I think the phrase "Find The Others" is probably one of the most important ideas in this entire discussion.
Throughout history, progress has rarely come from isolated individuals. It emerges when people with different experiences, skills, and perspectives begin connecting together and sharing knowledge.
The challenge today is not a lack of intelligence.
The challenge is fragmentation.
Millions of capable people are working on solutions to problems in isolation, often without realising that others are attempting to solve the same problems from different directions.
Perhaps the next step is not simply finding the others.
Perhaps it is building the infrastructure that allows the others to find one another, preserve knowledge, coordinate effort, and compound intelligence over time.
The meek and mild have always possessed enormous collective capability. The difficulty has been connecting the pieces together.
I want to see about compounding intelligence in real time. You know the occasional conversation you're lucky to have, where it's iterating yes, and? Instead of allowing that to be a random fluke, it's something we should train ourselves for. And then make it happen among half a dozen people at a time, as daily routine. Scaffold it somehow with LLMs to make sure it stays on track and is informed by best practice, to make up for the evolved-in weaknesses, correcting for cognitive biases in conjunction with a culture built for that.
It would need people to be way less precious about the software they happen to be running, and become invested in being part of something more than themselves. I like to think at least a few of us could manage that…
https://substack.com/@sirmj/note/c-267300543
Halo,
I think the phrase "Find The Others" is probably one of the most important ideas in this entire discussion.
Throughout history, progress has rarely come from isolated individuals. It emerges when people with different experiences, skills, and perspectives begin connecting together and sharing knowledge.
The challenge today is not a lack of intelligence.
The challenge is fragmentation.
Millions of capable people are working on solutions to problems in isolation, often without realising that others are attempting to solve the same problems from different directions.
Perhaps the next step is not simply finding the others.
Perhaps it is building the infrastructure that allows the others to find one another, preserve knowledge, coordinate effort, and compound intelligence over time.
The meek and mild have always possessed enormous collective capability. The difficulty has been connecting the pieces together.
Strong communities create strong futures.
MJ 🐝
I want to see about compounding intelligence in real time. You know the occasional conversation you're lucky to have, where it's iterating yes, and? Instead of allowing that to be a random fluke, it's something we should train ourselves for. And then make it happen among half a dozen people at a time, as daily routine. Scaffold it somehow with LLMs to make sure it stays on track and is informed by best practice, to make up for the evolved-in weaknesses, correcting for cognitive biases in conjunction with a culture built for that.
It would need people to be way less precious about the software they happen to be running, and become invested in being part of something more than themselves. I like to think at least a few of us could manage that…