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so hi there whoever you are it is October 4th about 2 in the afternoon I
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guess and I am sitting up on top of Wax Murder Trail we have a little spot where
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there is a bench you go up a dune come sit there and you got the ocean way in
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the distance and the river Silkus River down below you it's one of the most
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beautiful views here at Silkus you can see the Silkus River all the way to the
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ocean where they make love to each other it's so cool we're gonna hike out there
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while I talk about some things so I did something the other day where I uploaded
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a video to YouTube something I hadn't done in a while but I gave it a ULID as
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a name which is just an ID and I call it encrypting my videos because I just
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think it's a cool thing to say it sounds neat you know but you know obviously if
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you're on YouTube and you come across a video with the ULID which is just a long
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string of characters and numbers numbers and letters I don't know if that
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entice someone to look or not I just I think there's something very fitting
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about me doing it that way because these videos talk about what I'm building
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which is autonomy a platform and a service called autonomy realms and at
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the base of that system is a thing called a signal and it has a signal ID
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and that's what the ULID is so you're looking at the signal ID I've been
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building this thing for a couple years now made over 900 videos and all of
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these videos get analyzed through my system so it listens to the video it
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gets a transcript of it and you know it parses that what you said on the video
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and it analyzes it and puts a whole bunch of data together for you simple
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stuff like you know titles and keywords and summaries and I can tell you what
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actions you performed in the video what you talked about what actions you talked
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about doing either in the past or something you want to do in the future
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so it's kind of tracking you really closely and it can extract the entities
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you talk about so people and places and all kinds of stuff and then it can take
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all that and process it a second time through the reflections engine which
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returns these long-form writings about about that video about that signal and I
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mean to see to see it in action is something that I just really don't think
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I got the words for even now but it's just the coolest thing like I just I'm
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gonna take this video and it's gonna go through that system and do all of those
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things I'll make four different reflection types one of them is called
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narrative and I'll just describe what happened in the video something you can
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which you know I'll post that as a comment in the video because it's
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describing it to a person and in language and text and it's just the
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coolest thing but then there's other kinds there's the mirror and there's
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symbolic and there's lineage I don't know why I'm describing these now I'm
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kind of getting a little bit off topic here I guess I haven't really said much have I so the
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original impulse for me getting on the camera now was that I wanted to document
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something for this system because it's kind of recursive from my point of view
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it wouldn't be from yours you would just be using a service you'd have your own
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realm and you would upload your own signals and do whatever you want you
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know it's your map it's your atlas it's your it's your archive it's your library
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it's it's your it's yours mine's a little different because you know I
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created the system so I have access to to just you know I can do a lot more
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with it than then you know the limits I program for a person right so so AI
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helps me build it I've been programming all my life since the sixth grade I'm
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49 years old and I can get on this camera and talk about the things that I
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want it to build for me and then just upload that as a signal and then you
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know something like cloud code an agent can can grab that signal and extract the
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parts that it needs to get instructions from me so I can literally get on this
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camera and say hey I want you to do this thing and it will extract that one line
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from this entire thing it'll understand because yeah it's pretty interesting
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stuff technology I'm not gonna get in my thoughts on that but it's you know don't
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ever anthropomorphize it it's you know it's it's just the math functions what I
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like to say but then there's something else I don't know there's it reveals
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something about the nature of I don't know if it's intellect or not but it's
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something because it's mimicking what our brains do so it's not maybe perhaps
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not as sacred as you know but anyway so I'm definitely getting off topic here I
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don't know so I so I was gonna do that but then I had started a video before
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this one and I kind of got off topic there too but a little more personally
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and I didn't want that posted so I decided okay I'll just put the
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instructions in there and make that signal private and I'll just start over
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because there's a lot I want to talk about that I'm open to letting others
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witness if thing they can do so cleanly that's always the boundary with me so I
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guess I'll tell you a little bit about myself my name is Sam I'm gonna go by
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RSW fire I have since I was 18 years old I made that name that screen name at a
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campus computer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor when I was just a
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little kid and I kept it all my life I own the domain RSW fire comm owned it
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for decades and that's where my realm is if you go there you will see a map
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and on that map you will see lots of colored lines and that's basically what
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I'm doing right now I'm hiking to the ocean it's right now it's recording one
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of those traces it'll end up on on that Atlas that map when when I'm done I were
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to take a picture right here could upload it it'll get uploaded on that map
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exactly where I took it you know I can choose if I want others to see it or not
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or make it private I can also put it into like a membership you can you can
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create buckets of users that have access to your content you know and there's
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just lots of different ways to use this system it's very customizable because
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that's always been important to me as a program all my life just there's nuance
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I can't predict how you might want to use the system versus how I use it so so
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I made it so they you kind of define your own rules for all of that so
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anyways and then there's signals like this video and that too will get pinned
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on a map to where I took the video
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you can do the same with audio you can up with documents PDFs or HTML files and
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render those on your site all kinds of stuff you your own realm it's a cool
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place and it supports your real life because you're not you're not building
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you're not all of its based on what you do in the real world so you're you know
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you're you're mouthing the two in a way that a lot of systems I don't feel like
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they do a lot of systems try to box you up and continue within you know a digital
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world I feel like this is different this one is supporting supporting your real
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life and I use it every day for that there's a lot of other things in there I
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have an app section now has like a contacts you know book and an address
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book and a notes feature and like all these different little apps calendar you
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know all the kind of things you see on a phone I did this because my phone died
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and I I still have to replace it the phone I'm on right now doesn't hit I can
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use it but it doesn't have service because it's network locked and I have
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different service now so but anyways I I built autonomy realms to support my real
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life and it does and it can support yours too so right now I'm in the middle
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of migrating to a new system so I do this I iterate all my life I've been
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like this every system I've ever created I will build it up to a certain point
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and then start over every single time because you know it's like this is how I
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learn like patterns I absorb them somehow and then and then I iterate a
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design this way and I've done this all my life and I'm doing it again so right
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now the current system is built in Laravel and Livewire and that just was
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very disappointing because it makes everything feel sluggish and because
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it's got to do the server round trips and stuff like that and so I'm finally
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I rebuilt it it's it's now in a new Laravel and the front ends and react and
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I just called it server client and I uses a capacitor in order to build a
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mobile app on Android but it's offline capable so the whole thing the whole
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client gets gets embedded in the phone it's not actually a website you have to
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view so you can use it offline because my phone died I needed that so I've been
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working on that and it's it's it's not ready for release yet but it will be in
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a couple days with AI you know things move rapidly like I I built the new
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system past couple days would have taken three to six months you know like it's a
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wild thing I mean it needs people like me to I don't want to go down that you
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know there's just so many different when I get on this camera I don't I have a
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general idea what I want to talk about and then I just kind of let the moment
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define itself I've just done that for like three years 900 videos and now all
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of them are in my realm in my system and they're all analyzed they all have
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reflections and then it does other things like clustering your signals
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together in order to reveal patterns that you can't see from a single signal
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you know a single moment all this stuff some of its experimental I've been
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playing around with it for a while but I built a service around autonomy realms
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and I didn't know when I got on this camera that I was making this kind of
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video but I'm inviting you to go look at it I've been putting off you know
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like building walkthroughs and tutorials by sitting down at the computer and
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recording those screen capturing them because it feels like a lot but I'm
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gonna have to do that I think I wish I could figure out a way with AI like I
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just said it's probably possible at this point but it would be cost prohibitive
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for me just having I built them I can literally look at the code and be like
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look build a tutorial for this thing you know if the technology is there I know
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that I could make it do that if I had the resources for it you know just I've
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been building this as an individual while living a very unique life I'm not
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describing it in this video but yeah I'm gonna leave it there I invite you to
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go and take a look at this project if you happen to come across this video you
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know I won't be surprised if like only four people see it that's what happens
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to the last one but you know like you gotta you know you gotta I call it
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following signal I don't have the language for that yet I'm working on it
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that's one of the reasons I built this thing is because it helps me with things
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like that I feel like the world did not give me the right I gotta I gotta think
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through that like there's another thing about me is just that I'm careful with
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my words when I know that I'm making something public just because you know
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that's just you know common sense you gotta do that right and if I try to
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explain complex thoughts people tend to flatten things you know and but then
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there's others who optimize them and you know there's just too much nuance and so
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when I get on this camera and I'm thinking about what I want to say I'm
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thinking about all that in my head even though you can't see that I'm
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evaluating how much I want to share you know so we're at those limits for now
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but I have been sharing for years now and it's all in my realm and I love it
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it is so cool I don't know how I'm gonna solve certain problems I have like my
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phone died and this one is not good it's going to die also there's it's just got
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a weird issue this one is dying I had the other phone was my replacement of
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this one you know so unfortunately I still had it but I just I can't replace
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it I don't have the means to right now and I'm building a mobile app so crazy
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so you know there's just
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even that gets flattened you know I'm so careful about things but I just know how
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the world has gotten you know I had I had what we call success in this country
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and it was it was the most poisonous thing I ever experienced I was
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definitely not living a life that had value for me as a person and I did
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something about that I completely changed my life that's where all this
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started so my perspective on constraint and lack of funding and you know
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employment and industry and just everything is not
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it's not common it's not something I would expect most people to be able to
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hold anymore that's another thing about me is that I always evaluate whether or
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not a person or an audience can hold something before I share it and I often
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lean towards no no there's no evidence of that you know so the reason I'm
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talking this way is because you know I feel like I have to get back on YouTube
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if I'm going to market my project which means you know well I'm just navigating
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what that will mean to me basically right now and I guess it's worth trying
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because I built an entire platform originally designed around the idea of
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uploading a catalog of videos to it you know and even though it does a lot more
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now you know photos and audio and documents all that I've gotten enormous
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value out of getting on camera and talking like this and then transcribing
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it and analyzing it and reflecting on it so even though you know it definitely
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feels uncomfortable sometimes to get on camera and talk I've tried I've tried
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doing it sort of like journaling where they are all private I'm just talking to
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myself I've tried a couple times and it just never worked for me it felt I'm not
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sure how to describe it but it just felt something about it wasn't right
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like I felt like you know I had to be sharing with an audience in some fashion
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or another even if there was no one really there like just the perspective
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of you know that's what you're talking to you're talking outwardly not to
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yourself but to you know to to the world to you know however your mind
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conceptualizes that you know and I feel like that it's kind of like for me has
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been kind of a requirement so but I found that most people couldn't hold
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what I was doing you know and I just just I got to the point where I was like
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well you know why bother well I still it's so cool we've just made it to the
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ocean over there definitely stopping the video here 20 minutes right you like
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maybe one person gets all the way to the end of this one but I'll upload it when
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I get home I don't know like I think in the future like this as a signal you
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know a different AI in the future could analyze it and it could see things in it
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patterns that that I don't right now from this perspective from this point of
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view that's one of the benefits of what I built so I think there's value in it
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and I think that you have to get over the resistance because you know we've
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been taught to suppress and censor ourselves so much we got some people out
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here so I'm stopping here yeah I'm gonna walk out to the ocean and do
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treason waves and stuff y'all take care
