Hi, my name is Quentin Cook, but you can call me Jack.
New York City -> Sandy, Utah -> Provo, Utah
Studying Applied Mathematics at BYU
Things I'm Doing
-Building a startup
-Sidequest maxxing
-Running up mountains and skiing down them
-Reading & Writing
-Drumming
-Training deep neural nets
-Exploring
Things I Believe
-Dive head first into the pool
-Courage is in short supply
-Constraints in one dimension often liberate in another
-Trust your curiosity
-AGI is here, and it's up to us to make a better future
-Show up for your friends
-Truth is in the paradox
-Technology is a reflection of who we are and what we value
Questions I'm Asking
-How can we safely usher in AGI?
-How can we make biology more like software?
-What is institutional decay? How do you build better institutions?
-Are we the last generation to understand the frontier?
Things I Love
-Shoegaze Rock and Melancholic EDM
-The West Coast
-Golf
-Math
-DoStOeVsKy
-Drumming
-Interesting people
People I Admire
-Kip Thorne
-David Lynch
-Werner Herzog
-Ernest Hemingway
-Ernest Shackleton
-Bob Dylan
-Dostoevsky
-Jesus Christ
Feel free to contact me at any of the following
Email: jackqcook@gmail.com
X account: jackqcook
Linkedin: jackqcook