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The Integral StagePUBLIC SHADOW #2 w/ Jill Nephew
In this special episode, Layman meets with human woman, Jill Nephew, to explore the intricacies of projection and shadow, image and truth, public identities and dopplegangers, in our highly mediated, complexly entangled, and increasingly manipulable digital information spaces.
Jill Nephew is the founder of Inqwire, PBC a company on a mission to help the world make sense. The Inqwire technology is designed to enhance and accelerate human sensemaking abilities. The designing of the system required her to attempt to answer a fundamental question: how does technology interact with the mind's ability to do individual and collective sensemaking, and what...
2024-12-281h 30
MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College PodcastEpisode #49: Jill Nephew - Inquiry, Education, Artificial Vs. Natural IntelligenceJill Nephew, technologist and founder of Inqwire, joins the podcast for a thorough discussion on different forms of intelligence, questions of meta-crisis in the modern world, and solutions.Inqwire: https://www.inqwire.io/Some books mentioned in this episode:The Art of Memory by Frances YatesThe Book of Why by Judea PearlWestern Estoericism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Wouter J. HanegraafWhat is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam BeckerSomnium by Johannes Kepler...
2023-11-141h 12The Integral StageTHE SOUL OF A.I. #7.5 -- Revisiting Jill Nephew's Position
For the eighth episode of The Soul of AI (or maybe this is episode 7.5), Layman sits down again with Jill Nephew to talk to her about her responses to some of the previous guests' positions on AI; the problems with scaling; and to go into more detail on her concerns about the limitations and dangers of this alluring technology.
Jill Nephew is the founder of Inqwire, PBC a company on a mission to help the world make sense. The Inqwire technology is designed to enhance and accelerate human sensemaking abilities. The designing of the system required her to attempt...
2023-08-251h 14
Accidental GodsAI: Integral to the future or existential risk? (or both) - conversations on current evolution with Daniel ThorsonHow dangerous is AI? Are Large Language Models likely to subvert our children? Is Generalised AI going to wipe out all life on the planet? I don't know the answers to these. It may be that nobody knows, but this week's guest was my go-to when I needed someone with total integrity to help unravel one of the most existential crises of our time, to lay it out as simply as we can without losing the essence of complexity, to help us see the worst cases - and their likelihood - and the best cases, and then to navigate a...
2023-08-021h 17
The Natural Intelligence PodcastIs The AI Alignment Problem a Real Problem?There is an entire field of research dedicated to the problem of AI alignment. In this episode, Jill Nephew presents and supports the claim that there is no AI alignment problem to be solved and reveals the real alignment problem we need to be focusing on.
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2023-06-021h 09
Emerge: Making Sense of What's NextJill Nephew - Using ChatGPT is Like Eating Plastic for Your CognitionIn this conversation I speak with Jill Nephew. Jill, a former AI black box algorithm engineer with extensive experience in developing software architectures, holds a highly heterodox perspective on the risks associated with LLM AIs. In this conversation we explore Jill's argument that using LLMs like ChatGPT or Bard are like eating plastic for your cognitive agency and natural intelligence, how it is that AIs could cause the rise of new 'supercults', and how another world is possible, if only we learn to ask the right questions. If you enjoy this podcast and want to support it please consider becoming...
2023-05-201h 29
Emerge: Making Sense of What's NextJill Nephew - Using ChatGPT is Like Eating Plastic for Your CognitionIn this conversation I speak with Jill Nephew. Jill, a former AI black box algorithm engineer with extensive experience in developing software architectures, holds a highly heterodox perspective on the risks associated with LLM AIs. In this conversation we explore Jill's argument that using LLMs like ChatGPT or Bard are like eating plastic for your cognitive agency and natural intelligence, how it is that AIs could cause the rise of new 'supercults', and how another world is possible, if only we learn to ask the right questions.
If you enjoy this podcast and want to support it...
2023-05-201h 29The Integral StageTHE SOUL OF A.I. #2 -- "The Great Illusion" w/ Jill Nephew
The question of the promise and peril of AI is a proper one for our long-running Love the System series, but we thought it deserved its own spot as a sub-series due to the rapid development and proliferation of Large Language Models and other ground-breaking AI technologies over the past six months. It may be too early to tell yet, but with the clear power of this emergent technology, its potential to take over many of the tasks we used to regard as exclusively human, and its rapid public uptake, it feels like we are on the cusp of...
2023-05-141h 24
UTOKing with GreggEp 63 | UTOKing with Jill Nephew | Cultivating Natural IntelligenceIn Episode 63, Gregg welcomes Jill Nephew. Jill has expertise in software engineering and climate science. She is passionate about developing models, theories and tools that require the artful interplay between combinatorial complexity, abstract modelling, and nuanced human perception to create systems that enhance humans cognition and decision making towards creating a world that makes sense. Jill's primary project over the past 5+ years has been developing Inqwire, which "'is one-of-a-kind inquiry technology makes it possible for individuals and groups to access powerful inquiry processes around any topic." This capacity is what Jill call's "natural intelligence" and in this episode, she...
2022-12-051h 35
Ari in the AirLessons from Death Sports - Jill NephewJill is a former competition paraglide pilot and now is helping people unlock the power of inquiry at Inqwire.io . In this conversation we cover a lot of ground relating to death and the power that facing it through sports can have on our lives, our relationships and our perspective. This is a great talk!
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2022-11-221h 18The Natural Intelligence PodcastInquiry and Natural IntelligenceWhat is the practice or the ‘doing’ of restoring your natural intelligence?
What’s special about a practice that restores your natural intelligence?
As we’ve been putting out the message of why it’s so important to restore, enhance, and protect our natural intelligence, these are some of the questions we still need to answer.
In this episode, Jill Nephew speaks to these questions and more around inquiry as a practice and its relationship to natural intelligence.
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2022-07-2224 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastUnpacking the Unexamined Harms of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Part 3This episode is part 3 of a series of conversations prompted by the recent Cover Story, Power Trip podcast episodes exploring the MDMA-Assisted therapy trials by MAPS and the stories of participants who went through severe negative experiences that were previously not publicly known or acknowledged. In this episode we deep dive into a series of thought experiments around the role of the therapist in psychedelic therapy and imagine into what testable mechanisms for good outcomes might look like. More show notes here.
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2022-04-1645 minThe Natural Intelligence PodcastUnpacking the Unexamined Harms of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Part 2This episode is part 2 of a series of conversations prompted by the recent Cover Story, Power Trip podcast episodes exploring the MDMA-Assisted therapy trials by MAPS and the stories of participants who went through severe negative experiences that were previously not publicly known or acknowledged. In this episode we continue the conversation where we talk about things like the mechanisms of psychological harm, the role of psychedelics in a therapeutic process, the role of therapists or guides, and thought experiments around how psychedelics introduce new dimensions of harm and meaning, beyond existing mental health interventions. More show notes here.
2022-04-1647 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastUnpacking the Unexamined Harms of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Part 1This episode is the first part of a series of conversations prompted by the recent Cover Story, Power Trip podcast episodes exploring the MDMA-Assisted therapy trials by MAPS and the stories of participants who went through severe negative experiences that were previously not publicly known or acknowledged. We use this as a launch point for a conversation where we talk about things like the mechanisms of psychological harm, the role of psychedelics in a therapeutic process, the role of therapists or guides, the placebo effect and psychological diagnoses, and the danger of the enhanced placebo effect in psychological interventions...
2022-04-1330 minThe Natural Intelligence PodcastRe-Imagining the World Through the Lens of Natural IntelligenceThis episode is an announcement that we’re transitioning the podcast into a new chapter, a chapter where we will be re-imaging the world through the lens of natural intelligence.
The world we live in has been built and architected while we’ve had the wrong understanding of the mind and cognition.
This leads to a real call to action to both modernize around our correct understanding, and restore what we lost. This is going to be a central theme of our next series.
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2022-04-0702 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastA Natural Intelligence Community of PracticeWe are inviting people to join us in creating a natural intelligence community of practice together. We discuss the who, what, why, how, and when. You can learn more here: https://www.inqwire.io/community
2022-03-3035 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastWicked Problems 5: Building Tech to Address the BottleneckIn this lesson, we continue to explore design constraints on an information technology for global human coordination. We talk about the information bottleneck and how that lead to humans organizing in hierarchical structures that disseminate ungrounded models, and how to overcome that challenge. We talk about peacefully resolving conflicts and the importance of conceptual blends for model revision. And we also talk about how we have addressed many of the design challenges for architecting an information technology like this, and that the next steps are adoption and transition.=======Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation...
2022-03-2032 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastWicked Problems 4: Design Constraints and Challenges for Global Human CoordinationIn this lesson, we explore design constraints and challenges for an information technology that could successfully facilitate global human coordination with each other and the environment such that we can navigate towards a future that is best for our long term survival and thriving. We talk about the nature of data that is required for the information technology, constraints on the architecture for the information technology, and what you'd expect to emerge from implementing this architecture in an information technology. =======Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world t...
2022-03-2041 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastWicked Problems 3. How Different Information Technologies Succeed and Fail when Addressing ThemIn this episode, we explore what it would look like to “think globally and act locally” with natural intelligence, and how technology can successfully support individuals in applying natural intelligence to solve problems in their local context in a way that’s consistent with the “global reality.” We go into existing real-world examples to explore how the design of the information technology systems is critical to determining their success or failure in addressing wicked problems.=======Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technolog...
2022-03-1632 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastWicked Problems 2. How it Feels Different to Approach Them with Natural IntelligenceWe go into how addressing wicked problems using natural intelligence is going to look and feel fundamentally different than when we use analytic intelligence to solve problems.We go into how this may be challenging and frustrating to people who want to be able to solve things directly through control and determination, and how with a naturally intelligent approach, we unlock more possibilities than we expect.=======Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a...
2022-03-1522 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastWicked Problems 1. What They Are and How to Approach ThemWe explore how we can’t address wicked problems in the same way we address other kinds of problems.We present new ways of thinking about what wicked problems are and their qualities. And, we go into the critical shift in the mindset and approach to wicked problems that is required when using natural intelligence.=======Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards wh...
2022-03-1538 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 12. What Would We Need to Restore Natural Intelligence and Win the Race Against Insanity?We explore what it would look like to restore natural intelligence, how we would know if a solution was successful, and how the Inqwire project has successfully produced a solution that meets the required constraints and restores natural intelligence for users.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2314 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 11. The Direct Experiences of Natural Intelligence Break Down and How We RespondWe connect how the breakdown of our natural intelligence explains much of our personal, direct experiences in life, and describe the fundamental flaw with the solutions and responses we've come up with to address the effects of a breakdown of natural intelligence.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2326 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 10. How We Devalued Natural Intelligence and Shaped Our Modern WorldWe explore the history of how we came to devalue what we need for natural intelligence and how this shaped Western culture and the world we live in today.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2317 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 9. The Power of Natural IntelligenceWe go into the power of natural intelligence, how it relies on processes we've come to devalue, and how natural intelligence is far superior to the intelligence and way of thinking we're accustomed to.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2318 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 8. Natural Intelligence Failure Modes: Part 2We explore the core vulnerability of our cognitive system that allows for our natural intelligence to fail.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2308 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 7. Natural Intelligence Failure Modes: Part 1We continue to explore mechanisms of how our cognitive system can be hijacked, leading to a breakdown and failure of natural intelligence.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2318 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 6. The Human Coordination ProblemWe go into more about the nature of the human coordination problem, the problem of coordinating with each other and with our environment, and how natural intelligence is the solution.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2308 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 5. Evidence for an Unnatural Mode of CognitionWe talk about how we know there is a natural mode of cognition by describing evidence for an unnatural mode of cognition.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2311 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 4. Should What We Know About Natural Intelligence Give Us Hope?We talk about how the message of this course is one of hope.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2302 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 3. Our True Nature is Better Than We Think it IsWe present the argument that our true nature is better than we think it is.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2302 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 2. Why The Concept Natural Intelligence is ImportantWe go into why the concept of natural intelligence is important in allowing us to name and point at something fundamental that humans need to restore and enhance.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2307 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastFundamentals 1. What is Natural Intelligence and Why Does it Matter?We present the idea of “natural intelligence”, what it is, and why it matters.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/
2022-02-2306 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastIntroducing Natural Intelligence 101: How to Win the Race Against InsanityWe introduce the series by giving an overview of the situation humanity is in, the common belief about the nature of humanity, and how this audio series will provide a different story about the nature of humanity and what we can do to create a world that makes sense.
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Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io...
2022-02-2303 min
The Natural Intelligence PodcastEp. 6 - How We Came to Mistrust Our BrainsIn this episode we continue looking at ways in which your ability to do sensemaking is being hijacked. We’ll focus on how the stories we have been told about our brain naturally lead us to not trust it to do sensemaking, and how the recent revolution in the cognitive sciences has revealed how the foundational experiments these stories were based on were wrongly interpreted - giving our brain a ‘bad rap’.
It's as if our brain was convicted of a crime it didn’t commit, and now the new evidence is in. In this episode we explore...
2020-08-261h 32The Natural Intelligence PodcastEp. 5 - How Your Ability to Do Sensemaking Is Being Hijacked by Our 'Data Is King' WorldIn this episode I sit down with Jill to talk about how we are living in a Data is King world. Meaning that when we are looking for truth, knowledge, or understanding, we dismiss the need to look for, learn, and apply known mechanisms for how the world works, and instead we have an erroneous belief that we can arrive at truth, knowledge, and understanding of just about anything simply by ‘looking at the data’ - that truth, knowledge, and understanding can emerge from data alone, which is not true. We talk about how this widespread belief and practice crea...
2020-08-191h 35The Natural Intelligence PodcastEp 4. - Cleaning Up Your Mental Backlog and The Path to Becoming UnbotheredIn this episode, I talk with Jill about:
All the ways we find the act of thinking problematic and our minds problematic.
What we know from modern cognitive science about cognitive styles that block us from making sense of things, and cognitive styles that enable us to make sense of things.
How many popular perspectives fail to consider that different cognitive styles can block or enable sensemaking.
How without consciously making an effort to switch and exercise cognitive styles that help us make sense, the unresolved issues just pile up, resulting in a ‘backlog’.
How signs of this back...
2020-08-011h 08The Natural Intelligence PodcastEp. 3 - Snake Oil, Personal Growth Systems, and Sensemaking - Part 2 [Audio Essay]This episode is an ‘audio essay’ that addresses the question: What would it take to ensure a system is free from limiting or biased ideologies that can distort or block people’s ability to do sensemaking? This episode explores the qualities, possibilities, and historical evidence for creating such a system.
See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep3
2020-07-2837 minThe Natural Intelligence PodcastEp. 2 - Snake Oil, Personal Growth Systems, and Sensemaking - Part 1In this episode, I talk with Jill about the sea of systems that exist out there in the personal growth and wellbeing space, and why sensemaking is fundamentally not just another system. We’ll be covering the lesser known realities of the placebo effect, what makes something snake-oil, how we use and trade maps about life, and what we would get if we learned to build our own maps for navigating life.
See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep2
2020-07-2747 minThe Natural Intelligence PodcastEp 1. - The Great Misunderstanding about The Mind and How Cognitive Science Saved the DayIn this episode, I sit down with Jill Nephew to talk about the giant misunderstanding society has about the mind and the brain and how this is behind why our world doesn't make sense and why it's hard to impossible make sense of our lives. We talk about how the cognitive sciences have only just recently completely changed our understanding of how the mind and the brain works, and how we now have new principles, mechanisms, skills, and practices that we can apply to the challenges of making sense of our lives and creating a world that makes sense.
2020-07-231h 10The Natural Intelligence PodcastWelcome to the Sensemaking PodcastThis is the kick off to the Sensemaking Podcast.
2020-07-1501 min