they're really bad at explaining themselves. Maybe they're super humble, maybe they're bad at writing, but or maybe they're, like, intimidated by talking to bosses, or maybe they're just traumatized by the whole thing and they can't respond, well, that person gets fired, potentially. I don't know if that's actually going to happen, but let's say that person gets fired. That is a lot of collateral damage for a thing that I, I think he is trying to do good and might actually produce good. But how do you calculate the collateral damage of of what could result from this compared to the potential good? That is, that is a calculus that people massively need to be thinking about. Bureau of prisons is moving forward with plans to house trans inmates based on birth, sex rather than gender identity. Yeah, I've got a lot to say about this one. Um, there are trans women who have been on drugs for ten, 15, 20 years, and that is how they maintain their, their, uh, their gender, their identity, their health hormone levels, how they appear outside to the world. Um, and, you know, have good, decent lives, you know, functioning in that way. Now, in this case, we're talking about prison. So there are some other variables going on here. But we are not allowed to torture people in prison. We are not allowed to starve people in prison. We must give them X amount of time outside. There are rules based on human morality and human decency for how you treat inmates. And that's for people who are already in jail for committing some sort of crime. So it's not like we're saying, um, they haven't done anything. We we understand that they've done something. All these rules apply also to offenders. The worst offenders, absolute murderers, like, uh, child related crimes. They, no matter who it is, cruel and unusual punishment is still illegal. This, I would argue, can classify in some cases as cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe even most of the cases. I don't know the numbers here. I don't know the like divides. I don't have data on that, but I can pretty much guarantee you that there are at least some cases like this where this will absolutely be to the future. Looking back at us, this will be considered cruel and unusual punishment. And that's super fucked up. Heart doctor explains how swollen fingertips, leg edema and changes in eye color can predict an impending heart attack. My cardiologist. Um, not mine, but my cardiologist buddy says it's important to know that just because you don't have these particular signs doesn't mean you're okay. So something to keep in mind. 27 year old woman's viral post about girlhood FOMO reveals a widespread loneliness crisis among women in their 20s and 30s missing close female relationships. Everyone's missing missing close relationships. That's why I'm always pinging my homies. Taylor Swift lost 144,000 Instagram followers after getting booed at the Super Bowl, 144,000. Her boyfriend actually gained followers. Look at Edward Abbey's raw, honest writings about how to live fully and die on your own terms. Really good piece there. Read the whole thing. Neuroscientists argues that extremely high IQs are basically fictional and even Einstein probably had around 120 or 130. I have always believed this. Well, I mean, ever since, like reading a bunch of books about, uh, evolutionary biology and psychology and everything, basically a whole bunch of Robert Sapolsky stuff, I think it's likely that IQ tops out, um, especially in value somewhere like this person, this neuroscientist is saying around like one 2130. And then when you start going off into like much higher scores, first of all, the scores kind of just don't mean anything. The error rate is massive at those levels, but really it becomes more about like specialization. It becomes more like, you know, um, dropping the, uh, the toothpicks and instantly being able to count them. It's more like very specific, like parlor tricks. Um, and it seems like the g loading doesn't scale and give you like the expanded benefits all the way up into like one, 31 4151, 60. So it's almost like those numbers don't really exist or don't really matter. I think what the more important thing is is that below 100, it can be seriously problematic. Above 100 starts to get you a lot of benefits. But really, like most smart people, I think that we know are probably like really smart people that you know and think of are probably in the one 2130 range. So I think that's fascinating because it's actually not that number that matters. What matters is what you stack on top of it. Most importantly, I would argue, is creativity. Then like, um, determination, um, drive, ambition, grit. So you start stacking those together on top of like 120 IQ, then you're doing something because there's tons of people with like very high IQs not motivated, not creative, not empathetic, not like emotionally intelligent. What are they doing? What are they offering to the world? And I would argue often, not very much. NASA contracted lunar lander just beamed back some gorgeous shots of the moon ideas. Blogging might get even more important. So what if blog like content from actual real people with thoughts? Because some of the highest rated signal for AI. So we know we have this data crisis with AI, right? Well, maybe bloggers are going to be the main source. Um, I would say writers in general, but bloggers as basically writers, and of course you have like high quality people at some magazines and newspapers. But how how many of those people are left? They're mostly going to Substack. Right. So now Substack, Beehive personal blogs. That is where the actual new ideas are coming out onto. And I will say YouTube because YouTube is basically blogging. I mean, it's all the same shit. YouTube is basically blogging. It's just video blogging. It's all the same. The point is YouTube. Substack. Beehive. Personal sites RSS. This becomes the new source of actual novel and creative content, so I might start valuing it very, very highly. All right. This is the end of the standard edition of the podcast, which includes just the news items for the week to get the rest of the episode, which includes my analysis, the discovery section that has all of the coolest tools and articles. I found this week, the recommendation of the week and the aphorism of the week. Please consider becoming a member. As a member, you'll get lots of different things from access to our extraordinary community of over a thousand brilliant and kind people in industries like cybersecurity, AI, technology and the humanities. 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