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Fig 1: Kanizsa Triangle, Visual Gestalts
Fig 2: MIT’s Open Gestalts - Clusters of Related Suggestions Given to MIT Suggestion Box

Bio

Hi! I’m Jacob Cole, MIT undergrad and now CEO of Ideaflow.io, a Silicon Valley-based company dedicated to building tools to amplify human intelligence.
I was formerly a student of Marvin Minsky, and a researcher at the MIT Media Lab and CSAIL. Here are a preview of some of the insights I’ve come to from these experiences, and I’d love to share as either a 5 or 20 minute talk.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpQUD9ReiV0&feature=youtu.be

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There are millions of scientists trying to cure the likes of aids and Alzheimer’s quote
People with synergistic ideas in research groups, big companies, and society aren't aware of each other. (Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, who's been an adviser on this project, said in 2011 "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?") At

• Al Gore said several years ago that he wasn't sure how, but that in the 21st century "[the Internet] will enable the emergence of a global mind"

• I was a student of Marvin Minsky's and have a proposal as how.

- We can realize this by building a new form of media congruent with the “cognitive ergonomics” of human thought.

• The main frame for this: creating  "gestalt processing systems" for society  (systems to connect gestalts split across people’s heads to enable collaborative cognition, creativity and more)

• What does this mean? Explain gestalts - give shortened explanation from this paper

• Show the Kanisza Triangle illusion (Fig 1)  and explain how it arises from brain's desire to "close an open gestalt,"

• Define open-gestalts more broadly by generalizing analogy with the triangle:  open gestalts are anything that tug on your attention, from being hungry and wanting to eat, to finishing a musical chord progression, to wanting to implement an idea  (“Chekov’s Gun”)
• In fact, the gestalt psychologists claim that all human motivation can be thought of as that to close open gestalts! Put another way, one way to define a minds as a gestalt processing system

- If “analogy is the core of cognition,” this system is the analogy engine for the global mind.

- I hypothesize that this type of system is the “hybrid car” for true Artificial Intelligence, the intermediate step.

• In the past, the scientists and entrepreneurs -- you and I -- were like Indiana Jones, scouring the Earth, traveling vast distances to conferences to perchance stumble across intellectual soulmates. It felt like a crazy hair-brained quest.

• This is what life has always been like on Earth up until now, covered as it is by the fog of non-connection. This is a world that is not rational: a world that has wars and people working redundantly on the same projects, siloed off in different locations. and ignorant of each other and their overlapping ideas. The global mind is here, but it's really scatterbrained.

• A world that is -- to use my favorite Swahili word, “shagalabagala”-- meaning chaotic or disorganized.

- Ironically, I only met 2/3 of my current teammates/investors from a chance introduction from friends in Silicon Valley

• it's because we experience of the impact of random connections like this on our lives that we get nervous about big decisions in our lives (e.g. university decisions), and have existential crises
• But if societal gestalt processing system tool had existed, it wouldn't have mattered whatsoever where I would've gone to university!
• This short-circuits deep questions of philosophy by removing the cause of such existential tension

• You don’t have to stress out as much when the critical connections that might be life changing are going to happen anyway .(because the world is organized)

• This project is different from all others because it transcends and includes them. Every project that happens becomes a node in this graph. This is the Internet self-reflecting, become conscious of itself.

Key Quotes

- Oftentimes, people hold the pieces to each other's puzzles without knowing about it.

- As Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web: said  "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?"

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- Half the conversations I have about ideas (e.g. for programming projects) reduce to: I have an idea, and my friend says “have you heard of this related idea, or this related person?”
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- "analogy is the core of cognition."
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- Ideaflow is the internet doing noting meditation
- "Noting" meditation #write
- And it’s literally also a notetaking system
- Emerging space of Tools for thought

Fig 1: Kanizsa Triangle, Visual Gestalts

Fig 2: MIT’s Open Gestalts - Clusters of Related Suggestions Given to MIT Suggestion Box

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Toward a Shared Brain for Humanity, that Cares

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Making the Global Brain more Caring, not Just Connected
The Global Brain is Coming Online -   Becoming Conscious of itself, how we can make it care forrs

The Global Brain is Becoming Conscious of itself, how we can make it care forrs
How the Internet Can Help us Care for Each Other

Helping Humanity’s Shared Brain to Meditate

How the Internet can Help us Get our Needs Met

A Meditative, Conscious Shared Brain for Humanity

Toward a Shared Brain for Humanity on the

Toward a Shared Brain for Humanity
A Shared Brain for Humanity

Self-Conscious Global Mind

Empathetic Global Mind

Integrating the Global Mind

Making the Global Mind More Meditative
Building a Personal Internet of your Brain
An Internet of your Brain
An Internet of Ideas
Interbeing on the Internet
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Networked Thought and The Internet Becoming Conscious of Itself
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cybernetic

The global mind is waking up, even from an integrated information theory standpoint, but it’s having seizures.

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and inform the design of tools and cultures that produce wiser, more coherent, collective action.

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The global mind, in the form of humans connected via the Internet, is waking up – but it’s “having seizures” and other “mental health” conditions resulting from its new hyperconnectedness.  The tools we build can change this, and affect how we think and act as a societal organism.

The way the Web is designed now, when someone says something that makes many irate, it often echoes in a filter bubble, causing an explosion that knocks down the integrity of the whole sociotechnical system that is democracy. This is an analogue of a seizure on the Global Mind.

It’s also having serious attention span issues. One week there’s an earthquake in Haiti that displaces tens of thousands of people. It’s on the news and gathers donations. But two weeks later, it’s replaced by another headline, even though people are still suffering. We aren’t coherent as a collective organism.

I’m hoping this talk can help Silicon Valley produce companies that enable wiser, more coherent action – in other words, that help the nascent global mind to start to “meditate.”

My research at the MIT Media Lab was on designing digital and physical spaces that enable all types of intelligences, human and machine, to work together – to arrive at truth and meet human needs. Now I run a company in this space (ideaflow.io).

This talk is about how ideas from distributed intelligence theory can help us design tools that care for our present and future selves 🤗.

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With recent developments in AI, it’s critical that we find ways to channel this industry into scaling our capacity to care for, instead of deceive, each other.
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This talk is about how ideas from distributed intelligence theory can fix that, and help us design tools that care for our present and future selves 🤗.

A profound concept that can help us achieve this is that of  “Software Agents” that advocate on your behalf. I made the first bot that helped me was when I was a sophomore at MIT and having crippling problems with my hands. I was needing to use a mouse with my toes and do almost everything via voice. I was really scared, and not able to advocate for myself with the administration. With the very little hand and toe power I had left, I started to build a personal “issue tracker” system that tracked my “open gestalts” (open issues), put them on a publicly visible board, and had a bot that would automatically follow up with anyone who hadn’t replied within a week. When I felt most vulnerable, I realized how good it felt having tools that care for my future self and I want to have that be available to everyone who is in need.

administration that had I automatically ping via email every one week, a

This is how I realized

to get my needs met, like getting a transcriber sponsored

of sending more deceptive spam.

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I automatically ping via email every one week, any anyone who was assigned to that issue if the status didn't change to the next status of this, and this is the only way I was able to ultimately stay on top of the at least 15 threads of applying to disability funds, etc. I was needed that we needed to do it. And this is how I realized when I felt most lonely, having tools that care for my future self, how good that felt. And I want to have that be available to everyone who is in need.

The first bot

then a bot that would automatically follow up any person I automatically ping via email every one week, a

With the very little hand and toe power I had left, I started to build a personal issue tracker system that tracked my “open gestalts” (open issues), put them on a public leave visible board, and automatically followed up

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With the little hand power

Ray Kurzweil projects that by 2045, we'll all be connected to a “shared neocortex” in the cloud by brain-computer interfaces. The funny thing about this projection is that, in a sense we already are – we have, a mouse, keyboard, and can post thoughts in text formats on the internet – the problem is just that this “global mind” is really scatterbrained and it's exhibiting many, many conditions.

In the way the web is set up now, when someone says something that makes everyone irate it often echoes in a filter bubble causing an explosion that knocks down the Integrity of the whole sociotechnical system that is democracy this is an analog of a seizure on the global mind

In the way the web is designed now, when someone says an thing that makes everyone irate, it often echoes in a filter bubble, causing an explosion that knocks down the integrity of the whole sociotechnical system that is democracy. This is an analogue of a seizure on the Global Mind.

We're also seeing serious attention span issues on the global mind. One week there’s an earthquake in Haiti that displaces tens of thousands of people. It’s on the news and gathers donations. But two weeks later, it’s replaced by another headline, even though people are still suffering. We aren’t coherent as a collective organism.

The tools we build can change this, and affect how we think and act as a societal organism.

As a result, people's needs are not getting met.

🤗

As a piece of story, like I was a sophomore at MIT and having crippling problems with my hand so much that I was learning to use a mouse with my toes and doing almost everything via voice and I was really scared and not able to really advocate for myself with the administration, etc. And with the very little hand and toe power I had left I  started to build a personal issue tracker and it tracked all of my open defaults and it put them on a public leave visible board. That was like the Okay, I currently don't have a laptop that can run voice recognition. And secondly, I don't know how I'm going to you don't have a anyone who's worked who's able to help me. Transcribe while doing homework, and then a bot that would automatically follow up any person I automatically ping via email every one week, any anyone who was assigned to that issue if the status didn't change to the next status of this, and this is the only way I was able to ultimately stay on top of the at least 15 threads of applying to disability funds, etc. I was needed that we needed to do it. And this is how I realized when I felt most lonely, having tools that care for my future self, how good that felt. And I want to have that be available to everyone who is in need.

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There are

psychiatrists are diagnosed for years, such as having seizures like there's a filter bubble. Some some alarming or thing that makes everyone irate happens to counselors around the filter bubble. It causes a an explosion that knocks down the integrity of the whole system when people are angry about something in their filter bubble that's a seizure on the Global Mind. We're also seeing like, serious, like memory of short term memory loss, that's unproductive or maybe less to say I'd love to save the ADHD. And it's like there's a we've got, like an extremely short attention span for people's needs getting that earthquake in Haiti and displaces 10s of 1000s of people and they're all suffering in some use for two weeks and it gets the donations replaced the next week by some other disasters. We can we've totally forgotten about this other Yeah, yep. And as a result, people's needs are not getting met.

Ray Kurzweil said that by 2045, we'd all be connected to a shared neocortex in the cloud by computer interfaces. And I don't know about the brain computer interfaces. I'll leave those to Elon Musk, because I think the BCIs we have are actually decent, that is keyboard mouse for etc. But the need is to build a shared neocortex. In the cloud. And the other good news is the shared neocortex in the past actually already here. But it's just really scatterbrained and it's having it's exhibiting many, many conditions.

and the enterprise of life to some extent can be seen as making manifest, that connectedness that it making manifest in the external world, the connectedness between things that is trapped in each of our heads. So Ray Kurzweil said that by 2045, we'd all be connected to a shared neocortex in the cloud by computer interfaces. And I don't know about the brain computer interfaces. I'll leave those to Elon Musk, because I think the BCIs we have are actually decent, that is keyboard mouse for etc. But the need is to build a shared neocortex. In the cloud. And the other good news is the shared neocortex in the past actually already here. But it's just really scatterbrained and it's having it's exhibiting many, many conditions.

psychiatrists are diagnosed for years, such as having seizures like there's a filter bubble. Some some alarming or thing that makes everyone irate happens to counselors around the filter bubble. It causes a an explosion that knocks down the integrity of the whole system when people are angry about something in their filter bubble that's a seizure on the Global Mind. We're also seeing like, serious, like memory of short term memory loss, that's unproductive or maybe less to say I'd love to save the ADHD. And it's like there's a we've got, like an extremely short attention span for people's needs getting that earthquake in Haiti and displaces 10s of 1000s of people and they're all suffering in some use for two weeks and it gets the donations replaced the next week by some other disasters. We can we've totally forgotten about this other Yeah, yep. And as a result, people's needs are not getting met.

How does your topic relate to the theme of "Changing Tides"?

Internet becoming conscious of itself.

We’re at a turning point with AI.

Ray kurzweil in 21st century hooks
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How can we solve problems too big to fit in any individual's head?

Ray Kurzweil projects that, by 2045, humanity will be hooked up to a "shared neocortex in the cloud" by brain-computer interfaces. We will leave the brain-computer interfaces to Elon Musk, but we believe it’s possible to build that "shared brain" now, and that it might look different than many imagine.

We're starting by creating a notebook that augments the user's intelligence.

We want to create a future where nobody feels alone with their ideas, where intellectual soulmates find each other,  where superconnectors are empowered. We see our software as critical to creating the frame for humans and machines to work together to solve the world's most important problems.

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Got out of meditation retreat
Expecting to meet this dalai lama like character
Really calm / peace , unassuming
But when i met

Started pounding beer

So when he started pounding beer shouting get out of the box at the top of his lungs i was shocked
But clearly i wasn’t getting the message because after an hour of this he threw open the door, and started screaming, chasing a peacock around the yard.
At this point i was completely confused slightly concerned and definitely questioning if i’d found the right guy. Eventually he threw us out of the house
But the next day
When i was unable to find the car keys in the garage late for an appointment, and my inner critic had started ranting at me, suddenly I stopped, and burse out laughing.
Nothing was going right in the ordinary sense,  i felt more vibrantly alive than i ever had, I knew everything was deeply ok, but somehow this had woken me up to the infinite nature of consciousnessness,

because I was there late to something couldn’t find the car keys felt so vibrantly alive

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the kid stayed for 12 hours; every being is enlightened except for you, and everyone, at all times and doing just the thing , like a theatre performance, to get you to wake up to your true infinite nature; get completely drunk and shout the dharma at you at the top of their lungs, with wrathful compassion that quickly slices away your obsurations and fixations ;  <> clear your channels; peacock walked by and to emphasize a point about getting out of the box of our reference framework, he threw open the door and ran around the yard screaming and chasing the peacock; so when the next day i was unable to find the car keys in the garage while late for an appointment, because I was there late to something couldn’t find the car keys felt so vibrantly alive

The vitality of pure Being blasted me so hard
And the vivid nature of awareness blasted me so hard

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I have given numerous talks at intellectual salons, and at the #Outliers startup and frontier academic conference, and at startup conferences. Happy to share more footage if interested!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVKttPfm-BA
Tags:, Outliers, startup, accelerator, and, con., Here’s, one, of, our, reels!
Let me know if you’d like other speaking footage.

Here’s a technical + pitch + vision for future of the Web talk I gave at a demo day for a startup accelerator I was in. I have given others that are more “speech-y” I can likely find videos of if you’re interested, such as the #Outliers conference!
My talk is at https://youtu.be/LxMzvzNMwZQ 26:34-32:20 and gets going after the first few slides.

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Oh, I like it. Okay, everybody clap as you can hear me. Everybody clap twice if you can hear me. Everyone clap three times if you can hear me. Sweet. Now we're gonna say someone's name and Max say your name and we're gonna add to it. Back. That's awesome. We've succeeded. And the way I started doing salons, as you guys are all aware is usually forget. Everyone go around the circle, say their name. Everyone echoes it back, and people share one thing you can ask them about one thing you can do it in the next week.
And what is underlying this is we have this huge latent potential to connect with each other. That's not being tapped. It's like just waiting. We hold the pieces to each other's puzzles about intellectual soulmates are like, essentially in touch with soulmates or passing like ships in the night.
nearside, exhausting thing, the set the founder of seven

Yes, yeah. Wow. Did you guys you would totally vibe.

Wow, I'm so excited. Yeah. Cast like ships in the night and the thing is, is it's not our fault. It's the fault of one thing, which is the fog of non connection that sits on the world.

The default state in this world for ideas and things is to in the material realm at least is to be disconnected and the enterprise of life to some extent can be seen as making manifest, that connectedness that it making manifest in the external world, the connectedness between things that is trapped in each of our heads. So Ray Kurzweil said that by 2045, we'd all be connected to a shared neocortex in the cloud by computer interfaces. And I don't know about the brain computer interfaces. I'll leave those to Elon Musk, because I think the BCIs we have are actually decent, that is keyboard mouse for etc. But the need is to build a shared neocortex. In the cloud. And the other good news is the shared neocortex in the past actually already here. But it's just really scatterbrained and it's having it's exhibiting many, many conditions.

psychiatrists are diagnosed for years, such as having seizures like there's a filter bubble. Some some alarming or thing that makes everyone irate happens to counselors around the filter bubble. It causes a an explosion that knocks down the integrity of the whole system when people are angry about something in their filter bubble that's a seizure on the Global Mind. We're also seeing like, serious, like memory of short term memory loss, that's unproductive or maybe less to say I'd love to save the ADHD. And it's like there's a we've got, like an extremely short attention span for people's needs getting that earthquake in Haiti and displaces 10s of 1000s of people and they're all suffering in some use for two weeks and it gets the donations replaced the next week by some other disasters. We can we've totally forgotten about this other Yeah, yep. And as a result, people's needs are not getting met.

So this is like, there's two disorders that happen and I guess the the third disorder that happens is basically it's it's really like scatterbrain, which is the the disconnection of ideas like one person in this part of the brain in this one person and the other news is this, this whole thing is the global brain. It's not just the digital form, which is a more pure representation of it. But you know, we're walking around the brain right now. And there's this one thought over there, your thought, hello, those are the thoughts, your thoughts, the things inside of the thoughts, it's all thoughts. You know, I'm over here we got similar ideas or you've got similar ideas. If we totally are unaware, it's like, it's like the most scatterbrain situation possible. And it's a little bit like being in a really wild dream state. And what I'm interested in is having Global Mind, start to wake up from that dream state and enter this place where there's higher integrated information.

Giulio Tononi, the neuroscientist, founder and creator, co creator of integrated information theory. He studies consciousness how it works, he says there's more consciousness and systems based on a result of how much information that they can integrate. And so it it's this is like a camera has a high ability to perceive lots of different bits of information, but it makes very few high level judgments about those those things. On the other hand, like a an AND gate. It only takes in two bits of information, but it makes a judgement about that integrates two bits of information, that's integration. And so when he developed this powerful methodology for diagnosing stages of sleep, stages of coma, and vegetative states, and so on and so forth, based on the ability of the brain to integrate information and what both comas and traumas are characterized by as a failure to integrate information, there's these lock downs between different breakdown the breakdown of integration from across the whole system.

And if you want to do something, though, right now, make you stop having as much scatterbrain Yes, you can you can tap the same way. 12 times. Six, same like, same pan, same like laser cost to the opposite. Side.
It should be in the talk about
serving no one talks like this.
And now what you can do is you can grab your hands like this, and you can flip them over and then you can cross the legs to cross the legs. Within the nose.
You can take your hands and put them at the Third Eye spot.
This has gotten physically the left and right side of your brain to start communicating with each other. Which kick starts a wave of integration that overcomes blockages and blockages often manifests as depression separating the left and right side of your brain and the wave of integrations that it leads carries other kickstarts a full circuit? Yeah, bad for this integration called the Wayne Cooke posture used to treat people with stuttering. So it's one one party animals going this way or different the animals going.

So the question is, how do we do something that does that for the Global Mind? And the answer that I have right now are cultural technologies, technology, meditative technologies meditative
and finally, collective intelligence systems. The thing that I said as the interest is so strong right now wow. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And that the unique frame in this age of AI is about to become really hot. Is that specialized AI is and maybe future Gen AIS and the general intelligence as we already have all in each other are all going in scatterbrained direction. We need a place to put them that they will be able to synchronize it to work together to to more efficiently. sinker, synchronize the action of the body of society to go meet those needs of the people who are being forgotten right now,
and more integration of the different parts into the IFS of society.

Kind of yes, that's exactly that's exactly integrator work. Like, yeah, yeah. And the punchline of this talk in the title. It's about the internet becoming conscious of itself. Yeah. And so what that specifically means is creating a model is actually the funny thing is it's deeper the internet becoming conscious of itself is only the tip of the iceberg. Thing is is having a shared societal representation system that is tracking all of the making, making a machine readable model of all of the open needs in society is really, really important machine interpretable model of all of the open ideas that people have, and also, all of the stuff that has been written in plain English on the internet, so that we can have machines work with us to connect it to to basically care for our future selves, making machines that care for our future selves. And making socio technical systems that involve humans to that can that can, that can, how agents of all types really a machine or human to care for our future selves, and not drop these, not just these things and how this be coordinated and centralized. This is a roadmap for the future.

And so the the lesson here the main bullet points to hit is the the solutions to Tim Berners Lee said that 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. If we have a system like this, and then how can we enable the web to make these Hackforums solutions come together? And if we have a shared place where you can have the graphs of ideas that are in everyone's heads dumped, then those solutions that are visible from connecting the dots will become obvious right? So anyway, that's my basic outline of what I wanted to cover in the talk. Oh, that's amazing.

well, yeah, the Yeah, and that might have been a stretch. Um, and then the other thing is, is maybe I could talk about cognitive prosthetics. That's another topic is like I actually researched cognitive prosthetics for welding my t, which is like someone gets a traumatic brain injury. And you start to this is like an alternative approach to strong AI is someone gets a traumatic brain injury, like someone lost the ability to do this cueing tasks, like wouldn't remember to brush your teeth or like, like, check her keys before she walks out the door or something like that. She built an app that does it. Well, I helped I worked on with her to build an app that that that does this. And the cool thing is if you replace you get people with brain damage, and you replace one function at a time digitally, this is like the Darth Vader approach to strong AI. essentially replace the whole organism.

As a piece of story, like I was a sophomore at MIT and having crippling problems with my hand so much that I was learning to use a mouse with my toes and doing almost everything via voice and I was really scared and not able to really advocate for myself with the administration, etc. And with the very little hand and toe power I had left I  started to build a personal issue tracker and it tracked all of my open defaults and it put them on a public leave visible board. That was like the Okay, I currently don't have a laptop that can run voice recognition. And secondly, I don't know how I'm going to you don't have a anyone who's worked who's able to help me. Transcribe while doing homework, and then a bot that would automatically follow up any person I automatically ping via email every one week, any anyone who was assigned to that issue if the status didn't change to the next status of this, and this is the only way I was able to ultimately stay on top of the at least 15 threads of applying to disability funds, etc. I was needed that we needed to do it. And this is how I realized when I felt most lonely, having tools that care for my future self, how good that felt. And I want to have that be available to everyone who is in need.

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Yeah, amazing. And I one thing I want to add, is also when it comes to you know, how you use it, you know, how do we translate something into say, like a n MVC language? That's understandable by someone like say, my Mom Yes, or like because I what I'm seeing a lot of blockage in of the scatter mine of information or ideas not being shared is a lack of understanding. It's not like the lack of willingness to understand but lack of the ability or lack of the bridge. There's a lack of bridge and understanding. Yeah, and I think technology can potentially help with building that bridge. They're able to translate the language for example of a heart centered person to a brain center for the person who grew up in the Gen Z era to boomers. How do we translate things into things that will make sense to a different people was a different cultural background. What was a different upbringing people was a different generation. Yeah, you know, a different age people different gender, people different belief system. How do we translate something that you know, it's so helpful, you know, you know, let's say, Muslim community. Yeah. To someone who is like Christian. Yeah. Yeah. And the world doesn't have to be so disconnected. Right? That's like, it's like, it's like, you know, that bridge? Yeah. Anyway, I just want to bring that up. As a side note. Yes. Totally.
Yeah.
Wait, are you getting Oh, are we getting in the car? We're just chilling in the car. Or chilling or warming?
Yeah. Wait, you weren't in this room? I guess all sitting this room.
Okay. Just squeeze in a squeeze and come back here. Okay. Yeah, so real quick. I would love if anyone has a quick take feedback on this TED talk proposal or stuff that's missing or like, key ideas that could be articulated better. Maybe all interested in metaphors. Which metaphor the metaphor of just like, accidentally, just like
think it's easier to psychological issues. Yeah. I think I think I was sitting.
Things you can think about like, like thinking of, like, you can think about sorry. Yes. And just like getting more like, really into that.
That was like the coolest part. I thought. Yeah. It's like making it like making that more like, Okay, if there's any other like, ways of making even more fear, yeah. Adding more like color to them. Yes.
Yeah. Take any
command and gas
specific individual making the connection between them and the global versions of explicit. Whether it's, I don't know but you gave three examples.
There's a person who might be really why was she using Toronto? And
text me? I'm trying to listen to these guys. seizures, so seizure, scatterbrained and ADHD or memory loss where it's like the earthquake in Haiti and there's like we forget about that in two weeks. And it's like, yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, I really like that. Yeah. Structure and
cool. So okay, so that structure and then treating the Global Mind like it's got a mental like we've got mental health issues and like trying to figure out strategies that would transform that and structures that would transform that is a piece of it, but yeah, what else? What else do you guys say? Am I missing any topics that should be in this talk? Is there anything that like, resonated anything else that resonated? Particularly also
like a short term memory loss? Like I guess for the specific examples Yeah, did you give like cures like for like, I guess the way that we treat them in real like in the way that we treat them in psychology, like the way like, did you talk about at all I
think it was the integration step that was like, considered the the cure of of those pathologies? Is that wait, they claim was,

well, yeah, the Yeah, and that might have been a stretch. Um, and then the other thing is, is maybe I could talk about cognitive prosthetics. That's another topic is like I actually researched cognitive prosthetics for welding my t, which is like someone gets a traumatic brain injury. And you start to this is like an alternative approach to strong AI is someone gets a traumatic brain injury, like someone lost the ability to do this cueing tasks, like wouldn't remember to brush your teeth or like, like, check her keys before she walks out the door or something like that. She built an app that does it. Well, I helped I worked on with her to build an app that that that does this. And the cool thing is if you replace you get people with brain damage, and you replace one function at a time digitally, this is like the Darth Vader approach to strong AI. essentially replace the whole organism.

Wait, is that better? That way like between
Can you close the trunk? David?
Easily was there close? It was
awesome. That's fine, but I'm using I'm driving my car. Leave the back pack outside here that's better.
Yeah, but for a second I thought you're telling me this and I was like wait
yeah. So we before it before we before we go down that rabbit hole just real quick. I want to hear more on what you guys were just saying.

So we read strong AI verses that you were describing Darth Vader like a sight kind of cybernetic. Gradual replacement of capability
and capabilities. Yeah,
good ones. I think like one. This is like a common thing in a lot of AI safety is like, if we delegate too much, like where's the line between delegation and like, augmentation? And it's like, more messy than it seems, but I don't actually know details about that. That's just like nitpicking about what what is like an agent that's separate from us versus, you know, a tool that helps us? Maybe David has more to say like, like,
my concern with the systems we build today is that we, I build lots of things that reduce friction for myself. I build tools to make making command line interfaces much faster. I built little bots to help me with cognitive tests. I don't have to think about them, and it's great. Then I become dependent on it as well. And things that technology doesn't cover 100% of use cases where it feels like you've been relying on the tool for a long time, but now the tool is not available. Something that used to be very natural now starts to feel arduous. Yes, that is a very short term concern already.

As a piece of story, like I was a sophomore at MIT and having crippling problems with my hand so much that I was learning to use a mouse with my toes and doing almost everything via voice and I was really scared and not able to really advocate for myself with the administration, etc. And with the very little hand and toe power I had left I  started to build a personal issue tracker and it tracked all of my open defaults and it put them on a public leave visible board. That was like the Okay, I currently don't have a laptop that can run voice recognition. And secondly, I don't know how I'm going to you don't have a anyone who's worked who's able to help me. Transcribe while doing homework, and then a bot that would automatically follow up any person I automatically ping via email every one week, any anyone who was assigned to that issue if the status didn't change to the next status of this, and this is the only way I was able to ultimately stay on top of the at least 15 threads of applying to disability funds, etc. I was needed that we needed to do it. And this is how I realized when I felt most lonely, having tools that care for my future self, how good that felt. And I want to have that be available to everyone who is in need.

Further Reading

Jacob Cole TedX Talk Outline 3 (with gestalts)
Copy of Jacob Cole TedX Talk Outline 13 - working _maria 1/18/14
WikiNets Jacob Cole TedX Oxford Talk Outline Final 0.9.7_stable