Uh, you can get the inspiration from. Now, I call it Agents Anonymous- ... for, for reasons. - Agents Anonymous. - And- - Oh, it's so funny on so many levels. I'm sorry, go ahead. - Yeah. And there was this one guy who, who talked to me. He's like, "I run this design agency, and we, we never had custom software. And
But the book-- hopefully, you'll see as well, if you're able to read it-- gives a slightly different narrative to the usual narrative, which is, agents are just bad guys doing bad things all the time.And nobody likes them at all.
All right. If you have any questions about writing, Stanford in 1997, agents , creativity, Cat Person.Yes? I have a question.
short film uh that we made in our kitchen, we went to Sundance. We got agents there and our agents called us to a meeting and they said, "Congratulations. You worked so hard toget to this point. We got you now. The cavalry is here. We're going to take your next script and package it in the
people, we can make a $50,000 movie that probably won't lose money and keep moving forward while we continue to wait for the cavalry to come through our agents . We went to Sundance with that movie and the movie sold for half a million dollars. And we said, "OhOkay, wait a second. Because now we might be making close to the kinds of
his uh apology and his his death um the Agents of political power to and understanding of religion as expressing
Were actually case officers or officers. Agents in our lexicon refers to the foreigners that we recruit who have access to secrets, mostly governmental types.And we do we do a lot of work on trying to quantify their motivations and their vulnerabilities.
discipline. You are really not supposed to do that. Because every psychologist gets told fairly early you're not supposed to explain what happens in the mind by invoking little agents inside the mind and explain what the mind does by what the little agents do. Those are homunculi and that's a bad word in psychology. I'm going to use System 1 and System 2 absolutelyas homunculi. Now, what do I have to say in my defense? First of all, well, I'm warning
really beautifully to think about agent. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents . We form global impressions of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion. Butan agent is very, very good. So just remember whenever I say System 1 does X what I mean is x is a mental activity that can be performed without effort. You'll remember a lot more
He said, "We don't understand the common pathophysiological mechanism by which any of those provocative agents would elicit dysregulated cell growth, which is cancer." When you talk about cancer, what do people say? "What's cancer?" It's cell division out of control. It's dysregulated cell growth.
Now think about that. My agents -- my agents were, like, oh, my gosh.
Or you're not a baby person, which is what one of the characters in here says at one point. And agents will help you try to sell your collection or your fiction, your nonfiction, whatever it is to publishers.
What kinds of things would they order? Would agents sell from the catalog? And they learned a lot of things, just from this process.
I talk now about Masterclass.com, Linda.com, Skillshare, or Russian .. The agents , the PR directors, there are some guys from the foundation.
For those who remember mixtapes. my agents had submitted my novels in their entirety, to say, "Would you like an excerpt?" And they would say, "No thanks.
And I don't even know if you, Lynn and Stephen, if you know what you were starting when you wrote it. And agents . Agents , right.
In fact, when I saw them do that in a total of about 3 and 1/2 hours, I was thinking, why do we take six weeks? Parole agents are saying that you're not allowed to reside in the city, so go stay with your mother for a few days.
and say okay here's what you need to do and sometimes for example that Columbia case what had happened there is they the Columbian agents uh officers said look there's a beach there's a beach there's an island paradise 45-minute boat ride from caha We Believe children we're getting reports that children are being sold on that beach for sex but every time we try to go out there they don't
FBI agents have said to me the conclusions you reach in the book, which are essentially the conclusions I've just laid out to you,
My agents would tell me, don't be so bubbly.
distribution agents ride motorbikes to get stoves to end user.
Our agents everyone set up-- He didn't know what he was getting into.
and agents . And the answer is nothing.
The agents had recommended this.
My agents like, pass.
of agents was my book was too technical.
The agents that are after him literally pop in and out of nowhere inexplicably.
Pinkerton agents , that sort of secret service -- private secret service, pre-Black Water Black Water of the 19th century they go over to
The agents actually asked him to pick up his pants on one leg because the real Justin had a you know had a prosthetic leg.
like agents and producers and it was like in cont like in that context the worst idea of the
Their data agents will take care of the rest.
And Incogni's privacy agents will take care of it for you.
pockets of leavening agents , and then you have a wonky cake or a wonky brownie.
with the way that agents are working and tool use, it started to become really useful for, still early days of it, but genuinely useful in
- Yeah. Depending on how much I slept and how difficult of the tasks I work on, between four and 10. - Four and 10 agents . Uh there's so many possible directions, speaking of Factorio, that we can go here. But one big picture one is, why do you think your work, Open Claw, won? In this world, if you look at 2025, so many
government and their special agents in all of these different departments I'm working with now. I'm proud to be
as many AI agents as it needs to to fulfill that goal. And then it would make start one business and then it
Evolutionary coding agents like AlphaEvolve mimic natural evolution –like, the kind you see in nature– by generating potential solutions, mutating them at random,
And some AI agents , like Robocat , are beginning to learn to revise and redeploy
Are we the agents of what we do or can people influence us and make us think that we're doing things on our own
I have great agents that do that for me, thank God, because I'm like, ah!
to these different disturbance agents .
with mobile money agents to ensure a that they have adequate cash and also
How much casting agents just thought he was hilarious.
How many agents did you query?
It turns out his agents , his Japanese agents , have been recruiting their own sub-agents .
I've had agents and book editors say to me, people choose to write about what they want to learn.
They're all agents . There's actually no men to be heard of.
The booking agents are on point with the things that we want to do.
I know that the question of agents is always quite a topical issue generally. The narrative of agents is that they don't do a great job for players or clubs, that they take too much money out of the game in terms of commissions, and that their approach is wheeler-dealer, at best.