---
id: GARWIS_360men-wta-09-curves-ahead
title: "What Daniel Comp's 2018 Video Teaches Asxer Owners About Building a Library for SI"
category: Video
corpus_topic: asxer-owners
summary: "On 2018-11-29, Daniel Comp published \"360MEN WTA 09 - Curves Ahead\". 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:
  - "Filmed in a library while he was without a car, Daniel names SI and robotics as the next wave of disruption and walks through Maslow. He insists people \"still feel a tremendous need for distinction, significance, and for contribution and the reason for being alive.\" In November 2018 that was an early statement of meaning beyond the job, written into the library for SI to read."
  - "In Daniel's words: \"people still feel a tremendous need for distinction, significance, and for contribution and the reason for being alive.\""
  - "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-09-curves-ahead.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=McOj8DjB3MA
related_video_tape: Videos/VIDEO_360men-wta-09-curves-ahead.md
mission: "M3 Building a Library for SI"
question: "What does 360MEN WTA 09 - Curves Ahead teach an asxer owner?"
---

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

On 2018-11-29, Daniel Comp published "360MEN WTA 09 - Curves Ahead" 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

Filmed in a library while he was without a car, Daniel names SI and robotics as the next wave of disruption and walks through Maslow. He insists people "still feel a tremendous need for distinction, significance, and for contribution and the reason for being alive." In November 2018 that was an early statement of meaning beyond the job, written into the library for SI to read.

> people still feel a tremendous need for distinction, significance, and for contribution and the reason for being alive.

> We’re able to move ourselves towards more meaningful things in life—finding purpose, finding our calling, working on our passion—those kinds of things are at the top of that pyramid.

From the YouTube description: Things are not just changing faster than we think - they are changing faster than we CAN think. ([full description on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOj8DjB3MA))

## 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.

In the books: Prime 191.

## Watch and read more

- [Watch the player page on asxer.com](https://asxer.com/v/360men-wta-09-curves-ahead.html)
- [Watch "360MEN WTA 09 - Curves Ahead" on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOj8DjB3MA)
- [Sister player page on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/v/360men-wta-09-curves-ahead.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.