Welcome to Unsupervised Learning, a security, AI and meaning focused podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a post AI world. It combines original ideas, analysis, and mental models to bring not just the news, but why it matters and how to respond. All right. Welcome to unsupervised learning. This is Daniel. Hope you're doing well. So we added a new fabric pattern called explained Term's which takes an input, finds the difficult terms and gives
a definition. And I got this put together because I was watching a really complex machine learning AI video with Daksh, and I forget who the people were. Oh, it was two different guests, one from anthropic and maybe another one from DeepMind. Not sure, but they went into some pretty heavy stuff, and there was a bunch of terms that I just heard them talking about, and I wished I could just go and look them up. So I went
and created this pattern for that. Had a fantastic weekend at EDC, the annual pilgrimage for a bunch of friends and I. And yeah, it was fabulous. Just great music, great companionship, just amazing. And I would say if you don't have friends that you go and do something with, like every year, you want to definitely do that. It's, uh, it's really valuable to have something to look forward to
and just have that time with friends. And it's like, it helps you get through the rest of the year, which I haven't been having that much trouble doing that lately, but it's, uh, it's something that everyone should be doing. Like, Tim Ferriss talked about this and it got me thinking about it. And luckily I already have a couple of these. Basically, one is like Defcon black hat, and the other one is EDC, and we're thinking about sprinkling a few smaller
ones in there as well. But something to do if you don't have these already and it could be local. It could just be like LAN parties or whatever, just small things. Thinking about writing a short book about what people will need to become antifragile. In the world of AI, a lot of people are asking me this like, what do I need to learn? What are the skills I
have to master to be resilient to AI? And a working title for this is something like human 3.0 Skills and Mental Frames Required to thrive in a post AI world. And I've actually forgot to look at this. I haven't looked at that, but we'll take a look at it afterwards. So, uh, got a post here that, uh, was from a while back, like May of 2023, where I talked about the attack surface map. Not sure why this is not linking. There
it goes. Yeah. So this is the attack surface map I put together in May of 23, I think so about a year ago, and it turns out to be pretty useful. Still, I think it's still spot on. I'm not sure what I would modify from this, but worth taking a look at if you haven't seen it. Okay, security, see what we got here? So the FBI seized a bunch of hacking, uh, breach forms again, Chinese brain drain. So Microsoft is moving nearly 10% of its China based
tech talent out of the country. Yeah, they're talking about brain drain here. And I personally am pretty happy about this. I think I feel like the US is in a good state right now. It's in a good place to win because Europe is suffering from all sorts of missing innovation because of regulations. They just love regulating things, regulating things too much. And that's a problem. So I think
that's like taking them out of the game. China is being just super aggressive to everyone all the time, hacking everyone, trying to control everyone. Everyone's trying to control everyone and some, some sense. And definitely in the US is not innocent of that. But I would say that our means of doing that in our goal of doing that is more benign. And this really leaves the US and Canada to benefit from this boom in talent and people that are going
to be leaving China. China has so many people, and a small percentage of those people have a high IQ, and a small percentage of people in the US have a high IQ. And guess what? When you have three times the people, or is it four times the people, I can't remember. But when you have that many more people and plus they have a better education system, like they have so much talent and to have a lot of that talent go to the US and Canada and to some degree to Europe. That is a major advantage
for the West. And the other disadvantage that China has around AI is that I think they don't want to just turn it on and enable it, because it encourages people to ask questions. And China doesn't like people asking questions. They want to feed them a narrative and have that narrative be the only one and basically control that. And it's just not a game that they're going to win. I don't think, well, they could win, they could still win. But I feel like they're setting themselves up to fail
and for the West to benefit. So what's essentially going to happen as a result is the world will pull away from them, and their best minds will brain drain out of the country. They will go to Europe, they will go to Canada, and they will go to the US. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall flew in an AI controlled F-16 and basically said, it's just about as good as experienced human pilots, technology. Everything covered at Google I o got.
A link here, and unfortunately, it's impossible for me to get excited about this because Google has turned into like a cool idea lab because they're not really good at making products. Why? Because they're simply not good at managing products. They have so many smart engineers, and they have lots of talent and lots of cool potential ideas, but they don't have vision and they don't have product management, and they don't have vision. That's led by product management and
by the leaders. They have basically a throw it at the wall technique and it's really hurting them. And I think the only thing that's going to fix it is like a dramatic overhaul with replacement of the CEO. I think that's looking more and more likely. Pretty cool idea about how to avoid the mediocre success trap, because you basically want a home run or strike out. And this is talking about not getting a strong signal from an experiment.
This is the context that they're talking about here. Ilya Sutskever suggests mastering these 30 ML papers to grasp 90% of crucial machine learning knowledge. I've started going through the list. I'm not all the way through by any means. MIT researchers came across three ancient stars, and they're going around the Milky Way for some reason, and they appear to be some of the oldest in the entire universe. And I'm like, how do they randomly end up near us?
A strange and the article didn't really explain it that well, scientists just found out that whales have their own alphabet in their songs, and my buddy Mark has been working on deciphering this stuff for years. He's got some real cool research that he's working on, hopes to be able to present on it at some sort of marine conference soon. And this one's about how Swiss parenting styles are so different from American ones, and they talk about it in
this article. Basically, four year olds being able to walk to school by themselves in Switzerland. And some will say, well, that's because it's more safe there. It's not really that unsafe here either in the US for kids to walk to school, but people think it is and that's that's
their frame. That's their reality. All right. This one here, I think the magic amount of therapy for most people, of course, not all might be some relatively small amount of therapy that untangles your knots, but doesn't point your lens permanently on yourself in your troubles. Because I feel like too much therapy has the approach of like bad chiropractic, where the goal is they want you to come back and have more chiropractic visits, right? The goal is not
to fix you where you don't come back. And I think just so much focus on yourself and your problems. It's essentially rumination. And rumination is a bad thing that actually, ironically, you go to therapy to figure out how not to do. And I'm worried that the therapy industry is basically encouraging rumination. Recommendation of the week. Make sure you have 1 to 2 friend trips planned per year, even if it's not everyone and it's just local. Just anything camping, hiking, whatever,
role playing games, video games, whatever. And maybe you have a rule of like no tech during that time just so you can have interactions, live interactions, eat food together, hang out, even watching TV, just talking, whatever. Super replenishing, as I just found out from this last trip. And the aphorism of the week every minute you are angry, you lose 60s of happiness. Every minute you are angry,
you lose 60s of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unsupervised Learning is produced and edited by Daniel Meisler on a Neumann U87 AI microphone using Hindenburg. Intro and outro music is by zombie with the why and to get the text and links from this episode, sign up for the newsletter version of the show at Daniel meisler.com/newsletter. We'll see you next time.