From Mind to Machine
Your mind is running a script of programmed behaviors. Spanning from how you think to what you do. In essence these patterns make up you. This is what creates your unique intuitive and creative skills.
The Neural Foundation
From studying neuroscience I learned that the mind operates on these sophisticated patterns. Constantly adjusting and error correcting based on its environmental feedback. But intrinsically you don't sense these neural responses, they operate mostly automatic. The automatic processing happens when you:
Recognize faces in a crowd
Navigate complex social dynamics
Make new creative connections
Solve difficult problems
The Discovery Journey
When I first learned about how the human mind works I became obsessed. In a sense I wanted to understand how I could control and influence the human mind. And how I could programmatically take internal ways of thinking and extract them. But also how I could download external ways of thinking into the minds process. Both through learning but also through computer augmentation.
Today we have an unprecedented opportunity of exploring our intuitive expertise, and extract what tracks our mind follow to solve or create certain things.
The Creative Mystery
Creativity is a mystery of the human mind. The waking up to ideas or the sudden epiphanies. This novel thinking process can't be authentically reproduced in its full form in computers, yet.
But augmentation is not equal to delegation. History shows us that at each new mountain top of tool-innovation, our minds become more free as a result.
The Master's Patterns
Once this vision of the future came to me, I couldn't stop thinking about how masters of a craft could augment themselves to new, incredible heights using computers.
Four of my observations are:
Artists solve visual "pattern" matching algorithms to find inspiration or to judge their work
Writers solve iterative puzzles on how to communicate deeply connected verbal and non-verbal energy
Chefs run taste compatibility tests and predictions entirely in their mind, even visualizing how food will look and taste
Designers combine pixel obsession with empathy for the computer or human user. Then supporting their desire to solve a problem or get an outcome
The Mind's Power
Now, these creative masters' ability to seemingly create or combine on random iterations stem from the nature of the human mind and the "dataset" that makes up a certain mind. The vastness of your collected information is incomprehensible, and its curation controlled automatically by the mind itself.
This makes the human mind one of (if not) the most able high quality information curation machines there is. To my surprise, this can be our secret weapon, or our greatest flaws. The challenge, in my eyes, remains to be the ability of staying focused and indulging curiosity. These are under our willing control, you can choose.
The Path Forward
What now remains is the process of making our own playbooks that you can use to augment yourself with computers. To convert human excellence into computerized datasets.
The capability of LLMs to comprehend the written word—its meaning, its purpose—is exponentially growing. But this creates a challenge for us. You want to use the technology, and influence how it thinks and behaves. Therefore, to unlock this exponential you must put your thoughts to paper and collect documentation of your thinking.
This way you can start the iteration game required, preceding your computer augmentation. When you've made your thoughts clear, then you can tune and guide the LLM and technology to an outstanding ability. What you choose to iterate on paper Today, becomes the data for your personal computer augmentation Tomorrow. You're creating a window into your mind for LLMs to think and learn from your reasoning and insights.
The Investment
Investing in your ability to put pen to paper or tap-to-key is similar to purchasing Bitcoin. You're investing in what will be the next gold.
01 Labs Inc is a team of humans and powerful computers. Today our work is turning human authentic brilliance into secure and personal datasets. Tomorrow we are downloading this into your own custom augmentation.
Starting now, you have the ability to control and influence computers through writing.
Starting now, you can challenge your creative mind to new heights.
Starting now, you begin your evolution.