January 7, 2021
The Intelligence Amplifier with Brian Roemmele on Infinite Loops with Jim O’Shaughnessy
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Key Takeaways
- Human senses take in about 100,000,000 bits of info per second but the human brain has a limit of 41 bits per second
- Your inner editor helps you process input and removes things that it thinks are not important
- The average person today takes in the same information in a day that a person living in the 1800s would take in in a year
- Your inner voice remembers specific experiences and you make a connection with your personal contextual web – It amplifies your experiences
- The Intelligence Amplifier concept says that people can sell access to themselves BUT only with security, permission, and control
- “Realize that your time here is meant for you to figure out why you’re here and the only thing you leave behind is your love.” – Brian Roemmele
Intro
Brian Roemmele (t:BrianRoemmele) is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, and an AI expert.
Books
The Ultimate Resource – by Julian Lincoln Simon
Molecules of Emotion – the science behind mind-body medicine by Candice Pert
The User Illusion cutting consciousness down to size – by Tor Norretranders
The Intrigue of Human Speech
- The human brain evolved to become the language center through a constant loop of decoding
- Inner silent monologue is what you hear when you read silently – it’s your voice
Being an Innovator
- Behind every invention in history, is an individual who sees things differently – some people consider these people crazy
- “What stops people from innovating is the fear of group embarrassment especially with social media which can destroy someone within minutes”- Brian Roemmele
- Don’t follow the masses – discern your opinions and ideas for yourself
The Battle for Your Head
- The keyboard was the initial way for humans to talk with computers
- In the User Illusion, studies showed that the human brain has a “bandwidth limit”
- Only so much signal can be put into the human consciousness
- Human senses take in about 100,000,000 bits of info per second but the human brain has a limit of 41 bits per second
- Consciousness is very limited for humans– it is the observer of you
- The five senses bring in too much info so you function with the help of an inner editor
The Inner Editor
- The paradigm that helps you process information and removes things that it thinks are not important is your inner editor
- What makes the paradigm?
- Your parents
- Your schooling
- Your religion
- Your government
- Your social media
- The flee, fight or freeze paradigm is a survival tactic that humans have which is essentially the overriding kill switch
Is Humanity Better For All This Info?
- No. There’s too much noise and it results in information overload
- Human consciousness can only take in so much
- The average person today takes in the same information in a day that a person living in the 1800s would take in in a year
- Yet the human brain is no larger
- “Humans are optimized to a world that no longer exists” – Jim O’Shaughnessy
The Literacy Pyramid
- Ancient people learned you can transfer a lot of info by encoding it into symbols
- Humans are natural story-tellers and story-receivers
- Symbols light up the right side of the brain, but humans are becoming left dominant because they are communicating through keyboards
- The bottom of the pyramid is data, then the middle is insight, and then wisdom
The Intelligence Amplifier (IA)
- Brian believes that humans already have all the info they need
- You don’t want more info – you want sequential experiences in life to gain wisdom
- “The biggest deficit in society is lack of wisdom. We ‘ve replace old with shiny and new” – Brian Roemmele
- In his Intelligence Amplifier concept, human emotion is the search mechanism to find peak experiences
- You remember specific experiences and you make a connection with your personal contextual web – It amplifies your experiences
Selling Access to Your Brain
- People can sell access to themselves basically let someone into their brain BUT with security, permission, and control – not in the cloud
- In this scenario, advertisers would go straight to the customer, with no intermediate (like Google) in between
- You could train this device to know what you like and don’t like = your own intelligence amplifier which will become your wisdom keeper
- “IA can hold a torch in the dark places even if these places are ugly – it makes you stronger, not weaker.” – Brian Roemmele
The IA Dilemma
- IA knows exactly the right time to introduce an idea – but it must remain within your grasp
- Internet giants should not get this info!
- Don’t plug your brain into the internet
- Slow down, forget email, pick up the phone
- “The overuse of tech is a lobotomy- it desensitizes us” – Brian Roemmele
Wisdom is the Human Legacy
- Humans seek wisdom – it’s what drives society forward
- Questioning wisdom is the job of the young
- From the moment you’re born, the brain records everything you feel, see and heard
- What you leave your children and grandchildren is your wisdom
Debunking the Perfect Environment
- Brian debunked the idea at a high tech firm that they had “the perfect” environment for their programmers
- He made one reclusive programmer:
- Take off his headphones
- Move his seat everyday
- Stop wearing hoodies and sweats
- Chang his desk lighting
- The programmer lost over 40 lbs., became more social, started dating and his coding skills improved
- Headphone culture is destroying creativity– it’s a bad signal to others because it discourages conversation = the new cubicle
What Two Things Would You Like to See Happen to People?
- Brian would like everyone to see the value of every human being
- “Realize that your time here is meant for you to figure out why you’re here and the only thing you leave behind is your love.” – Brian Roemmele
