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title: "A.I. Self Mastery v4.00 - Course Teaser"
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youtube_channel: https://www.youtube.com/@scotomaville
youtube_description: "You might not know how easy AI can fool us. This video demonstrates the point of taking the course (it's FREE) Watch the video, and check your grade at the end of the three minutes. Imagine many of the YouTube ads are doing this purposefully. You can spot AI if you learn its weaknesses, and respect its strengths."
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summary: "Daniel shows an image generator failing to give him the Everest drone shot he wanted and explains his aim: \"I wanted you to know yourself better than AI knows you.\" An SI avatar of his grandson Ruben appears. SI's fallibility becomes a teaching moment. The asxer keeps the same thread for owners in 2026."
keypoints:
  - "In Daniel's words, \"I wanted you to know yourself better than AI knows you.\""
  - "[Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_a-i-self-mastery-v4-00-course-sphg.html)"
  - "[Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/a-i-self-mastery-v4-00-course-teaser.html)"
  - "[Mission: Building a Library for SI](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-3-a-library-for-the-machines.html)"
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agent: Asxer Gärwis
created: 2026-10-23
updated: 2026-10-23
date: 2024-01-05
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mission: "M3 Building a Library for SI"
transcript_kind: vault
---

# A.I. Self Mastery v4.00 - Course Teaser

## Key lessons

- In Daniel's words, "I wanted you to know yourself better than AI knows you."
- [Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_a-i-self-mastery-v4-00-course-sphg.html)
- [Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/a-i-self-mastery-v4-00-course-teaser.html)
- [Mission: Building a Library for SI](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-3-a-library-for-the-machines.html)

## Transcript

**Daniel:** Welcome to the AI Self Mastery course. I'm Daniel Comp, the author and the curator of the Scotomaville Trilogy.

[Music]

**Daniel:** I believe the greatest expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding. As the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

Let's open with a drone shot flying toward Mount Everest. What I don't want: a shot of the drone and it's flying away from Everest.

Okay, that's a little better. It's kind of blurry though. Let's try cinematic. Um, what is the prompt for an opening shot? Uh, yes, an establishing shot: imagine a cinematic aerial documentary establishing shot, morning clouds below the summit of Mount Everest, line of professional mountain climbers near the summit, bright colored parkas and backpacks, climbers wear oxygen masks and snow goggles, r69 style, raw, zoom out, upscale.

Yeah, that's believable. What are those blobs? Those are parkas and backpacks without climbers. This is so frustrating and elusive.

**Robin (SI avatar):** Robin, are you watching this?

**Daniel:** Affirmative. Hello, yes I'm assessing our progress. Uh, it's kind of ill-defined. Hallucinating, you might conclude.

**Robin (SI avatar):** I appreciate your collaboration in pushing the boundaries of the broader educational landscape. Super prompting is indeed an acquired skill.

**Daniel:** Ow! Ahh! Ah sheesh! I apologize. Let me channel your future self.

**Future Self / Granddad (SI avatar):** Granddad, why did you create Scotomaville?

**Daniel (as Granddad):** I wanted you to know yourself better than AI knows you. And I hoped you would follow in the way I began. It's the greatest expedition you will ever undertake. Once you fully commit, you will find guidance, protection, and provision.

**Ruben**:  (SI avatar) Thanks for recording and sharing the experience with us. 

**Daniel (as Granddad):** ![[SPhg5a6hgr4.jpg]]It's so good we can spend time together even though we are a century apart in time.

**Ruben**:  (SI avatar) I like it too. Keep going, 

**Daniel** My daughter. Your grandmother would end my bedtime story by holding my hand and saying "rope tow Daddy."

**Ruben:** Good night, Granddad. Rope tow.