Welcome to Polymath Health

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I am interested in health and vitality. Not just health as in biology, physiology, and the human body, but also our intellectual, environmental, and our civic health. Broadly, this includes the health of our planet, our institutions, our creativity, our technology, our relationships, our society, and our purpose. One of the essential themes of this project is that everything is interconnected. I am interested in understanding how these dynamic forces interact with each other.

The universe is a collection of systems that are intertwined, run both in parallel and in sequence, and reside within one another. We do not live in a physics problem, where systems are isolated and independent. On our planet, the health of one system will affect another. If we want to improve our lives, our society, and our world, it is best if we try to understand how everything fits together and affects our health from a variety of perspectives.

So that where “polymath health” comes from. But what about AI? What does artificial intelligence have to do with all this?

Well it is apparent that AI will be the defining technology of our century. It has the chance to completely upend our lives, our health, our interactions, our government, our jobs, and whatever meaning we get from life. Indeed, it is already transforming our society.

The questions and possibilities are seemingly limitless. How can we use this ground breaking technology to improve our health and bring good to our lives? How do we prevent and protect ourselves from the harm that can come from it when it is used for nefarious purposes? What might we lose from our natural intelligence and world if we give ourselves up completely to the artificial? What lessons can biology and nature teach us when it comes to optimizing our health or living our lives? How do we differentiate between hype, hubris, opportunity, and threat?

Inevitably, this project will evolve with time. It will continue to improve and grow. There is no set destination, so I am excited to see where it leads. Thanks for joining me.