Zero to 1: September's Topic Revealed, AI Updates & Question of the Month
Mindfulness & Meditation
Welcome to month four! You can catch and see all of the previous newsletters here.
Last month, we explored Man’s Fundamental Problem and how he can transcend it. This month, we will explore how to do that using Mindfulness and Meditation.
This Month's Topic: Mindfulness & Meditation
Did you know that there is a very high correlation between BIAS and intelligence? This is well-researched and supported in multiple studies, such as Taber & Lodge (2006), Stanovich et al. (2012), and Joslyn & Haider-Markel (2014).
Why is that?
According to the research, being highly intelligent gives you more reasons to believe your biases. Smarter people are much better at rationalizing their beliefs and making information fit their existing narratives.
In other words, they are great at cognizing information but lack awareness of their metacognition processes.
This is where Meditation can really help us.
It helps us disidentify with our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and interpretations, which allows us to inspect things honestly.
This is needed if we want to know the truth about something. We need to be aware of our internal processes instead of believing our own stories.
This month we will explore:
Zero to 1: Zero to 1: The Science of Meditation, Mindfulness vs Drugs, & Vipassana in Prisons
Zero to 1: 'The Observer,' Transcend Thoughts and Feelings & Gain Clarity
Zero to 1: Transcending the Subjective, Path to Objectivity & 1 Big Question
Deep Dive: The 3 Meditations: Complete Guide to Mindfulness, Mantra & Contemplative Meditation
AI & Tech
Bias is one of the biggest challenges that faces AI. This problems has gotten a whole lot worse as AI is learning from AI generated content which is leading to AI Entropy and Model Collapse.
In a very real way, BIAS is a threat to AI systems and model integrity in terms of user experience, trust and the coherence of models themselves.
Here is the role Meditation plays in AI
Increase self awareness and awareness of Bias in systems
Mindfulness helps identify patterns of Bias
It helps understand meta-bias and the levels of experience in which bias occurs
Only by understanding Bias can we limit the bias in AI systems and create more Ethical AI Agents.
Understanding Bias is not an intellectual endeavor, instead its about increasing self awareness.
PROJECT UPDATES
AI for Humanity Project: Personality NFT
Currently, we are focused on growing the Personality NFT AI BOT on Telegram.
This bot combines a number of cutting edge technologies: Personalized AI Agents based on your psychology, NFTs to for privacy and data ownership and Blockchain for transactions.
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
Why does meditation work at all?