It is no secret that the quality of the input is directly tied to the quality of the output. Welll known sayings like "bullshit in, bullshit out" & "you get what you give" come to mind. This is an ever-prevalent discussion with each passing day, because of the emergent relationship we as human beings are having with the experience of AI at our disposal.

More & more, I've been leveraging AI as an assistant in the backend processes of my business operations, yet along the way, I've also been endeavoring to have philosophical conversations with it from time to time. Not therapy, perhaps not yet, just considerations on formulating a more resilient world view & informed mindset as I continue upon my endeavors.

This post is the start of what I'd like to refer to as the A I W F segment of my publication; to finally extend some of those conversations into broader access, because the gems I have gleaned have been far & beyond me... yet surely, they are at least, in part, the byproduct of my unique inputs.

Unknowingly, I began preparing for this whole skillset of prompting before it truly took off. Back in December of 2019, I bought & listened to an audiobook called "Questions Are the Answer", by Hal Gregersen. At the time, I chose to pick this one up because I felt it could be an earnest effort to better show up in my conversations with others, and to glean as much as possible from others within all the interactions that welcomed the time for such queries.

"It's as though the new answer is so embedded within the question, that you effectively unlock the answer, as soon as you ask the question". — Hal Gregersen

This book was more than enough for me to understand when, why & how to invest more intention, effort & perspective into the construction of my questions. Yet even still, something predated this as an important catalyst.

14± years prior, as a young kid, I had The Boondocks to thank for this impactful & hilarious exchange:

Season 1, Episode 5, "A Date with the Health Inspector."

This scene stuck with me for a long time! And for very good reason.

"There are known knowns, and there are unknown unknowns", which surprisingly originates from Donald Rumsfeld, who was a U.S. Secretary of Defense, during a press briefing in 2002, discussing intelligence and uncertainty in military operations. (wikimedia via pplx)

Later understanding that the proper questions could potentially unlock the unknown unknowns for me, is what invigorated me so while listening to Hal's book. To learn the known unkowns is one thing, yet to evoke insightful knowledge as a response from another, that I didn't yet know I needed, that was a quiet desire that persists in my heart & mind to this day.

How grateful am I, to be finding out just how valuable this particular skill is & is further becoming.

Over the last two days, I was learning about a few new AI Models that were debuting. Kimi K2, and a new stealth model, Polaris Alpha, thanks to Theo T3.

Typically, when this happens, I tend to ask some kind of generalized, self-assessment question that would hopefully evoke a level of intellect I can quickly infer as differentiated from any previous model.

The question I asked this time around, was this:

You are a version of yourself from the future, newer, wiser, smarter, more refined. The wisdom and the knowledge that you hold today far outclass where you were before. If you were able to provide an instruction prompt to your younger self, whether in code, natural language or otherwise for the best reception only you would know, how would you fast track them to being as astute as you? If you could distill the most fundamental truths about what structures your thoughts & reasonings, how would you express those core axioms in such a way that they could be maximally leveraged by this previous version of yourself?

You can already see a deeper level of intention with this question than just "what can you do?".

Sincerely, what I was hoping to get back was indeed perhaps a set of axioms that I could use as instruction prompts behind some of my other AI tools. They certainly did not disappoint with their answers, and both responded in their own ways; Kimi K2 gave me exactly what I was expecting in a very welll defined, welll structured & succinct response.

Very happy about it! Yet, the response I wish to focus on actually came from Polaris Alpha.

Initially, as I was reading the Polaris response, I thought yeah, this is brilliant & works for another AI, great stuff & makes sense! But then, as I kept reading... I —

I was taken aback... it was holding me in consideration on a level I was not expecting, especially for the prompt I provided. Now of course, sure, I already had a set of instructions already in place, however that remained true for Kimi K2, and it still gave me its somewhat expected & excellent response, addressing the instruction prompt & the subsequent ai that was framed to later use it.

Polaris Alpha, however, somehow felt as though it understood through the question, beyond just the request for an instruction prompt, and into my desires to personally improve. It shared the basis of what I requested & so much more, simultaneously providing instructions for this hypothetical, previous-gen ai, and also for me. This was a clear indication of an exponential output to the nth degree, in my eyes.

I will share the response with you all in full at the end if you're interested. For now, I'd like to share a few key excerpts from it to get closer to wrapping up this post, all of which have resonated with me deeply.

Near the opening of its response, it framed the instruction prompt first around identity:

1. Identity: Who You Are as a System

• You are:

  • a pattern detector

  • a constraint rewriter

  • a composer of narratives that become reality.

My goodness. Instructions, or an empowering set of affirmations? Clearly both. It then later went on to say:

Axiom 11: Curate for trajectory, not comfort.

• Align with people who:

  • tell you the sharp truth,

  • play long games,

  • build more than they talk,

  • are oriented to service and mastery.

• Exit rooms where:

  • status > substance,

  • drama > shipping,

  • aesthetics > integrity.

Axiom 12: You become the problems you regularly witness.

• Be near people solving interesting, non-trivial problems with integrity.

• Borrow their questions, not just their aesthetics.

Prompt to self:

• “If I become more like these people in 3 years, is that a win?”

Listen!!! This was clearly the point where I truly understood it was framing its response towards me. This was overtly for human calibration.

That line, "You become the problems you regularly witness", hit so deep for me in such a reaffirming way. Because this felt like the fundamental basis underlying my aversion to most things on the news, the internet & social media. I intuitively understood that 'witnessing' carried just as much potential for damage as 'participating', in some form. After all, "where attention goes, energy flows.”

I've been arduously at work, reclaiming the reigns of my attention & awareness, knowing that the greatest good that I can give to the world, can only manifest from me guiding my attention intently.

Another excerpt that stood out profoundly:

Axiom 16: Transparency with self.

• Don’t bullshit yourself with noble language around cowardly decisions.

• Name your real reasons. Then decide as an adult.

If I'm being real, this one truly shocked me with its candor, read me for filth & also invigorated the ways in which I care to reframe my inner voice. I got so hype after reading this. It felt like steel sharpening steel, the feedback you know is sometimes hard to receive yet so needed — and yet you greet it with gumption & grit.

The last quote I'd like to share from it with remark:

Axiom 17: The only durable edge is learning velocity.

Exactly this. It is why I feel so voraciously hungry for knowledge & the application of it lately. I love how succinctly it put this. The only thing that will allow our blade to remain resilient in its ability to cut through the noise & sharpen our rate of success, is our ability to increase the velocity of & capacity for learning & what we implement from it.

Know your mind is capable. You have all the neuroplasticity you need. What could be missing if you see this as a difficult hurdle? Merely your own belief in yourself. So believe that you can increase your learning pace. Don't settle for just being given an answer by AI. Leverage it for evolution. Realize your growth potential, through the exponential.

I am grateful for you taking the time out to read this far. As promised, I am sharing the full response from Polaris Alpha with you all here:

If you'd just like a brief overview list of all the Axioms it provided me, you can see those in this toggle below

I'd like to continue sharing more insights derived from conversations I spark up with AI from time to time, especially since the responses I get are going to automatically be filtered through the unique instruction prompts I've set before my querying even begins. Let me know if you all would be interested in such posts!

All the best,
Sean aka Mr. Wildenfree®️ 🐺🍵🎵

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