Systems Thinking - Free Energy Principle - 10+ Ways to Train Your Brain

I'm almost through "The Status Game" and it's easily one of the most enlightening books on human nature that I've read. Highly recommend David's reading suggestion!

A very useful structured approach employing systems thinking is the rather old, but still effective, Lean/Six Sigma. It is a very good blend of the more creative (Lean) approach which involves observation, asking the five why's which is then coupled to the more analytical, 6S approach. I use the DMAIC format in attacking most problems. Define the problem, Measure (gather data around the defined problem). Analyze your findings with an open mind (pertains to your ideas on allowing cognitive dissonance as a good thing..) Improve by building new processes that solve for the measured problem and analyzed for effectiveness, ROI, LOE, etc.... and then Control which is to revisit your measurement to see if it was effective. Rinse and Repeat......Love your thinking around these topics - if a plurality of the world understood and used these techniques, we would be living in a completely different world. Keep up the mission!

Brilliant! I was actually looking for understanding those principles! Thank you!

Great work 👏. I just realized how I have applied systems thinking in my clinical hypnosis practice. Thanks for the Illumination.

Love what you do Dave, your channels are underrated ❤

Great video. Would love more Zero System’s thinking approaches for technical problem solving, in particular for rooting out those early assumptions made in a pre-Superintelligence era that should be challenged to achieve a better solution

The GigaFactory story @17:28 reminded me how powerful NVIDIA's Omniverse Digital Twin product can be in designing and maintaining a production facility.

The slug is also built up in a weave of predictions, FEP happens from its nervous system all the way down to its individual cells. Like Friston & Michael Levin are saying, the human doesn’t have any special principle underlying its behavior, its just manifesting more levels & a greater degree of feedback

True. On debates no party will learn anything. The most important thing of a debate though, is to inform the people watching. Hopefully who watches will get a better more nuanced idea instead of falling into dumb ideology.

Probably this comment will be lost to the ether but...I post because I did watch and thought I might offer a few thoughts... The first is that I have been leveraging "Systems Theory" since the first time I read von Bertalanffy...There are many great books (and a strong theoretical backbone) but not a useful curriculum for a long time... I wonder what your commentary is regarding actual physics and "systems theory". Examples would include: - Robert Rosen ("Life Itself") and similar physicists - Prigogine (see above) - More recent work including Wolfram and V.N. Pokrovskii...where scientists are actively acknowledging current limitations as well as proposing useful frameworks to address them... thanks if you read this and actually answer!

I love how every hypothetical or actual being of any kind prefaces every thought or statement with "hey". (Non-sarcastically & unironicially).

I love the "Okay, now get out of that ivory tower and make your hands dirty in the real brick and mortar world." take on post modernism. Thoughts that are so nihilistic that they actually prevent people from thinking are not valuable. Useful thoughts eventually create understanding of the real world. Also, if I might add, with destination its is also good to think of what the generalized definition excludes. And if it is not possible to come up with a good precise definition, maybe the thing perceived is not a real category. Like the concept of a (biological) tree for example.

The Socratic Method is why I love Eliezer even though I am his "adversary" and I think 99% of his arguments are science fiction. We need a wallbreaker for each wallfacer ya know? Makes em both up their game. I can tell you spent years in "IT".

"Respect the subjective experience of others" is a good one too

The podcast is Bryan Johnson and Tom Bilyeu lol I listened to it also

My brain is a Cyber-Truck 😎

I prefer Gen Alpha's take on postmodernism. When they see a paragraph more than three sentences, they reply I AINT READIN ALL DAT 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀 truly befuddles all minds (they have no theory of mind)

Here is a distilled definition of intelligence that I really like: Intelligence is the ability to set and achieve a goal. I really like it, and it has been very practical to me. It allows me to see where I've been intelligent and where not, and also helps me choose the (expected) best course of action. I also think it's really useful for gauging the intelligence of AI. And by understanding that reaching a particular goal depends not only on the AI, but on how we comunicate with it, it becomes obvious that the total intelligence emerges from the interaction of both parts.

My math degree might actual come in handy finally…..

David, top 5 podcasts you would recommend?