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.