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Crazy Wisdom

Crazy Wisdom

Society & Culture:Philosophy

Full-Stack Mindfulness and AI: Allison Durham's Vision for the Future

Full-Stack Mindfulness and AI: Allison Durham's Vision for the Future

2023-10-31
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Intro
  • Allison Durham
    • Focus: Exploring AI, Software Development, and the Human Mind
What is the Human Mind?
  • Allison doesn't make a distinction between the brain and the mind.
  • She sees the mind as a dynamic range of cognitive experiences that include thoughts, perception, and self-awareness.
  • The mind exists alongside the human experience and is fully integrated with bodily sensations.
On Consciousness
  • Allison discusses the topic of consciousness, noting that awareness can vary in its intensity.
  • She mentions an intriguing question: Can awareness exist without the brain?
  • She recalls an interesting conversation with a friend who asked her about consciousness and awareness.
The Experience of Dreams
  • Allison describes a dream she had that was "rooted in Earth," contrasting it with another dream featuring a monstrous, otherworldly creature.
  • She emphasizes her ability to fully visualize experiences in her dreams, even though she struggles with visualization in her waking life.
Aphantasia and Visualization
  • Allison brings up the concept of Aphantasia, where people have difficulty visualizing images.
  • She explores the idea that visualization might be trainable, mentioning techniques such as the "candle technique" to improve skill.
  • She notes that while most people can recall memories with images, these people also often have underdeveloped other sensory recall like smell and hearing.
Software Development and AI
  • Allison talks about Rust, a systems-level programming language she enjoys using.
  • She delves into the concept of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), explaining it stems from Google's earlier operations methods.
  • She praises GitLab for packaging all the tools needed for DevOps, making it more accessible.
  • She explores the concept of MLOps, which focuses on getting machine learning models into production.
  • She finds the speed of open-source AI development both exciting and challenging, noting that problems can't be fully solved before new ones appear.
Personal Psychology Framework
  • Allison discusses her psychological framework, leaning heavily on mindfulness-based tactics.
  • She believes in being fully aware of one's thoughts and emotional state, and she finds this awareness essential for taking proper action in life.
Final Thoughts
  • She mentions her website, AdjectiveAllison.com, and her social media handle, AdjectiveAllison on X.
Time Stamps:

2:30 - Discussing the nature of the mind and its relationship to the brain and awareness

5:00 - Allison explains her experience with aphantasia

7:30 - Stuart talks about training himself to visualize through meditation

9:00 - Whether imagination and visualization can be trained as skills

11:00 - Allison's perspective on not training her own visualization abilities right now

12:00 - Allison's interest in learning Rust programming language

14:00 - Using ChatGPT to assist with engineering problems as a "rubber duck debugger"

16:00 - Explanation of DevOps, APIs, serverless solutions like Repl.it

19:00 - How AI may or may not change API and engineering architectures

21:00 - Automation as connecting APIs; engineers building instead of using no-code

23:00 - AI unlikely to change API interface itself, complexity happens behind it

24:00 - Allison's favorite psychological framework is mindfulness

25:30 - Aligning with specific frameworks depending on the problem

 

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