Daniel Miessler: preference

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…Yeah, yeah. The way I frame this is that I don't think most of humanity is activated in terms of a very specific thing that I'm talking about here, which is I use this heuristic of the visiting alien with a clipboard. So the visiting alien shows up and they just go to random people on the planet, a billion random people all over. And they're like, hey, who are you? What do you do? I've been all over the galaxy, 19 galaxies, actually, and I just interview people. Like, what are you about? And they're like, I'm an accounting specialist. I work at a company. I provide this sort of thing. I do this. I check the spreadsheet. I update the thing. I send the report. They're like, no, who are you? What are you about? What are your beliefs? What do you think is wrong with the world? How do you plan on changing it? And they're like, yeah, I don't know. That's for special people. It's, do you have ideas? Do you talk about your ideas? Do you put them out into the world? It's like, no, no. I'm not, I'm not an author. I'm not a YouTuber. So there's a default sort of state, I think, that's just, it's no one's fault. It's just like the history of humanity, where people have been taught that there are special people who have podcasts and have ideas and write them down and think that they are worth sharing with others. And then there are the regular people, which are the 99%. And our entire education system for all these whatever thousands or hundreds of years has taught us that your goal is to get a job from one of the 1% people and you're a worker. And this mindset has basically shut down like the creative capability of the entire planet, rounded down to zero, right? Because there's very few people who are currently on YouTube who actually believe that they have something worth saying. So my whole plan, and I have no idea if it's going to work, it's just too sad to think about it not working. So it's the only reason I'm running full speed towards it because I'm like, this might be possible to help bring about. Therefore, I'm going to try. And that is, we have to activate people. We have to turn more of the 99%, whatever the numbers are, might be 99.999, or it might be like 95%, whatever. We have to turn more of those people who think that they are just workers for someone special to realizing they also can be special. They also have ideas. And I have seen so many pieces of evidence of this over my life where you can activate somebody by just believing in them, by just telling them that they are capable, by just saying, hey, you realize that was a really cool thing you just said. Have you ever written that down? No, that's nobody would read what I would say. How many people are like believe that they're just mothers, they're just moms, right? They're just providing this. And you're like, hey, that was really smart what you just said. Have you ever shared that with anyone who wants to read what I would say? So here's a sort of theatrical way of saying this. iding this. And you're like, hey, that was really smart what you just said. Have you ever shared that with anyone who wants to read what I would say? So here's a sort of theatrical way of saying this. Imagine that planets from this alien has visited have stats hovering over, they can see a stat for creativity activation for planets. And when they're scrolling through their phone, looking at all the different planets, the trillions that they've looked at, when they scroll over Earth, it says 0.0013. That's how much human activation of creativity has occurred on the planet, right? That is massive opportunity. And my favorite version of this is having a persistent tutor, a persistent assistant. And this is a little bit in the future, but we'll get there. A persistent tutor that is working with this person, letting them know, like not going super sycophantic, but letting them know, hey, look, you do have ideas. You do have value. You are smart. Hey, do you want to learn more about that? And just always being available from a young age, and obviously you have to be careful with this stuff early on, but having children be able to be tutored both in mindset and believing that they are capable of things, but also enabling them with tons of knowledge, right? e to be careful with this stuff early on, but having children be able to be tutored both in mindset and believing that they are capable of things, but also enabling them with tons of knowledge, right? So I feel like that would be a huge lever. I feel like, obviously, we need to fix like society and the way governments work and all that kind of stuff, which will be difficult because a lot of times the challenges are very real. It's my parents are working three jobs each. They don't have time to nurture me. Therefore, bad things happen. Happen, Right. right? So we have to fix all of that at multiple levels. But I think. think AI presents an opportunity to encourage people, especially children, but really anyone, to unlock this power within themselves. So sorry for the rant there. All this to come around to Pi. So Pi is designed to be a customized, personalized AI system. So I've got this project called Telos, which basically it gathers from people what are their goals. It basically does this alien interview. Who are you? What are you about? What are your goals? What do you think is wrong with the world? It actually starts with problems. Problems is the number one thing. What do you believe are the problems in the world? And then, okay, what do you want to do to change that? What are your obstacles to doing that? And it could be personal problems. It could be like, I'm too heavy. I've never been able to lose the weight. I have low energy or whatever. But this scaffolding of problems to challenges to projects, this system basically tells, can tell the Pi AI what it is you care about and what you're trying to accomplish. And at that point, the AI spins up with all this scaffolding to help you with meal planning, to help you with encouraging you, to help you find other artists, right? Because I'm not trying to build a product for tech people. Tech people are already techie, right? This is not about coding. This is about enabling a human to be better at what it is that they want to do to help them activate their full self. So practically, that means capturing their goals, their current capabilities, what they would like to learn how to do. And it also starts with mapping out what do you normally do during a day, right? And that's in work, that's in personal life. So for me and you, it's a lot of writing. It's a lot of writing and thinking. And so my workflows are many of them are largely focused around that. So I could capture an idea. I just wrote a replacement for Buffer. So I could go from an idea to red teaming the idea, having a council of AIs debate the idea, fight with me about it. And I'm in here editing, right? Making the adjustments on the fly, or I'm doing it with dictation with a shout out to Whisperflow. And I end up with that. And now I say, cool, put it on X and LinkedIn. And it's able to do that. So this workflow, which I see as extraordinarily human, the most human thing you could possibly do, which is have an idea and share it with the world. That is now made extremely simple through this whole AI workflow. And it's all built into Pi. So I'm literally telling my DA, my digital assistant Kai, hey, hey, I had this cool idea.…

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