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Social media censorship, political war between US president banning social networks. Tiny person on the laptop keyboard looking at the forbidden sign on the screen. Internet communication risk concept

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 18, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Bill Maher, Disinformation Governance Board, Elon Musk, Mark Steyn, Nina Jankowicz, Taylor Lorenz}

New U.S. Disinformation Board on Hold Amid Flak From Both Sides

_{Most current controversies are not clear divisions between True and Untrue or Right and Wrong. Government would merely reinforce the Establishment} _{Denyse O'Leary

May 18, 2022

5

Censorship, Media, Social Media}

If you’d blinked, you’d have missed it: The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday paused a new and controversial board’s work on disinformation and accepted the resignation of its leader, capping weeks of concerns about impinging on free speech rights and at times frenzied conspiracy theories about the board itself… The Disinformation Governance Board’s director, Nina Jankowicz, wrote Wednesday that the board’s future was “uncertain,” according to a resignation letter obtained by The Associated Press. Nomaan Merchant and Amanda Seitz, “New ‘disinformation’ board paused amid free speech questions” at Associated Press (May 18, 2022) A recommendation as to whether the Board should continue will be offered, we are told, within 75 days. The Washington Post knows who to blame: “How Read More ›

Business crisis manager stopping falling dominos from collapsing

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Brendan O'Neill, Elon Musk, Elon Musk (Twitter buy opposition), European Union (on Musk Twitter buy), Media (support for censorship), Project Veritas (Twitter buy leak), Siru Murugesan, Twitter}

Who Opposes Musk’s Proposed Twitter Takeover Deal?

_{Four groups to watch are Twitter employees, left-wing action coalitions, legacy media, and the European Union} _{Denyse O'Leary

May 17, 2022

7

Censorship, Media, Social Media}

First, the state of play: Elon Musk’s foray into buying Twitter remains on hold amid disputes about how much of Twitter is dominated by bot accounts. Musk believes that 20% of the accounts are spam. Spam bots on Twitter are automated accounts that can take actions like real humans, such as sending out tweets, following other users, as well as liking and retweeting other users’ posts. Such accounts can be programmed to try and drive traffic to a product or service as part of a commercial endeavor or spread content as part of a social or political influence operation. Tom Ozimek, “Musk Says Twitter Deal on Hold Over Spam Bots” at Epoch Times (May 13, 2022) That’s something Musk says Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Bassett
Date
April 5, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
decentralization, Elon Musk, Free speech, Jack Dorsey, Larry Sanger, Twitter, Web3}

Dorsey Talks Decentralization and Musk Buys Twitter Share

_{Will this be the upset many free speech advocates hope it could be?} _{Caitlin Bassett

April 5, 2022

6

Censorship, Social Media}

Last week, I wrote about the buzz around internet decentralization, especially as there appears to be talk at Twitter of moving in such a direction. The buzz continues, this time with vocal support from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, coinciding with a bold financial move from Elon Musk. On April 2, Dorsey reminisced on Twitter about the early, decentralized days of the Internet, and said that centralization “really damaged the internet. I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.” The problems of social media platforms have been made clear in the past few years, specifically when it comes to data privacy and how to handle (or even define) harmful content while also respecting free speech. But there isn’t as much Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
February 24, 2022

Tagged
Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, descartes, Elon Musk, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, human dignity, Human exceptionalism, Jaegwon Kim, Michael Egnor, mind-body dualism, mind-body problem, Mind-Body problem (types of theory), Mind-Brain Distinction, Near-death experiences, Ned Block, Neuralink, Paul Churchland, religious liberty and the law, Richard Swinburne, Robert J. Marks, Roger Penrose, Roger Penrose (on consciousness), Stephen Hawking, Sybil, Sybil (1976 film), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas (on perception)}

Discussing Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem

_{Robert J. Marks

February 24, 2022

2}

What does it even mean to be aware of something, to be conscious? Why do the vast majority of people only have one consciousness? Will computers ever experience consciousness? On this Bingecast, Dr. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Angus Menuge discuss these questions and more. Show Notes 00:01:36 | Introducing Dr. Angus Menuge 00:07:02 | Near-death experiences 00:10:32 | The Read More ›

Robot hand making contact with human hand on dark background 3D rendering

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
January 31, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Elon Musk, Moravec's Paradox, Optimus, Robots, Tesla}

Musk Goes All-In on the Tesla Robot

_{Musk puts all other projects on hold to pursue the dream of eliminating human labor, despite the reality that humans are irreplaceable} _{Jonathan Bartlett

January 31, 2022

5

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

In August, during Tesla’s “AI Day” presentations, Musk unveiled the “Tesla Robot.” Or, in reality, a dancing person in a robot costume, along with some made-up specifications about the robot. Many (including the present writer) found this idea for a product line ludicrous, and a mere headline grab. However, in a recent conference call with investors, Elon Musk has doubled down on the Tesla Robot, now named “Optimus,” as being the foundation for the future of the company. In fact, it looks like Tesla has put all of its other development projects on hold in order to work on the robot. The Cybertruck (announced 2019, originally expected in 2021), Semi-truck (announced in 2017, originally expected in 2020), and Roadster 2.0 (announced in 2017, Read More ›

Abstract Technology Background. Web Developer. Computer Code. Programming. Coding. Hacker concept. Green and blue neon figures fall from top to bottom.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 30, 2021

Tagged
A Mathematician's Apology, Active Information in Metabiology, Alan Turing, Andrew Wiles, Automacoin, Bitcoim, But Bang. Ls nascita della filosofia digitale, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Chris Calude, Claude Shannon, Collatz Conjecture, Consciousness and information classical quantum or algorithmic, Dangerous Knowledge, David J. Chalmers, Elements of Information Theory, Elon Musk, Fermat's Last Tango, Fermat's Last Tango (musical), G.H Hardy, George Cantor, Geroge Gilder, Goldbach Conjecture, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gregory Chaitin, Guilio Tononi, Hector Zenil, Jack Schwartz, Karl Popper, Kurt Gödel, Legendre's Conjecture, Leonard Euler, Lofti Zadeh, Marvin Minsky, Mathematica, Meta Math The quest for the Omega, Neuralink, ON the length of programs for computing finite binary sequences, Paul Erdős, Proving Darwin Making biology mathematical, Ray Solomonoff, Robert J. Marks, Roger Penrose, Selmer Bringsjord, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Wolfram, The Conscious Mind, The Emperor's New Mind, The Unknowable, Twin Prime Conjecture, Unravelling Complexity The Life and Works of Gregory Chaitin, William Sealy Gosset, WolframAlpha}

Randomness, Information Theory, and the Unknowable

_{Robert J. Marks

December 30, 2021

4}

In the 1960s, mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin published a landmark paper in the field of algorithmic information theory in the Journal of the ACM – and he was only a teenager. Since then he’s explored mathematics, computer science, and even gotten a mathematical constant named after him. Robert J. Marks leads the discussion with Professor Gregory Chaitin on Read More ›

Peter Thiel at COSM 2021 on Artificial General Intelligence

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Author
News
Date
November 11, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance

Tagged
Artificial general intelligence (declining interest), Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, Featured, Larry Page, Peter Thiel (at COSM 2021), Peter Thiel (on AGI), Peter Thiel (on surveillance AI), Surveillance AI (Thiel's view)}

Peter Thiel: Artificial General Intelligence Isn’t Happening

_{That whole transhumanist movement is slowing down, he told COSM 2021. But, he adds, What IS happening should sober us up a lot} _{News

November 11, 2021

5

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance}

In his talk yesterday at COSM 2021, venture capitalist and philanthropist Peter Thiel — the ultimate Silicon Valley insider, prophet, and sometimes needed gadfly — offered a cold shower for transhumanism, The Singularity, the computers we will supposedly merge with by 2030, and all that. Those things, he thinks, are uncertain. We should worry about what’s happening now in everyday time, to which, in his view, too few are paying heed: The growth of total AI-based surveillance and the disappearance of privacy. Thiel considers arguments about whether computers that think like people will ever be developed to be “above his pay grade.” Given that he is reputed to be worth $3.7B dollars, that’s a polite way of saying that such Read More ›

Extraterrestrial aliens spaceship fly above small town, ufo with blue spotlights in dark stormy sky.

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Author
News
Date
November 6, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military, Science

Tagged
Elon Musk, Elon Musk (changing views on ET), Extraterrestrials (ET)}

Elon Musk Keeps Buzz About Extraterrestrials in the News

_{He has said that we may be ET’s sims. Then this year he created an uproar by doubting UFOs — and another one months later by implying that they do exist. Huh?} _{News

November 6, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military, Science}

Self-driving car and private space travel entrepreneur Elon Musk has been all over the map recently as far as ET is concerned. He has claimed that our universe may have been simulated by extraterrestrials. He has hinted that he himself is an extraterrestrial. Earlier this year, he apparently reversed course and identified (on Twitter) the strongest argument for the idea that ET doesn’t even exist: ‘Strongest argument against aliens,’ Musk tweeted, along with two charts that shows camera resolution has advanced, but UFO pictures have remained the same. The post concludes that extraterrestrials do not exist, due to most images showing floating blobs, but many of the comments argue otherwise. One user responded with ‘that’s exactly what an alien would Read More ›

Surprised African-American man in denim jacket looks at receipt total in sales check holding paper bag with products in mall

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Author
News
Date
October 18, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Economics

Tagged
Automotive industry (market caps), Bernard Fickser, Big Tech (market caps), Capitalization crisis (Fickser's view), Dotcom Bubble, Elon Musk, Featured, Gary Smith (on Dotcom Bubble), Hyperinflation (Germany post WWI), Inflation (and Big Tech market caps), Inflation (and middle class), Jack Dorsey (Square), Jonathan Bartlett (on Tesla and media), Middle class (and inflation), Square (market cap), Tesla (market cap)}

A Market Analyst Explains Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously

_{Bernard Fickser looks at the tech companies that are worth astonishing amounts, unrelated to their current product lines} _{News

October 18, 2021

9

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Economics}

Readers may remember Bernard Fickser from his series on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and how they can be made to work better. Now he looks at a more serious problem, the current (quiet) capitalization crisis: the growth in the perceived market value (market caps) of tech companies, far beyond the market value of any assets they have. He recalls the famous (and costly) Dot.com Bubble (1995–2000), when “tech and internet companies that had no actual products or prototypes or detailed plans for products were receiving enormous valuations simply on a promise and a prayer.” Many prayers went unheard and small investors suffered huge losses. Business prof Gary Smith highlights Bill’s Barber Shop in 2000, where locals had reckoned on secure prosperity Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
October 7, 2021

Tagged
AlphaGo, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Deep neural networks DNNs, Elon Musk, Ergodicity, Eric Holloway, Films, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), GPT-3, Jonathan Bartlett, Lovelace test, medical research, Neural networks, Neuralink, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Robots, Sam Altman, self-driving cars, Sleep, Tesla, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, Video games}

The 2020 AI Dirty Dozen Hyped Stories: Countdown by Bradley Center Brain Trust Members

_{Robert J. Marks

October 7, 2021

3}

Is AI fundamentally flawed? Can Elon Musk merge man with machines? Will there ever be self-driving cars? Join us as we revisit the top 12 most over-hyped stories in artificial intelligence from 2020 with Robert J. Marks, Jonathan Bartlett, and Eric Holloway. Show Notes 00:01:10 | Introducing Jonathan Bartlett 00:01:37 | Introducing Dr. Eric Holloway 00:02:00 | #12: “The way Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
October 3, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Science

Tagged
Elon Musk, Extraterrestrials (simulating our universe), Featured, Nick Bostrom, Ola Hössjer, Robert J. Marks, Simulation hypothesis}

Could Advanced Aliens Have Fine-Tuned Earth for Life?

_{That’s a surprisingly popular thesis, considering how hard it is to account for life without assuming a creator} _{News

October 3, 2021

10

Artificial Intelligence, Science}

Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks has been doing a series of podcasts with Swedish mathematician Ola Hössjer, and Colombian biostatistician Daniel Díaz in connection with a recent co-authored paper on the fine-tuning of the universe for life in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. In the first portion of this episode, podcast 153, “Why is there fine-tuning everywhere?” they looked at whether fine tuning of the universe for life can be accounted for by the theory that advanced life forms seeded life throughout the universe (directed panspermia). Surprisingly, perhaps, the theory is considered at least plausible, due to the difficulty of accounting for the existence of life otherwise. As Marks and his guests noted, great scientists such Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Bassett
Date
September 9, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, China, Elon Musk, Erik J. Larson, Francois Chollet, Jack Ma, Jonathan Bartlett, Michael I. Jordan, Nikola Danaylov, Singularity Weblog, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book)}

Danaylov: Right on Technology, Wrong on AI

_{Danaylov's confidence in the future of AI super-intelligence is exaggerated} _{Caitlin Bassett

September 9, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence}

Our future is determined by the stories we tell ourselves. So says futurist Nikola Danaylov in his online series exploring the years and decades to come for humanity. In our previous posts, we introduced you to Danaylov and examined his perspective on science. Now we will turn to his treatment of technology and artificial intelligence. The Technology Story Like his perspective on science, Danaylov brings a balanced understanding to technology. Technology “is not an end-in-itself,” he says. “Instead, technology is merely a means-to-an-end, a tool.” Jonathan Bartlett has also written about technology as a tool. In 2019, Elon Musk and Jack Ma shared a stage to debate the future of technology and artificial intelligence. Here’s what Bartlett had to say about it: For Ma, Read More ›

Robotic handyman pliers handwrench. Fixing maintenance concept. Creative design toy with metal funnel hopper, cogs wheels gears silver metallic body. Green wall, blue floor background. Copy space

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
August 23, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
AI Day, Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Robots, Tesla}

Nobody is Taking Tesla AI Seriously Anymore

_{Tesla's "AI Day" presented reasonable discussion until the "robot" showed up} _{Jonathan Bartlett

August 23, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Recently, Tesla held its “AI Day.” Tesla often creates an event which highlights some aspect of their business that they want to promote to investors, customers, or to potential employees. Tesla has had “battery day” and “autonomy day” to promote Tesla efforts on those fronts. It is an attempt to keep excitement and exposure to a maximum during seasons when there are no big product reveals. While Elon Musk is typically guilty of leading people on with extravagant (and unwarranted) claims about Tesla technology, these events have recently shown a more reserved side to Tesla’s front man. In “battery day,” he was expected to launch a million-mile battery, but instead talked mostly about getting access to the minerals needed for Read More ›

Female Artist Works on Abstract Oil Painting, Moving Paint Brush Energetically She Creates Modern Masterpiece. Dark Creative Studio where Large Canvas Stands on Easel Illuminated. Low Angle Close-up

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
June 15, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Science

Tagged
Agency, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Elon Musk, Google, Intelligent Design, Peter Thiel, Zero to One (book)}

Intelligent Design Is Not What Most People Think It Is

_{Widespread confusion about Intelligent Design leads us to address the question: What exactly is it?} _{Jonathan Bartlett

June 15, 2021

8

Business and Finance, Science}

When I tell people that I do work in Intelligent Design (ID) research, either the person I’m talking to has no idea what Intelligent Design is, or they have quite a faulty idea of what Intelligent Design is. This isn’t their fault — media reports don’t seem to be able to make sense of what we are doing either. Some people have attributed this to malice, and, while I’m sure there’s plenty of that to go around, I think that it is in large part actually the result of Intelligent Design doing something genuinely new, making it difficult for people to shove us into existing boxes. Intelligent Design, at its core, says that agency is a distinct causal category in the world. That Read More ›

Man sits in a spaceship car and flies to the planet with a sunset in space. Space travel by car, concept. Driver behind the wheel. Interplanetary taxi in space, creative idea

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
June 7, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Elon Musk, Ford, Roadster, SpaceX, Tesla}

Ford Calls Out Exaggerated Musk Claims in Epic Twitter Troll

_{Automakers are beginning to respond to Musk with mockery and satire} _{Jonathan Bartlett

June 7, 2021

3

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Elon Musk has long been making strange claims about Tesla’s future plans for vehicles. At Mind Matters News, we have documented extensively his continually-changing claims about Teslas being able to be used as robotaxis. This is especially important to consumers of these products, as Tesla is charging customers $10,000 for future functionality that may never exist. We have largely ignored other claims from Musk as it is sometimes difficult to tell when Musk is being serious or when he is just joking around. This can be problematic, however, since Musk has listed his Twitter account as being a source of official company communications. Not being able to tell if a given message is an official corporate communication or just a funny Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
June 4, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, capitalism, Communism, Elon Musk, Grimes, TikTok}

“AI is fastest path to Communism,” says Elon Musk’s partner

_{In a viral TikTok video, the singer/songwriter said AI will lead us to a world of leisure and no work} _{News

June 4, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Social Media, Technocracy}

Social media was aflood yesterday with confusion and intrigue when Grimes – a Canadian singer/songwriter and 3-year partner to technological entrepreneur Elon Musk – said that “AI is actually the fastest path to communism” and encouraged communists to embrace the technology if they want to see their political dreams come true. Grimes (born Claire Elise Boucher) posted a short video to TikTok on Thursday, proposing that artificial intelligence could lead us to a utopia in which no one has to work and everyone lives in leisure: “I have a proposition for the communists. So, typically most of the communists I know are not big fans of AI. But if you think about it, AI is actually the fastest path to Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 31, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Access consciousness, Angus Menuge, Consciousness, Elon Musk, Featured, Neuralink, Robert J. Marks}

What Will Elon Musk’s Neuralink Really Change, If It Catches On

_{Neuralink’s computer chip implants may help restore function in people with motor or sensory disabilities} _{News

May 31, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind}

Finishing the third and final podcast of the series, “Unity of Consciousness,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks and Angus Menuge, professor and chair of philosophy at Concordia University, had a look at entrepreneur Elon Musk’s implanted brain chip venture, the Neuralink: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Angus-Menuge-Episode-3-rev1.mp3 This portion begins at 14:28 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: Let me end our discussion together by asking you an outlier question. Elon Musk is developing something called Neuralink. It’s a chip which goes into the brain. Its immediate application is going to be for those that are handicapped. It is going to allow them communicate directly to objects that they can’t control normally because of their handicap. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 20, 2021

Tagged
Consciousness, Elon Musk, Neuralink, split personalities, split-brain surgery, Sybil, too many thinkers problem, unity of consciousness}

Dr. Angus Menuge: Unity of Consciousness (Part III)

_{Robert J. Marks

May 20, 2021

1}

It’s the curious conundrum of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Why do most of us have one consciousness? And what is the nature of consciousness in split personalities? In today’s final episode with guest Dr. Angus Menuge, Dr. Robert J. Marks engages Menuge on the question of unity of consciousness. Show Notes 00:30 | Introducing Dr. Angus Menuge 01:04 | Read More ›