AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis

Welcome back to the cognitive revolution. This is our AMA episode. My schedule has been a little bit crazy lately, and so I never actually really scheduled this with anyone. And so there's nobody here to ask me the question, so I'm just gonna read the questions myself and then give you my answers. But I did get some really good questions, and I'm excited to answer them. And hopefully, people will enjoy this episode and, find some value in it. With that, by far the first and most important question and and the most common question that I'm getting these days is how is my son Ernie, doing since the big episode that I did about his cancer back in November. And the good news is he is doing really quite well. I'm very pleased to report that. Certainly, cancer, and certainly cancer of this type being as aggressive as it is, and I won't belabor the whole thing from last time. Go check out the two hour monologue on that if you want the full story. But a cancer this aggressive, which can double as quickly as every twenty four hours, does get very aggressive treatment. And so he has been through the wringer with the chemotherapy. He's through basically half the chemotherapy now. There are six rounds in total, and he's been through three. The final two rounds, the rounds five and six are supposed to be a little more mild than the first four. So depending on how you count, we could say he's maybe a little more than halfway through the treatment, but somewhere that and, it's definitely been rough on him. There's no doubt about it. When he went into the hospital, he was fifty one pounds. He's still forty one pounds today, and that's that's what the weight that he came home at after the first round of treatment. He's been able to gain a little weight, lost it back, gained a little, gets dehydrated, loses a little. So you can just see looking at him, he's super thin. He's quite pale. He's definitely not nearly as strong as he was before we went in. But on the markers that really count the most, namely, like, does it look like the cancer is being effectively treated? There, he looks really good. After the first round of chemotherapy, the PET scan that he had showed no obvious focal points of cancer. And when our oncologist met with the tumor board, they all agreed that it made sense to classify him as being in remission as of before he even started the second round of treatment. So that is great. We also, if you listen to that earlier long episode, might recall that one of the things that AI helped me do is identify some additional testing that is not yet standard of care, but can be done to try to get a better, more sensitive take on, is there any cancer left in his …