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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 21, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Transhumanism

Tagged
Arts & Culture, capitalism, HBO Max, immortality, media, New York, Succession, transhumanism, TV shows, Wall Street}

HBO’s “Succession” Goes Transhumanist

_{The popular show about a family owned media empire hints at the desire to live forever} _{Peter Biles

May 21, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism}

[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] The highly-watched HBO show “Succession” tells the story of a media empire ruled by a cantankerous, manipulative businessman, Logan Roy, and his three children who are hardly any better. Most of the show is a commentary on the corrupting effects of wealth and the power dynamics involved in the media empire’s core leadership. In the dramatic fourth season, Logan Roy dies from what seems to be a stroke while he’s flying to Norway to discuss a giant merger deal with another media mogul. From there, the three Roy children, Kendall, Roman, and Shiv (along with a half-brother Connor who doesn’t care as much about his place in the kingdom) scramble to figure out the leadership, direction, and Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 18, 2023

Categorized
Media

Tagged
bias, censorship, CNN, Elon Musk, Epoch Times, Fox News, Legacy media, media, MSNBC, Tucker Carlson, Twitter}

Tucker Carlson and the Decline of Cable TV

_{What does Carlson's move to Twitter mean for legacy media?} _{News

May 18, 2023

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Media}

Tucker Carlson, longtime host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, “parted ways” with the media empire, and just weeks later, announced that he would be starting a new, independent show. It was a quick turnaround. Interesting thing is, Carlson said the show would air not on cable television, but on Twitter. He said that Twitter is basically the forum where today’s ideas are formulated, exchanged, and debated, and that there’s currently no better place to practice video journalism. Here’s the clip of Carlson so you can hear him for yourself. Fox News lost considerable ratings since Carlson’s departure. He was their most popular host by a longshot. On the same day he was let go, CNN fired their own Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 8, 2023

Categorized
Media

Tagged
children, media, mental health, social media, Technology, The Conversation, violence}

When Disaster Strikes Through the TV

_{News cycles that profit off constant, sensationalized negativity aren't helping} _{News

May 8, 2023

2

Media}

A hundred years ago it would have been unimaginable to watch a tragedy unfold on the other side of the world. Such news might get peddled via newspaper, or later through radio, but the access we now enjoy to the rest of the world is unprecedented. How is that affecting us? According to this study, covered in an article from The Conversation, televised disaster and tragedy can severely affect the mental health of children to varying degrees. The authors write, Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching news coverage of disasters can raise children’s anxiety and trigger responses in their brains that put them at risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms. It also explores why some children are more Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
March 20, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Human exceptionalism, Mathematics, media, UK}

We Can’t Build a Hut to the Moon

_{The history of AI is a story of a recurring cycle of hype and disappointment} _{Eric Holloway

March 20, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Once upon a time there live a tribe who lived on the plains. They were an adventurous tribe, constantly wanting to explore. At night they would see the moon drift lazily overhead, and became curious. How could they reach the moon? The moon was obviously higher than their huts. Standing on the highest hut no one could reach the moon. At the same time, standing on the hut got them closer to the moon. So, they decided to amass all their resources and build a gigantic hut. Reason being that if standing on a short hut got them closer to the moon, then standing on a gigantic hut would get them even closer. Eventually the tribe ran out of mud and Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
February 15, 2023

Categorized
Transhumanism

Tagged
AI, Applied Science, C.S. Lewis, education, Limits, media, mortality, Salvo, Tech, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism, virtue, Vulnerability}

Humans Have Limits. Transhumanists Want to Overcome Them

_{The prophetic words of C.S. Lewis still strike home today} _{Peter Biles

February 15, 2023

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Transhumanism}

This article originally appeared as a blog post at Salvo on May 13th, 2022. C.S. Lewis wrote an apt and prophetic line in his book The Abolition of Man that feels even more prescient today: “There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the wisdom of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.” I think it’s safe to say that today, the world’s elites in government, tech, media, and education embody precisely the opposite of Lewis’s understanding Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 17, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Media

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, film, media, Reality, TV shows}

The Graying of the Art — and AI — World

_{Why is so much modern media made up of rehashes and remakes?} _{Jonathan Bartlett

October 17, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Media}

The world of popular art (TV, movies, etc.) has a problem. I would even go as far as to label it a crisis. The problem is that the art world is becoming increasingly derivative. There are some points where it is obviously derivative—every movie is a remake, and every TV show is a reboot. We are getting the same stories regurgitated instead of novelty. However, there are also more subtle ways that this is happening. TV comedies work largely by including inside jokes from previous TV shows. One of the most popular writers of the 20th century was Louis L’Amour. What I think made L’Amour’s stories so great is that he could draw from a vast amount of personal experience. He could write about a lot Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
May 28, 2021

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Science, Technocracy

Tagged
Anthony Fauci, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), COVID-19 (dissent from official claims), COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis, Hubei, media, Nicholas Wade, SARS-CoV-2, Wet markets, Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Zeynep Tufecki}

Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Upgraded from Conspiracy to Plausible

_{Many scientists were discouraged from openly discussing the possibility of a lab leak, which hindered serious investigation} _{Heather Zeiger

May 28, 2021

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Medicine and Health, Science, Technocracy}

Could the SARS-CoV-2 virus have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? The public was informed, until quite recently, that the “scientific consensus” was that the virus that causes COVID-19 likely passed from animal to human and was neither designed nor accidentally released from a lab in Wuhan. However, this “consensus” has turned out to be anything but. Several scientists have voiced their concern over the lack of transparency on the part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), imploring that the “lab leak” hypothesis should not be thrown out. They were largely ignored. Some scientists have even said that they experienced “very intense, very subtle pressures” to avoid advancing the lab leak theory. It’s advancing anyway, as more evidence accumulates. Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 12, 2020

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Social Media

Tagged
___longform, Alain Brunet, Albert Tsao, Edvard Moser, Google effect, hippocampus, Jared Cooney Horvath, Matthew Cobb, May-Britt Moser, media, Memory, Memory erasure, Memory formation}

What Neuroscientists Now Know About How Memories Are Born and Die

_{Where, exactly are our memories? Are modern media destroying them? Could we erase them if we wanted to?} _{News

August 12, 2020

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Social Media}

At one time, neuroscientists believed that there must be a “seat” of memory in the brain, something like a room with a door marked Memory. They settled on two structures called hippocampi, on either side of the brain’s base. The illustration shows the the hippocampus of the right hemisphere (public domain). But memories turned out to have no fixed address. Neuroscientist Matthew Cobb, author of The Idea of the Brain (2020, excerpt here), tells us, But the hippocampuses are not the site of memory storage. Rather, these brain regions are the encoders and the routes through which memory formation seems to pass. The memories that are processed by the hippocampuses seem to be distributed across distant regions of the brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 22, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Consciousness, emotions, intelligence, Max Tegmark, media, media bias, Stephanie Singleton}

Multiverse Physicist Max Tegmark Seeks AI That Checks News Bias

_{Naive people who truthfully claim to be acting only “for good” in trying to address bias in the news via AI are kidding themselves} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 22, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Max Tegmark (right) is probably better known as a multiverse cosmologist than as an AI specialist. The MIT physics professor told New Scientist in 1998 that “All possible universes exist, even triangular ones.” He also informed Scientific American in 2003 that “Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations”: Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this Read More ›

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Author
Denise Simon and Robert J. Marks
Date
May 14, 2020

Tagged
Denise Simon, fake news, Gerasimov Doctrine, media, Military strategy, military technology, misinformation, News, news media, social media, Vladimir Putin, war, warfare}

Denise Simon on Cyber Warfare and Misinformation

_{Denise Simon and Robert J. Marks

May 14, 2020

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When one thinks of warfare, thoughts of killing people and breaking things come to mind. But there are also psychological aspects of war. Robert J. Marks and Denise Simon discuss the Gerasimov doctrine, cyber warfare, and misinformation. Show Notes 00:34 | Introducing Denise Simon, Senior Research / Intelligence Analyst for Foreign and Domestic Policy 01:24 | AI as part of Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
March 19, 2020

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, COVID-19, media}

China: Rewriting the History of COVID-19

_{Making the government the improbable hero of the tale} _{Heather Zeiger

March 19, 2020

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Ethics, Medicine and Health, Technocracy}

Chinese scientists worked together swiftly and seamlessly to sequence the virus, (completed February 25), even as the government was downplaying the extent of the problem and silencing doctors who attempted to warn colleagues and the public. The Wuhan public erupted in anger when the government demanded a show of gratitude for its efforts rather than theirs.

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
January 28, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Data analysis, Eric Siegel, hype, media, Statistics}

Can The Machine TELL If You Are Psychotic or Gay?

_{No, and the hype around what machine learning can do is enough to make old-fashioned tabloids sound dull and respectable} _{Brendan Dixon

January 28, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine and Health}

Media often co-operate with researchers’ inflated claims about machine learning’s powers of discovery. An ingenious “creative” approach to accuracy enables the misrepresentation, says data analyst Eric Siegel.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 14, 2020

Categorized
Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Featured, Journalists, media}

Serious Media In China Have Gone Strangely Silent

_{With a compulsory new app, the government can potentially access journalists’ phones, both for surveillance and capturing data} _{Heather Zeiger

January 14, 2020

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Surveillance}

Liu Hu sums up the scene in a few words: “Outside of China, journalists are fired for writing false reports… Inside China, they are fired for telling the truth.”

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 24, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance

Tagged
hype, media}

2019 AI Hype Countdown #8: Media Started Doing Their Job!

_{Yes, this year, there has been a reassuring trend: Media are offering more critical assessment of off-the-wall AI hype} _{Jonathan Bartlett

December 24, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance}

One factor in the growing sobriety may be that, as AI technology transitions from dreams to reality, the future belongs to leaders who are pragmatic about its abilities and limitations.

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
November 14, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Automation, Featured, journalism, media, news media}

Should AI-Written News Stories Have Bylines? Whose?

_{Like it or not, AI is here to stay. So, how do we make the best use of it in writing?} _{Brendan Dixon

November 14, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Automation can help some aspects of writing. But media outlets get tech “google”-eyes and too often fail to ask the hard questions about what they are automating, how, and why.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
March 18, 2019

Categorized
Social Factors, Technocracy, Work

Tagged
biohacking, In the News, Job Displacement, mechanization, media, nfc chips, Sophia}

Random Thoughts on Recent AI Headlines

_{There is usually a story under those layers of hype but not always the one you thought} _{Robert J. Marks

March 18, 2019

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Social Factors, Technocracy, Work}

When Thomas Sowell was writing his syndicated column on economics, I always looked forward to his sporadically appearing “Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene.” Reminding readers that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I offer my own “Random Thoughts on Recent AI Headlines.”