Unsupervised Learning
by Daniel Miessler
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Evolution, Lit RPG and AI Harnesses
Evolution, Lit RPG and AI Harnesses
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Unsupervised Learning is about ideas and trends in Cybersecurity, National Security, AI, Technology, and Culture—and how best to upgrade ourselves to be ready for what's coming.
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- Evolution, Lit RPG and AI Harnesses · 24 minI went on a walk and ended up connecting three things I've been thinking about: evolution, LitRPG, and personal AI harnesses. Why listening to The Primal Hunter keeps getting me…
- The Missing Piece Is Ideal State · 21 min📝 Theo put out a video saying you should turn off Claude Code's memory, and it triggered me enough to record a response. My argument: the real problem with all AI is the gap…
- The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing · 4 minAnthropic is going after the enterprise operations layer; OpenAI wants to be everyone's personal agent. Both are multi-trillion-dollar markets, and they barely overlap. Become a…
- Debating the Morality of Dario Amodei · 1 h 14 minA debate with Zack Korman on the morality of Dario Amodei specifically, and Anthropic in general. Zack's version of the video: https://youtu.be/mQ9-YoE9ykE Become a Member…
- Rethinking AI Harnesses · 12 minWhy we should think of the AI harness not as a coding tool, but as an Intent Engineering system that manages your entire life — a LifeOS. https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS…
- Why We Need Some AI Model Controls · 36 minMy argument for why we need some AI model controls. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- AI Predicts the Text of Answers · 8 minA logical argument and demonstration of how AI has one type of understanding while lacking another. https://aiunderstands.ai Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade…
- Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI · 5 minMost Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI. It's not that companies aren't using AI—it's that they can't. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See…
- We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant · 32 minThere's tons of confusion about what we're all building towards with Personal AI. Are we building Agents? AI Harnesses? To what end? In this video I lay why I think we're all…
- Why AI Will Replace Knowledge Workers · 1 h 16 minA longer form discussion on exactly how and why AI will replace knowledge workers. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
- Why I Believe in SOTA Models Over Custom Ones · 2 minI think the future is cheaper and Open Source SOTA models combined with context, not custom, narrow models. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See…
- AI Quality Inversion · 1 minA troubling thought about what we will think about high-quality content in the future. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
- The Great Transition · 1 h 24 minThere are a bunch of different transitions happening right now—all at the same time, all (I think) heading in the same direction. Here is a long-form exploration of the various…
- Starting 2026 · 25 minA welcome back and early entry into 2026. Sponsored by: Knocknoc! Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Judge AI based on Output, Not Mechanism · 7 minHow we can use an output-based system to judge whether or not different kinds of technology achieve understanding or intelligence. Become a Member…
- Humans Need Entropy · 4 minHow humans and AI models both share the weakness of deterioration without novel inputs. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for…
- Why I Think Karpathy is Wrong on the AGI Timeline · 10 minKarpathy is confusing LLM limitations with AI system limitations, and that makes all the difference. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See…
- Novelty Exploration vs. Pattern Exploitation · 4 minHow going from exploration to exploitation can help you as both a consumer and creator of everything. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See…
- Magnifying Time · 7 minSome thoughts on how novelty and attention magnify the time that we have. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- A Conversation With Harry Wetherald CO-Founder & CEO At Maze · 35 min➡ Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats with AI-Driven Vulnerability Management with Maze: https://mazehq.com/ In this conversation, I speak with Harry about how AI is transforming…
- A Conversation With Grant Lee CO-Founder & CEO At Gamma · 22 min➡ Upgrade your presentations with Gamma, the best AI presentation maker: https://gamma.app In this conversation, I speak with Grant, co-founder of Gamma, about how their platform…
- UL NO. 497: STANDARD EDITION | More NPM Shenanigans, I Open Sourced Kai, Blood Work Results, Finding Vulns in a 10-line Prompt, and more... · 37 minUL NO. 497: STANDARD EDITION | More NPM Shenanigans, I Open Sourced Kai, Blood Work Results, Finding Vulns in a 10-line Prompt, and more... Read this episode online…
- UL NO. 496: STANDARD EDITION | New Video on Building my Personal AI System, Anthropic Reveals One-person Hacking Company using Claude, Pentagon Says China Keeps Penetrating, and more... · 1 h 2 minUL NO. 496: STANDARD EDITION | New Video on Building my Personal AI System, Anthropic Reveals One-person Hacking Company using Claude, Pentagon Says China Keeps Penetrating, and…
- A Conversation with Michael Brown About Designing AI Systems · 50 minIn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, I sit down with Michael Brown, Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits, to dive deep into the design and lessons learned from the…
- UL NO. 494: STANDARD EDITION | AI Finds a P1, I Missed Chartbeat So I Made My Own, XBow Open-Sources Their AI Bot, and more... · 1 h 38 minYou are currently listening to the Standard version of the podcast, consider upgrading and becoming a member to unlock the full version and many other exclusive benefits here…
- A Conversation With Sarit Tager from Prisma Cloud · 26 min➡ Prevent Risk At The Source with Cortex Cloud: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cloud/application-security In this sponsored conversation, I speak with Sarit Tager, VP of…
- UL NO. 489: STANDARD EDITION | My personal toolchain updates, Google tracking through DuckDuckGo, Anthropic’s Pentagon Deal, Grok4 NSFW, Substack Crushes WSJ, and more... · 22 minUL NO. 489: STANDARD EDITION | My personal toolchain updates, Google tracking through DuckDuckGo, Anthropic’s Pentagon Deal, Grok4 NSFW, Substack Crushes WSJ, and more... You are…
- UL NO. 488: STANDARD EDITION | Google Granting Confusing Access to Gemini, A New Favorite Creator, Russia's new Autonomous Drones, Claude Code Madness and Neovim Config, and more... · 30 minUL NO. 488: STANDARD EDITION | Google Granting Confusing Access to Gemini, A New Favorite Creator, Russia's new Autonomous Drones, Claude Code Madness and Neovim Config, and…
- UL NO. 487: STANDARD EDITION: Iranian Critical Infra Attacks, Insane Recent Productivity, A Chinese Mosquito Drone, Marcus's Response to Our AI Debate, "Context Engineering" Ain't It, and more... · 42 minUL NO. 487: STANDARD EDITION: Iranian Critical Infra Attacks, Insane Recent Productivity, A Chinese Mosquito Drone, Marcus's Response to Our AI Debate, "Context Engineering"…
- An AI Debate with Marcus Hutchins · 2 h 0 minMarcus and I debate AIs capabilities from nearly polar opposite ends. He thinks it's basically autocomplete, and I think it's the most important tech we've ever built as humans…
- UL NO. 486 STANDARD EDITION: Fully Automated AI Malware (Binary and Web), My Debate with Marcus Hutchins on AI and more · 55 minUL NO. 486: STANDARD EDITION: Fully Automated AI Malware (Binary and Web), My Debate with Marcus Hutchins on AI, The 'Did You Notice?' Psyop, The METR AI Metric for Longterm…
- UL NO. 485: STANDARD EDITION: Netflix RCE, My Current AI Stack, All-in on Claude Code, and more... · 37 minSTANDARD EDITION: Netflix RCE, My Current AI Stack, All-in on Claude Code, and more... You are currently listening to the Standard version of the podcast, consider upgrading and…
- UL NO. 484: STANDARD EDITION: OpenAI's Malicious AI Report, Disappointed with WWDC, AI's First Actual Science Breakthrough, and more... · 44 minUL NO. 484: STANDARD EDITION: OpenAI's Malicious AI Report, Disappointed with WWDC, AI's First Actual Science Breakthrough, and more... You are currently listening to the…
- UL NO. 483 | STANDARD EDITION: A Chrome 0-Day, Meta Automates Security Assessments, New Essays, My New Video on Hacking with AI, Ukraine's Asymmetrical Attack, Thoughts on My AI Skeptical Friends, The Dangers of Winning the Wrong Game, and more... · 32 minA Chrome 0-Day, Meta Automates Security Assessments, New Essays, My New Video on Hacking with AI, Ukraine's Asymmetrical Attack, Thoughts on My AI Skeptical Friends, The Dangers…
- The Future of Hacking is Context · 34 minSponsored by Vanta. Vanta takes the busywork out of GRC so you can focus on what actually matters—improving your security, not chasing compliance. https://ul.live/vanta This…
- UL NO. 482 | STANDARD EDITION: AI Finds an 0-Day!, Postman Leaking Secrets, High Agency Mental Model, My Unified Entity Context Video, Github MCP Leaks Private Repos, Google vs. OpenAI vs. Apple on AI Vision, and more... · 32 minAI Finds an 0-Day!, Postman Leaking Secrets, High Agency Mental Model, My Unified Entity Context Video, Github MCP Leaks Private Repos, Google vs. OpenAI vs. Apple on AI Vision…
- Unified Entity Context · 30 min🔹 Thanks to ProjectDiscovery for sponsoring today’s video. I've been using their tools like Nuclei and Subfinder for years, and now they’ve brought that power to the cloud with a…
- Reviewing RSA 2025 with Jason Haddix · 1 h 21 minWhat really happened at RSA 2024? Daniel Miessler and Jason Haddix break it down. Fresh off a whirlwind RSA week, Daniel sits down with Jason Haddix (Arcanum Information…
- A Conversation with Bar-El Tayouri from Mend.io · 46 min➡ Get full visibility, risk insights, red teaming, and governance for your AI models, AI agents, RAGs, and more—so you can securely deploy AI powered applications with…
- The 4 AAAAs of the AI ECOSYSTEM: Assistants, APIs, Agents, and Augmented Reality · 27 minIn this episode, I break down what I believe is the emerging structure of the AI-powered world we're all building—consciously or not. I call it the “Four A’s”: Assistants, APIs…
- Using the Smartest AI to Rate Other AI · 10 minIn this episode, I walk through a Fabric Pattern that assesses how well a given model does on a task relative to humans. This system uses your smartest AI model to evaluate the…
- A Conversation with Patrick Duffy from Material Security · 27 min➡ Secure what your business is made of with Martial Security: https://material.security/ In this episode, I speak with Patrick Duffy from Material Security about modern…
- AICAD: Artificial Intelligence Capabilities For Attack & Defense · 43 minAI is changing cybersecurity at a fundamental level—but how do we decide what to build, and when? In this episode, I outline a structured way to think about AI for security: from…
- A Possible Path to ASI · 11 minThe conversation around AGI and ASI is louder than ever—but the definitions are often abstract, technical, and disconnected from what actually matters. In this episode, I break…
- A Conversation With Matt Muller From Tines · 40 min➡ Build, run, and monitor workflows with Tines at: tines.com In this episode, I speak with Matt Muller, Field CSCO at Tines, about how automation and AI are transforming security…
- UL NO. 474 | Signal OPSEC, White-box Red-teaming LLMs, Unified Company Context (UCC), New Book Recommendations, Single Apple Note Technique, and much more... · 18 min · Episode 474STANDARD EDITION: Signal OPSEC, White-box Red-teaming LLMs, Unified Company Context (UCC), New Book Recommendations, Single Apple Note Technique, and much more... You are…
- A Conversation With Slava Konstantinov From ThreatLocker · 34 min➡ Allow what you need, block everything else with ThreatLocker: threatlocker.com In this episode, I speak with Slava Konstantinov, ThreatLocker's MacOS Lead Architect, about…
- UL NO. 472 | STANDARD EDITION: 28 Open Cyber Jobs, Real-world AI Propaganda Poisoning, MCP Explained, Cline vs. Windsurf, and more... · 40 min · Episode 472STANDARD EDITION: 28 Open Cyber Jobs, Real-world AI Propaganda Poisoning, MCP Explained, Cline vs. Windsurf, and more... You are currently listening to the Standard version of…
- Raycast is a Must in 2025 - Action at the Speed of Thought · 46 minIn this episode, Daniel Miessler explores how to supercharge your macOS workflow with Raycast, transforming everyday tasks into lightning-fast, AI-powered actions. He talks…
- UL NO. 471 | STANDARD EDITION: Cyber Standing Down, China's Innovation Burst, PC vs. NPC, Why AI Can't Understand, and more... · 26 min · Episode 471STANDARD EDITION: Cyber Standing Down, China's Innovation Burst, PC vs. NPC, Why AI Can't Understand, and more... You are currently listening to the Standard version of the…
