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18 - A Popperian Evaluation Of Neuralink‘s Presentation
Artificial Creativity
English - September 06, 2020 07:37 - 2 hours - 226 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Applying some of Karl Popper's and David Deutsch's ideas to analyze and evaluate Elon Musk's recent Neuralink presentation and the Q&A afterward. Throwing some of my own ideas into the mix as well. Errors mine.
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References
- The original presentation and Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvmgjBL74w
- The neo-Darwinian theory of the mind (written article): https://medium.com/conjecture-magazine/the-neo-darwinian-theory-of-the-mind-d84c0bcc6485
- The neo-Darwinian theory of the mind (read out loud): https://soundcloud.com/dchacke/16-the-neo-darwinian-theory-of-the-mind
- David Deutsch’s interview on CBC radio: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/the-new-human-1.4696724/oxford-physicist-predicts-ai-will-be-human-in-all-but-name-1.4696754
- David Deutsch’s second interview with Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/podcasts/finding-our-way-in-the-cosmos/
- Article about fluid buildup replacing much of man’s brain: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/
- David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity,” chapters 5 (levels of emergence and abstractions), 12 (bad philosophy), 13 (Balinksi’s and Young’s no-go theorem regarding “deriving” the will of the group from the will of each individual)
- Karl Popper, “Objective Knowledge,” appendix “The Bucket and the Searchlight”
- Karl Popper, “Alle Menschen sind Philosophen,” Kapitel “Zweites Präludium: Die Zukunft ist offen” (the conversation with Konrad Lorenz)
- Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience ("Our Goal" section): https://redwood.berkeley.edu/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy
Additional source
- Twitter thread by Dennis containing tweets made live during the event: https://twitter.com/dchackethal/status/1299500744287031296
Correction: at 15:00, I say that memories are
always based on self-replicating ideas *that have high longevity*.
That's not true. A memory could be a self-replicating idea with low
longevity but high fecundity and high copying fidelity.