Transcript: I'm listening to Jeff Bezos on the Lex Friedman podcast. And one of the things that I find very fascinating is something that Jeff just said in this podcast, which is basically this idea between the big things and paper cuts. And the paper cuts are like all of the small things that, you know, customers don't like effectively. And there is death by a thousand paper cuts. And so that is definitely something to avoid. But it also makes me think that's not something that runs the business. And it is something that makes the business continue to be the best it can be. But it seems like the question of what are the big things, he mentions, are what is not going to change in ten years from today? And for me, in the industry that I'm in, and that I enjoy, is, well, to me, it doesn't seem like computers are going to slow down. And that's one thing. But that doesn't impact people. Directly. Indirectly, it has a million knock-on effects. But in terms of how to make life better, maybe is identifying some of the ways in which, I guess, there is pain or suffering. And being able to identify those and work through those. For me, one of the things that I care about the most, and that I struggle with the most, especially when it comes to, you know, the things that I do, and that I struggle with the most, especially when I'm single or going through a change in life, is, you know, connecting with friends. And also just generally being able to express myself. I think those are two things that are not going to be any easier. Well, they're going to be a problem in 10 years, and they're going to be a problem today. Expressing self is an ongoing process. There's also another, which is creativity. Or curiosity, rather. I think that that's something I wish to encourage. But this does not have... I mean, moving into the world that we are, I think curiosity is going to need to be heightened. And honestly, as I look into the world, I do kind of see it. And I don't think it is restricted just to the weirdos that I hang around, quite frankly. And I love my weirdos. I say that only in the most loving way. And... Yeah, what did I say the other day? The other day is meaning. To make life more meaningful. I mean, that's a challenge for... forever. And if that's the guiding principle... it's hard for me to see... where to fail. I mean, other than that being an extremely difficult task. A task for the ages. A task... well, for every single person. And I think it gets at the crux of what a lot of tools are here for. Because we wish to make life more meaningful. The Industrial Revolution happened so we didn't have to work in fields. So we can make life more meaningful. Improve the quality of our lives. Be able to spend more time doing other things. But I don't know if we have always been successful at this. So I guess that's where we are now. And how do we make life more meaningful? It's all there already. All of the meaning is there. It just has to be discovered. To be seen. To be recognized. To be acknowledged. The oneness. The oneness. The oneness. You look in far enough. That's all you find. I have not found it. But I have an intuition. The same thing with the computers. There is no one. There is inherent relationality between everything. And that is what we are trying to describe. We are basically doing feature extraction on self. We are doing it manually. Manually to start. Some of that can be put in a nice UI and displayed. Spurvis does training data. Storing files. It's very easy for me to begin video and photo too, even if they're just stubbed out. I can just stub everything out and just store it for now. Literally can be as simple as that. The next question is how to make these things relational. And then queryable. Probably queryable first. And then we can figure out how their relationships work. We are going to build a separate frontend client. I'm kind of just going to assume that anything I put in there right now is going to be public. How that's going to work for messages right now, that is something to figure out when we add messages. Hmmm. I'm going to write just a little note in my notebook. Open there.
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