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IdeaFlow Discursive Background Reading
Demos 1
#backgroundReading 2
Engelbart 2
Giant Global Graph/Semantic Web 2
Zettelkasten 3
#supportingquote 3
More Related Projects 4
See also: 4
College papers 4
Inspiring Global Vision 5
@Team 5
Thiel Fellowship Application: The most fundamental pressing problem in the world is that human activity is scattered 5
Supporting Quote 6
Further Reading 7
See also: gestaltexplanation.jacobcole.net • quests.world • manifestos.world
Tags:, TODO:, this, page, needs, to, be, revised, to, provide, a, clear,, coherent, overall, vision, for, Ideaflow., It, provides, a, series, of, tangential, ideas,, but, should, ideally, communicate, a, synthesis, of, how, they, connect, together.
Demos
- Try Ideaflow Notes onboarding.ideaflow.app
- Ideaflow Speech + Parse with AI Demo
- Bullet View
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Paper2Graph Demo Updated – Paths from Ovarian Cancer to IGF2
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Old: Paper2Graph Demo Part 2 – Paths from Ovarian Cancer to IGF2 HQ
#backgroundVideo
Ideaflow Pitch Draper Summit 2024
Future vision (longer)
A Global Idea Bank: The Age of Massive-Scale Coordination Systems; Stanford Talk
Tim Berners-Lee Ted Talk: The next Web of open, linked data
#backgroundReading
gestaltexplanation.jacobcole.net
Engelbart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
Read career and accomplishments. Specifically the guiding philosophy , for the best existential crisis ever 🙂 intelligence amplification too! (Famously, Engelbart also invented the mouse and gave the Mother of All Demos)
Doug "Engelbart's career was inspired in December 1950 when he was
engaged to be married and realized he had no career goals other "than
a steady job, getting married and living happily ever after".[14] Over
several months he reasoned that:
-he would focus his career on making the world a better place[15]
-any serious effort to make the world better requires some kind of
organized effort
-harnessing the collective human intellect of all the people
contributing to effective solutions was the key
-if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting
every effort on the planet to solve important problems — the sooner
the better
computers could be the vehicle for dramatically improving this capability.[14]"
Giant Global Graph/Semantic Web
Re: semantic web, check out these slides From Tim Berners-Lee’s TED Talk especially
https://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/#(8)
And this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052840/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/19/tim-berners-lee-science-w3c
See also: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Abstractions.html
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Global_Graph
Create a way to connect half-formed ideas, as a step toward automating
cognition #AI -- Tim Berners-Lee on science, 'stretch-friends' and
open data
"There are millions of scientist trying to cure the likes of AIDS and
Alzheimer's. Maybe the cure is currently separated in different
people's heads. How can we design the web so that these half-formed
solutions can come together How can we build a really creative space
for scientists?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052840/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/19/tim-berners-lee-science-w3c
See also: Web Net Graph https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Abstractions.html
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Global_Graph
Zettelkasten
https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html
"Luhmann claimed that his file was something of a collaborator in his
work, a largely independent partner in his research and writing. It
might have started out as a mere apprentice when Luhmann was still
studying himself (in 1951), but after thirty years of having been fed
information by the human collaborator it had acquired the ability of
surprising him again an again. Since the ability of genuinely
surprising one another is an essential characteristic of genuine
communication, he argued that there was actually communication going
on between himself and his partner in theory."
#supportingquote
Tim Gowers says:
“Keep up the good work...going back to
Polymath, I felt that one of the reasons that it hasn’t
really ...scaled in the way that we hoped...is that there’s a sort of feeling that it doesn't really work unless you’ve got someone who’s already got a very prominent blog who
can attract people and, and there aren’t very many people who are in
that position so as a result there haven’t been that many Polymath
projects. But with a sort of very nice product like this that people
can work on privately or in small groups, that they get together, or
sort of publicly in a small way, I think there’s the potential for
much more collaborative research to become a lot more practiced. In
mathematics I feel as though one of the things that’s holding up
progress in that direction is exactly a lack of a really nice piece of
software like this. As I was saying to you earlier, you have something
that people can use privately, but that’s very easy for other people
to contribute to as well, then that way you don’t really have to go
out there and encourage people to start collaborating with each other
it’ll just happen automatically. All these structured, half-finished
projects will be there for people to go in and contribute to. So, I
really hope it’ll succeed.” ~Fields Medalist Tim Gowers on IdeaFlow
Grand Vision Conversation (45 min, worth a listen![a])
Cody and I just had an epic conversation which outlined the high-level version of Ideaflow, that we are working towards in a way that made him, in his words, particularly motivated to build
https://develop.ideaflow.app/shared/nlZ5j3jYYs
Here are the notes and the recording! I would encourage everyone to listen to at least the first ~20 minutes because I think it points us in some very good directions, and make clarify decisions we make. It was also so fun![b]
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More Related Projects
category theory http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp13/CT4S.pdf
https://ideapad.io/top-level/graph
Semantic Web / GGG
Society of Mind / Marvin Minsky
Memex – vannevar bush / As we may think essay
Doug Engelbart
Xanadu / Ted Nelson
https://ideapad.io/related-projects/graph?snapshot=related-projects
See also:
College papers
Nexus of related thoughts (many dead links)
IdeaOverflow IDE (Idea Development Environment) Plan (direct link)
Inspiring Global Vision
If you want to see the thing that inspired me probably the most in the last few years it’s this clip from Jack Park (former colleague of Doug Engelbart). He has a clear vision for “how this planet is going to get fixed”. Which he states here http://worldquestguild.connectordocs.com/ (see key quotes, or better, watch the linked video clip; on 2x speed for 20min))
@Team
Related projects to be aware of
https://workflowy.com/#/7eb57e7699e2
Thiel Fellowship Application: The most fundamental pressing problem in the world is that human activity is scattered
What motivates us right now is that we see the most fundamental pressing problem in the world is that human activity is scattered:
People with synergistic ideas in research groups, big companies, and society aren't aware of each other (Tim Berners-Lee says "There are millions of scientists trying to cure the likes of AIDS and Alzheimer's. Maybe the cure is currently separated in different people's heads. How can we design the web so that these half-formed solutions can come together? How can we build a really creative space for scientists?" in
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/19/tim-berners-lee-science-w3c). Talented people start redundant or non meaningful startups even when there are many great ideas available low-hanging.
News media has a short attention span; we hear about bombings in Syria and earthquakes in Haiti one week and something else the next, even if the problems aren't resolved. Resultantly, the well-being of suffering people is at the mercy of what entertains the first world.
This isn't okay.
Minsky teaches us that a mind is a system to meditate between a collection of little agents, and that society is a mind. This mind is currently scatterbrained.
In the abstract, the goal of this project is to build a "gestalt processing system for society" (ref: link on http://ideaflow.jacobcole.net) so that everyone, everywhere can be included in the circle of humanity. It is to lift the fog of non connection that sits on the world between people and their ideas, and build the giant global graph. It is to create a system to relate ideas - a rudimentary intelligence able to, for fundamental reasons, make broader connections than any single brain - which, as a side effect, produces a new paradigm for conducting Internet research that is better informed than Google for many tasks (ref: http://researchlists.jacobcole.net). In the same breath, it also incidentally produces a new type of smart text document not trapped in the paradigm of static paper.
The data collected from this system is vast and hopes to lay the groundwork for strong AI that produces new ideas autonomously.
In parallel, a second problem we see is that many of the smartest people we know spend their days working to improve the ad recommendation system on Facebook instead of curing cancer or building strong AI. We are, ultimately, striving to give these people a materially equally appealing or more appealing alternative option that also gives them an opportunity to directly help people!
Thiel fellowship app (unsent)
<> Untapped internet potential
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See also: http://ideabank.global/
Supporting Quote
Testimonials and Videos
- How I Use Ideaflow for Blogging
Tags:, supportingquote, from, Josh, Kopelman,, founder, of, First, Round, Capital, (Tier, 1, VC,, our, investor)
"I think it's fascinating, what you're working on. And more importantly than the whizzy-bang demo is the thought behind it, the framework. It's really sophisticated for a company of your stage. I've seen a lot, and I'm rarely as blown away as I am right now.
Congrats on finding a... Let's put it this way.
The most common reason we pass on an opportunity is not because we think it's going to lose money, but because we think it's not worthy of ten years of a founder's time, like success is just not going to... The opportunity cost for a founder like you is so massive that they have to be working on something that, if they solve it, is worth so much more, is so much better than any other opportunity they could spend their time on. Oftentimes, when I pass on something, it's because I don't think it's worthy of the founder's time! I wish that the founder was working on something bigger, or something else. So, what I like about this... Whether you choose us or we choose you or we get there, what I like about this problem that you're solving is it's so worthy of your time. Who knows, it could be something! But it is real, it's worthy, it's... very cool. Congratulations. It's hard to find something that so early, with something so broad, so fragile, you can still get enough visibility to look and say, yup, this is worth a decade of my life."
Further Reading
http://ideaflowplan.jacobcole.net/
TedX MIT 2022 Outline 1.0
#explainingIdeaflow from ideaflow.app for GPT Summary
- Copy of #explainingIdeaflow from develop.ideaflow.app
[a]This was so enjoyable to listen to! Loved the tuning fork metaphor.. really captures what I've been thinking about for a few years.
[b]@[email protected]
Deriving the user intent and the effective epistemic Taxonomy that is in context is a hurdle.
Minimalist internet, understanding the bento... references. You want a hyper-graph of the concepts effectively a massive interconnected Schema Ontology as per Tim Berners-Lee concepts of GGG.
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