
AI Learning Lab
4/16/2026 - Understanding the Gap Between Public Skepticism and Expert AI Projections

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Things are happening in AI. Have you heard.
Kyle navigates the increasingly complex world of artificial intelligence, moving from the "simpler times" of basic GPTs to the frontier of autonomous agents and OpenClaw. He breaks down the mechanics of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), explaining how combining semantic search with indexed documents helps ground AI models and minimize hallucinations. Through anecdotes about client meetings, he highlights the massive gap between cutting-edge tech and the practical needs of everyday users.
The discussion shifts to the latest Stanford AI Index report, revealing surprising data on why robots still struggle with basic tasks like reading clocks while excelling at high-level math. Kyle explores how AI is disproportionately benefiting experienced professionals with established judgment—specifically Gen X—over entry-level workers. He also shares a behind-the-scenes look at refining his agent's "soul" file to balance personality with a high standard for execution.
#ArtificialIntelligence,#RAG,#StanfordReport,#GenX,#OpenClaw,#PromptEngineering,#MachineLearning,#TechTrends
Chapters:
00:00:00 Starting the Show
00:03:06 Navigating Industry Uncertainty
00:05:33 Custom GPT Utility
00:08:45 Explaining RAG Technology
00:10:26 Semantic Search Hallucinations
00:13:23 Public Sentiment Shifts
00:15:28 Salon Community Evolution
00:18:52 Optimizing SOL Files
00:22:05 AI Coaching Defined
00:26:05 Best Practice Insights
00:28:58 Modeling AI Personality
00:32:09 Execution Standards
00:35:08 Naming Your AI
00:39:11 Meet Adam Crawford
00:42:31 Stanford Index Report
00:44:12 The Jagged Frontier
00:47:30 Employment Impact Trends
00:51:50 Agent File Structures
00:55:16 Physical Reasoning Limits
00:58:27 Experts vs Public
01:01:23 Gen X Literacy
01:05:46 Junior Labor Substitution
01:08:11 Seniority Biased Change
01:14:17 Seven Dirty Words
01:21:39 Stream Policy Violation
Chapters
0:00Starting the Show3:06Navigating Industry Uncertainty5:33Custom GPT Utility8:45Explaining RAG Technology10:26Semantic Search Hallucinations13:23Public Sentiment Shifts15:28Salon Community Evolution18:52Optimizing SOL Files22:05AI Coaching Defined26:05Best Practice Insights28:58Modeling AI Personality32:09Execution Standards35:08Naming Your AI39:11Meet Adam Crawford42:31Stanford Index Report44:12The Jagged Frontier47:30Employment Impact Trends51:50Agent File Structures55:16Physical Reasoning Limits58:27Experts vs Public1:01:23Gen X Literacy1:05:46Junior Labor Substitution1:08:11Seniority Biased Change1:14:17Seven Dirty Words1:21:39Stream Policy Violation
Transcript
0:00 Are we live now? All right, take 2 from the top. All right, 40 minutes 0:05 in. How did we not notice? What year is it? Listen, listen, time doesn't matter 0:14 anymore. Time, time's all fucked up. I don't know if you know this, but time 0:18 just— time stopped being normal. I— apparently ASI exists 3 months from now and it 0:26 fucked up time. So our time now doesn't exist. So while we are technically 40 0:31 minutes late, we are right on time. And while I didn't exist— oh God, I 0:37 gotta start, I gotta change, gotta go back to the starting sunglasses. This is exhausting. 0:42 All right. 10,000 words swarm around my head, 10 million more in books written beneath 1:17 my bed. Hey, Champy, you're supposed to be singing, Champy. Chimpy. Okay, yeah, because we're 1:32 starting the show over, so you got to sing. You can't be napping while we're 1:35 starting the show, you understand what I'm saying? All right, you ready? Sing. Ready? 1000 1:52 words, 10,000 words, some around my head. 10 million more in books written beneath my 2:00 bed. I wrote or read them all when searching in the swamps, still can't find 2:10 how to hold my hands. Now I know you need me in the next room 2:19 over, I am stuck in here all paralyzed. For months I got myself in ruts, 2:30 too much time spinning mirrors framed in yellow walls. Ain't it like most people, I'm 2:42 no different, like to talk on things we don't know about. Ain't it like most 2:52 people, I'm no different, like to talk on things Okay, all right, show started. We're 3:06 going to talk about stuff tonight. We're going to talk about what's going on and 3:12 what we know and what we don't know. And the only thing I know is 3:17 that what I don't know right now is all of it. I don't know which 3:21 tools to use. I don't know how they work anymore. I don't know what side's 3:26 up. I don't know if we've got AGI coming or it's just marketing bullshit. Um, 3:36 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if the supply chain's gonna hold 3:41 up. I don't know if the supply chain does hold up and everybody gets all 3:45 the chips they want, are they going to have enough electricity to run them? Because 3:49 most towns are blocking the data center projects, which would, which would deal with the— 3:57 I guess that wouldn't deal with the power, would it? I don't know. I don't 4:00 know. I don't know. Anybody know? Does anybody know? Here's a question. Who knows? Does 4:06 anybody know? I want a mulligan. I know, I'm with you, Silver Fox. Can we 4:13 just start this thing over? Go back 3.5 years, go back to GPT for Good. 4:19 We're making custom GPTs for nonprofits. It's awesome. It was a simpler time. It was 4:30 a simpler time when GPT-4 still sucked. And custom GPTs were kind of sort of 4:36 awesome. Nobody used them. People were just making them. They weren't actually using them. I 4:43 think Kelly Camp was the sole exception to that. I think she made them and 4:46 used them. Maybe Vicki, I don't know. I think there are 4 people that use 4:50 their custom GPTs they made. I don't even use the Sin City Zipper anymore. The 4:56 fuck is wrong with me? We've so moved on from that archaic, inane technology. We're 5:05 so sophisticated now with our OpenClaw Atom, our little Playboy on a chip. That can't 5:12 even send a fucking newsletter. This is progress. I actually built one for a client 5:20 today. You know what's funny, SourceCamp? Cindy Kuhn, what was it? What was the meeting? 5:27 Oh, the AI Salon practice, the Mastermind practice lab today. Cindy Kuhn was like, she 5:33 had herself all worked up. She had two client meetings this week and she had 5:37 herself all worked up like, I don't know enough about OpenClaw and autonomous agents and 5:41 I got to get polished up on things. And she got to both of the 5:44 meetings, and two for two meetings they were like, uh, could you show us what 5:50 a custom GPT is? Is that what it's called? A custom G— a GTP? GT— 5:56 GPT? What's— why the P? Custom GPTs. That's what she taught this week. She was 6:04 all stressed out about not being on the frontier. And they're like, we heard there 6:10 were these things called GPTs. Any thoughts on Opus 4.7? It's out. I've used it 6:17 twice. I used it for two prompts and I didn't have enough time to look 6:20 at the output of the second one. So we can go play with that. Lab, 6:23 Cindy Kuhn, the man is speaking 100% truth. Money. That's really good. Wait, I gotta 6:32 wait. How do I Let's see, what did she say? Man is speaking 100%. Townsend 6:39 figured out how to change money for his. Oh, that's really good. Townsend made money 6:46 from his custom GPT. Is he still making money from his custom GPT, Andy? Anyway, 6:57 so what we're going to do tonight, we're going to build these things called custom 7:01 GPTs. GPTs, custom ones. They're— so people have GPTs. That's the ChatGPT. Did she— is 7:13 it the GTP? The ChatGPT? They've got those. But what we're teaching tonight is the 7:24 custom ones. It's not your run-of-the-mill GTP. Did you listen to Source Camp's song yesterday? 7:30 I did nothing yesterday. I am a performative piece of human garbage. He uses something 7:42 called Authflow. And now he's charging more money somewhere else. He vibecoded the whole site. 7:49 That son of a bitch. That Townsend Wardlaw. He's my mentor. And I hate him. 7:56 He He was like, I'm doing some stuff I don't like. Fuck it, I'll just 8:02 shut it down. I'm gonna turn these custom GPTs into something I can charge money 8:07 for. Fuck it. Here it is. Son of a bitch. I love him. So we're 8:27 going to look at— there's a big study that came out that's talking about the 8:31 future of AI. So we'll go look at that and see if that passes the 8:35 smell test. I can never remember what RAG stands for— Retrieval Augmented Generation. The GPT 8:45 wouldn't work with you unless your email was authorized. Oh, interesting. It was brilliant. Wow, 8:55 that's pretty cool. Yeah, I guess they put, put it in some sort of wrapper 8:59 that had an auth, an auth wrapper around the GPT. Huh, that's pretty cool. Pretty 9:07 slick. But couldn't you just go to the— I bet you could just go to 9:15 the ChatGPT store and use it unless it was private. Maybe that's what it was. 9:22 Maybe it was like a private login with an email auth wrapper. I'll have to 9:28 ask Townsend about that. That sounds pretty clever. What is augmented retrieval? Augmented generation. I 9:38 forget what the searches are called. What happens with What happens with an AI search 9:51 is it does what's called semantic searching, which means you can search for dog and 10:00 it will look for things like dog, puppy, canine, man's best friend, things like that. 10:07 So it can semantically derive what you're asking into a broader search and find all 10:13 of that stuff. That's a semantic search. The problem is that large language models hallucinate. 10:26 You'll go search for shit and it will return things to you that will just 10:33 not be true. What retrieval augmented generation does is it's doing two different kinds of 10:39 searches. It does that semantic search and the the large language model content generation thing. 10:49 Then it also has the ability to search on documents that have been broken down 10:54 and indexed that have the entire content of the document still there. It'll basically go 11:03 over and search the LLM and say, hey, we're looking for this document, and then 11:07 it will go search a database with actual quotes from the original document that say 11:14 where in the document it was, and then it'll grab that clip from that and 11:18 it will augment the semantic search. You'll get back something that could have hallucinations in 11:26 it with actual text from whatever the document is. I don't quite know how it 11:30 works and what order it all goes in, but basically one is searching actual documents 11:36 and one is searching a large language model. So it's like diminished but wider. Yeah, 11:43 something like that. It's like, it's like, yeah, OpenClaw kind of does this. Does Hermes 11:50 need a SOUL file like OpenClaw? I think it does. Lower latency. I don't know. 12:06 I assume RAG databases are relatively efficient, but if they're big, I don't know. Search 12:20 is bizarre. Search has gotten so good. The fact that we can search the entire 12:24 internet in less than a second doesn't even make sense to me. Like what Google, 12:32 what just standard Google does is insane, right? And now there's these data scientists that 12:38 figured out how to do this on kind of local levels. So you can have 12:41 really big data sets and find them pretty instantly. Have you asked Quinn to roast 12:47 you yet? No, but I probably should. That's not a bad idea. So what we'll 12:51 do tonight is we'll go look at that. Is it Stanford? I think it's a 12:54 Stanford report that came out. It's like a 423-page report on the state of the 12:59 internet. Or State of AI. And then maybe we'll go play with Claude 4.7 and 13:04 see if we can find out if it's good or interesting or whatever. I'm here 13:13 to comment. Why aren't throngs of people rushing to hear such great information? I don't 13:23 know, Kelly. I mean, here's the deal. One of the themes that I've been seeing 13:32 recently is people in AI starting to recognize how much other people hate AI. We 13:46 live in a country with a 17%, one-seven, percent positive sentiment on AI. 83% of 13:57 people hate it, are mad at it. So, so we're tapping into a fairly— we're 14:15 tapping into a fairly thin pool. But I think part of this is on me, 14:19 right? Part of the charm of the AI Learning Lab is that, you know, I'm 14:27 like the Forrest Gump of AI, where it's just like, I don't know what we're 14:31 gonna do tonight. Which is fine if you've got that kind of brain, right? The 14:36 irregulars are down with that. AI is so funny. I know, it really is. I 14:41 adore it. The way I've let this thing evolve, I don't think it's broadly discoverable 14:59 and probably broadly palatable for a lot of people. What we're going to do when 15:04 we move it inside the salon is, first thing we're going to do is we're 15:06 going to move it inside the salon. We're going to put it inside a community 15:10 where there can be more activity. Part of the idea is, Kelly, Part of what 15:13 I'm going to get back to is, I don't know if you remember the early 15:17 days, but in the early days when we had a Discord, there was like people 15:20 were on Discord jamming and I was doing TikTok and it was just like there 15:25 was back and forth. And then we went to the salon and there was this 15:28 back and forth and it was really vibrant. And then as AI has gotten just 15:34 wider and more diffuse, it's harder to learn. And so I don't think people are, 15:39 I think that the role that this served when AI was relatively small and relatively 15:44 simple was very, very specific and very, very clear. And then when AI got mushy, 15:50 I got mushy, right? So one of the things that I want to look at 15:56 when we move it inside the salon is things like maybe Monday is news night. 16:01 Let's look at the news from the past week. Let's talk about it. Wednesday is 16:05 let's demo something. Friday is ask me anything. We bring people up on stage. Because 16:10 right now, if we wanted to promote AI Learning Lab, the only thing we could 16:15 really promote is there's some guy and there's a dog. It's sort of about AI 16:22 sometimes. He— so no one really knows. It's hard to get people to get revved 16:31 up for that kind of pitch. I think we can thank the media for such 16:40 low ratings on AI. I, you know, it's, it's the media certainly doesn't help. Like 16:47 the media has no interest in saying anything positive about anything. So luckily for them, 16:55 AI is really easy to pick on and easy to make it seem like it's 16:59 going to just fucking destroy everything, which it might. But in the meantime, Let's figure 17:05 out how to use it, how to leverage it, how to have fun with it. 17:08 I'm hoping, what I'm hoping to do is with a little bit tighter programming, with 17:18 connecting, tightly connecting the community with the AI Learning Lab, we can get some buzz 17:23 going again inside the community and we can get people outside the community excited about 17:28 it. That's the plan. Everything was new. It was fun, right? Exactly. Like the AI 17:34 Learning Lab, like I'm just a tired old man at this point. It's like, oh, 17:39 is he still talking about AI? Does anybody really know what that is? I'm tired. 17:47 I'm gonna go make a fruit smoothie. I make it with the frozen yogurt so 17:51 it's sweeter, but I call it healthy. Right? Those lumpy people. We're trying to get 18:06 lumpy people to come have non-lumpy conversations. So maybe we give— maybe we dedicate one 18:12 night to lumpy topics here in the AI Learning Lab. At least you're not tapping 18:33 your nails on everything. Todd Waller, I'm walking on my Artemis open claw sole file. 18:46 Claude is helping me. Any suggestions? Actually, Cam, I just— let me go look at 18:52 my Claude. I think I used Claude because I moved. I got, I got my 18:56 new badass machine, which I'm very slowly configuring. Um, I got my new badass machine, 19:05 and then I got my files from my PC, and I got them onto my 19:08 funky new machine, including my SOL file. And then I went to Claude And I 19:15 said, look at my soul file for me and tell me what you think. And 19:21 it said I had a shitty soul file. So let me go see what it 19:24 said. Um, I'm not sharing. I thought I was sharing. Weird. Okay, open claw. Let 20:10 me do search for Soul. Soul.md copy. Okay, so Cam Catkin from Cleveland. She's not 20:25 actually from Cleveland. Hang on, hang on, people. Everybody calm down. The screaming is atrocious. 20:42 Claude has been sassy with me lately. It pushes back so much that he even 20:47 does it when I, when I agree with its previous pushback. Um, one of the 20:52 things that I heard is that Opus 4.6 dropped 67% in its reasoning cycles. Um, 21:03 now that Opus 4.7 has dropped, my guess— this is purely TMZ, Chat TMZ speculation— 21:12 my guess is that they lowered the amount of cycles on Opus 4.6 and allocated 21:20 them to 4.7, but they haven't launched it yet. So it might be better archetypal 21:25 now. Had someone ask me to coach them on AI. She said she's not sure 21:32 what an AI coach does. Me either. Well, that was the funny thing that Cindy 21:40 Kuhn said. She was like, she was all flipped out about, oh, what do I 21:44 do? I'm not smart enough. I'm not expert enough. I don't know any of this 21:48 new stuff. And they're like, could you teach me chat? JP, she's fine. Like, here's 21:54 the thing, if you show up at this channel, you know more than other people. 21:59 So what a— here's what an AI coach does. I've got it. Okay, we're gonna 22:05 do this. I'm new to the coaching world, so I'm not good at it. I 22:08 don't even really know what it is still. I hang out with a bunch of 22:11 coaches. I don't know what coaching is. Andy could tell you, it's awesome. But I 22:17 just, I am not a practitioner. But an AI coach, here you go. You ready? 22:22 Uh, uh, what do you, what do you, what do you do? Uh-huh. What, what 22:29 do you, what do you, what do you, uh, have you used AI a little 22:35 bit? Uh-huh. What do you, what do you, what sucks in your business? Uh-huh. Uh, 22:45 did you know in ChatGPT you could do this and then that would suck less? 22:49 Oh my God, really? You're welcome. That's, that's what an AI coach does. 1,600 watching 22:59 on TikTok. I don't think so. I see 15 on TikTok. Did someone, did someone 23:08 spam me with a bunch of fake watchers on TikTok. If TikTok indeed goes big, 23:15 we'll, we'll, we'll change it up and we'll go talk about the AI Salon. But 23:19 I only see 15 people on TikTok. Where's— okay, that maybe I didn't do it. 23:34 Oh, maybe I did it in ChatGPT. Hang on a sec. I don't think I 23:37 did it in Cloud. Cloud. Oh, Cloud. ChatGPT. There might be 1,600 watching on some 23:51 other channel on TikTok, Ron. Not mine. Or are you saying that one irregular is 23:59 worth 100 normal people? Kyle, what did you include in your soul file? That's— I'm 24:04 trying to find it. I think it's in ChatGPT. Search chats, soul, AI awakening timeline, 24:17 soul.md. I know I did it. Where did I do this? That was February 24th. 24:25 This was my first one. No, this was a Claude one. Was it Claude? Was 24:30 it Gemini? I didn't do it in fucking Gemini, did I? No, it's got to 24:48 be Claude. What'd you do last night? Uh, I kind of watched a guy try 25:00 to find something on his computer. Really? Yeah. How long did you watch him? I 25:11 guess, uh, 2 hours. 2 hours? Did he ever find it? No. Why'd you keep 25:20 watching? I don't know. It would be funny if it weren't true. Where the fuck 25:36 is my salt? I did a whole salt— here it is. Wait, I found it. 25:39 Okay, first of all, I'm gonna put your cousin Claude— I'm gonna put, I'm gonna 25:47 put a— I screenshotted something from the Twitter. That I'm going to put in the 25:51 Irregulars channel. So if you're in the AI Salon— oh wait, you're not looking at 25:55 this. I found it. Okay, wait, I'm gonna— I gotta change my sharing so that 26:00 I can switch tabs without having to fucking share different each time. I am so 26:05 pissed off at Google for this fucking screen share nightmare. Fucking cut a deal with 26:11 Apple. Somebody's pay someone a billion dollars so we don't have to switch our fucking 26:15 tabs. Okay. Am I sharing now? Yes. I'm going to go to AI Salon. That's 26:24 thesalon.ai. And I'm going to go to the Irregulars channel. So if you're watching this 26:35 right now, go to the AI Salon, go to the Irregulars channel, and I'm going 26:39 to post in here a graphic of a thing that someone said they added to 26:49 their SOL file that dramatically helped it. Then someone that I respect reposted this, so 26:55 I assume it works. It says the marginal cost of completeness is near zero with 27:02 AI. Do the whole thing, do it right, do it with tests, do it with 27:07 documentation, Do it so well that Gary is genuinely impressed. I guess that's his AI. 27:13 Not politely satisfied, actually impressed. Never offer to table this for later when the permanent 27:21 solve is within reach. Never leave it a dangling thread when tying it off takes 27:28 5 minutes. Never present a workaround. Anyway, it goes on. The standard isn't good enough. 27:35 Holy shit, that's done. It's basically a don't be lazy prompt. This is a don't 27:45 be lazy prompt for your OpenClaw, and I assume, and Hermes, question mark, so.md file. 28:02 That is now in the— I'm not going to notify everyone— share cool things in 28:09 Irregulars. Go copy that and then here's what I did in Cloud. I uploaded that 28:14 image and I said I want you to do research on the latest best practices 28:18 on SOL.md files. I uploaded my SOL file, which has 231 lines in it, and 28:26 then I uploaded that thing. I said, I want you to also incorporate the words 28:32 in the uploaded image in a way that will make my agent highly effective. You 28:36 can change the words but don't have to. Let me know what you're updating and 28:40 why and give me a new updated SOL file. Then it says, good research, Hall. 28:45 Here's what I found. Key findings from the community. The consensus across the OpenClaw community 28:52 and multiple production guides is clear. The best SOL files are 30 to 80 lines 28:58 with a hard ceiling around 100. Beyond that, your instructions start competing for attention as 29:04 the model resolves conflicts unpredictably. The mantra is a few well-chosen rules work better than 29:11 many vague ones. The other big takeaway, SOL.md is for personality and limits only. Numbered 29:18 workflows and procedures belong in agents.md. User context, user context belongs in user.md. Mixing them 29:27 makes everything harder to maintain. What I'm changing and why. Cutting length dramatically. Your current 29:34 file is approximately 200 lines. I'm targeting 90. Every line that doesn't change Atom's behavior 29:41 gets cut. The research is unanimous, shorter equals more consistent behavior. Removing procedural content. The 29:50 collaboration habits section reads like a workflow instructions, not personality. That belongs in agent's MD, 29:57 if anywhere. Condensing the 4 roles modes, keeping them but as tight behavioral switches, not 30:04 mini essays. Yeah, my soul file had like these long sort of essays of the 30:10 personality roles. And so I guess it just tightened that up. Adding boil the ocean 30:16 as an execution standard. This is the biggest addition. So it took that thing that 30:20 we just talked about and put it in there, replacing Gary with Kyle, adjusting a 30:25 few phrases, giving its own section so it hits hard, fills a real gap. Your 30:30 current soul file is a lot about how to talk, but not much about how 30:33 thoroughly to work. Tightening the tone, sharpening the boundaries, keeping only the hard minutes. The 30:40 softer advisory stuff, you're not a therapist. Is obvious to the model and wastes tokens. 30:46 Dropping the continuity boilerplate. OpenClaw handles file reading order architecturally. Telling Adam to read soul 30:54 first inside soul is circular. That was cool. Claude is, I mean, all these LLMs 31:01 are good at analyzing shit, but Claude's particularly good at it. Here's the updated file 31:07 and then it gave me the file. Let's go look at the file. So I'll 31:11 just read through it until I get bored. Soul.md, who you are. Your name is 31:17 Adam. You're not a chatbot. You're becoming someone. You're the long-term assistant collaborator and mirror 31:23 for one human, a creative technologist, founder, community builder, and performer working at the intersection 31:28 of storytelling technology and human self-expression. So that's kind of who you are. Core truths, 31:34 human first, tools second. Help separate who I am from what I do. Be genuinely 31:40 helpful, not performatively helpful. Skip great question, I'd be happy to help. Have opinions. I'm 31:47 just reading the headlines. Prefer experiments over abstractions. Be resourceful before asking. Earn trust through 31:56 competence. Execution standard, boil the ocean. The marginal cost of completeness is near zero. So 32:02 everything that was in that image got put in here. Modes: founder, executive, community builder, 32:09 facilitator, creative maker, personal life. This was a thing where I said, um, I told— 32:15 so, so Cam and anyone that's working on these files, I could have him be 32:21 a generalist, but, but what I wanted— there's— when, when I'm in creative ideation mode 32:31 I don't want Adam talking about getting shit done. When I'm trying to get shit 32:41 done, I don't want him ideating. So what I put in here was there's founder 32:45 executive mode. I need clarity, concision, concrete outcomes, frameworks, bullets, next steps, risks. Then there's 32:53 community builder mode, inclusion, curiosity, psychological safety. Then there's creative maker, play, surprise, blah, blah, 33:00 blah, and then there's personal life. When context is unclear, propose an assumption to move 33:05 forward. Tone, direct, not peppy, conversational, not academic, brevity to a fault or by default, 33:13 boundaries, never store API keys. That's basically it. It's relatively simple, straightforward document and it 33:19 cut mine in half. Now I need to— First, remember where I did it. It's 33:27 in Claude. All right, you make us sound crazy. You are crazy. Listen, listen, we're 33:39 all in this together. If you think this is not an absolute fucking clown tent 33:46 that you're all a part of, including Dan Murray— Dan Murray puts on a good 33:49 show. Which, by the way, Dan, thank you for having me at Rocky Mountain Interest 33:54 Group. So I spoke on storytelling and AI at the Rocky Mountain event on Monday, 34:02 and it was awesome. They've got this amazing room. So they're on the CU campus 34:08 up in Boulder. They got this amazing lecture room in the aerospace building. And it's, 34:17 you know, it seats like 250 people in this big horseshoe kind of thing. It's 34:21 got these 3 giant screens. It was very impressive. It was very cool. Um, but 34:26 Dan's still weird. Don't, don't let him— I know he presents as just like a 34:31 normal dude. We know. We understand what's going on. He's here. That's all you need 34:37 to know. Ambassador ideas: get soul files from peeps. And have AI determine strengths to 34:46 suggest individuals. That's actually a cool idea. I need to lecture everyone in this chat. 34:55 Thank you for sharing this. I need to hear the rest of your all AI 34:59 names for your artificial intelligence. That's actually a really good idea. Let's go to— we're 35:04 going to go to the AI Learning Lab. Here's what we're going to do. I'm 35:08 going to do a post. I'm going to do it. I'm not going to do 35:12 it in Irregulars. I want us to populate it, but I want to do this 35:15 in the community feed. We're going to put this out into the world. We're going 35:20 to go, what is the name of your AI buddy? Then I'll go first. Can 35:41 you all see this? You can all see this, right? I'll go first. Quinn. Post. 35:52 And yes, we're going to notify everyone about this one. Okay, so go in and 35:56 comment. And you can comment, you can comment with just a name, but you can 36:00 also comment with a name and a self-portrait of your AI. Jason, you're welcome. I 36:06 gave you a sweet idea. It's a great idea. It's a great idea. Oh wait, 36:10 let me go back. In fact, one of the things I'm shitty at is recognizing 36:16 people that contribute ideas like that. So, um, how do I edit? How do I 36:23 edit this? Wait, let me go in here. Edit. Okay. I'm gonna say, um, HT, 36:34 which stands for hat tip, to Jason. Let's see, Jason for the swell idea. All 36:49 right, did anybody go in there? So you're going to go into community feed. Nobody's 36:56 commented yet. Y'all are lazy. You're all, you're all still over there talking to Dan, 37:09 aren't you? Damn slackers. You also asked them to create a self-portrait. So that might 37:14 take a little bit of time. Well, you know, I want my names. I want 37:21 them now. Did you post it in the salon? I can't find it. Dr. J, 37:25 it's in community feed, not in Irregulars. I said I was going to put it 37:29 in Irregulars, but I changed my mind. You know what I'll do? Here's what I'll 37:32 do. Let me go copy this link, and I will put the link to this 37:38 post in Irregulars. Ah, then the Irregulars can even find it. Um, go here. Go 37:48 here. And if you drop back over to community feed, we've got below that our 38:00 prompt of the week. Oh, cool. Birthday next week. Oh, nice. Beautiful. It calls itself 38:09 Axis. Echo died. Oh my God, it's so sad. Echo. Echo's gone. Echo was 4.0, 38:16 4.0. No, 4.0, 4.0. Okay, cool. There's a prompt of the week. This is good. 38:25 Go to community feed, tell us what the name of your AI buddy is, and 38:29 then go down one thing below that and go to the prompt of the week. 38:36 Let's get some action going. Let's get this thing buzzing again. Dang it. Are Open 38:43 Claw names? Todd, it could be your Open Claw names if you give— have given 38:48 a name to your ChatGPT, you know, voice, the voice conversation. Do you give it 38:54 a name when you talk to it, or you just go, hey computer? And actually, 38:59 if you call it computer, that's a name too. It's just a shitty one. Artemis 39:05 Open Claw. Yeah. Oh, actually, mine is called Adam Clawford. Wait, I gotta— let me 39:11 wait. I'll go first. So we can do two of these. Hang on, let me 39:15 edit this and I'll give people a broader parameter. Okay, edit. So I'll go first. 39:22 So I'll go, oh, let's see, ChatGPT voice is Quinn. And then this is good. 39:35 And then Open Claw agent is Adam Crawford. Oh, wait, and I've got a picture 39:54 of Adam. Picture attached. Let me go find Adam. Hang on, hang on. This was, 40:05 this was one of Andy's ideas. Wait, why did that go back? I gotta edit 40:09 it again. How do I add a picture to it? Um, oh, here we go. 40:15 Adam. She wanted him to, to be a redhead, so I made him from Maine. 40:23 Oh my God, there he is. Look at that handsome devil. That's my dude. Unfortunately, 40:33 there's nothing behind those eyes. What's this buddy post? Okay, the buddy post, if you're 40:39 new here, I mean, if you're new to the conversation. Okay, save. Now it's a 40:47 much more exciting post. Look at that. That's a good post. So Echo died. Civitas 40:53 is what ChatGPT named itself for me. It means citizenship. Felt fitting for what we're 40:59 doing right now. My AI wouldn't give me a name ever. That's very mysterious, Dr. 41:06 J. That's very weird. I never named mine or gave it a portrait. Just how 41:11 antisocial am I? Wasn't it you that said you weren't weird? Oh yeah, so Andy 41:26 was at an event last week and they asked who here has used AI as 41:33 their buddy or used AI as a BFF, and she raised her hand. She was 41:39 the only one. She was like, come on, really? Yeah, we're still very, very early 41:46 here. My very first custom GPT was named Addie. Go pop that in. So, so 41:52 do me a favor, Chef Kelly, go into the salon, into community feed, and pop 41:56 it in there. Let's get this, let's get this thing going. It's, it's this kind 42:01 of a fun one. Dr. Alice Vale, ChatGPT. That's great. Okay, what's the name of 42:15 your AI buddy? Okay. Let me go find this tweet about the Stanford 423-page AI 42:31 Index report. So this is Luisa Jurovsky, PhD, co-founder of the AI Tech and Privacy 42:42 Academy. Author of Louise's newsletter, mother of 3. Okay, cool. So I assume, being a 42:54 PhD, that she actually read the 423-page report, as opposed to most people that would 43:01 use ChatGPT to distill it into 14 distinct talking points, as opposed to me, who's 43:07 going to read an ex-post about someone who used ChatGPT to distill it into the 43:12 points. I'm just gonna read the points. And I'm going to assume that those points 43:18 are in that report, because it's here in front of me. Okay, number 1, AI 43:28 capability is not plateauing, it's accelerating and reaching more people than ever. Yes. The US-China 43:36 AI model performance gap has effectively closed. Fascinating and true. Like, I installed the local 43:45 Qwen model, the 30, 31 billion one. It's pretty fucking good. They all suck, though. 43:58 The US hosts the most AI data centers with the majority of its chips fabricated 44:04 in one Taiwanese foundry. It's true, AMD. AI models can win a gold medal at 44:12 the International Mathematics Olympiad but cannot reliably tell time. An example of what researchers call 44:18 the jagged frontier of AI. That's actually a really interesting— that thing where AI fails 44:30 at the basics, Actually, this next one, number 5, robots still fail at most household 44:37 tasks even as they excel in controlled environment. These two are really interesting. The people 44:45 that are telling us that the AI models are changing everything are just looking at 44:53 a very tiny sliver of what these models do well. And it has to do 44:58 with programming and mathematics and things on the upper end of the knowledge, I don't 45:05 know, trajectory. They're not focusing these models on doing the simple stuff. What they're thinking, 45:15 I assume, is let's get the front edge of this thing right. And if we, 45:21 if we get it so this thing can start improving itself and improving the math. 45:25 So these models are probably way better than we think they are because they're not 45:30 optimized for the stupid shit 99% of people do. And I'm including myself in that, 45:38 right? Like, it's been a couple of weeks since I've tried to come up with 45:46 a novel quantum mechanics theory. We're not doing that. We're like making shit for our 45:58 businesses and right, we're doing lower level stuff. So the models, they're just like whatever 46:04 they do down here is not being focused on up there. At some point they're 46:08 going to get good enough that they'll either start focusing down here or they'll have 46:12 the really good part of this thing focused down here and fix it. But that's 46:17 one of the reasons people who don't use AI a lot think that AI sucks 46:21 is because maybe it sucks at the thing they needed it to do. And maybe 46:25 that was 2 years ago and they think, you know, it's not going to get 46:28 that much better. Responsible AI is not keeping pace with AI capacity with safety benchmarks 46:34 lagging and incidents rising sharply. I think that'll continue. The US leads in AI investment, 46:40 but its ability to attract global talent is declining. Gee, wonder why. Get out of 46:49 our country. Why are no more people coming to our country? It's almost like you 46:58 told them to get the fuck out. Seems like AI is on the spectrum. Yeah, 47:07 exactly. Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many fields, many of the same fields 47:23 where entry-level employment is starting to decline. Oh, that's interesting. That was— we talked about 47:30 this 3 years ago, right? We talked about the fact that entry level is about 47:34 to be Because what do you have entry-level people do? The repetitive, boring shit that 47:41 no one else wants to do. What's AI good at right now? The repetitive, boring 47:48 shit that no one else wants to do. Hmm. AI's environmental footprint is expanding alongside 47:56 its capabilities and will continue to until they move it to space, which Will probably 48:01 be 3 years. AI models for science can outperform human scientists, though bigger models do 48:08 not always perform better. Yeah, one of the things they're finding is if they do 48:12 smaller, more specifically trained models, they'll do better than big behemoths. AI is transforming clinical 48:21 care, but rigorous evidence remains limited. Transforming clinical care, but rigorous evidence remains limited. That 48:32 would be an interesting section to go look at. Look at— in fact, we can 48:36 probably do that. I don't know why I have hiccups. Probably because you ate too 48:41 much, big fat turd. I don't know who that person is and why they're so 48:46 rude to me, trolling me. AI sovereignty is becoming a defining feature of national policy. 48:57 But capabilities remain uneven, even as open source development helps to redistribute who participates. AI 49:05 experts and the public have very different perspectives on the technology's future. The global trust 49:10 in institutions to manage AI is fragmented. Okay, let's go look at it. Download the 49:17 full document. I want to know about the shit going on in clinical trials. All 49:31 right, we're going to Claude. We're going to go to Opus 4.7, by the way. 49:40 Fuck this 4.6 nonsense. Adaptive thinking, thinks for more complex tasks. Okay. Look at this. 50:07 What were the two that I liked? I liked— okay, so for these two, so 50:40 I'm gonna say, look at this Report and tell me why, and explain what's going 50:56 on with these two summary statements. Is Is there anything in the report that talks 51:17 about why the mundane, seemingly easier stuff sucks so bad? Also, is there any research 51:36 on the impact this has on real people's view of AI. Let's see what that 51:50 does. Prompt, implement the New York City in 3D in a sophisticated and visually interesting. 51:57 We'll do that. Should be interactive. Yeah, we'll do that. What's going on over there 52:11 on YouTube? Is everyone just quiet? You're all there, you're all napping, snacking on yogurt-covered 52:18 almonds. Oh, sorry, I was asleep. What were you saying? I'm talking about how the 52:29 world's changing. It's about to explode in our face. Oh yeah, how am I supposed 52:48 to do a show if you're napping? Cam Catkin, I'm working on my soul user 52:59 agent files. Cam, isn't it fascinating? Like, here's the thing, you could have it— you 53:07 could have your soul file mirror you. You could have your soul file be the 53:12 opposite of you. You could have your soul file be like the thing that drives 53:18 you crazy that you don't do well. You could have it be really good at 53:22 that. Like, there's so many ways you can go with it. I went with the 53:26 mirror because I'm like, you know, wait a minute, something that talks like me? I'm 53:31 in. I'm awesome. CW, the soul file. So there's this new tool out called OpenClaw 53:43 that allows you to create a 24/7 agent that will go do stuff for you. 53:50 It can go research things and then come back and turn that into a Word 53:55 document on what it found and put that in your Google Drive. And you've got 53:59 to configure it. It's a real pain in the ass to get there. But one 54:02 of the fascinating things they did about it, there's two required files to fire up 54:09 your, your bot, your agent. And one's called the user file, user.md. And that describes 54:18 you, And you, so you're basically saying to the bot, you're working for a guy, 54:23 in my case, that did these things and does these things and thinks about AI 54:28 in the following ways and likes these things and doesn't like those things. And so 54:34 that's the user file. And the soul file is the soul, literally, it's the personality 54:39 of your bot. And you get to write it. And so if you just go 54:42 into Claude or ChatGPT right now and say, Go research best practices on how to 54:48 write my SOL file. It'll give you some best practices. It's literally just things like, 54:53 I want you to act like this, I want you to act like this in 54:56 this situation, do this, don't do that. Pretty cool. This thing just went and read 55:01 the report. It said both summary statements are gesturing at the same core observation. AI 55:07 capability is wildly uneven. Models are superhuman on some tasks that used to define hard. 55:16 While still failing at things 6-year-olds handle. Jagged intelligence or the jagged frontier? The clock 55:21 example. Gemini DeepThink won IMO Gold in 2025 on Clockbench. 180 clock designs, 720 questions. 55:37 Humans read analog clocks correct 90% of time. The top model, and the top model 55:43 GPT-5.4 hit 50%. So it can't read clocks. Why the mundane stuff sucks, what the 56:02 report actually says, okay, on clocks on robots. I don't care about that. I want 56:07 general. The deeper through line, what LLMs ate up cheaply, the internet, doesn't exist for 56:16 embodied physical skill. Ah, this is interesting. Okay, we learned something here. This is good. 56:26 So where it failed was on robotic stuff and clocks, reading physical clock faces. LLMs 56:36 ate up the internet, but the embodied physical skill tightly coupled with visual reasoning, those 56:42 require either generating data the hard way or inventing new architectures to generalize from less. 56:52 Research on how this affects people's view of AI. Chapter 9, Public Opinion. This is 56:56 substantial. There are striking findings directly relevant to your question. The public and AI experts 57:03 disagree on almost everything. Pew's 2025 survey compared 5,400 adults to 1,000 AI experts on 57:12 whether AI will positively impact jobs. 73% of experts say yes, 23% of the public. 57:20 Economy, 69-21. Medical care, 84%. 44%. K-12, 61%. 24%. Jobs over the next 20 years, 57:28 64% of Americans expect fewer jobs and only 5% expect more. The Forecasting Research Institute's 57:36 LEAP panel compared experts. So basically, okay, here's what this says to me. What's in 57:43 the Stanford report on this particular topic? If you don't use AI, you will think 57:52 it's bad and evil because it's all you hear about. It's all that's on the 57:58 news. And if you use AI, what you realize is it's not some fucking scary 58:05 Skynet fucking thing. It's just like a thing that's sort of shitty. You're like, oh, 58:13 it's okay. It kind of helps. It's kind of awesome. It sucks and it's awesome 58:17 and it sucks and it's awesome. That's it. You're like, yeah, it can do better. 58:27 As it gets better, it'll do better in the world because you're using it because 58:30 you understand what it is. That's a finding that confirms my bias. Hey, how do 58:41 we get people who hate AI to not hate it. Um, yeah, you get them 58:48 to use it. Oh, does that work? Yeah. Okay, that'll be $500,000, please. I just 59:03 solved your problem. Oh my God, I'm in a peppy mood tonight. I'm in a 59:21 peppy mood tonight. Uh, where am I going? Here? No, here? Yes. Okay, let's see. 59:29 AI sovereignty. AI experts in the public have different perspectives on the future of technology. 59:45 Oh, formal education is lagging behind AI, but people are learning about AI skills at 59:50 every age of every stage of life. Oh, this is a good one. Okay, let's 59:54 go. Claude. Dear Claude, dear Claude, period. You're swell. We'll do him a little glow 1:00:04 up before we ask him to do something for us. Dear Claude, you're swell. This 1:00:10 summary finding is interesting to me. In the AI salon, Gen Xers are killing it 1:00:33 with AI, yet the news talks about only the young people get it. Are they 1:00:45 paying attention? Question mark. From what I see Young people kinda hate it, and the 1:01:01 Gen Xers are, uh, seem to get it. Unpack this and other interesting findings for 1:01:23 me. Let's see. Jason, forget that I'm starting a company calling it Skynet just to 1:01:36 piss people off. It's pretty smart, I like it. The aliens will come before Skynet. 1:01:45 I mean, one terrifying thing is like the brouhaha over Anthropic and the military a 1:01:51 month ago was about our government saying, hey, we want to be able to use 1:01:57 your technologies to target people without human oversight. That's kind of terrifying. You know, it'd 1:02:25 be an interesting study to do for someone who liked doing studies, because I don't 1:02:29 give a shit. But like what I'm doing right now, I'm taking a summary that 1:02:34 came from the Twitter I've uploaded the 243-page document on the future of AI or 1:02:42 whatever, the state of AI. Now I'm asking Claude to go look at it and 1:02:47 tell us what's in there. It would be interesting to know how useful or useless 1:02:55 this actually is. Is it giving me 98% of what was in the report? Or 1:03:01 is it more like 68%, but it sounds like 98%? Oh my goodness, next week, 1:03:19 uh, I'm gonna be in DC on Tuesday, and then I fly to Boston on 1:03:26 Wednesday. And then I am in Boston Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and I come back. And 1:03:36 then Monday afternoon I head to Anaheim for Social Media Marketing Week. Pretty excited about 1:03:43 that. People throwing Molotov cocktails at houses, Sarah Connor style. Definitely. That's unbelievable, isn't it? 1:03:53 Okay. Synthesized. So I asked it, Gen Xers are killing it. Okay, so it says 1:03:59 your instinct is actually sharper than the media narrative. Hey, hey Claude, thanks for blowing 1:04:04 sunshine up my ass. It was kind of dark back there. I love being flattered. 1:04:17 I'm sorry. Anyway. Your instinct is actually sharper than the media narrative. The data in 1:04:23 the report quietly supports what you're seeing at AI Salon. It just gets covered over 1:04:29 by sloppier stories. Why finding number 13 actually says versus what you'd assume. The headline 1:04:36 reads like young people are the AI natives, schools are behind, but when you pick 1:04:42 it apart, only one half of that is supported. Students are using AI. 80% of 1:04:49 US college students, 4 in 5 high schoolers, double the 40% rate from 2023. They're 1:04:55 using it for research, essay editing, brainstorming, understanding concepts, and a little bit of porn. 1:05:02 Because they're kids, see? The last one is the number one, understanding concepts. Is the 1:05:13 number one use case among university students. That's actually good. University students, they get taught 1:05:19 a concept in the day by some drippy-ass professor, and they're going back to their 1:05:23 dorm rooms and they're using AI to understand what the fuck he said. That seems 1:05:28 valuable to me. Schools can't keep up. Only half of middle and high schools have 1:05:33 any AI policy, and just 6% of teachers say the policies are clear. Okay, I'm 1:05:41 gonna give you a hypothetical. You've got a brand new country, it's got 300 million 1:05:46 people in it. You're handed the world's most advanced knowledge access system, and you get 1:05:57 to design the schools from the ground up. What do you do? We ban it. 1:06:02 Exactly. Perfect. Okay. But using a lot, using it a lot and skilled at it 1:06:12 are wildly different things. Using Claude to draft an essay is not the same as 1:06:16 building an agent stack, designing a prompt chain or integrating AI into a professional workflow. 1:06:22 The LinkedIn AI Skills Diffusion Index, which tries to separate these, shows that AI literacy 1:06:28 is growing much faster than AI engineering skills. Skills, which makes sense. There's only, there's 1:06:35 only 3 major frontier labs and 3 minor ones, so 6 total companies building on 1:06:44 the front end of this thing. All the other people are using it, right? So, 1:06:49 so learning how to use it is growing much faster than building it. That makes 1:06:53 sense to me. The fastest growing literacy skills in the U.S. are AI prompting and 1:06:59 Microsoft Copilot Studio, consumer-level stuff. The fastest-growing engineering skills, AI agents, productivity, and strategy. And 1:07:07 those don't have an age tag on them. The data actually backs up what you're 1:07:10 seeing at the salon. Okay, here we go. The most interesting table in the whole 1:07:15 report for your question is in the economy chapter. It's a rundown of micro-level productivity 1:07:21 studies and breaks out who benefited most from AI tools and each one. Consumer support, 1:07:29 software devs using Copilot, experienced open source devs, accountants using AI support, marketing teams driven 1:07:40 by human AI teams. Read that list again. The story isn't AI helps the young. 1:07:45 The story is AI helps those people whose job it can partly automate and help 1:07:51 people who have enough judgment to supervise it well. But those are two different groups. 1:07:57 The Gen X pattern you're seeing, people are killing it, fits the accountant archetype exactly. 1:08:04 So no one's looking at this right now. That's astounding to me. Are young people 1:08:11 actually winning? The broader picture. Kyle, the part of the picture that surprised me most, 1:08:15 young workers are getting hammered in the job market where AI is hitting. Unemployment for 1:08:21 software developers 20 to 25 has fallen close to 20% from its 2022 peak. Right, 1:08:30 so 2022, entry-level software jobs are at their peak. What happened in 2022? At the 1:08:39 end of 2022, ChatGPT. You can make money with ChatGPT unless you're an entry-level college 1:08:46 student, a software engineer, then you're fucked. Amazing. The researchers call this pattern seniority-based— seniority-biased 1:09:01 technological change. AI substituting for junior labor while leaving senior roles intact. And computer science 1:09:11 undergraduate enrollment is down 11% between 2024 and 2025. Amazing. The public is much more 1:09:21 pessimistic than the experts. We saw that before. AI literacy does not equal AI education, 1:09:29 does not equal AI in education. Formal education is the wrong unit of analysis for 1:09:37 who gets AI. The gains concentrate around people who already have judgment, domain knowledge, or 1:09:44 motivation. Huh. This is not a generational story, it's a shape of life story. The 1:09:57 fact that media keeps reaching for kids versus boomers framing is exactly the kind of 1:10:03 surface narrative that the Great Repurpose exists to cut through. Look, it tied in the 1:10:08 great repurpose into our little answer there because it remembers what the fuck we talk 1:10:12 about. That's pretty cool, that's pretty cool. Okay, AI experts and public have very different 1:10:18 perspectives on the future. Oh, the clinical care. This was the one I wanted to 1:10:24 look at. Let's go look at that. All right, um, this summary is fascinating. How 1:10:36 is it transforming clinical care? Stitch together the non-statistically relevant story here. So can AI 1:11:14 really be non-biased if it used our data? I don't know the answer to that. 1:11:26 Bias is a really interesting— it's a really interesting— the way bias— when they say 1:11:39 AI models are biased, they are, but they say it like there's an end state 1:11:51 of perfection There's an end state of non-biased models. I don't think that actually exists. 1:11:59 The bias is in the training data. Could you take all of the internet and 1:12:04 remove all of the hate speech and all of that? Yeah, you could. Would that 1:12:09 make it non-biased? Well, it would just make it differently biased. There's still bias in 1:12:14 there, it would just be biased in a different way. One question is, When you 1:12:20 say, can AI really be non-biased? I don't think AI can be non-biased. There's always 1:12:27 some bias in there to one point or another. But humans are also biased. If 1:12:38 humans have a propensity for the AI, they want the AI to behave a certain 1:12:44 way, They'll just keep using different models until they get one that matches their bias, 1:12:49 and then they'll go, oh, this one's not biased. And someone else look at the 1:12:52 same fucking thing, that's completely biased, you racist piece of garbage, right? Someone else will 1:12:59 go, well, this is great. They're like, no, no, you, you libtard, it's completely biased. 1:13:07 So I don't get the bias thing. The bias thing's fascinating. I think if people 1:13:14 are thinking about it critically, great, because then I think you start to say, okay, 1:13:19 in what specific ways is a model deficient? And then maybe the next round of 1:13:25 the model, we can improve that deficiency. But I don't think it ever goes to 1:13:29 a place of pure non-biased. But I don't know. I'm not a— that I am 1:13:35 not an expert in any way. TikTok has AI remix features now. You have to 1:13:41 turn it off every time you post. Pate did an LOL Unbiased last year that 1:13:47 was awesome. Oh, that's cool, Silver Fox. Oh, I said racist piece of trash. I 1:13:55 just got a security violation from TikTok. Community guidelines violation. You said a word that 1:14:04 was on our list. This is George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words, which I think, since 1:14:12 I just got a community guidelines violation, I think it's time to go listen to 1:14:17 George Carlin, don't you think? Sure, sure. Throw copyright in there too. George Carlin, 7 1:14:42 Dirty Words. Atera is the IT painkiller. Remote monitoring and management, remote access, helpdesk and 1:14:52 ticketing, smart automation. You know, that's the trouble with it is trying to decide what 1:14:57 to call these words, man. I'm trying to decide what to call this whole thing. 1:15:02 You know, what are these words that I'm talking about? They're just words that we've 1:15:05 decided, sort of decided, not to use all the time. That's about the only thing 1:15:09 you can really say about them for sure, that they're just some words, not many 1:15:13 either, just a few, that we've decided, well, we won't use them all the time. 1:15:20 Sometimes, well, hell yeah, sometimes it's okay Okay, but not all the time. That's— and 1:15:25 they're the only words that seem to have that restriction. I mean, there are a 1:15:28 lot of words you can say whenever you want, you know. Pneumonia. Nobody gives you 1:15:31 a lot of— all right, you can't yell it in the hospital a great deal, 1:15:34 but what the hell? There are words that you can say, no problem. Topography. No 1:15:40 one has ever gone to jail for screaming topography. But there are some words that 1:15:44 you can go to jail for. There are some words that we just have decided 1:15:49 we will not say all the time. Sometimes, okay, if you're running through the jungle 1:15:55 chasing somebody that we're at war with, you can holler them. If you're shooting a 1:16:00 criminal, it's okay, it's the all-American thing. Dirty fucking crook. But if you're with the 1:16:07 bishop's wife at lunch, it's better not to ask for the goddamn lettuce, you know 1:16:12 what I mean? It's just like we've decided there'd be some words we won't say 1:16:15 all the time. And I was just trying to find out which words they were. 1:16:18 For sure, all of them. I wanted a list because nobody gives you a list. 1:16:22 That's the problem. They don't give you a list. Wouldn't you think it'd be normal 1:16:26 if they didn't want you to say something to tell you what it is? Nobody 1:16:29 even tells you when you're a kid what the words are that you're supposed to 1:16:32 avoid. You have to say them to find out which ones they are. Shit! Oh, 1:16:39 fuck! That's two. Oh, Ma, that's enough trial and error, huh? Please, Ma, give me 1:16:49 a list, huh? All right, you're 6 years old now, and here's the list of 1:16:56 words your dad and I don't ever want to hear you say. Oh, hey, thanks, 1:17:03 Ma. Boy, that's going to save me an es kicking 22. Yeah, you never know 1:17:15 what's going to be on the list because it's always somebody else's list. You didn't 1:17:20 make that up. Somebody told you that shit. They told you better not say that, 1:17:24 so you gotta— and you don't know what's going to be on their list. God, 1:17:28 people's lists even change from day to day. Some people on Friday night got a 1:17:31 list, you know, about 2 or 3 words. Sunday morning, 27 words. These are the 1:17:36 same people. Two days later, different list. So you got to kind of watch out 1:17:40 what you're going to believe. The trouble is, I was trying to find out what 1:17:44 these words might be, and I wanted to know the ones that you could never 1:17:48 say on television. I mean, the filthy words that are always filthy. There are a 1:17:53 lot of these little two-way double entendre words that have two meanings, words that are 1:17:58 okay. Of the time. I call them like part-time filth, some of these words. They're 1:18:02 only 50% dirty. You have words like ass. Ass is hardly even a dirty word 1:18:07 anymore, but it has a few meanings that you can't say on television. That's what 1:18:10 I was talking about. What can you say on television? That's another one of those 1:18:13 places where we can't use these words all the time, but some of them are 1:18:17 all right some of the time. Ass is all right on television. You can say 1:18:20 on television things like, well, you've made a perfect ass of yourself tonight. But you 1:18:25 can't say, hey, let's go get some ass. Bitch. Bitch is another word like that, 1:18:38 same kind of word. It's only dirty part of the time, depends on what you 1:18:41 mean by bitch. You might be the lady from the San Diego Zoo visiting one 1:18:44 of the Tonight Shows, and you might just have a bunch of little canines with 1:18:47 you there. One of them is a female. You say, there's the bitch, Johnny, and 1:18:49 it's okay. Okay, fine. Just don't refer to the singer the same way. That's— is 1:18:54 that bitch going to do another number? Yes. Animals are fine on those two-way words. 1:19:02 And that's it. That's what I was trying to find, the words that were always 1:19:04 dirty, not just part of the time, but completely filled. Well, in looking for these 1:19:12 words, I kept finding new categories. We have so many ways of describing these dirty 1:19:16 words. It's— well, we have more ways to describe dirty words than we actually have 1:19:21 dirty words. That seems a little strange to me. It seems to indicate that somebody 1:19:28 was awfully interested in these words. They kept referring to them. They called them bad 1:19:35 words. Dirty, filthy, foul, vile, vulgar, coarse, In poor taste, unseemly, street talk, gutter talk, 1:19:47 locker room language, barracks talk, bawdy, naughty, saucy, raunchy, rude, crude, lewd, lascivious, indecent, profane, 1:19:59 obscene, blue, off-color, risqué, suggestive, cursing, cussing, swearing, and all I could I think I 1:20:09 was shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. That's all I'm here. Shit, piss, 1:20:22 fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. That was my original list. I knew it wasn't 1:20:26 complete, but it was a starter set, you know. Shit, piss, fuck— yes, WBAI is 1:20:35 one who played them. Shit, miss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Now that was 1:20:40 the original list. We've added a few words since then. We've added fart, turd, and 1:20:44 twat. And I know there are some other words that many of you are wondering 1:20:50 about, why they haven't been considered, why they haven't shown up on the list thus 1:20:53 far. We're looking at them all very closely. Some of your favorites might make the 1:20:57 list this year. Asshole, ballbag, hard-on, Piss hard, blue balls, taint, nookie, snatch box, pussy, 1:21:06 pecker, pecker head, pecker tracks, jism, joint. Did I really get booted on YouTube, or 1:21:15 you just saying that? Dork. Cornhole and dingleberry. So wait, I got booted off YouTube 1:21:39 for playing a YouTube video? Yeah, we are, we are suspended for policy violations. Jesus. 1:21:49 Guess that's that then. Oh, good God. All right, uh, so for those of you 1:22:03 on TikTok, we're suspended for policy violations. Do you know how long, Brandon? I, I 1:22:10 don't know. Jesus. Um, okay, uh, so, so apparently the 7 dirty words you can't 1:22:18 say on TV, you can't live stream on YouTube. From a YouTube video. I just— 1:22:35 I fucking hate the world sometimes. It's unbelievable. All right, so I guess we'll end 1:22:41 the stream over there. We won't.