Unsupervised Learning is a podcast about trends and ideas in cybersecurity, national security, AI, technology and society, and how best to upgrade ourselves to be ready for what's coming. All right, welcome to Unsupervised Learning is Daniel and episode 471. Hope your week is going well. Updates on my side want to publicly shame myself here, so I basically hack and write for most of the day for work, and pretty much every single meal I have at some fast food restaurant, which is just unbelievable for somebody who is supposed to be smart. It is really bad for your health to do this, and it's really pure laziness and also just intimidation of like how to do this cooking thing properly and basically go and eat in the car and come back and get right back into working. Um, but I must start cooking at home now. I put this in the newsletter and the newsletter went out. Before you're hearing this, as you probably know. And, uh, I got close to 500 email responses. It was absolutely overwhelming. It is hundreds of people reaching out already bought my pressure cooker or what is it? Instant pot already bought that thing because everyone pointed me to that being like the best way to do things. And, uh, got a specific one, which seemed to be like one of the most popular ones. Also, it was on Wirecutter, I think, as well. But, uh, yeah, I'm going to try to do the eggs thing. I'm going to try to do the steak thing and, uh, really appreciate all of you who responded to help me out. It sounds like a lot of us have been going through that and have figured it out to some degree. So really appreciate all the feedback. If you're into cloud security, You need to be following my buddy Rich mogul's cloud security lab a week. So cloud slaw is one of the absolute best cloud security people on Earth. And he's putting out really high quality labs for free, like every week. And he's like an EMT and he's like a really great guy. He's just fantastic. So definitely recommend you check him out. Cloud slaw. Rich Mogull and AI's ultimate use case transition from current to desired state. I'm going to do a separate video about this. So I'm not going to talk about this blog post. Cybersecurity. A lot of confusion about what's happening in the Trump administration supposedly standing down US cyber operations around Russia. So stories first say it's like government wide and then it's like, no, it's not really all the government. It's only certain departments. These things are happening so fast. You and you don't know the quality of the signal that we're getting from these different sources. So it's like I tend to like be waiting and just seeing what actually turns out to be the case, because something could be hyper overblown. It's just really hard to track things right now because it's so much chaos going on. And I've got a lot to say, though, about the general vibe of the administration seeming to move towards Russia and away from trusting its own Intel people. So that is a really huge problem for me, which I'm going to talk about more below. VMware is releasing emergency patches for three actively exploited flaws in ESXi workstation and fusion new polyglot malware campaign called Suzano, targeting aviation and satellite companies in the UAE. Hirsch IoT intercoms are letting anyone with Google access unlock apartment doors due to known default credentials. So this is like somebody could use an app to, like, break into apartments who are protected by this particular type of IoT. When IoT was a big thing. Like the talk about IoT was a big thing. When was that? Was that like 2012? 2015? I feel like it was around that area. And I did a lot of press at that time talking about it. And I was just like, I think this is kind of overblown because what people don't realize about this is you have to properly threat model. So you have to look at the Venn diagram of people who want to break into places and steal things and are willing to break the law in order to do that. That's one circle. The other circle is people who don't know how to do it. They are unable to get into the building. It's like too difficult. The locks are stopping them. The technology is stopping them. The security is stopping them. It's just a huge problem for them, right? They're not able to do it. Now, what does this look like for a Venn diagram? Now, to illuminate this more, think about what this particular vulnerability is actually going to do to these two, then to these two circles in the Venn. I think the answer is it's not going to add too many people to the ones who are actually willing to do the damage, and I don't think it's ultimately going to result in too many more people getting broken into. So, in other words, the people who want to break into apartment buildings, the people who want to break into, uh, people's homes, people's apartments. I don't think they are limited by not being able to get in. I think locks are too easy to pick and they can get by. Now, the question is, are there cameras that actually record them doing it? And here's a better question. The cameras aren't going away. So is the disincentive because of the cameras? Isn't that still there still stopping a person from potentially doing this. So I think people will see something like this and they're like, oh, that's game over. No, you have to threat model. This is why threat modeling is like one of the most important skill sets that you could learn for life in general. I'm very thankful for my security education and, you know, all the workshops and tabletops and everything I've done with threat modeling because it's a universal life skill, because a lot of things are emotionally charged. I'm moving to this new city. Oh, it's supposedly, uh, supposedly a dangerous area to be, um, it's, you know, there's been x number of crimes in this area. There's X number of car crashes with this particular type of car. When you actually gather the data and throw together how you plan on using this thing, or how you plan on attackers using this thing or whatever, and you start moving through the scenarios that you're worried about. Usually you end up realizing the things you are emotionally worried about are not the ones. And oftentimes the things you're not emotionally worried about actually are the ones. So this is a big exercise in, you know, the work of Kahneman where he realized, you know, bias and mental models and perception is actually far more important to how we see the world than actual reality. And that really needs to be applied when you're thinking about things like this. And in cyber or other types of security, brute forcing attackers are targeting thousands of ISP networks in the US and China to deploy stealers that grab crypto wallets and mine Monero on compromised systems. Meta terminated 20 employees for sharing internal info outside the company after recent stories about unannounced products and meetings. Really cool wired thing here. It's a wired video shows how Tesla vehicles record everything from driver behavior to biometric data. Ask some pretty smart privacy questions about this whole system. And yeah, it was a great video. I watched the whole thing and a lot of it is not alarming. A lot. Some of the stuff towards the end, the end is like really where the meat of this thing is basically talking about how there's been some cases of things being abused, like recordings from inside of cars and stuff like that. I don't think it's widespread. Otherwise we would have heard a lot more about it, but it's something to keep in mind. It's especially something to keep in mind when you're talking about like BYD, which is the main Tesla competitor, and they're likely to be here in the US soon, I'm guessing. And it's a pure Chinese company. Okay. So if they have the same sort of monitoring capability and infrastructure that Tesla does, but it's a Chinese company. Whole different game for me. I've not been super worried about all this surveillance stuff inside of consumer tech, uh, because of how much I trust or don't trust the products, where I have cameras, where I have microphones in my house or in my car, and which companies I'm allowing to actually be part of that network. Right. So I trust Apple very highly, not only because I worked there for a few years in the actual security group, but just because it's pretty clear how much importance they're putting on privacy and security. And I know that is confirmed for me personally because I've been on the inside. That's not the case for Google. For me, it's not the case for Amazon. For me, it's not the case for meta, and necessarily for me, not as much as Apple. And it's damn sure not the case for some Chinese company like TikTok or or, uh, you know, ByteDance or whoever it is, or BYD when those cars come. So you got to think about who you're sending this stuff actually to. What are their long term goals? National security. China's research output on next gen chipmaking tech is now double that of the US, which suggests that the bands are actually forcing them to get smarter and more innovative. Innovative? That's a word. Innovative. So basically I was trying to say innovative. I was trying to say like the British version of that word. Anyway, it didn't work, but we could be forcing innovation from China, where they were relying before on theft and relying before on just kind of like buying other people's good stuff. So we might be getting the exact opposite of what we planned on getting. We might be waking them up, which is which is really interesting to think about when you think about economics and like stimulus and response, but also quite concerning. Tulsi Gabbard, new director of national intelligence, is firing more than 100 intelligence officers for sharing explicit messages on an NSA internal platform, but I'm calling shenanigans on this. A number of my trans friends who know a lot about intelligence and cyber are saying this is 100% an attempt to remove trans people from government, and they're using, like, this explicit content thing as like the cover story for that. It looks like the messages in question were like about getting like bottom surgery. Similar topics. Kind of like women talking about post-pregnancy body issues or whatever. So it could be considered explicit or personal or gross or whatever in certain lights. But that's all part of being human, right? So the question is, were these the right forums to talk about such things? Was it like egregious or was it like partial? And I didn't see the messages. I don't know the forum they were doing this in. I actually did get a reach out from someone in the IC community, actually, kind of like on the inside around here around the topic, who actually did see all this stuff, and they said it was pretty egregious and it was pretty bad and I don't know. So first of all, they could be lying. Second of all, I don't think they were, but they could be lying. It's also a single data point. It's a single opinion. The point is, there's kind of two obvious ways to go here. Like, it was really bad and they deserve to be punished or whatever. But I say there's two ways of looking at it. First of all, there's a bunch of trans people ignoring their work and spending their time talking about personal trans issues in an inappropriate forum in an inappropriate way when they should have been working. So they got fired. That's one way to think about it. Another way to think about it is Tulsi Gabbard is part of an extremely anti-trans administration that is looking for any excuse to fire trans people, even if it harms our ability to do intelligence work. And this is a cover story for doing so. Again, I'm not close to the sources, so I can't operate with any certainty. But giving, given what we know the administration is actually doing against trans people and how aggressively they're going after this issue. I think it's more likely to be number two. For me. That's just logical. TSMC is planning to invest $100 billion in US chip plants over the next four years, according to President Trump's announcement yesterday, which was a few days ago now. And I think this is great. Get all these companies here, Apple to spin them up in Arizona like we got plenty of desert. We got plenty of wide open spaces. Let's build some giant solar farms. Let's get chip production here. Let's get Apple production here. Let's get everything over here. Because the world is crazy. All right, I anthropic closed a $3.5 billion funding round that values the company at 61.5 billion. Revenue has grown 1,000% year over year. Really? Feels like they're quietly doing what OpenAI is loudly failing at. And I think this should be really encouraging for companies that enter spaces that seem like they're already won. Like, you wouldn't want to go up against OpenAI in, say, early 2023. They just owned the entire AI world and there was nobody around to compete. And here we are beginning at 25, and we've got a few people competing and we've got open models competing. It's it's really encouraging, actually, as you know, if you're trying to get people excited about being creative and building, it's it's great to see somebody that was untouchable two years ago be very touchable now. OpenAI released GPT 4.5. Most people are not happy with it. It a lot of people are saying it doesn't feel smarter at all. And to me it felt like like a push like PR release because sonnet 3.7 came out. Other models that come out recently and yeah, it just it didn't go well. They should have paused on that and waited for a bigger release that was more more baked, more proper marketing around it and everything. Chinese government is telling its AI experts to avoid US travel because they're worried they might leak Chinese secrets. Yeah. Leaking AI secrets. China's worried about it. Cool. Roger Penrose explains why Godel's theorem mathematically proves that artificial intelligence can't truly replicate human consciousness or understanding. I disagree with this, obviously, but it's Roger Penrose. I think he's a great thinker, or at least has been a great thinker on a lot of different topics. I know that there are a few areas, not counting AI, where I disagree with him, but doesn't matter. He is a top tier thinker and he disagrees with my position. Therefore I am putting it in the newsletter. Marc Benioff says Salesforce won't hire engineers in 2025 because their AI agents are doing the work so effectively. That sounds awesome, and I kind of believe him. However, this is also direct marketing for Agent Force, which is their product. So hard to tell if this is marketing or real. New study shows that large language models are just echoing logical patterns without real understanding, which explains why they struggle with complex reasoning. Again, I want to see the best possible arguments against my position. Technology. Waymo now handles over 200,000 paid robotaxi rides weekly across three cities 20 times growth 20 x growth. That's how you're supposed to say that 20 x growth in just two years. BYD and DJI have created a $2,200 vehicle mounted drone launch platform that lets your BYD Wide vehicle deploy and retrieve drones while driving. Up to 15mph. This is the kind of cool stuff that I'm talking about that BYD is coming out with. They also had a video recently of their electric car doing a turbo boost, like over a pothole or something. Insane stuff. Like they're doing some pretty innovative stuff. I'm worried about us carmakers competing against them, I really am. It's like, this is why I'm kind of like, I like Tesla as a foil against them, right? I'm obviously very unhappy with Elon right now. So that's that's got me a bit torn. But I do not want American car companies to fall to BYD because their cars are way cheaper, way cooler, and you know, no one else can keep up with them. It seems like Tesla's got the only chance. All right humans. All right. The housing theory of everything argues that our catastrophically restrictive housing policies create cascading problems across society, from inequality to climate change. Many Doraiswamy Doraiswamy talks about how solopreneurs are becoming real competition to traditional companies thanks to AI coding, top MBA programs, seeing way fewer grads landing jobs quickly. With Harvard's unemployment rate jumping from 4 to 15% since 2021. Think about what a Harvard MBA with potentially not too much experience in the real world of business is able to do in a world full of very, very smart AI. What exactly are we getting from this Harvard MBA? I think so many things. This is kind of a meta analysis here. So many things that are extremely expensive and elitist, and they are those things because they are supply constrained. You can't get into Harvard. Therefore, Harvard is worth a lot. A degree from there is worth a lot, right? You. It's hard to raise $200 million from a VC. Therefore, any company who makes a product that's backed by a VC and has raised $200 million, the product must be good. This is dying. This concept is dying. That's why things like Harvard are going to massively struggle, because the value of what they're actually producing is not going to be as good as if you watched a whole lot of YouTube and read a whole lot of books and did a whole lot of writing, right, and moved ideas through your mind very quickly, and actually worked with companies and had experience on the ground. The difference between that education and a Harvard education is about to be pretty vast. Benefiting the YouTube side, not the Harvard side. Yet the YouTube one is available to you if you want to study right. This dynamic is going to change startups. It's going to change education. It's basically changing everything. It's like the it's not just AI, right? This is also a content explosion. This is also a YouTube trend vibe where all the best content is coming out into blogs, coming out into YouTube. By the way, YouTube is blogging, right? It used to be that there were very few bloggers. Now there's very few YouTubers. I mean, a tiny percentage of 1% of people in the United States are actually putting out content on YouTube, just like it was with blogging. But that's where the content is, okay, both in blogging and newsletters, but also YouTube. This is the front edge of things, right? This is the front edge of things. This is where the content is. So just something to keep in mind. Researchers mapped porn titles from 2008 to 2023 and showed a disturbing migration in themes from Hot Blonde gets you know what? To increasingly incestuous and violent concepts like I can't resist my stepsister. I find this really disturbing because it's like, I would love to get AI to look at this. Actually, I should go find this data. Set this link here is actually the GitHub with the data in there and the data analysis. But I imagine you could take all those titles 2008 to 23. So what is this? This is like 1013 plus 215 years of title data, 15 years of title data that you could put into, like whatever Google Studio. It would probably be pretty hard to actually do this on a on a pinnacle model because it's going to be like, uh, what is this? These are all nasty words. Um, but maybe if you told it that you were doing research, maybe that would work. Uh, like a prompt injection bypass technique. But anyway, the point is you can put this into like Google Studio Flash 2.0 something with a large context, maybe even like, you know, um, oh three mini oh one Pro, uh, sonnet 37, one of the smarter ones. And just be like, I have a question. What the hell is happening to my society? Seeing these, uh, titles migrate from 2008 to 2023? What is going on? Uh, I'd be really excited to, like, see what it actually gives as an answer to that. Right. Well, I say excited. Uh, depressed. Um, yeah, I don't know. It's not quite depressed. It's more like worried. Concerned. Yeah. Anyway, number of young people not in education, employment or training. Neet has hit an 11 year high. I didn't use an Oxford comma. I'm cancelling everything and getting off the internet. This is highly, highly scary. Yeah, I wonder if I copied something here from a sentence. Because this is a British story. Yeah. Did I copy and paste this neat part? I don't know why that doesn't have an Oxford comma. It seriously disturbs me. All right. Solarpunk is a subgenre of sci fi that imagines a sustainable future where humans and nature thrive together using renewable technology. I've been a fan ever since the Chobani commercial by one of my favorite commercials ever. It is a yogurt commercial about Solarpunk. It is fantastic. Go to the newsletter and click on this link. It is the best. Um, although talking to my friend who I'm hoping to have on the podcast soon, he's like, well, you know, Nazis love the solarpunk stuff. I'm like, why is it every time I tell you something's cool, you're like, yeah, there's a subgroup of like crazy Catholics who are like super into this and they're like all very trad trad like, um, oriented, and they're trying to destroy technology or whatever. And I'm just like, oh my God, every time I talk to it, every time I talk to them, I'm like, what is going on? Uh, but that should be a cool podcast if that happens within the next couple of weeks. We're going to talk about all the different sub political movements going on in the Bay area where we live, but also in general post liberalism ideas like that. It's going to be an insane episode. And Ellen might go on Jon Stewart's show and discuss Doge. That would be a cool debate slash discussion, hopefully a discussion. Hopefully it's good. Ellen, who shows up ideas. So Socrates didn't think that people were smart enough to maintain a democracy. He thought there needed to be philosopher kings to manage such things because they were the only ones smart enough to manage things like that. I get the vibe there, but I think everyone needs to be trained as a philosopher and also a scientist, and we shouldn't have two classes of people with like the smart people and the regular people, because the regular people will usually be much larger in size and you will have the possibility for unrest, populism. Um, well, first of all, the smarter people are going to take advantage of the not smarter, smarter people, right? That's a common theme, right? So you have all these common themes that move through history. Um, so that's another reason to not have these separate groups, because one's going to dominate the other. But I think another solution here is simply education. And this is obviously very difficult because people are like, well, sure, but what are you going to teach? What is the government going to mandate? Well, it better mandate something because truancy is about to go up and people are just going to be completely idiotic at the same time that I rises and it's going to build these little, you know, microcosms of like, what I wants you to believe, which means the corporations who are running the AI. And it's already happening through social media and commercials and TV and, you know, regular news and stuff like that. Right? These are all not so great ways of controlling what somebody believes, but AI is just going to make it much better, especially if like these headphones or whatever are always in my ears. Let's say I'm in whatever someplace in Mississippi or someplace, and I always have my headphones on and I'm listening to game information. I'm listening to crazy right wing people tell me stuff about this or whatever, or let's say I'm the same thing, but I'm listening to crazy left wing stuff in the middle of the Bay area, and it's just nonstop left wing propaganda or it's non-stop right wing propaganda for this other person. And there's more than two wings, right? There's multiple versions of crazy. We cannot win that battle unless that person being bombarded with this garbage has a strong foundation of thought, independent thought, where they're able to guard against these emotional, you know, attacks on their psyche. So maybe people shouldn't graduate 12 years of school, or maybe it's 15 years of school. Maybe it's nine years of school. Who knows how long it should be, but maybe they should have read a core set of like 120 of the best books in the world. How many people, as I'm going through these, think about what percentage of the population in the United States has actually done these things. And it's even more depressing when you think about the entire world. So the 120 best books, whatever that is, keep in mind all of these need to be holistic. It can't be liberal based. It can't be, you know, crazy, conservative based. It can't be that stuff. There's got to be like down the line center. So just assume that we can get some center people to agree about this stuff. 120. The most important books. Okay, so it's 12 years, 12 years of school. It's like ten of these books a year. Honestly, it should be like 500, but whatever. It's imperfect. We'll start here, understand the basic physical laws of the universe. Understand and accept truths like evolution just happens to be true. Like it's frightening to me to have some sort of like it's frightening to me to have people who are interpreting the world and not believing in evolution, and they're in charge of things. It's a little bit less frightening to me if they choose to believe not in evolution. They're just like, look, this framework that I'm part of, which is really cool. You know, I'm extremely scientific in my whole life, and I always evaluate truth claims very carefully this one particular thing. I just choose not to believe in evolution because it comes with a package that I use, which is conservative Christianity. Fine. I do worry about that because it comes with other things in the package. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. But in general, I think logical people need to accept evolution because it is the only logical explanation for the diversity of life that we see in the world. Um, I'm not going to say too much more about that. Can see the value of faith and ritual, even if they're non-believers. So this is for the left side who goes a little crazy, right? They're just like, ah, no faith, no anything. It's like, it's not good, not good when you do that. Right. So balance we need balance in this. Education understands that the West is an extraordinary positive on the whole for the world compared to the alternatives. That last part is important compared to the alternatives. Okay. Progress moving forward. Not being ashamed of being in the West, not being ashamed of the United States. Right. Not being ashamed of having European descent. Right. These things are super critical because when you apply shame to these things, you spin them up, you over rotate them and that just turns into hate, right? Turn them into terrorists or they start electing people. We don't want to be in power because they're crazy. So yeah. Anyway, I'm continuing know how to form opinions and express them clearly, both orally and in writing. Understands that agreeing blindly with the masses is dangerous. Can see the merits and steelman Anything from fascism to Marxism to whatever can tell the difference between steelmanning something and believing it to be true. Goes on multiple foreign trips to see actual suffering and squalor. This is, as you know, the kids growing up live for periods of time with families that think and behave differently. So these are moral families, right? This is not like, you know, a group in the triad or something. This is like go live with a muslim, a nice, you know, chill Muslim family. Go live with a nice, chill Jewish family, go live with a nice, chill Christian family or atheist family or whatever, and just see how similar they are and how the differences aren't that important. This is amazing. This should be this kind of education, right? And obviously it needs to be built out. This kind of core, central thinking education, especially the ability to think independently, the ability to be pitched with really specious, really powerful, really well worded arguments that come in and hit the kid and they're just like, yeah, I don't know. It sounded so good. Like I thought this. And then I talked to them and I think that and the parent or the teacher or the mentor has to be like, look, things are going to sound good. You have to go back to first principles. What, what? Okay, this goes back to my other thing. What is the world that we're trying to build? And how does that thing that they're saying if you carry it forward, what does it look like? And you've got to get these kids thinking independently, right? Not just reacting, um, you know, aggressively and pushing back against whatever they hear. And most importantly, not just fully adopting an entire belief system based on tribe that is just so, so nasty. Um, so I think we need a curriculum like that. And getting back to the original point, I don't think we can have a sustained. Well, I'll just continue with the essay because it continues on. I don't know how to make this into a set of experiences, classes and tests, but damn, our world is going to shit because we lack people with these skills. We have educated air quotes, extreme right and left people who are so tribal and blinded that they can only see their own side. They don't see any shared goals between them and those people, and are committed to destroying them at any cost. We've lost our logical and common sense center. The extremes have consumed or replaced it. The West liked to talk about in the past how we couldn't bring democracy and prosperity to countries that were backward, like Afghanistan, because their population was too, you know, old world backward legacy. Well, we might be losing ours right now for the same exact reason. Okay. Member essay. Russia's winning. I don't like any of this cozying up to Russia going on right now. I think it's rotten. I'm actually happy about and surprised by Trump's desire to be friends with XI and Putin, and to denuclearize and to reduce all of our collective, uh, defense budget spending. And I think that's all needed. And great. But Trump has to stop believing Putin when he tells him things like, he's so wanting to be this peacemaker for his legacy, that he doesn't realize he's talking to the head of the fucking FSB or KGB or FSB, which is the KGB. He the guy is KGB. There's a history here, and Putin would absolutely love to see the US fall. And he's been working towards that goal for decades, including this last decade. If Trump doesn't see that and he trusts Putin over our own intelligence people and our own cyber people and diminishes our capabilities to counter Russia as a result, then he is unfit for the job. Now I want to make something very clear. I don't see him as compromised in the sense that he's willingly trying to harm the United States in collusion with Russia. I actually think there might be some people like that in his administration. I think that's quite possible at this point. But I think Trump specifically is aggressively pro-us and would never want to be known as someone who collaborated with Russia and brought down the United States. He's thinking about his legacy. He wants to be the best president who's ever lived. That's how he wants to be viewed. He wants everyone on the planet to love him. Black people, Asian people, Russian people, Chinese people, obviously mostly Americans. He wants to be a hero. That is literally what he's trying to do. He wants to be a hero. Obviously, he wants to be rich, but he wants to be a hero first and foremost. And you can't sell out the country to Russia and have Russia win for that to work. He wants to be the hero, but also the American hero. So I think he's extremely loyal and patriotic in that sense. But he also seems so blinded by hubris in wanting to make a deal that he's taking our actual adversaries word at face value while calling people fighting Russia traitors. He's also so deranged by the Steele dossier stuff and the Russia hoax that he can't tell what's real, and he's sided with Russia as a result. And quick narrator aside here, Russia was actually influencing various people in the Trump administration, in the first administration. That whole time, this all that Russian influence stuff was actually going on. Again, Trump was not compromised. It wasn't like there was some deal when Trump made a deal to harm the United States, like anybody who said that that was actually a Russian hoax, that that was not true. But there were multiple pieces of evidence I read, like every book on this topic, every book about Trump, every book about the the people who came out, who he fired. And they were doing real investigations of real, actual influence campaigns by Russia against people in his administration. And there was real stuff there, right? There's real stuff there now. There was real stuff there before that. Watch this. This is very, very important. You have to understand this. This is my my position on everything. It is also true. I'm not 100% sure on the Steele dossier stuff, but I think it might have been bullshit. And I think it might have been bullshit generated by Democrats to sell the idea that Russia was was influencing the Trump campaign, which it was. So watch this. Both could be true at the same time. You could have Democrats who think they need evidence, and they know that their dumbass liberal people will will listen to anything they say. So they maybe they generate the Steele dossier stuff. Maybe it's partial truth. Maybe I can't remember how much it was actually really true versus it wasn't. But let's just say it was all garbage. I think it might have been all garbage. When you reveal that it's all garbage, what the right does is they're like, oh, let's throw it all out. That means the whole thing. And any future mention of Russia collusion or Russia influence is all bullshit. That is exactly the type of thinking that the education before that I was talking about is designed to prevent against. That is why you need this well-rounded, you know, cohesive education that lets you think independently. You have to realize that these two things can be going on at the same time. And and I'm telling you right now, they definitely are going on. At the same time, there were people claiming things about a Russia collusion or whatever. That was not true. For example, anyone on the left who claimed and obviously I don't know this for absolute certain, but I'm pretty sure Trump is not actually compromised. Like he's not trying to harm the United States like he is not that good of a liar. Nothing about his entire behavior indicates that he's trying to harm the United States like nuclear stupid. Yeah, absolutely. Being influenced, being run around by his nose, by his ego and narcissism and all of that, and actually doing things that harm the United States 100%. That is not the same as being compromised. So if the left was saying that he was compromised, he's in with Putin and blah, blah, blah. If they were saying that when they knew it wasn't true, it's a lie and it's a hoax that is happening at the same time as the actual influence campaigns. Right? So got to actually think about that. Anyway, all of this, of course, is precisely what Putin has wanted. So watch this. If you look at the events of the last few months, everything has gone as planned for Russia. Their goals, if you look up Project Russia, you got to look this up. It's called Project Russia. Type it in. It's a it's a book. There's also numerous blog articles about it. But go read the book. The book is a translation from Russian. It actually talks about what they've been trying to do. This this book series, I think it's like five books came out in 2005. Guess what they're trying to do? Watch this. Break apart the West. Make them fight each other. Turn allies into enemies. In other words, disband NATO and the UN. Diminish the US's reputation from the allies and from the world. Diminish the US dollar. Make the world more chaotic so they crave a dictator. And guess who the dictator is going to be? Not the US. not the US, because US is dumb. They keep rotating leaders every four years. They're not going to be the dictator. It will be Russia. This has been their plan since 2005. This is not like secret information like so thousands of people are talking about this now. It's all over YouTube. It's all over the news. Everybody knows about this. And more importantly, Russia put out the actual plan. It's like they wrote it down. It is out there to be read, action by action. This is what Russia is actually executing through influence campaigns, propaganda and politics. If you listen to most right wing podcasts and, uh, people talking, even Elon right now, they're all doing things that are going towards this list right here, saying we should get out of these alliances, saying we should stop messing with Europe. Let's make an enemy out of Canada. Like it's literally doing these things right here. And if you listen to the right, they are echoing line by line, the exact things that the FSB that Russia is actually trying to do, right? It's the same thing they give. They gave that right wing guy, Tim Pool. They gave him a list of talking points. If you go watch all his videos, he was saying those talking points. Turns out it was a Russian organization paying him to to do that content. He got caught. He was like right there in black and white. This is happening all over the administration. Um, and again, it doesn't mean Trump is compromised. I don't think he is. I think he's massively loyal to the United States. I don't think he's compromised. Doesn't matter. Russia's still winning. They're still winning this spy game. So much of this new administration is acting like paid operatives working directly for the FSB. Most aren't, I'm sure, and many aren't even trying to help Russia. But it doesn't matter. The current right is literally pushing for the exact same things that Russia is trying to accomplish, And they all harm the United States. We are literally living through the most insane spy movie ever, except for it's real and we in the United States, we are losing. We are losing this spy movie. Russia is actively pulling strings to dismantle the West. That has kept it in check for the last 30 years, and is currently working with very little pushback from the Patriots who call themselves conservatives. What happened to pushing back against your own government when it does things that are dangerous to America? What happened to loving free speech and criticism? What happened to courage? Where did all the democracy loving conservatives go? Shame. Shame. All right. Discovery ofc Elijah Potter created a neat little bash script tool that lets you easily integrate Olamaz LMS into your command line workflows. Cuppa Joe makes a compelling case that writing serves as scaffolding for our undisciplined minds by forcing mental clarity. Life in weeks, developer created a cool website that lets you visualize your entire life as boxes. I made one of these myself manually using a keynote and tiny little boxes, but this is a website that actually does it for you. Similar to Tim Urban's original post socialism Art Meets Socialism Art Museum website showcasing thousands of incredible socialist era graphic designs. Does that mean I like socialism? No, I do not. Do I like art? Yes I do. Markov chains visualize. Interactive visualization shows how Markov chains work by modeling predictable state transitions using simple examples like weather patterns and text generation. Ryan Moulton wrote a lovely piece on the fascinating behaviors that some birds make that are his favorites. Calendar. Dot text. Simple calendar. Plain text format. I love ideas like this. lets you escape rigid calendar apps while still handling repeating events. Naturally, calendar dot text is kind of like a broadcast. Kind of like Damon a little bit, uh, DRM insane project by my buddy Brooks Garrett, who's like, one of the smartest people I know in all of tech, one of my two smartest tech friends in the entire world. One is Joel Parish, and the other one is Brooks Garrett. Brilliant tech people. Brilliant. So it reads your friends content. They're putting out and arranges calendar slots to meet them if they need help. So for example, if I post oh my god, I really haven't talked to my friends, I really need help, blah blah blah. This tool that Brooks is running will read that blog post, see it, and automatically use AI to go create a calendar invite to me to talk about how I'm sad and I need friends. That is a cool idea. Great idea Brooks. Somebody reverse engineered and published Claude codes. System prompt rules. Gen generates custom rules for cursor and windsurf Ides by analysing your code base. This one I have not used yet. I checked out the repo. It looks awesome. I need to use this like right after I'm done recording. So this is really cool. Uses AI to personalize cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure treatment. Tali is called Tali, uses AI to personalize CBT therapy and exposure treatments specifically for people with social anxiety. And recommendation of the week is a big one here. As all this AI stuff is happening, you need to be thinking about one question above all else. In my place of work, am I adding anything unique or am I just support for those that are asked the same thing at the larger life scale? What am I contributing in terms of ideas? Products? Assistance. Guidance. Services. Knowledge. Wisdom. Caring, etc. that is useful enough to someone else that they would actually pay for it. Your answer to this is what you need to magnify. You need to think about it, capture it, write it down. Put it on your website. Share it with others. One language for thinking about this is it's not a language I used to like actually that much, but I think it's very concise and very powerful. So I'm going to use it. The language is player versus non-player characters. So in the world that's coming, player characters are about to become hundreds of times more powerful in the world. And non-player characters NPCs are about to be completely sidelined, fired, laid off, made obsolete. Do not be an NPC, do not be an NPC. And if you are one right now, don't worry about it. I do not want you to hear this and be like, well, I've always been an NPC. I am an MPC. Life is hopeless. No, you have options. Look inside. Dig deep, find your thing and figure out how to instantiate that thing into the world. Everyone is here to be a player character, not an NPC. That's the whole point of what I'm talking about with human 3.0. It's what I see as the promise of AI. Everyone here is here to broadcast, to be themselves, to share what they are with the world and connect with other humans. Forget the tech. The tech is going to be how we do it. But it's not the it's not the important thing. In fact, it should be absolutely invisible, right? All I should see when I look around the world is people. I want to see people. I want to see the cool stuff they're doing, and I want to interact with them. Right. So you need to figure out what you are and what you can broadcast to the world, what you want to share with the world. Your your thoughts, your ideas. You have to come. You have to have your own thoughts. You have to have your own ideas. You have to have your own opinions. This is absolutely essential. So everyone here is here to be a PC, not an MPC. And that includes teachers, parents, social workers, and lots of other people who don't make things that are useful to our current capitalist economy. You don't have to be making AI widgets to be part of what I'm talking about. You can be simply helping others make AI widgets, or helping others start a garden, or helping others become productive members of society as a parent or a teacher or mentor or something. Right? The point is, even as those nurturing things, you still need, um, a presence. Okay, I say brand. Brand is I don't like the word brand because it's kind of associated with money or like greed or something, but it really is brand. It is something like brand. I guess a better word is the one I used a second ago. Presence. You must have a presence. You. You need the presence for yourself more than anyone else. Okay. You need this presence inside of yourself that says, wait a minute, I am unique. Okay. I'm walking into this party with a whole bunch of smart people there, you know? Should I be nervous? No, I should not be nervous because I have thoughts on a better way to build a curriculum for students. I have thoughts on a better way to nurture people, or a better way to parent, or a better way to do whatever it can be nurturing based. It could be assistance based. Doesn't have to be pure tech, pure engineering, pure hard science, like that kind of stuff. Right? So if you're not a pure hard science person or a pure technical person, don't think that I'm not talking to you, okay? And don't think that's what makes you an NPC. If you are one right now, what makes somebody an NPC is not the way that they're giving value. It's the fact that they aren't giving unique value. Okay, you've got to find what is unique about yourself so you can turn that into a presence and you can share it with others. And you could talk about it orally, you could write about it. You can pop ideas off the top of your head very quickly. You can explain why something this is better than this. You have to be opinionated. These these things are what matter. These things turn you into a PC and everybody on the planet should be a PC, not NPCs. NPCs. That's tech. That's a washing. A washing machine is an MPC. An AI agent. That's an NPC. The PCs are the ones that matter. We all of us are the ones that matter, and the tech and the AI fades into the background that becomes the NPCs. And the reason I'm raising this is because if you don't think about it in this way and you allow yourself to be an NPC, then when the tech rolls through, the AI specifically rolls through, you get replaced. Go become yourself. Go become yourself. And the aphorism of the week. The trouble is you think you have time. The trouble is, you think you have time. Jack Kornfield. Unsupervised learning is produced on Hindenburg Pro using an SM seven B microphone. A video version of the podcast is available on the Unsupervised Learning YouTube channel, and the text version with full links and notes is available at Daniel Mysa.com slash newsletter. We'll see you next time.