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Hey everybody, nice to see you all here. Um, so, uh, are we on? We're going. So my talk is, lemme go back. Forget ai. What the world needs most is ni So I'm not gonna talk about, I'm not gonna talk about AI much. There's a lot of buzz about ai, you know, what it is and so forth. I'm gonna skip straight to establishing the definition of intelligence. 'cause we need to ground ourself in some basics. So intelligence is the ability to perceive and remember to apply that knowledge to adapt to a particular environment. Ni means natural intelligence. So ni is the opposite of artificial intelligence, but the term was actually created by the artificial intelligence community to describe the intelligence created by nature. So the intelligence of animals and human beings. So this is natural intelligence. So I have the opportunity at my job to work with an NI system.

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It is actually the most advanced computer on the planet. So 86 billion parallel processors, 100 trillion network connections, holographic data storage, autonomous, autonomous decision making. And if this was not enough, it's also sustainable and energy efficient. So I wanted to share a network diagram of the NI system that I primarily use at work. It looks roughly like this. A quick scan of the audience indicates that a lot of you seem to work with the exact same networking, uh, equipment. So the capabilities that natural intelligence delivers to a living being are these, the ability to survive in the short term, the ability to, to thrive in the long term, the ability to reproduce, which also includes like reproducing ideas and inspiration and so forth, which is kind of transcending the self in time and the ability to collaborate, which is transcending the self in space. And when we talk about culture and leadership effectively what we're talking about is collaboration and transcending the self in space.

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We are actively involved in stress testing the world's natural intelligence. You've probably heard about this. Um, our big challenge is how can we use our own natural intelligence to a, survive the 21st century, and B, ensure that AI is serving the greater good. And this is something that only NI can do. AI cannot itself take care of these things. We need to prove that we have the intelligence to survive and thrive and collaborate and so forth. And to do that, we need to defend against three attacks on ni. So the kinds of things that can undermine our natural intelligence are different from the kinds of things that can hack, uh, it system, a technical system. Um, they include these three things. Craving. This is something that doesn't affect computers, it affects humans very much. Fear doesn't affect computers, affects us very much. And ignorance. So these three, I was looking for a picture to represent craving I, this is the best I could come up with.

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I think it covers everything. It's the sense that there's something out there that if I just get it, I'll feel better, I'll get happier and so forth. It's the sense that happiness is outside of ourselves. Fear, fear follows quickly behind craving. In fact, the more craving we have, the more fear we have. 'cause we're afraid of not getting the things we want. We're afraid of losing the things we have. Um, so fear is a huge impact, uh, a huge influence in our psychology and all the discussion about psychological safety. So those two, uh, craving and fear, they're two ends of the emotional, uh, spectrum in our mind. But there's a more subtle kind of, uh, hack or attack on our, uh, on our natural intelligence. And this is ignorance. This doesn't just mean not knowing. It specifically means critical gaps in the intelligence that we need or beliefs that are wrong or mistaken.

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And the challenge is that our beliefs are hard to dislodge if we have a mistaken belief because we actually crave certainty. I want to know what you're like, and I wanna know what you're like and oh yeah, I know that place and that book and so forth. I crave knowing what's going on. And we mistake our beliefs for reality. And it's a, it's happening all the time. Continuously mistaking our beliefs for reality, which is where we get this idea. Go and see, right? To check our beliefs against direct observation. I'll leave you with these three tips for a healthy ni. First of all, simplify. Second calm, and third reflect. So simple, simplify. We wanna make everything as simple as we possibly can, right? Internally, externally, just to help us to think. This goes a long way for us. Calm. We need times of quiet in our mind to be able to think clearly, restore our, the health of our natural intelligence and reflect. This is Harry Potter looking in a magic mirror, seeing not just himself but his parents. It's like if we look inside, we see alk of society manifesting inside. So there we go.