Vision Convo: Jacob & David
An LLM wiki built from a single long-form conversation between Jacob Cole and David (otter.ai transcript, ~2 hours, April 2026, recorded during a drive across the Bay Area). Following the Karpathy LLM wiki pattern. See AGENTS.md for the schema.
Raw sources
- transcript.md — full cleaned otter.ai transcript with GPS noise stripped
- transcript-original.txt — original otter.ai export, byte-for-byte
Themes (start here)
- Jacob's Origin Story — RSI → MIT → voice interfaces → knowledge graphs → IdeaFlow
- Vision for the World — the synthesis: utopia as a tractable engineering problem
- Three Levels of Coherence — self → tribe → species
- LLM Wiki as Medium — meta — why this wiki exists and how it embodies Karpathy's pattern
- Existential Risk and Spa Diplomacy — the optimistic-grim case for getting our act together
- Speculative Threads — orca LLMs, dream-cap, rainbow body, paranormal, alien contact
Concepts
- Sparks of Motivation — open gestalts, the deepest treasure of attention
- Collective Intelligence — Engelbart, Humanity 3.0, World of Warcraft for civilization
- Wu Wei Disclosure — dopamine-to-calorie ratio as a master metric
- Engagement vs Empowerment Algorithms — what software should be doing instead
- Spirit as Substrate — psychophysical reality, why "matter" alone is incoherent
- Super Conscious State — psychic charge, paranormal phenomena, rainbow body
- One Nervous System — humanity as a single desynchronized dynamical system
- Dukkha as Cognitive Dissonance — the Buddha's word, retranslated
- Attachment and Liberation — vegetarianism as test, not goal
- Ego and Conceptual Thought as Tools — pickable, droppable
- Pure Vision — Buddhist seeing, NVC's "please/thank you"
- Merge Conflicts as Metaphor — software engineering ontology applied to spirit
- Learned Helplessness — the single voter problem
- Stages of Adult Development — Wilber, Kegan, integral theory
- Inner Ecosystem — the buoyant mind and its counterweights
Entities
- Jacob Cole — author of the vision
- David — interlocutor of the otter.ai recording, philosophical sparring partner
- David Mao — different David, met at Maddy's party; recipient of the onboarding link cluster
- Doug Engelbart — patron saint of intelligence amplification
- Jack Park — Engelbart colleague, mentor, knowledge-graph cancer cure
- Andrej Karpathy — coined "LLM wiki" April 2026
- Naval Ravikant — angel investor in IdeaFlow, "follow inspiration" thesis
- Marshall Rosenberg — NVC, jackal-vs-giraffe language
- Ken Wilber — integral theory, stages of society
- Robert Kegan — adult development theory
- Tim Berners-Lee — Jacob's research advisor at Oxford/MIT
- Nick Bostrom — Deep Utopia, post-instrumentalism
- Brian Johnson — psychedelic phase, currently-integrating
- Anton Osika — found Jacob's idea doc before Lovable
- Harrison — Jacob's friend, built "pause" app, in San Mateo
- Kogi Tribe — Colombia, raise shamans in dark from birth to age 8
Projects
- IdeaFlow — the company shipping the enterprise product
- manifestos.world — Vision Charter, repository of world-visions
- Quests World — quests.world, the World Quest framing in concrete form
- World Issue Tracker — GitHub issues but for civilization's bugs
- World Progress Bar — progress against mapped human goals
- Alumni Funder — Kickstarter for student projects
- Empowerment Algorithm App — local-LLM productivity filter for feeds
- Healing Arts Grant — fund integrative healing for those who can't afford it
- NVC Video Prize — $1,000 for the best 20-min how-to-learn-NVC video
- Journeyman Model — apprentice/journeyman/master skill-transfer pipeline
- Accretive Collective Action — Kickstarter for boycotts, pledges, voting
- Spa Diplomacy — half-joke, half-thesis
Practices
- Qigong (Arms-Up Position) — 7-minute audit of the body's energy system
- Iyengar Yoga — California Yoga Center, Mountain View
- Meditation as Channeling Power — Jacob's reframe of "snapping back"
- Nonviolent Communication — Rosenberg's giraffe ears
- Voice-First Thought Capture — Whisper, Willow, the dream-cap speculation
Resources (onboarding hub)
Hand-picked external links Jacob shares with new connections. Originally compiled for David Mao; reorganized for general use.
- Resources Index — start here, with the at-a-glance link table
- Vision Onboarding — recording, this wiki, Engelbart, quests.world
- Paradigm Onboarding — NVC, opentoolshub
- Life Upgrade Onboarding — Religiousness in Yoga
- Meditation Starting Points — California Yoga Center
Ingestion log: log.md. Schema: AGENTS.md. All pages CC0 / public.