WEBVTT 00:02.159 --> 00:06.960 I mostly wanted to make this video as kind of a conclusion to the last two 00:06.960 --> 00:09.119 videos I made. So I made a video on, like, 00:09.760 --> 00:12.800 AI risk and loneliness, and I made a video on dating. 00:13.259 --> 00:13.779 And 00:15.079 --> 00:19.340 I was not very happy with leaving it at that, because if I leave it at that, it becomes, 00:19.340 --> 00:24.280 you know... Anytime anyone ever Goo- Googles me, the first two videos, they're just going 00:24.340 --> 00:24.760 to see 00:25.539 --> 00:29.579 me complaining, fairly negative mood about problems 00:30.679 --> 00:33.479 and not seeming to do much to fix them. 00:33.479 --> 00:33.759 And 00:34.540 --> 00:36.779 I didn't want to leave it at that. I wanted to 00:37.380 --> 00:40.819 conclude it with, "Okay, look, here's the next steps I'm taking on these problems. 00:40.819 --> 00:42.060 Here's what I've understood." 00:43.040 --> 00:46.360 And, you know, "Here's the next vibration of the game I'm playing." 00:48.840 --> 00:50.159 That's how I wanted to make this video. 00:50.159 --> 00:50.319 I 00:51.039 --> 00:55.659 may not have that much to talk today, but I just wanted to conclude those two videos. 00:55.659 --> 00:57.019 That's why I'm making today's video. 00:58.199 --> 00:58.719 So... 00:59.579 --> 01:01.719 Yeah, I mean, so there's, like, a more practical 01:02.419 --> 01:05.159 thing to it, and there's a more, you know, theoretical, like, reasoning 01:06.459 --> 01:08.959 kind of thing to it. So practically, what am I doing? 01:08.959 --> 01:10.639 I mean, one is, uh, 01:11.519 --> 01:14.539 I'm going to be applying for funding, uh, 01:15.279 --> 01:20.059 to go to San Francisco for at least six months, uh, maybe one year. 01:20.159 --> 01:24.159 Uh, but at least six months. I'm going to fill these applications over the next one week, 01:25.239 --> 01:25.719 and 01:26.979 --> 01:31.899 let's see how it goes. I mean, I do think it's in the self-interest of the people 01:31.919 --> 01:33.479 funding me to fund me. Like, 01:34.399 --> 01:37.939 that is something I've thought about, like, "Are you fooling the guy on the other side 01:38.119 --> 01:41.139 or, you know, is it actually in their self-interest to fund you?" I think it's in their 01:41.159 --> 01:41.979 interest to, you know, 01:42.699 --> 01:47.339 get me to SF for six months to work on, you know, the guide for whistleblowers, which I 01:47.379 --> 01:49.739 want to... You can see my website for that. 01:49.759 --> 01:50.139 Uh, 01:52.059 --> 01:56.299 but also, I'm not going to spend too much time on the funding applications. 01:56.319 --> 01:58.779 I'm going to spend, you know, one week. That's it, done. 01:58.979 --> 02:02.599 Uh, next Saturday, I will not be still, you know, thinking about the funding 02:02.619 --> 02:06.739 applications. If I don't get funding, that's fine. I don't actually need the funding. 02:07.599 --> 02:09.139 I'm just going to work on this 02:09.899 --> 02:11.639 whistleblowing guide regardless. 02:13.199 --> 02:15.099 Uh... Oh, and the connection 02:16.259 --> 02:19.139 to the previous two videos. I mean, basically, in the previous two videos, I think both 02:19.159 --> 02:22.079 of the videos directly, indirectly talked about, uh, 02:24.839 --> 02:29.339 how communities that share attention on something that is actually 02:29.359 --> 02:30.059 important, 02:32.019 --> 02:33.559 is a great way to, you know, achieve 02:34.279 --> 02:36.319 career goals. It's a great way to date. 02:36.339 --> 02:40.719 It's great for multiple ways and I just seem to be lacking that, you know, here in India, 02:40.719 --> 02:42.079 in Bangalore. Uh... 02:44.639 --> 02:48.339 Yeah, because, again, as per my opinion, the things that 02:49.499 --> 02:52.699 communities here get formed around are less important and... 02:52.919 --> 02:56.819 At least less important to me and maybe to the future of the world, but... 02:57.759 --> 03:00.819 I mean, I definitely get that it's important to them, you know, so... 03:02.919 --> 03:03.899 It's just... yeah. 03:05.279 --> 03:10.199 Therefore, if I want, let's say, community specific on, to AI risk, I'd probably need to 03:10.239 --> 03:12.079 go to the US. Uh... 03:13.799 --> 03:16.799 Like, that's just the simple solution, it's just a question of, you know, how long it 03:16.799 --> 03:20.359 takes before someone thinks I'm worth, you know, funding for that to happen. 03:20.539 --> 03:23.899 Or, or, I mean, I need to make the money and make that happen, either way. 03:23.919 --> 03:27.759 One way or the other, like... That needs to happen in my lifetime, that's for sure. 03:27.819 --> 03:31.979 Like, I need to get... To spend some months in SF at least. Uh... 03:34.099 --> 03:38.279 So yeah, one week and spend funding applications. What else? Uh... 03:40.899 --> 03:44.259 Yeah, I'm just going to go back to my... The guide I'm writing. 03:46.599 --> 03:48.299 Oh, there's maybe longer 03:49.059 --> 03:53.339 decision-making process on why did I say only one week and, like, you know, 03:53.579 --> 03:57.279 don't... Like, why have I made, okay, working the priority not, you know, getting funding 03:57.299 --> 03:58.399 for the work the priority. 03:59.719 --> 04:01.779 That's kind of boring, I... 04:02.499 --> 04:04.519 Yeah, that... I mean, I made up my mind, you know. 04:04.719 --> 04:09.159 Now I'll sit and explain why I made the decision and like, "Eh, let it be," I think. 04:10.759 --> 04:11.799 Nah, hmm, 04:12.419 --> 04:16.559 yeah. Oh, coming to the theoretical things, so what I do feel is... 04:19.339 --> 04:20.959 Yeah, I mean, I seem... 04:23.339 --> 04:26.439 Oh, okay, no, sorry, practically there was one more thing I wanted to say. 04:26.439 --> 04:30.279 Yeah, I mean, I did ask some people I know, you know, friends, acquaintances, strangers, 04:30.299 --> 04:30.799 whether 04:32.239 --> 04:36.779 my seeming sense of, like, loneliness can be fixed by finding a 04:36.839 --> 04:40.419 co-founder for the project I want to work on, on the next, you know, one month... 04:40.539 --> 04:44.139 one to six months. Which is this guide for whistleblowers. 04:46.259 --> 04:50.379 And everyone mostly gave me the unanimous conclusion that, 04:51.179 --> 04:52.559 you know, finding a co-founder 04:53.279 --> 04:57.279 can help you achieve, you know, your goals, but it's not going to fix your loneliness. 04:57.899 --> 05:00.359 Everyone universally just told me the same thing. 05:01.119 --> 05:01.659 And 05:02.299 --> 05:06.179 I think there is some truth to that. I'm not completely sure, 05:08.459 --> 05:08.959 but... 05:10.059 --> 05:13.779 Yeah, I mean, I do still have some personal, like, emotional stuff I do still need to 05:13.799 --> 05:15.159 figure out, so... That's... 05:16.239 --> 05:18.059 I think there is some truth in that. Yeah. 05:20.299 --> 05:20.999 Um... 05:21.859 --> 05:22.479 What else? 05:26.579 --> 05:27.719 Yeah, um... 05:30.659 --> 05:34.119 Okay, practically, I mean, I also mentioned the dating, right? 05:34.139 --> 05:36.879 Like, I made a whole video on dating. Yeah, uh... 05:38.639 --> 05:41.999 The conclusion to that is... Yeah, basically... 05:42.019 --> 05:42.499 I mean, 05:43.919 --> 05:48.179 I see mostly clear, look, I do want to find someone who's polyamorous even if there are 05:48.239 --> 05:50.279 very few people in the city 05:51.459 --> 05:52.939 who are that way and... 05:56.279 --> 06:00.999 I guess it's fine for me to then not want to, you know, date people who are not 06:01.199 --> 06:06.092 poly and...I never really spent 06:06.111 --> 06:07.451 that much time with them. 06:11.071 --> 06:11.391 Um, 06:15.932 --> 06:16.632 it's... 06:18.852 --> 06:20.831 I don't know. Maybe I should have made some notes on this. 06:20.992 --> 06:23.431 Like, I'm still confused on how to understand it right now. 06:27.572 --> 06:32.191 Yeah, I think broadly most of the conclusions I made in the dating video are actually 06:32.291 --> 06:36.051 true, it's just there I was like, "Oh, this is so depressing that these things are true," 06:36.071 --> 06:40.312 and now I'm like, "Yeah, maybe these are true and that's fine." Like what's the problem? 06:40.332 --> 06:44.472 Like what did I specifically say? I specifically said, you know, I don't think I will get 06:44.512 --> 06:46.391 very good advice from a random woman I meet. 06:46.411 --> 06:47.691 Like randomly selected, 06:48.972 --> 06:51.211 which I still believe in. Uh, I said 06:51.851 --> 06:55.451 I won't get emotional support from a randomly selected woman. 06:55.571 --> 06:58.131 And yeah, I think there is some truth to that. 06:58.131 --> 06:58.451 Like 06:59.411 --> 07:03.012 there are some deeper things I need to fix within me which I don't think any other woman 07:03.031 --> 07:04.871 is going to fix for me. And 07:06.551 --> 07:09.491 maybe I still can, can rely on emotional support to some extent 07:10.891 --> 07:15.731 on other people and maybe I need to explore why I am not able to do that very well. 07:15.931 --> 07:16.971 Like, there may be 07:18.571 --> 07:21.871 something going on there. You know, I made a lot of notes and, you know, what is 07:21.911 --> 07:26.051 emotional support? What are emotions? Like I've not thought about these topics a lot. 07:27.371 --> 07:30.851 Like I made just, you know, list of, you know, what are emotions and like, you know, a 07:30.871 --> 07:34.151 list of 100 emotions and, you know, let's bucket these into categories. 07:34.311 --> 07:34.651 And 07:36.391 --> 07:38.891 when I say emotional support, okay, what exactly do I mean? 07:39.651 --> 07:43.531 I, I don't want to talk a lot about that, like, you know, emotions and emotional support, 07:43.771 --> 07:46.831 um, because I think I don't understand it very well yet. 07:46.911 --> 07:51.131 But yeah, it's something I'm trying to understand better and when I do understand it 07:51.331 --> 07:52.011 fairly well, 07:52.751 --> 07:57.091 maybe then I will make a video on that topic. Uh, probably not. Not right now. 07:57.391 --> 07:57.611 Uh, 07:58.491 --> 08:02.211 yeah, coming back to dating, yeah, and advice and emotional support. 08:02.211 --> 08:05.051 Yeah, and mostly I don't seem to want to do shared activities. 08:05.051 --> 08:08.391 I think this again comes back to this community thing where, 08:09.871 --> 08:13.791 you know, in an ideal world you do have a community that is united for the right reasons. 08:13.811 --> 08:14.191 Like, 08:15.371 --> 08:19.011 they're paying attention to things that will still matter 10 years or 20 years from now 08:19.131 --> 08:20.291 and, you know, 08:21.051 --> 08:25.131 group around hobbies. Those hobbies are probably not going to matter to any of those 08:25.151 --> 08:29.791 people 10 years or 20 years from now. And maybe sometimes they do, but generally not. 08:30.691 --> 08:31.111 And 08:33.531 --> 08:38.411 that seems suboptimal compared to a world where, you know, those people 08:38.431 --> 08:43.271 had joined a community where they do all focus on the same thing that will still matter 08:43.291 --> 08:44.451 10 years, 20 years from now. 08:47.971 --> 08:48.511 And 08:50.571 --> 08:54.771 yeah, I think that's true. So I think not wanting a lot of shared activities is also 08:55.011 --> 08:55.971 fine. 09:00.031 --> 09:00.711 And... 09:02.031 --> 09:06.151 Yeah, see the thing is, uh, like there's a part of me that actually enjoys all these 09:06.151 --> 09:06.791 things, you know. 09:07.751 --> 09:09.851 There's a part of me that actually enjoys shared activities. 09:10.451 --> 09:15.231 It's just I think another part of me has just, you know, suppressed and like crushed that 09:15.271 --> 09:19.751 part of me because of, you know, internal conflict and I- me having multiple 09:19.791 --> 09:23.231 priorities in life and me realizing I can't actually achieve all of them. 09:23.751 --> 09:26.211 Therefore, you know, go suppress some of your priorities 09:26.991 --> 09:31.291 and, you know, have shared activities with random women or even men for that matter. 09:31.311 --> 09:34.371 Uh, it's just kind of getting suppressed as less important. 09:35.891 --> 09:36.311 And 09:39.771 --> 09:40.131 yeah, 09:41.971 --> 09:46.611 I think I don't have a very good way of resolving internal conflict. 09:46.771 --> 09:49.731 Like, when two parts of me are saying, "You know, go do two different things" and I 09:49.771 --> 09:50.831 realize I can't do both, 09:52.371 --> 09:56.551 usually it's just like, okay, make notes, uh, make a guess, you know. 09:56.691 --> 09:59.771 Look at my own emotions and see which of these things are more important than... 10:00.091 --> 10:04.511 And I just would do the more important thing and keep doing it until you break, 10:04.651 --> 10:05.111 like... 10:08.111 --> 10:12.651 Yeah. I don't kn- Yeah, my way of figuring this out is just, you know, ex- go experiment 10:12.651 --> 10:15.291 hard at something until I break, and 10:16.051 --> 10:19.031 either I'm like miserable as fuck and I'm like, 10:19.731 --> 10:23.471 oh, maybe I pushed myself harder than was necessary to get this done. 10:25.211 --> 10:29.071 Uh, like I don't seem to care at all. So I can give you a practical example. 10:29.151 --> 10:29.471 Uh, 10:30.151 --> 10:33.851 fifth year of college there was a period of about six months where I felt like, oh, I 10:33.851 --> 10:35.651 really need to, you know, go start a startup. 10:35.651 --> 10:40.091 Like just a tech startup and I need to make a million dollars and a lot of problems in my 10:40.091 --> 10:41.971 life will get fixed if I had a million dollars. 10:43.071 --> 10:43.511 Uh, 10:46.511 --> 10:50.391 yeah and by the end of it I was fairly unhappy and I realized, no, I do have some other 10:50.971 --> 10:52.971 more personal things I do need to fix. 10:53.011 --> 10:53.271 And 10:54.551 --> 10:58.111 yeah, getting a million dollars will maybe help with some of them but it's not going to 10:58.111 --> 11:01.931 fix them and it's going to consume, you know, around two... 11:02.691 --> 11:04.491 It's going to consume more than two years at least. 11:04.491 --> 11:06.931 Maybe five years at least of my life 11:07.751 --> 11:09.431 working on something I 11:11.011 --> 11:14.351 have zero interest in and because I have zero interest in, because I'll keep forcing 11:14.371 --> 11:16.371 myself I will grow to actively resent it. 11:17.051 --> 11:21.271 And do I want to spend five years of my life working on something I actively resent 11:22.051 --> 11:26.731 just so I make a million dollars, just so I go partially but not completely fix some of 11:26.771 --> 11:30.351 my life problems? Like, I ended up realizing that's a bad 11:31.131 --> 11:32.831 bet for me, I think. 11:34.271 --> 11:38.871 But the way I went, I ended up reaching that conclusion was kind of painful. 11:39.071 --> 11:39.471 Like, 11:40.691 --> 11:44.711 it was just miserably forcing myself, "Okay, do this, now you have to do this, now you 11:44.711 --> 11:49.131 have to do this." You know, you have to go and meet these XYZ funders, you have to go 11:49.131 --> 11:53.471 and, you know, learn how to do backend better, you have to go work with this 11:53.591 --> 11:57.731 friend, you have to figure out is this friend and you are good fit, yes or no. 11:59.691 --> 12:00.171 And 12:02.191 --> 12:05.951 yeah, every single day it was like, you know, not wanting to get up and you know, getting 12:05.951 --> 12:10.915 up and-Yeah, if I could figure that 12:10.935 --> 12:14.715 out without, you know, burning through six months of my life, that would have been nice. 12:16.055 --> 12:18.316 I would like not a repeat of that. 12:21.136 --> 12:23.835 So yeah, that was the, I guess basically a failed experiment. 12:23.875 --> 12:28.055 The semester before that is another failed experiment, which was starting a 12:28.756 --> 12:31.616 club in college around effective altruism, which... 12:33.375 --> 12:35.695 That on paper it doesn't look like a complete failure. 12:35.695 --> 12:38.356 In my head it's a complete failure on my part, 12:40.015 --> 12:44.135 but that's fine. I still learned valuable things by doing that, which I may not have 12:44.135 --> 12:44.475 learned 12:45.216 --> 12:47.675 if I didn't do it, uh, separately. 12:48.915 --> 12:49.396 Uh, 12:50.696 --> 12:53.095 sorry, I was... I started by talking about dating, right? 12:53.095 --> 12:55.116 And now I'm talking about internal conflict. Right? 12:57.395 --> 13:00.235 Yeah, I mean, I am internally conflicted about dating, like 13:00.955 --> 13:03.535 how okay am I with this? Okay, dating is not a priority. 13:03.535 --> 13:05.315 Just forget about it for six months. Like, 13:06.135 --> 13:07.896 I think I'm internally conflicted about that. 13:07.915 --> 13:10.675 There's a part of me that is like, yeah, that is fine. 13:10.715 --> 13:12.695 And there's part of me that like, no, that's not fine. 13:16.135 --> 13:16.715 So... 13:18.735 --> 13:21.755 Yeah, I think the conclusion is just I'm kind of internally conflicted. 13:22.095 --> 13:24.555 There's a rational part of me knows that obviously I'm going to 13:25.275 --> 13:29.655 do much better at dating and even a lot of other things in life if I was less internally 13:29.675 --> 13:34.335 conflicted, if I had clearer sense of what I was doing, if I was in a community that also 13:34.395 --> 13:37.335 had a clearer sense of what it was doing, you know, independent of me. 13:38.715 --> 13:41.135 All of this would help and yeah. 13:43.415 --> 13:46.475 Anyways, when I started that train of thought on internal conflict dating, I'll just 13:46.495 --> 13:47.735 finish with it, uh... 13:51.775 --> 13:55.075 Yeah, I would like less painful ways of figuring out the 13:55.755 --> 13:58.315 solutions to internal conflict in my head. 14:01.135 --> 14:05.255 So I was saying, you know, in the college club failed, uh, startup failed, then what did 14:05.415 --> 14:08.095 I do? You know, traveled for six months to a year. 14:08.095 --> 14:12.875 I think that was successful experiment, but again, see there also there's a 14:12.895 --> 14:14.055 problem. I felt like I 14:15.075 --> 14:18.495 spent way too much money on some things I should not have. 14:20.295 --> 14:20.815 And 14:21.975 --> 14:25.115 yeah, I was not the most happy person there either. 14:27.515 --> 14:31.275 Yeah, actually there are some things that happened during that phase of my life I kind of 14:31.315 --> 14:32.995 just don't want to talk about publicly. 14:33.155 --> 14:33.495 There are 14:34.135 --> 14:37.715 other people's privacy involved, I'm just going to avoid that whole thing. 14:38.495 --> 14:42.335 Yeah, like keeping... Keep the traveling aside, then what did I do? 14:42.455 --> 14:46.555 I spent, you know, a few months working on this search engine for books, which was, I 14:46.595 --> 14:47.735 guess, successful. 14:51.075 --> 14:53.015 Yeah, I think that definitely felt good. 14:53.015 --> 14:56.795 Like, I was able to stick to a topic, you know, long enough to actually successfully 14:56.835 --> 15:00.415 complete it and be happy with, you know, the output I'd gotten at the end. 15:00.415 --> 15:00.675 Like, 15:01.375 --> 15:05.315 it was not like, "Oh, you did it." But, you know, like that was the thing I was afraid of 15:05.315 --> 15:08.895 at the start, you know, I will end up building the search engine and I will finish 15:08.895 --> 15:12.335 building it, but even after building it, I'll be like, "This is kind of meh. 15:12.375 --> 15:15.275 The results are not that actually useful." And that did not happen. 15:15.275 --> 15:17.395 The results were useful. I'm glad I could do that. 15:19.295 --> 15:22.615 But then see, again, I complete- I completed that and then I moved to the next thing, the 15:22.635 --> 15:25.295 next thing being, you know, right now like, oh, I need to write a guide for 15:25.315 --> 15:26.075 whistleblowers. 15:29.035 --> 15:32.595 And yeah, I seem to be jumping from project to project where they're successful or 15:32.595 --> 15:33.475 failed, like, 15:34.435 --> 15:34.855 okay, 15:35.735 --> 15:39.595 uh, EA community, half successful, startup failed, 15:40.235 --> 15:44.175 uh, traveling half suc- Well, I will say successful, I guess. 15:44.535 --> 15:48.055 Traveling is not difficult. I think I learned important things from traveling. 15:48.275 --> 15:52.335 I went in to UK travel... Traveled with the expectation that I'll learn important things 15:52.375 --> 15:53.855 and I did in fact learn important things. 15:53.855 --> 15:55.495 I would actually count that as a success, you know. 15:55.875 --> 15:59.075 Traveling, success, you know, making a search engine for books, success. 15:59.575 --> 16:01.215 Now writing a whistleblower guide, 16:02.595 --> 16:04.775 I don't think I'm going to completely fail at it. 16:04.775 --> 16:06.175 It's just a question of do I, you know... 16:06.515 --> 16:10.175 Half success, do I like half-ass it or do I produce something really amazing and high 16:10.235 --> 16:10.715 quality? 16:11.615 --> 16:12.875 That's the question, yeah? 16:16.775 --> 16:17.015 And 16:17.755 --> 16:20.755 that just depends on, I think, how long I'm willing to stick to it. 16:22.575 --> 16:25.575 Yeah, this I think comes back to the earlier thing around, like, 16:26.295 --> 16:29.075 shared communities, like communities with attention on the shared things. 16:29.075 --> 16:33.735 So it's like if there is one guy or girl, you know, uh, at the center of the 16:33.795 --> 16:38.235 community who consistently puts their attention, their life force into one thing for, you 16:38.255 --> 16:39.395 know, 10 years, 20 years, 16:40.335 --> 16:43.395 they can actually just build that entire community from scratch 16:44.855 --> 16:45.215 and 16:47.515 --> 16:50.255 that requires that person to have, you know, resolved their, 16:51.115 --> 16:54.495 you know, internal conflicts to the point they can say, "Here's this one thing that's 16:54.515 --> 16:58.455 important to me in life and I'm just going to stick to it, you know, no matter how the 16:58.475 --> 16:59.915 world moves, I'm not going to move. 17:00.515 --> 17:03.535 You know, I'm going to be this person and that is it." 17:04.435 --> 17:06.535 And once they do that, then, you know, 17:07.375 --> 17:11.275 other people can, you know, gravitate towards them and, you know, that can be like a 17:11.275 --> 17:14.935 stable foundation now on which you build your organizations and, you know, 17:16.395 --> 17:19.815 funding and, you know, relationships and families and whatnot. 17:22.255 --> 17:25.815 But that requires that person to have that much, you know, internal mental clarity about 17:25.955 --> 17:27.295 what's important to them in life, 17:30.095 --> 17:30.435 and 17:31.135 --> 17:36.075 I don't seem to have that yet. Like, I don't have like, okay, here's the one concrete bet 17:36.095 --> 17:40.375 I'm just going to go all in for the next 10 years of my life. I haven't found that bet. 17:40.875 --> 17:42.295 Even when I look at my current thing, right? 17:42.295 --> 17:44.815 Like, okay, I want to support whistleblowers. 17:44.955 --> 17:46.935 Sure, I will do that for one month, a hundred percent. 17:47.255 --> 17:49.155 I will do that for six months, probably yes. 17:49.935 --> 17:52.235 Uh, I will do that for one year? 17:52.995 --> 17:57.675 I can. I- If it seems valuable too, I'll do it. Will I do that for five years? 17:57.675 --> 17:59.155 Will I do that for 10 years? 18:00.395 --> 18:05.235 Probably not, but I'm also not sure. I might, but I 18:05.255 --> 18:08.875 also might not. It's like me working on this for one year is going to tell me 18:08.935 --> 18:13.576 a-Like, it's going to give me useful data to help me decide, do I really want to work on 18:13.576 --> 18:17.995 this for the next five years? Like, not just data in terms of, you know, how successful 18:17.995 --> 18:21.995 is the, is the project, but also like how much does this matter to me? 18:22.055 --> 18:25.395 Like, let's say I succeeded. How much do I care about that success, you know? 18:25.455 --> 18:29.175 Like that is the important thing. Like, if I make a really good guide and, you know, some 18:29.195 --> 18:30.376 people really appreciate that 18:31.015 --> 18:35.395 and, like, I get clear feedback, you know, I have made a tangible contribution to, you 18:35.395 --> 18:37.095 know, human history by writing this guide, 18:38.335 --> 18:41.855 that could happen and I could still end up internally feeling, you know, okay, fine. 18:41.935 --> 18:45.255 Now what? Like, I could still feel like, you know, I don't care about this and I might 18:45.275 --> 18:46.676 still choose to, you know, not work on it. 18:46.715 --> 18:46.956 Like, 18:48.835 --> 18:51.035 so it's not just a question of, like, can I get this done? 18:51.035 --> 18:52.875 But also do I care about getting this done? 18:52.875 --> 18:53.156 And 18:55.435 --> 18:57.156 right now I do care to some extent, but 18:59.275 --> 19:03.116 yeah, I don't have that clear sense to the point I can say, you know, this is the number 19:03.155 --> 19:06.375 one life priority I'm going stick with for, you know, the next five years or 10 years. 19:12.115 --> 19:15.215 And that doesn't mean, you know, oh, I drop it immediately and go search for that life 19:15.216 --> 19:17.835 priority. I think, I still think the project is worth doing. 19:17.835 --> 19:20.035 I think I'm going to learn useful things by doing it. 19:22.315 --> 19:22.955 But 19:23.835 --> 19:27.296 yeah, it does leave the open question of, you know, what am I actually willing to, you 19:27.296 --> 19:28.736 know, go all in on for five years 19:29.515 --> 19:31.575 or 10 years or, you know, even more than 10 years. 19:31.575 --> 19:35.396 Like, people can spend their lifetime and their children's lifetime and their 19:35.415 --> 19:37.515 grandchildren's lifetime on, you know, the same topic. 19:37.515 --> 19:37.795 Like, 19:39.115 --> 19:41.835 that's the thing people have. It's very rare. 19:42.656 --> 19:46.955 Usually even if one guy spends their whole life on something, you know, their son or 19:46.955 --> 19:48.735 daughter might be interested in something else. 19:48.735 --> 19:50.136 That's more common case, but 19:50.935 --> 19:55.375 there are rare situations, you know, one guy turns out a physicist and he trains, and 19:55.395 --> 19:58.155 he's like a brilliant physicist, he trains his, you know, son. 19:58.415 --> 20:01.816 Yeah, for some reason, you know, majority of history is with men, but yeah, he trains his 20:01.816 --> 20:05.955 son to also become a great physicist. Like, there are examples of this. 20:06.035 --> 20:07.915 If you Google, you'll find them. Uh... 20:15.015 --> 20:18.235 Yeah, so broad themes, I think, that we talked about is okay, 20:19.255 --> 20:23.895 dating and me being internally conflicted, me being internally conflicted and not being 20:23.915 --> 20:26.615 able to make five-year, 10-year-long comm- commitments, 20:28.075 --> 20:29.975 uh, not being able to 20:31.115 --> 20:34.895 build a long-term community around myself because I cannot make these, you know, 20:34.915 --> 20:36.695 five-year, 10-year-long commitments. 20:44.195 --> 20:44.895 And... 20:46.935 --> 20:49.835 Yeah, like, that just, just seemed at some level to be like 20:50.955 --> 20:52.355 really important thing. Like, 20:53.435 --> 20:57.275 either go join a community where there are people at the center who have made this, you 20:57.275 --> 21:00.415 know, 10-year-long commitments, that this is the only thing they care about, this is the 21:00.415 --> 21:04.515 only thing they will focus on, or I need to become one of those people myself. 21:06.975 --> 21:10.655 And I think becoming one of those people myself is the better bet to me. 21:11.335 --> 21:14.695 Like, definitely I can go to all of these communities and learn from them, but I want to 21:14.695 --> 21:17.715 do that, you know. Like I said, when I'm applying for anything, I want to go to the US, 21:17.735 --> 21:19.855 all that. It will be useful, but 21:21.295 --> 21:23.035 that alone is not enough. Like, 21:23.755 --> 21:25.795 I need to get more done and... 21:27.495 --> 21:30.135 Yeah, do I need to or do I want to? I think that's a good question. 21:30.255 --> 21:31.935 Yeah, I do want to, but... 21:34.975 --> 21:37.015 Okay, there's a part of me that's like, 21:38.135 --> 21:40.215 you have to get this done or you want to get this done. 21:40.215 --> 21:42.675 I think you want to get this done will make you excited to 21:43.275 --> 21:47.275 wake up and do something, and you need to get this done will be like, "Ugh, I have to do 21:47.315 --> 21:51.235 it because, you know, I promised to my past self that I would do this and I don't want 21:51.295 --> 21:54.435 to, you know, break my trust in myself, therefore I'm going to start to do it, but I 21:54.455 --> 21:55.835 don't want to look at this." You know? 21:57.115 --> 22:00.855 Like, there's a difference between those two feelings, like the latter is like, you know, 22:01.835 --> 22:05.435 more internal conflict. And I'm not saying zero internal conflict 22:06.175 --> 22:10.495 is possible or even the goal, but yeah, less internal conflict would be nice. 22:20.515 --> 22:22.475 Yeah. 22:22.715 --> 22:26.895 I mean, I can obviously talk about like broader world things about, you know, 22:27.635 --> 22:31.535 why is nobody able to make these types of 10-year-long commitments? 22:35.315 --> 22:35.695 Like, 22:37.495 --> 22:40.375 why is it requiring a few rare people to build these communities? 22:40.375 --> 22:40.835 Like, why 22:41.515 --> 22:43.495 does this just not naturally happen? 22:43.515 --> 22:43.835 Like, 22:46.415 --> 22:49.275 like most people are ultimately fundamentally at heart in some ways. 22:49.275 --> 22:53.215 They're like fairly similar, just the, just the fact we have similar biology and how 22:53.215 --> 22:54.575 their brains work. 22:56.755 --> 23:00.255 So why don't people just naturally come to some basic shared conclusions? 23:00.255 --> 23:04.315 Why is everyone splintering off into, you know, tiny, tiny hundreds of communities? 23:04.395 --> 23:05.015 Like... 23:14.255 --> 23:18.015 I mean, it's definitely a thing about how the world is moving faster in some ways and, 23:18.015 --> 23:21.595 you know, stripping most people of their agency in some ways and... 23:27.595 --> 23:30.215 Yeah, I mean, technology inherently does that. 23:30.255 --> 23:30.535 Like, 23:31.155 --> 23:34.455 inherently any new, you know, breakthrough in technologies, you know, 23:35.895 --> 23:40.095 maybe 10 people, maybe 100 people, maximum, you know, 1,000 people who are at the center 23:40.115 --> 23:43.615 of that thing, making that thing, and that will just, you know, disproportionately, 23:45.455 --> 23:46.415 uh, you know, 23:48.075 --> 23:51.795 like shift life trajectories for the remaining of the billion people on the planet. 23:51.795 --> 23:53.775 Like, this is not just about AI by the way. 23:53.775 --> 23:55.775 This is about every technology ever, you know? 23:56.875 --> 24:01.015 This could be the radio, this could be stethoscope, you know, this could be 24:01.535 --> 24:05.955 steel, it could be an ABS process, it could be, you know, pencil and it's... 24:06.495 --> 24:08.095 I'm just talking about any technology here. 24:08.135 --> 24:08.335 Like, 24:09.515 --> 24:13.495 and if you're not in one of these few groups making it happen, it kind of just fits under 24:13.515 --> 24:15.395 your agency to do anything in the world, 24:15.415 --> 24:20.195 like-... like there's 24:20.195 --> 24:22.536 more and more of that happening, like, uh, 24:24.395 --> 24:27.475 as technology is getting more powerful, the ability for 24:29.195 --> 24:33.415 smaller and smaller groups of people to completely disrupt, you know, 24:35.835 --> 24:37.655 everyone else on Earth's lives 24:38.376 --> 24:38.855 and 24:39.915 --> 24:43.115 their sense of what is important and their focus, what they... 24:43.155 --> 24:45.755 Like, what, what are the remaining influence that people thought was important 24:46.036 --> 24:46.675 previously, 24:47.735 --> 24:49.855 uh, you know, a few hundred people can be like, "You know, 24:50.495 --> 24:53.935 no, whoops, you're wrong. We're going to do this thing and now you're going to pay 24:53.935 --> 24:58.655 attention to us because we are going to do this thing to your life." And I'm not saying 24:58.675 --> 25:03.615 that's all bad. By the way, I'm not saying this like, oh, always people come and take 25:03.655 --> 25:04.715 control, like... 25:07.755 --> 25:11.915 Like, yeah, they do take control, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, uh... 25:16.735 --> 25:17.475 Yeah, but there is 25:18.955 --> 25:20.695 a thing happening here where it 25:23.135 --> 25:23.635 makes, 25:24.335 --> 25:27.095 yeah, the future more unpredictable for one, that's for sure. 25:30.415 --> 25:30.955 And 25:31.695 --> 25:32.775 then it becomes like, 25:33.995 --> 25:38.575 okay, if I need to resolve internal conflicts in myself, I also need to have a very deep 25:38.615 --> 25:40.135 understanding of the world. Like, 25:41.095 --> 25:43.555 it's not enough for me to have deep understanding of myself, 25:44.475 --> 25:48.095 which I do not have, by the way. I do not have a very deep understanding of myself. 25:48.115 --> 25:50.995 Like, I try to, but yeah, I think a lot of work to be done there. 25:52.735 --> 25:54.955 But even if I did that, that is not enough. 25:55.075 --> 25:58.855 I also need to have a deep understanding of the world, or by default I'm just going to 25:58.875 --> 26:00.675 work on some completely unimportant 26:01.415 --> 26:04.135 crap, like no one will care about it, it's just... 26:05.615 --> 26:06.135 Like you need 26:06.835 --> 26:10.595 to have certain level of intelligence in today's world just to know what the hell is 26:10.635 --> 26:13.635 going on so that you can go focus on something important. 26:13.655 --> 26:18.635 Like, this seems generally true. And I'm not saying this is always true, this is 26:18.695 --> 26:20.135 generally true. So, 26:21.755 --> 26:25.895 maybe there are some people who are not that intelligent or not that knowledgeable about 26:25.935 --> 26:27.955 the world and they still go end up, uh, 26:28.615 --> 26:30.155 working on something really important. 26:30.955 --> 26:32.995 That can happen, but yeah, that's not the norm. 26:34.795 --> 26:39.515 Norm is, you know, fairly well educated, you know, above average IQ, above 26:39.535 --> 26:41.755 average knowledge, people who ended up... 26:42.175 --> 26:44.215 and other things also, who ended up, you know, 26:45.095 --> 26:49.515 focusing on important things and eventually rest of humanity realized, "Oh, look, these 26:49.535 --> 26:53.295 guys were in fact focusing on important things and maybe we should go focus on it too." 26:55.835 --> 26:56.355 Yeah. 26:56.855 --> 27:01.415 Yeah. So, um, you know, I think one of the things that I've been thinking about a lot 27:01.415 --> 27:02.195 lately is kind of the, the internet and its role in kind of this process, uh, of 27:02.195 --> 27:02.835 disinformation, and, you know, how the internet sort of helps or hinders it. 27:02.835 --> 27:03.135 Um, do you think the internet, uh, helps or hinders this process at all? 27:03.135 --> 27:05.635 Like, does it sort of... what's its role? 27:05.635 --> 27:10.115 Uh... no, actually not. There's like two conflicting kind of forces going on. 27:10.395 --> 27:11.615 So, the internet is 27:11.735 --> 27:34.355 doing 27:34.415 --> 27:35.415 couple of things. Uh, 27:36.195 --> 27:40.515 one, the internet has broken a lot of traditional monopolies of attention that existed, 27:40.535 --> 27:42.215 you know, before the internet. So, 27:43.215 --> 27:46.635 lot of people straight up don't follow, you know, mainstream news channels. 27:46.715 --> 27:50.675 A lot of people straight up don't care what politicians have to say today, you know. 27:52.715 --> 27:56.975 Uh, a lot of people just don't care about what, you know, professors in academia are 27:56.975 --> 28:00.615 saying. Like, their words are not worth as much as the ones were. 28:03.675 --> 28:06.835 Where else is, straight up important? Uh... 28:10.095 --> 28:12.235 yeah, let's just stick to these examples for now. 28:12.475 --> 28:17.015 So, you know, academia, media, government, they just, they have less e- less of people's 28:17.015 --> 28:18.415 attention because, you know, people 28:19.395 --> 28:22.215 now realize a bunch of what they're saying is kind of lies. 28:22.215 --> 28:23.235 And also, 28:24.415 --> 28:27.075 there are other things we could be, you know, forming communities around. 28:27.075 --> 28:30.695 Like, these people are not the only people who can help us form communities. 28:30.715 --> 28:33.115 We can also form communities on our own apart from this. 28:34.075 --> 28:37.935 Like, communities of, you know, hundreds, thousands of people focused on very niche 28:37.935 --> 28:41.435 topics. Otherwise, it's kind of difficult to get those started, you know, before the 28:41.435 --> 28:44.355 internet. You could, but it's just a lot more effort. 28:45.295 --> 28:47.475 There's a sense in which that is happening, you know, 28:48.335 --> 28:50.615 old attention monopoly is breaking down. 28:52.175 --> 28:55.775 That naturally kind of leads to, you know, a lot more fragmentation of, you know, 28:55.995 --> 28:57.455 attention, where, uh, 28:58.795 --> 29:01.895 we have a lot more smaller groups, you know, two people, 10 people, 100 people, 1,000 29:01.895 --> 29:02.595 people, all like just 29:03.555 --> 29:04.535 focused on different, different 29:05.195 --> 29:07.375 topics in like very small kind of niches. 29:07.375 --> 29:08.395 So this would be, you know, 29:09.275 --> 29:12.995 the... there is this one particular, you know, manga I like, you know, I can go talk to 29:12.995 --> 29:14.195 people who like this manga. 29:15.715 --> 29:18.835 Uh, uh, I'm not talking about myself by the way, I'm talking about a hypothetical person. 29:18.855 --> 29:22.435 Like, so it's not just like it's a manga community, it's, you know, sub-community for 29:22.455 --> 29:23.455 this particular show. 29:24.475 --> 29:25.075 Or... 29:27.175 --> 29:29.095 yeah, it could be, you know, even let's say 29:29.775 --> 29:30.595 my thing of, you know, 29:31.655 --> 29:34.875 AI research even that, there's like sub-community of let's say people are just doing 29:34.895 --> 29:37.855 technical research, there'll be, you know, people working on policy and 29:39.055 --> 29:42.415 they kind of talk to each other, but they don't necessarily have to be in the same 29:42.455 --> 29:44.535 community, you know? Like... 29:49.115 --> 29:51.915 yeah, there's definitely a lot of, let's say, mismatch between 29:53.395 --> 29:57.475 journalists and YouTubers. So, in my head, you know, journalists and YouTubers are both 29:57.475 --> 29:58.975 fundamentally doing the same thing. 29:59.355 --> 30:00.995 They're just not aware that they're doing the same thing. 30:00.995 --> 30:02.955 Or at least the journalists, people who are 30:03.675 --> 30:05.555 trained as journalists by profession seem 30:06.315 --> 30:08.095 kind of unaware that... 30:09.235 --> 30:12.075 some of them seem unaware that they are being replaced by journalists and so on. 30:12.415 --> 30:15.735 Uh, sorry, they seem unaware that they are being replaced by YouTubers and some of them 30:15.755 --> 30:16.775 seem unaware. So, 30:18.055 --> 30:18.535 yeah, again, 30:19.395 --> 30:22.875 different sub-communities. You know, a lot of popular YouTubers probably talk to each 30:22.875 --> 30:24.055 other if, like, this happens. 30:24.315 --> 30:24.335 Mm-hmm. 30:24.335 --> 30:29.299 Um...Even in India, if I say, okay, who are, let's say, top popular YouTubers, like all 30:29.780 --> 30:32.939 five, 10 of them, they've definitely all had, you know, extended conversations with each 30:32.959 --> 30:36.460 other, so they do have a little bit of community going on at the very highest levels. 30:40.240 --> 30:42.399 (cellphone chimes) Oh, sorry. And... 30:45.839 --> 30:47.519 yeah, they don't seem to be having 30:48.120 --> 30:51.919 that many journalists in their network, that many, you know, traditional media channels 30:51.919 --> 30:54.379 in their network. I mean, I'm sure some of them do, but 30:56.599 --> 30:58.420 there is fragmentation going on. 30:59.040 --> 31:03.059 Like, I'm giving very s- sorry, some... I'm going to ignore it. Uh... 31:06.619 --> 31:11.439 This is a very specific random examples of the broader trend, which is, uh, 31:13.060 --> 31:15.380 smaller and smaller groups of people 31:16.779 --> 31:19.059 that are able to, you know, form communities. 31:21.999 --> 31:23.959 And to some extent, that seems good. 31:23.959 --> 31:28.919 Yeah, like I 31:28.919 --> 31:32.939 definitely don't think you can form one community that can provide all the types of help 31:32.959 --> 31:35.339 that a person needs. Like, that is for sure. 31:35.339 --> 31:35.559 Like, 31:36.379 --> 31:40.399 there's no, like ideal community where I can join that, you know, they know, they have 31:40.459 --> 31:42.359 all the ideal advice and they have, you know, 31:43.299 --> 31:47.059 all the ideal ways I can grow as a person and they have, you know, expert knowledge on 31:47.079 --> 31:50.319 every topic I want to become an expert on. That's definitely not going to happen. 31:50.619 --> 31:54.139 Some fragmentation obviously has to be there, you know, I go to the first community for 31:54.159 --> 31:57.099 the first type of knowledge, you know, I go to maybe a cryptocurrency community to learn 31:57.119 --> 32:01.159 cryptocurrency, I go to maybe an AI community to learn AI, I go to, you know, a 32:01.199 --> 32:02.999 journalism community to learn journalism. 32:03.079 --> 32:04.139 Some of that just seems 32:04.919 --> 32:06.659 obvious, like yeah, that will obviously happen. 32:09.439 --> 32:14.379 But yeah, the next step after this, like the next step of evolution after this has to 32:14.399 --> 32:14.919 be where, 32:16.139 --> 32:18.219 or at least in my head it has to be where, you know, 32:19.259 --> 32:22.539 there is intermixing between these smaller communities and some of them kind of realize 32:22.559 --> 32:27.479 like, "Okay, you know, maybe becoming expert in this type of 32:27.479 --> 32:30.879 journalistic writing is important to me, but also maybe I should not be paying more 32:30.919 --> 32:34.479 attention to that. Maybe I should not be a journalist as a person myself, maybe I should 32:34.479 --> 32:37.419 switch my career so I can go do something else instead." Like, 32:40.239 --> 32:42.639 that seems to be a realization very f- few people 32:43.699 --> 32:48.539 seem to reach at least now. Maybe 10 years in the future when maybe there's some more 32:48.599 --> 32:51.839 people, again, not a lot of, a lot more people, but at least when some more people are 32:51.839 --> 32:52.679 more wealthy. 32:54.359 --> 32:57.019 Actually, no, sorry, I just, I completely take that back. 32:57.039 --> 33:00.519 The problem is not about wealth. Like on a 100 year timeframe, it's about wealth, you 33:00.539 --> 33:00.699 know, 33:01.499 --> 33:05.119 more wealth, more freedom to, you know, change careers, 33:05.719 --> 33:09.419 pick new things. But on a 10 year timescale, I don't think that's the thing that's going 33:09.459 --> 33:10.639 on. Uh... 33:14.839 --> 33:17.279 On a 10 year timescale, uh, this might happen in the future actually. 33:17.279 --> 33:17.619 Uh, more and more people realizing that their entire life trajectory is just built on 33:17.619 --> 33:17.619 lies and based on bullshit, and based on things that no- don't matter. 33:17.619 --> 33:17.619 And to some extent they will ignore that, but eventually the internet will be just kind 33:17.619 --> 33:19.099 of screaming at you, you know, "You are 33:19.259 --> 33:22.719 working 33:24.199 --> 33:25.519 on the 33:43.999 --> 33:48.379 wrong thing." You know, "Your relationship is kind of fucked up in this way," or, 33:48.379 --> 33:52.579 "Marriage is fucked up in this way," or, "Career is fucked up in this way." And here is 33:52.579 --> 33:56.759 what optimal, like here is what optimal looks like and this is where you are, like below 33:56.759 --> 34:00.159 optimal, and here's an AI that's going to tell you exactly how you're below optimal and 34:00.179 --> 34:03.359 it will understand your psychology better than you understand your own psychology. 34:03.939 --> 34:06.759 And it will tell you, you know, here's exactly the steps you need to go to move towards 34:06.779 --> 34:07.559 optimal. Like, 34:09.399 --> 34:13.199 I think this kind of massive, you know, system level, like this disruption is 34:14.099 --> 34:15.579 possible, maybe even likely. 34:15.899 --> 34:20.879 How long it will take? I'm not 34:20.939 --> 34:21.899 sure. So 34:23.079 --> 34:25.479 there is that thing, right, about, uh, 34:26.639 --> 34:30.259 you know, science progresses in funeral-like times, so maybe it just comes down to that 34:30.359 --> 34:30.659 where 34:31.279 --> 34:34.619 even when the internet has told people, "Look, you picked the wrong career, you picked 34:34.619 --> 34:38.099 the wrong, you know, girlfriend, you picked the wrong city to live in." And 34:39.099 --> 34:41.559 even if the internet tells you that, and you know that that is true, 34:42.399 --> 34:46.079 you might still just be in a kind of denial like, "Okay, I accept this for my life, you 34:46.079 --> 34:48.819 know, whatever," but then your child is not going to accept that. 34:48.819 --> 34:51.679 Your child is going to demand, you know, their living 34:52.559 --> 34:54.399 standard has gone up that much more. 34:55.319 --> 34:58.639 Like that's def- there's definitely a generational thing where, you know, especially when 34:58.659 --> 34:58.879 your 34:59.759 --> 35:03.299 civilization is growing, you know, each generation sets higher aspirational standards for 35:03.299 --> 35:05.679 their own lives than, you know, the previous generation, like 35:07.059 --> 35:09.739 this is definitely, you know, literally happening in my own family right now. 35:10.479 --> 35:12.619 Not to talk too much about my family, but 35:13.719 --> 35:14.079 yeah, 35:15.659 --> 35:18.999 like especially my aspirations versus my parents' aspirations versus like some of my 35:19.019 --> 35:22.959 grandparents' aspirations, there are just huge differences and this is definitely a thing 35:22.999 --> 35:23.759 that's going on. 35:31.499 --> 35:33.199 I seem to be going on kind of a 35:33.819 --> 35:34.639 tangent. 35:36.699 --> 35:40.259 Actually no, this is directly related, it's directly related to the problems I started 35:40.259 --> 35:41.739 listing out at the start of the video, 35:42.779 --> 35:43.799 which is around, 35:45.059 --> 35:49.899 you know, solving internal conflicts to make long term attention bets for 10 years, 35:50.079 --> 35:53.319 to build communities around those, to, you know, shift 35:54.399 --> 35:57.539 history, fix people's problems and so on. Uh... 36:04.559 --> 36:07.499 Yeah, I don't have a solution to this today, but there's definitely 36:10.999 --> 36:14.259 more and more questioning of peop- the fundamental assumptions. 36:14.279 --> 36:17.219 Like, questioning fundamental assumptions is the hard thing, right? 36:17.219 --> 36:19.919 Like, it's easy to be like, "Okay, 36:20.839 --> 36:25.079 this is why you picked the wrong text pack for your app, you know, maybe go pick that 36:25.199 --> 36:27.499 text pack instead." Like, that's an easy feedback to give. 36:28.019 --> 36:32.039 But, "You spent six months working on the wrong app," that is a harder feedback to 36:32.039 --> 36:36.511 give.You have made a mistake in life by becoming a software developer in the first place. 36:36.512 --> 36:38.072 That's an even harder feedback to give. 36:38.952 --> 36:39.351 You know? 36:42.532 --> 36:45.412 You should not be even part of society. You should not have a career. 36:45.412 --> 36:47.971 You should go join this cult because they are right and you are wrong. 36:48.071 --> 36:50.611 Like, that's, again, next level harder feedback to give. 36:50.632 --> 36:52.651 And, like, not just giving the feedback. 36:52.651 --> 36:56.011 Like, saying things as cheap, you know, them actually taking it seriously and integrating 36:56.011 --> 36:57.211 that into their life. Like, 36:58.111 --> 37:01.411 the more fundamental into those assumptions you get, the harder 37:02.151 --> 37:05.991 it becomes to attack them. But the more the internet is going to re- nevertheless attack 37:06.032 --> 37:06.291 them. 37:08.212 --> 37:11.271 And I mean, the internet is just the substrate, right? 37:11.271 --> 37:15.112 It's ultimately other people who are being honest about, "Look, here's the different 37:15.131 --> 37:17.712 choices in life they took and here's how it worked well for them." 37:18.732 --> 37:23.131 And then you look at, "Oh, here's the choices I took in life and, you know, here's how 37:23.171 --> 37:26.971 this fucked me up and it didn't seem to fuck them up because they took those other 37:26.991 --> 37:31.731 choices instead." And then you're like, "Oh, 10 years of my life have built on 37:31.731 --> 37:32.271 lies." 37:32.931 --> 37:33.711 Ugh. 37:34.391 --> 37:34.811 You know? 37:35.491 --> 37:35.831 Like, 37:38.191 --> 37:42.291 so the internet has allowed you to become aware of the existence of this person. 37:42.311 --> 37:42.631 The, 37:44.011 --> 37:48.271 it's not like, you know, when I say AI is telling you it's now, I don't mean it in the 37:48.291 --> 37:50.751 sense of, okay, there's another sentient being that's telling you, 37:52.031 --> 37:54.591 you know? That could also happen and that's a separate thing I'll talk about. 37:54.591 --> 37:58.331 But yeah, right now I just mean it in the simpler sense of, you know, you connected with 37:58.351 --> 38:01.931 other people and just observing those other people and how different they are from you 38:01.951 --> 38:04.051 and you know how better they are from you in every sense. 38:04.051 --> 38:04.351 Like, 38:05.091 --> 38:08.171 they could be, you know, kinder than you, happier than you, more moral than you, you 38:08.171 --> 38:10.131 know, more relaxed than you, more 38:11.351 --> 38:15.171 powerful, wealthy, ambitious, honest, like 38:17.131 --> 38:20.731 for any trait on which you want to get good at, there's someone on the internet that's 38:20.791 --> 38:24.351 just unimaginably better, unimaginably better at it than you are. 38:25.951 --> 38:26.251 Like, 38:28.711 --> 38:31.391 you might imagine what it's like to be in their shoes, but you don't. 38:31.891 --> 38:32.271 Like, 38:33.491 --> 38:35.691 let's say you want to be attractive and there is 38:37.011 --> 38:38.351 someone, let's 38:39.371 --> 38:40.791 talk about, you know, maybe some 38:41.771 --> 38:46.711 film star who climbed their way there partly as a result of just being attractive and, 38:47.111 --> 38:47.291 you 38:48.031 --> 38:50.511 understand at surface level, okay, you know, millions of people 38:51.291 --> 38:52.671 watch them and 38:53.471 --> 38:56.551 you have maybe some guess of, okay, here's what their personal life might look like, 38:56.551 --> 38:58.551 here's what their films might look like. 38:58.551 --> 39:01.511 But there's a lot of details about what's going on in their life that you're straight up 39:01.531 --> 39:02.111 not aware of 39:02.791 --> 39:04.671 and their lives are fairly atypical 39:06.831 --> 39:09.191 as the result of this fame they've gotten, and 39:12.191 --> 39:14.931 the internet is now going to tell you that. See, that's the thing. 39:14.931 --> 39:15.191 Like, 39:17.511 --> 39:21.871 you know, attractive women who became film stars existed 10 years ago, but you will know 39:21.891 --> 39:25.271 a lot more about their private lives today than you knew about it 10 years ago. 39:27.711 --> 39:31.031 And that's going to give you a much higher resolution, you know, here are the pros of 39:31.031 --> 39:33.851 becoming that type of person, here are the cons of becoming that type of person, 39:34.631 --> 39:36.411 than you knew, you know, 10 years ago. 39:38.211 --> 39:41.811 And that could help you make better choices with your own life, you know, now. 39:48.051 --> 39:50.131 Yeah, I think I'm getting a better sense of, you know, 39:51.351 --> 39:55.431 what are the types of information that the internet is going to bring out into the public 39:55.451 --> 39:59.751 that actually matter, because the internet is going to just bring everything into p- the 39:59.811 --> 40:02.151 public, and not all of that is useful information. 40:02.151 --> 40:06.351 Like, some of that is just, like, junk, it doesn't matter at all, a waste of your time. 40:10.051 --> 40:12.091 Oh, I was even doing, like, you know, statistics on this. 40:12.091 --> 40:14.911 Like, you know, every second that passes, you know, there are eight billion seconds of 40:14.991 --> 40:17.571 other people's attention has also kind of passed and 40:21.611 --> 40:24.911 what should I say, that kind of inevitably means most of human history is going to be 40:24.931 --> 40:26.611 forgotten, despite being remembered. 40:26.771 --> 40:30.771 Like, it will be remembered in the sense that it will be recorded, you know, in hard 40:30.811 --> 40:34.691 disks. It will be forgotten in the sense that no human being will ever look at it. 40:35.031 --> 40:38.171 At the most, you know, a human being will have an AI look at it and extract, you know, 40:38.171 --> 40:42.431 some statistical pattern out of it. But, 40:44.991 --> 40:45.731 yeah, like, 40:46.731 --> 40:50.531 even if I had, you know, video feed of, you know, eight billion people on this planet, 40:51.651 --> 40:52.091 and 40:53.391 --> 40:55.451 let's say we let that run for 10 years, okay? 40:55.451 --> 40:59.891 So now I have 80 billion years of, you know, HD video feeds before me. 40:59.891 --> 41:02.471 What do I do with 80 billion years of HD video feeds? 41:02.491 --> 41:04.771 There's no way I can pay attention to all of that directly. 41:05.371 --> 41:08.851 Obviously, I'm going to use some, you know, statistical methods and AI to filter out, 41:11.391 --> 41:13.031 uh, what's really important here 41:13.691 --> 41:17.031 and then I will form a community of people who are doing this filtering and then we will 41:17.031 --> 41:20.471 go tell the rest of humanity, "Okay. Out of these entire media feeds, here's what's 41:20.471 --> 41:22.331 important, here's what you should be doing with your life." 41:23.711 --> 41:26.071 Obviously, that's how it's going to play out. 41:26.071 --> 41:26.311 So 41:28.471 --> 41:32.591 yeah, I found that interesting to realize despite everything being remembered, everything 41:32.611 --> 41:33.411 will be forgotten 41:35.051 --> 41:35.531 and 41:37.331 --> 41:40.131 therefore it's really important to figure out, you know, what will be remembered 41:41.011 --> 41:41.331 and 41:43.051 --> 41:47.751 what information is going to come out now in the next 10 years that will actually 41:47.851 --> 41:48.291 matter 41:49.591 --> 41:52.711 for, you know, the next 10, 20, 50, 100 41:53.331 --> 41:54.371 plus years 41:55.231 --> 41:56.851 of human history? And 41:58.791 --> 42:02.031 that seems like an important thing for me to figure out, 42:04.611 --> 42:06.871 and also an extremely hard thing to figure out but... 42:11.151 --> 42:13.991 Yeah, I mean, a lot of this is just going to be in the things that, let's say 42:15.271 --> 42:18.831 psychologists kind of know, you know, lawyers kind of know, just 42:19.591 --> 42:23.491 there are people in society who have an under- better understanding of social or dark 42:23.531 --> 42:25.871 matter. I call this kind of thing social dark matter. 42:25.871 --> 42:26.131 Like, 42:27.651 --> 42:31.251 oh, do I really want to be making an entire video on social dark 42:31.291 --> 42:36.891 matter?Maybe 42:36.891 --> 42:38.431 I should save that for another video. 42:39.551 --> 42:42.231 Yeah, but this is all about social dark matter ultimately. 42:42.251 --> 42:42.511 Like, 42:43.391 --> 42:46.872 what is the information that is private to your life that would be valuable to other 42:46.911 --> 42:50.712 people's lives, but that you can't share in public because there are disincentives for 42:50.752 --> 42:51.852 you to do it, you know? 42:53.431 --> 42:56.791 Your, you know, your family will shout at you, you'll get imprisoned, you know, some 42:56.811 --> 42:58.691 politician will be pissed off, you know, 42:59.311 --> 43:01.712 somebody in your career will get pissed off at this. 43:01.751 --> 43:05.552 Just a lot of information like this, and typically, it's actually that type of 43:05.591 --> 43:08.652 information that's more valuable for humanity to know about. 43:10.212 --> 43:14.472 Like, you have more to learn from something if there is someone else who's trying to 43:14.491 --> 43:17.691 prevent you from learning it. The fact that they're preventing you from learning it will, 43:17.712 --> 43:21.011 itself is a signal that, okay, if you learnt it, you know something's going to change. 43:21.572 --> 43:23.191 That is why they're preventing you from learning it. 43:24.671 --> 43:27.951 And sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes, you know, they're too paranoid about what's going 43:27.951 --> 43:29.011 to happen or whatever, but 43:30.091 --> 43:33.252 it's like a heuristic. If someone's suppressing something, there's probably something of 43:33.271 --> 43:33.911 value there, 43:35.331 --> 43:37.951 and that is what social dark matter is about. 43:45.011 --> 43:46.711 Oh, okay. So, 43:48.311 --> 43:51.732 one social dark matter I kind of seem to be very fixated on is, you know, 43:52.452 --> 43:56.512 what is going on inside the decision-making processes of these AI companies, 43:57.751 --> 44:02.731 and that is extremely valuable for the world to know, but that's not the only social dark 44:02.732 --> 44:05.471 matter in this world that is valuable for the world to know. 44:06.811 --> 44:08.751 There are other such pieces of information. 44:08.831 --> 44:12.951 I need to figure out what these other si- pieces of information are. 44:12.951 --> 44:15.611 Like, that seems something I could maybe think more about. 44:19.391 --> 44:21.832 I think I'm going to end this video now, because... 44:24.571 --> 44:27.291 Yeah, I wanted this video to, you know, actually just be, you know, 44:27.971 --> 44:31.211 a reply to the last two videos, "Here's how we're ending things," but now I've just 44:31.311 --> 44:35.411 opened up an entire, you know, new topic on social dark matter and I think I should 44:36.232 --> 44:40.031 leave that for another day, honestly.