Transcript: And I guess beyond all of the most basic aspects of the brain and the personal AI thing, something that I want to note too is that it effectively becomes an application platform. And what I mean by that is one of the things that I might want to ask it is, hey, can you plan what activities I'm going to do this week? And for me, thinking about it from a technology perspective, I need the brain now to do some extra things that it maybe wasn't doing before. Specifically, thinking about feature extraction and metadata extraction from text or whatever forms, images, whatever. And it should know through that feature extraction, okay, CJ is a climber or CJ likes to surf, CJ likes to slackline, X, Y, and Z. And then be able to do maybe some reaching out to the internet for weather and surf conditions. And maybe if there's interoperability with my friends, their brains, and whatever they're willing to share with me, that it looks at their schedules to some degree and can be like, okay, here's a proposal, CJ, for what your week might look like. Surf at Monday at Ocean Beach because the conditions are looking really good, X, Y, and Z, it's like this. And then maybe on Tuesday, go climb with Patrick because Patrick is free and he wants to go climb Mount Woodson. And maybe on Wednesday, go surf again, the swell has died out a little bit, but it's perfect conditions at Swami's, blah, blah, blah. Whatever, Thursday, go slackline, the weather is going to be terrible for surfing and no one's available to be a climbing partner and then whatever else. And then it's like, for the weekend, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I think we've talked about, you probably don't want your entire life to be driven by this thing, but there are aspects of life that are nice to absolve. I do spend a lot of time looking at surf cameras and weather and surf reports and blah, blah, blah. I do spend a fair amount of time doing all of that and it's okay, but it doesn't always feel like I really want to be spending my time doing that. Anyhow, I literally have like 70 to 100 questions written down that do this, but my main point, the main point I was saying in all of this is that this is an application platform and the question that I just described is effectively like a little brain module. And it should not be up to me or anyone to create all of those brain modules. That is an insane task. And maybe the brains get better and better, but over time, I think the biggest thing is that anyone should have the ability and the tools at their hands to be able to create and compose these modules that make it effective for their lives. And in whatever way that means, but that is really like what I'm curious about in some way. And beyond that, when talking about other people's brains, now we can start communicating between them. That is a protocol. And personally, I want this to be a better friend. Like I am not always the best of friends because my brain just doesn't remember people all the time. It's not always good at that. And I do wish to make that process easier. And maybe all of that's a farce. Maybe I just need to work on that myself. But regardless, there are things here that I think are probably genuinely useful and can be used for personal growth.
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