Jacob Cole is the CEO and cofounder of Ideaflow, a platform to augment human intelligence. Jacob is a super talented entrepreneur that likes to go deep in both humanistic and technological areas. His company is producing a fascinating intelligent notebook, a collaborative software that could revolutionize the way we connect concepts and create new possibilities. In this conversation we explore topics that go from artificial intelligence and deep learning including the latest theories of Francois Chollet, to the mysteries of our minds and behaviours, attachment, conditioning, the ripples on the cosmic medium and so much more.
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- 00:00 — Intro
- 01:14 — Universal dualities and deep learning
- 01:50 — François Chollet deep learning theories - the hybrid system 1 + 2
- 04:07 — English as a programming language, building
- 06:10 — The 3 layer sandwich model of François Chollet
- 08:20 — an IDE for english, strategies and possibilities
- 12:31 — hypothesis about how smart complexity emerges
- 12:57 — The inner language hypothesis
- 15:41 — The amazon tribe that only counts up to 4
- 20:24 — Non-attachment and Daoism
- 24:33 — Meeting Linus
- 25:58 — Deep learning, looking back towards the brain
- 26:27 — Back to François Chollet and analogies in the universe
- 33:50 — back to an IDE for english and decompiling language
- 37:52 — GPT-3 and brittleness
- 39:13 — Hybrid approaches in deep learning
- 42:15 — Reality and ripples on the cosmic medium
- 45:17 — Meeting Miles
- 47:15 — Releasing attachment and being molded by the universe, simulated annealing
- 50:32 — Optimization and life, annealing and the subconscious pot
- 52:35 — Assimilating to the structure of the cosmic order
- 53:50 — What is the Dao (daoism) - things behave according to their nature
- 55:43 — Chinese medicine and sleep
- 58:21 — Self realization
- 01:00:26 - Donald Hoffman and the case against reality
- 01:03:37 - another annealing hypothesis, fields and randomness
- 01:07:22 - Gödel's incompleteness theorems, limits of models
- 01:08:42 - Annealing with a field, looking for life's unknown fields
- 01:12:56 - Scientific American article: Ian Stevenson’s Case for the Afterlife: Are We "Skeptics" Really Just Cynics?
- 01:15:33 - A fifth force of nature - physics potential discovery
- 01:18:54 - You are the universe speaking - The no self realization
- 01:19:10 - Two forces: the nature of the universe vs conditioning speaking through you
- 01:21:37 - Who is speaking? conditioning or your original nature?
- 01:24:05 - Detecting the roots of our thinking and actions
- 01:25:10 - How to stop living in autopilot, how to prevent conditioning from winning so often
- 01:27:50 - Clear thinking when we are in love - Buddist monks analogy
- 01:31:00 - Avidya - ignorance (sanskrit) vs vidya (right knowledge)
- 01:34:07 - A different perspective on sin and conflict
- 01:35:14 - A language where we can express which part of us is the source of our wants, needs, impulses, etc
- 01:36:30 - Quote: if you are finding that you need to keep yourself motivated, maybe you are chasing somebody else's goals
- 01:39:05 - The depth of the sanskrit language
- 01:41:06 - The meaning of Yoga
- 01:46:18 - Linus's language: we don't do something, we are something
- 01:47:08 - The do-nothing in daoism and non-attachment
- 01:48:24 - The universe moving us (proactivity)
- 01:50:00 - Meeting Ben
- 01:53:07 - Two people connecting because they represent the same thing
- 01:55:22 - Our center always changes because the universe is always changing - homeodynamic - maintain balance as everything keeps changing
- 01:57:22 - The concept of Grok and grokking - to grasp an idea intuitively or by empathy
- 02:04:09 - Managing our auto-pilot behaviour and thinking
- 02:06:00 - Analogy with yoga poses - Avidya - ignorance , grokking avidya and relax the muscles
- 02:09:15 - Different ways of thinking arriving to the same fundamental truths
- 02:11:31 - Qigong and the energy in all experiences
- 02:15:35 - Last thoughts about attachment, conditioning and the self
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