Nicaea R. Fulton (b-2007)
FOUNDER
Alma mater:
MA in Economics
University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science
Discord ID: @ecclesia-roselle-fulton
a humble start-up architect
Hi there, my name is Ecclesia (Nicaea)! You've found me arbitrarily but let's make it meaningful.
I'm just any other teen, 19 years in the making with unchecked aspirations and huge ambitions
Studying is a huge passion of mine growing up. I've always enjoyed the idea of having not just one but many skills. I've worked hard to foster that mindframe inside of me, now I'm ready to share it with all of you! Make yourself at home.
Her Vision
The Folly of Specialization and the Threat of AI
In the wake of the latest developments in the power of AI and automation technology, we find ourselves living in the hyper-information age and on the threshold of the singularity period. Not too long ago, a protein scientist from an Ivy League university got the axe- for what and by what- an AI? A machine outmatched by an automatically generated recursive system designed and harmonized to outperform her from the outset. Can you think of the implications? Soon to be outperformed by a race of beings who don’t even understand what they think about.
To remain one step above my unconscious equals, I can see only one way to surpass them: through polymathy - a full-spectrum intellectual approach. If AI is destined to outshine the specialist, then I will be something it cannot possibly duplicate: an integrated intellect with emotional acuity, moral insight, and cognitive range.
I don’t study many things for reputation’s sake. I study them because I have to survive. In order to recapture a form of human knowledge that automation can’t replicate, I study to resonate, to be creative, to integrate, and to have knowledge and wisdom.
The future will belong to those who have the ability to accomplish what any algorithm can’t do: to relate to all, to feel all, and to think about all.
So is my vision
To become an architect of the future, not a relic of the past.
To master STEM and the Humanities in tandem.
To defy the tyranny of narrowness.
To make synthesis the new standard.
Arizona Zhen Y. (b-2001)
CO-FOUNDER &
WEB/CONTENT DESIGNER
Alma mater:
BSc. Engineering Science,
University of Toronto Applied Science & Engineering
email: arizonsis.hot.likeme@gmail.com
why polymathy?
Greetings, I'm Arizona! I decided to be a polymath because the education of today is too rigid and is too narrow. Every study is so siloed that no one invents a lot of things today. I like an open mind, I don't like a closed mind.
collaborator in chief
Ecclesia has taught me so many things! So it is more than just a responsibility for me to work with her. I'm very happy to design artworks and computer illustrations and websites for Ecclesia. I will be happy to help you too if you come to me with a good question.
What do you study?
I think Ecclesia will say the same thing as me. I love studying life, and everything in life. I'm not talking about biology, I'm talking about the wholeness and totality of life. People in the recent days have become very brainwashed and fragmented. You do not need to specialize to learn, that is an instinct but not necessity.
WHY irenaeus?
Because like it or not, we are the only people doing this at the moment. I have surveyed the Academy of Sciences, Max Planck Institute, MENSA, Institute for Advanced Study and the like. No gifted education has come as far as we have in totality of polymathic studying. They may focus on science, or focus on language and humanities and social subjects, we will focus on all, and more.