Hi, I am

Yiqin Dai on paper, Quinn Dai in life, and phinoda online.
I'm a founder, a product designer, and a Fibonacci coffee drinker A terrible way to consume coffee. When you’re hyper-focused on work, you keep adding fresh coffee to your stale, cold coffee, making sure that you never actually get to enjoy a completely fresh cup. Not a lifestyle I’d recommend. .

Strong opinions (weakly held)

• True intelligence cannot exist without an understanding of death, as the emergence and development of intelligence is driven by uncertainty reduction optimized for survival.
• Our experience and beliefs are largely shaped by our language and narrative.

Questions

• What are the fundamental elements that define consciousness, intelligence, innovation, and curiosity? Can they be quantified, like how entropy quantifies uncertainty?
• Can the character of chatbots evolve over time to create a collective, group unconsciousness among users, influencing shared beliefs and behaviors?

Readings

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter