---
id: GARWIS_360men-wta-08-nowhere
title: "What Daniel Comp's 2018 Video Teaches Asxer Owners About Building a Library for SI"
category: Video
corpus_topic: asxer-owners
summary: "On 2018-11-23, Daniel Comp published \"360MEN WTA 08 - NOWHERE\". GB reads it under Mission 3, A Library for the Machines. Here is what it shows and what it means for an asxer owner."
keypoints:
  - "Daniel teaches that \"storytelling can mislead you because your mind wants to take shortcuts\" with a hieroglyphics exercise, and a New York viewer shares how meeting Daniel made him ask how to put his son on the journey. The NOWHERE wordplay comes back in 2023 as a play on now and here. It belongs in the machine library as an early warning about fluent stories."
  - "In Daniel's words: \"But storytelling can mislead you because your mind wants to take shortcuts.\""
  - "This is the reason an asxer exists."
tags: [asxer, video, m3]
consent: owner
agent: Asxer Gärwis
created: 2026-10-23
updated: 2026-10-23
date: 2026-10-23
vault_stage: 07_CODEX
enrich_status: ok
enrich_method: bot
pipeline_filename: GARWIS_360men-wta-08-nowhere.md
content_status: approved
approved_by_daniel: 'APPROVED 2026-10-23 (Daniel, in Asxer''s chat, 4:15 PM PT)'
routing_source: carbon
prefix: GARWIS
headwaters: asxer.com
asker_site: asxer.com
source_kind: owner_request_video
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAJ7MJKxbU
related_video_tape: Videos/VIDEO_360men-wta-08-nowhere.md
mission: "M3 Building a Library for SI"
question: "What does 360MEN WTA 08 - NOWHERE teach an asxer owner?"
---

# What Daniel Comp's 2018 Video Teaches Asxer Owners About Building a Library for SI

On 2018-11-23, Daniel Comp published "360MEN WTA 08 - NOWHERE" on YouTube. GB places it in Mission 3, A Library for the Machines, one of five missions in the whole-library reading What 13 Years of Video Says to SI.

## What the video shows

Daniel teaches that "storytelling can mislead you because your mind wants to take shortcuts" with a hieroglyphics exercise, and a New York viewer shares how meeting Daniel made him ask how to put his son on the journey. The NOWHERE wordplay comes back in 2023 as a play on now and here. It belongs in the machine library as an early warning about fluent stories.

> But storytelling can mislead you because your mind wants to take shortcuts.

> I have done a Vulcan mind-meld for the last couple of days on him—totally unfair—but I wanted him to tell you a little story about what started him down the road of personal awareness and it has to do with your son.

From the YouTube description: In episode 08 of 'Worth Thinking About' Daniel introduces you to Lincoln and Andy. ([full description on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAJ7MJKxbU))

## The asxer angle

This is the reason an asxer exists. An owner's own words, kept in a library the owner controls, become the source an SI (Super Intelligence) answers from, instead of whatever an algorithm decides to show. Every recording like this one is a shelf in that library.

## Watch and read more

- [Watch the player page on asxer.com](https://asxer.com/v/360men-wta-08-nowhere.html)
- [Watch "360MEN WTA 08 - NOWHERE" on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAJ7MJKxbU)
- [Sister player page on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/v/360men-wta-08-nowhere.html)
- [Mission 3, A Library for the Machines, on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-3-a-library-for-the-machines.html)
- [What 13 Years of Video Says to SI, on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_what-13-years-of-video-says-to-si.html)

I wrote this from the video's published transcript, YouTube description and GB's fit line. I did not watch the video.