Documenting the Irish music scam

Summary

In the 80's and 90's Ireland was breaking bands on the international music scene  annually. Since the takeover of the music biz by Bertie Ahern's government in 1997, nothing. Crap country music every night, even on TG4, the Gaelic station. So what happened?

For those in a hurry, it is very simple; musicians can make money by live performances (difficult), broadcast (including the very low paying spotify and its competitors) and mechanical royalties. For over 100 years, the British have held the music world to ransom through the latter, which is the only  substantial source of income. It may surprise you to find out that the rolling stones still do not own the mechanical for "satisfaction"; they were snapped up by allen klein in the great shakeup around 1970's. Ditto the Beatles aka "Lennon/McCartney"; there is a theory that Paul secured them around 2020. 

Not to be outdone, our criminals in Ireland launched a scam of their own. IMRO was not chartered to do mechanicals, but they used patriotism to entice Irish musicians to repatriate their songs from the  British broadcast rights group PPS when IMRO was founded. That gave the criminals - including one Shay Hennessy, and intimate of Ahern's - an opportunity to solidify their theft

So call the cops.....actually, we did, and the newly-founded copyright division thereof did a superb investigation 1999-2003. Then they were disbanded, on  the grounds that, uniquely in the world,  copyright violation was a civil matter in Ireland. We resisted the DPP's "advice "to take a civil action in Ireland - akin to suicide - and instead won cases in the USA in federal court and in the "UK". These documents are an audit trail of how Irish music was destroyed for 2 generations by Dublin-based criminals sheltering in IMRO

Sequence: 1. Late 1980's/ early '90's.Shay Hennessy is fired as head of
K-Tel Ireland. His company Crashed Music Ltd is struck off, despite his prominence as Fianna Fail appointee to many State boards over 30 years to date. The Taxing master later pronounces a judgement of 100,000 pounds against him after his unsuccessful appeal to the EAT.

2. Early 1990's : Oliver Sweeney sets up CBM Ltd. and later its publishing arm
Dog Music Ltd. He signs a multitude of artists to CBM Ltd., including Sean Keane, Cran,Barry Ronan, Draoicht and Melanie O'Reilly. Melanie does not sign a publishing deal, and signs only heads of agreement for one CD recording, as Sweeney himself admits in writing.

3. Mid-1990's : Hennessy claims copyright on Melanie's compositions at MCPS London through the trader name Crashed Music.
  The Gardai are later sent a file of some of these spurious claims, anonymously, though MCPS is itself a possible source.

4. Dec. 1996: CBM Ltd is struck off just as a High Court case taken against it by Sean Keane is about to proceed. CBM Ltd. trades openly after dissolution, until 1998 at
least. Files are sent to Dept. of Ent. Trade & Employment proving this. Paul Vickers, Harney's secretary writes to Melanie stating the precise documentation required for a prosecution. When this is supplied, Dete phones to say that prosecution of CBM Ltd and record services can take place. Other companies are also implicated. In 2006 the head of corporate enforcement, Appleby, promises in person at a meeting convened by him there will be legal action within 2 months . Other complaints were lodged at that time concerning Dog and Excellent Ltd. No prosecutions have occurred 14 years later.

5. Record Services Ltd. , struck off in 2000, continues to trade openly,
even after losing lawsuits and after complaints to DETE. Paul Mc Guinness is listed as one of the Directors and his company Rathgordon pays the pkaintiffs.


6. IMRO gets the unambiguous right to collect for broadcast music in bars
and arts centres in 1996. their monopoly to do so is asserted by Patrick Lyons in circumstances redolent of a conflict of interest

7. Hennessey becomes Chair of IMRO in 1997.

8. Musicians transferring their works to IMRO from the British PRS in the
1990's find miscellaneous publishers like Dog Music Ltd , Crashed Music Ltd. and Gael Linn Teoranta illegally associated with them.

9. Melanie O'Reilly finding the same illegal transfer of her copyright,
goes through the MCPS/PRS Alliance duplicate claims procedure, a procedure accepted by IMRO.

10. Dog Music publishing Ltd. who claim Melanie's/Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill/David Milligan's works on Melanie's album "Tir Na Mara", are written to: -C/O Crashed Music -their common address. Neither reply and copyright is returned to Melanie, Nuala, and David in 2001.

Dog Music publishing Ltd. Have already been dissolved

Mysteriously, Hennessy's illegal claims are done t/a Crashed Music, versus using his company Crashed Ltd. However, only Crashed Ltd, which was reinstated under the auspices of then Minister Bertie Ahern in 1992 is registered to trade as Crashed Music.

11. Matheson Ormbsby Prentice, acting on behalf of IMRO, vociferously
deny Hennessey has any beneficial interest in Melanie's works other than the slight amount associated with Dog Music Ltd.
  This is untrue, as proven later in written correspondence from MCPS. MCPS do not pay Melanie at any stage until threat of imminent legal action in 2006.

12. 2003: MCPS in correspondence with Melanie, mediated by the British
Musicians Union, categorically state that contrary to MOPS repeated objections, Hennessey's Crashed Music had actually claimed Melanie's works. The 250,000 euros, or so , due to Melanie for the illegal licensing of her works as well as the 60,000 euros of legal fees and considerable damages, are therefore due to Melanie.

13. 2000: Melanie, along with other musicians, Maurice Lennon, and Donal
Lunny make detailed statements to the Gardai about copyright fraud involving Dog Music, Crashed and Gael Linn. Melanie finds her compositions and recordings on 8 compilations for which she has not given permission.
Sales figures attested by Nelsen indicate total units of hundreds of thousands in the US, and the benefits did nit reach Melanie or many other musicians. A contract signed without any consultation with these musicians is discovered.

14. Garda Mulvey is taken off the case, but Dail questions ensure a smooth
handover to Garda Mooney. Mooney and Mulvey see preliminary evidence of massive financial fraud at IMRO,with bogus song titles being created, and attributed to musicians without their knowledge, as well as the theft already outlined. The Irish language is often abused to hide spurious songs.

15. 2001-2002: Mulvey and Mooney interview all parties concerned in Ireland
and Britain, and find that all Melanie's, Donal's and Maurice's stories ring true. Mulvey himself buys one of the bootleg Cds in Ireland.

16. 1998: Hennessey signs a deal with Labhras O Murchu of comhaltas agreeing that IMRO can issue a license for Irish music. As much Irish music is not registered with IMRO, and much else is public domain, this is illegal.
While signing, O Murchu denies doing so in the Seanad. Around the same
time Hennessey is made a Peace commissioner

17. The Gardai submit a detailed 120 page file to the DPP who sits on it for almost 2 years. In mid 2003, an article appears in the Sunday Independent saying that the DPP declines to prosecute according to "sources close to the investigation". The Sunday Independent admits IMRO is the source.

18. The Gardai, whose first knowledge of the DPP's decision is the Sunday Independent, are informed of it officially 2 weeks later. The DPP, acting outside his remit, recommends civil action against Hennessey and Sweeney as - rather uniquely in international terms and contrary to the 2000 Irish copyright act – he argued copyright violation is a civil not criminal offence in Ireland. Proceedings taken in Federal court in the USA by Melanie vindicated her.

19. 2004: Mistletoe Music LLC is reliably informed that Hennessey, back on
the board of IMRO after a short absence, is working with Gael-Linn, a former employer of Oliver Sweeney.

20. 2004-2005: The Arts Council of Ireland criticises the IMRO –Murchu deal. Una Bhean Murchu wife of Labhras resigns from the traditional committee chaired by Philip King and ,issues a minority report from that committee, and a wholesale campaign contra the Arts Council begins. Una's Cashel "Bru Boru" centre has been the major beneficiary of the IMRO deal.

21. Summer 2006; Melanie O'Reilly and Sean O Nuallain meet with Paul Appleby for two hours, handing him numerous documents that got mislaid on their passage from dete to him. Appleby promises High court action within two months.

22. November 2006; Mistletoe music llc receives documents showing that Hennessy's claim on Melanie's material antedated her legal claim. This is in contradiction to what both MCPS and IMRO are contending, and MCPS is reminded of this.

23Dec 2006; following a prolonged silence from Appleby, he confirms that there is unlikely to be any prosecution after all.

24. Accounts finally arrive from MCPS, showing that, nearly 7 years after the original complaint against them, both Dog and Excellent are still trading as limited companies. 11 years after being recorded, Melanie's compositions are still making 100 sterling or so a week.

The only way to avoid violence is for states to start telling the truth about covid-19

 

This can only end in violence has happened in Melbourne this morning because it is simply a terrorist coup d'etat. Stopping distinguished scientists like Peronne from speaking in public is what caused every ideological War in human history. These Wars have cost hundreds of millions of lives and and everybody on this list benefited from an extended period of peace with full freedom of assembly conscience and speech which is being attacked by or States using bogus science.

Robert and I have gone through some of the Central absurdities every Sunday on his programme revolution.radio 3pm EST but it is no harm to repeat them

First the PCR test on which the whole scam hinges does not work by the cdc's own admission. So they are abandoning it. - again by their own admission. Worse it never tested for sars-cov 2 because they had none to hand in February 2020 -again by their own admission -so they simply used a library of other RNA viruses they had available. That essentially means they have to redo all the billions of tests that have been done. That is if they ever produce an assay for SARS cov 2. Until they do good biologists like Jonathan rapaport are going to insist that it doesn't exist

Second we were told they had a complete genetic sequence of an isolated virus by January the 13th 2020. If so clearly nobody told the CDC about it. In actual fact all that existed and exists to this day is a computational model. One of the tragedies is that millions of people are getting poisoned by so-called Vaccines based on this computational model

Thirdly the statistical model used comes from 1927 as we were the first to point out but now John Ioannidis is repeating. It is not just primitive but does not have a variable for the number of virus particles which is the main causal influence! The reason they are using this s i r model imposed by the w h o is it gives justification for lockdown. It does not predict transmissions which the model described in our book Follow The Sun does to within 1%.

 When we contacted the authorities in North Dakota Spain and Ireland from autumn 2020 and told them we could predict transmissions and therefore hospital beds they had no interest whatsoever because all they're trying to do is to lock people up until they're willing to be guinea pigs for the injections. We actually gave an extended tutorial to the so-called scientists in North Dakota

I almost forgot to mention that all the PCR tests only had emergency use authorisation and so it remains to this day.

There are literally thousands of analyses of these lethal injections most recently by Christine Cotton who is an extremely reputable biostatistician. Literally tens of thousands of people have already died as a result of these injections. Conversely we have no idea how many people died of covid-19 because there is no test for SARS cov  2. The current betting is it is between 1 and 5% of the public figures rammed down our throats by social media as well as mainstream and state Media

Finally Jonathan rapoport actually reads CDC and FDA reports and found that the FDA report on the Pfizer vaccine showed it simply did not work. To put it in more technical terms it should never have received emergency use authorisation because it was not what more than 50% more effective than a placebo.

It is hard to imagine the millions who are assembling in France every Saturday remaining peaceful in the face of provocation like police Provocateurs and grocery shops already illegally looking for a vaccine passport.

covid shows exponential decay almost certainly linked to hours of daylight

Will publish our results soon. In any case, it is a moral and health imperative that the lockdown end NOW

21/5/2020

Set the people free; explaining the end of the covid epidemic

Executive abstract

In the Irish times of 23/5/20. Luke O'Neill of TCD – the Irish scientist with most prominence on this issue – explained that 90% pf science was making mistakes. This he spectacularly exemplified by deliberately destroying a state-funded experiment to show off to the journalist Jennifer O'Connell. Unfortunately, this world of mistakes and state largesse has collided with the real world of people's livelihoods at enormous cost to the latter. While it is indeed a mistake that science has not yet worked out the details of how covifd-90 is transmitted, a mistake explicable at least in part by problems with the disciplinary formation of biologists, the primitive statistical models used by the epidemiologists to define public policy are currently ruining large swathes of civil society as well as the economy. There is a way forward, one that uses the advances in time series analysis made since WW2, one that exploits the natural experiment resutling in the small infection rates in India and Africa, and one that can set the Irish people free by June 2020 to enjoy the activities that give joy and meaning to life. Proper attention needs to be paid to the priorities in state funding of science in ireland that have led us to this mess.

In particulat, covid-19 infrction rates show a negative exponential decline with the coming pf spring and lengthening of days. This we have seen in Ireland and Brtitain Yet, in apparent paradox, infection rates have been less in the winter months of colder countries like Estonia. There are two hypotheses that emerge. The first is that the negative exponential in infection which we have calculated preceisly at our research group using publicly available data is due to the rate of decay of covid-19 particularly in UV light. The second hypothesis is that infection requires an endothermic reaction, and beneath a certain ambient temterature it cannot occur. Whi;e we have had natural experiments suggesting this, we need more controlled experiments.

Main text

The panicked response to covid19 is the greatest scientific failure of our lifetimes. We are putting our entire population under house arrest for a disease that will from now on in mid 2020 - even with all restrictions lifted - will kill fewer than suicide or car accidents.

For those rare individuals without time on their hands, here are the take-home-messages;

The new infections in Ireland from sars-cov-2 are nearing an asymptote since sometime in late April and the acceptable rate of 50-100 cases or so a day HPET model, is in place since the week of 18 May;

There is no point in continuing the severity of the phased lockdown, and a return to those activities that give joy and meaning to life should be accelerated starting with unrestricted travel in time for the Whit weekend and saving – inter alia- the GAA season, Willie Clancy week, the Rose of Tralee and the Galway races by opening up in line with the rest of the EU on June 15;

In particular, the epidemiological, immunological models are too primitive to warrant the current and planned state actions

Specifically, it is clear that the immunologists do not even know the basics of sampling methodology as they were until 20th may seriously asserting the necessity of testing everybody. Somehow an entire century in the development of the understanding of time series has escaped the epidemiologists; and genetic determinism has destroyed the possibility of understanding the details of transmissions in virologists as well;

In particular, there is no explanation as to why children are less susceptible and contagious, why Africa, Estonia, India and so on have largely escaped, and so on

Nor is there an explanation for the fact Madagscar up to last week has had zero deaths;

Specifically, Covid19 cannot work without a particular metabolic context or to put it in very simple terms within a very specific temperature range. The reason that the medical establishment does not understand that is that it has succumbed to genetic determinism at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and crashing the world economy.

Here are a few predictions that were first made in mid- April by this author in a paper to be presented at a conference in the USA on June 22 2020;

India and Africa will continue to confound expectations with a very low rate of infections

The distribution of infection in France Italy and Spain will surprise epidemiologists who are still using a 1927 model . To put it in simple terms these countries even more than is already the case in Ireland will get rid of covid19 much quicker than they expect to as they warm up.

So what went wrong? Let us first look at the SIR epidemiological model whose champion, Neil Ferguson, by his behaviour in violating his own strictures spectacularly showed that he does not believe any more than does this writer. It was developed in 1927 and assumes a normal or bell-shaped progress of the disease, with cholera the paradigm. This is precisely the model that Taleb excoriates in his classic book “The Black Swan” as he argues it caused the 90's LTCM crash.

Power laws, with exponential growth and decay, are more prevalent. It does look as though covid infections converge to an asymptote with a negative exponenetial curve of infection rates, both new and current, at the end as is currently confounding NPHET, the body tasked with advising the Irish government. The deaths may indeed seem to follow a normal distribution perhaps due to mis-reporting while the tail for infection is a negative exponential and it is the tail that should shape the lifting of restrictions. In conjunction with our colleagues we are currently fitting the most correct curve to the public Irish and Spanish data. This will be again checked with respect to data derived from the late proposal by Ireland's National virus reference lab to sample randomly for antibodies, controlling for age and other factors, a step that should have been taken months ago.

In the method Ferguson promoted, either the population is exposed and develops herd immunity when about 70% (this number keeps changing!)have antibodies or - as happened here- we lock down so that only a limited sample is exposed. Various estimates have been given as to how many such lockdowns will be necessary to flatten the curve but it does not matter as this method cannot repeatedly be used without destroying our whole society. The mediaeval process, so described by Nobellist Michael Levitt, we have endured takes no account of the fact that a 2km walk and metro ride in the city brings one in contact with thousands, and in the countryside with single figures; the susceptibility differences due to age, obesity; and so on.

Nor does this model reflect the fact that, using methods like wavelets and the Hilbert Transform we can find the instantaneous analytic amplitude and phase of a signal like the infection rate. The curve is not bell-shaped as the phase will show. It is clear that the R or contagion changes but help is at hand; by using wavelet analysis, we can find the instantaneous frequency. In fact, we can distinguish the carrier wave (like the FM frequency of a station or the current R) from its instantaneous modulation (resulting in the music being played in the case of radio or the danger from covid-19 to a specific location or age group). Specifically, at worst we should be able to send texts out every day to citizens telling them of covid-19 hotspots to be avoided given their age and health history the next time it hits, as it will, instead of reaching for the lockdown nuke.

Readers have been exposed to so much nonsense not least from the current (as distinct from previous) unelected government that I will dare develop some of these points. There are two meanings of the word statistics that are germane to this discussion. The first is that a statistic is a parameter like a median taken from a sample. There is a very well-attested science that can tell you within specific confidence limits whether this sanple reflects a population, so no need to test everybody, as the virology lab seems to have realized. A statistic is the use by the state of laws of large numbers that most famously resulted in the number of undelivered letters in France converging year after year. Almost unbelievably, modern states have conceded these data to google and Facebook, who clearly have been bursting to tell us that, yes, they can track everybody. In any case, citizens should not allow the state to lock them down ever agin unless it demonstrates mastery of modern statistical techniques.

Secondly, and even more shockingly, the central dogma of molecular biology forced on all immunologists, virologists and epidemiologists as biology students cannot countenance the fact that metabolic effects obtain in gene expression. So, for example, the ratio of NAD+ to NADH is probed by proteins called transcription factors and differentially affects gene expression. Alternatively put, while Trump undoubtedly plays with the truth, the enunciation of a finding in his presence does not vitiate that finding. Will Bryan in such a context cited work from Johns Hopkins explaining the anomalous lack of impact of covid-19 in Africa, India, Estonia and so on; it is extremely heat sensitive, and its half- life is 2 minutes in bright sunlight. While we as yet know little about its transmission, for reasons that should now be clear to readers, so little of it survives after 15 minutes in the outdoors that one's chance of death by contagion is about the same as being kicked to death by a herd of donkeys.

But wait? Did we not, along with readers of Science and Nature in 2015, hear that the billions invested by the Irish taxpayer in SFI made us number 1 in the world in immunology? Where are these experts now? Or why is it that no Irish journalist has examined the Wall street Journals' expose of Dr Anita Jones, founder of SFI, and a board member of INQTEL? Has the aggressive alignment of Irish science with the goals of INQTEL - implemented at great Irish taxpayer expense mainly by the import of foreign scientists and in one case the firing of the chief state scientist - made us vulnerable as we have slipped down the real international science rankings since SFI started in 2003? It was this writer's great privilege to learn the science alluded to in this letter at UC Berkeley and Stanford. Funny how SFI never managed to lure anybody full-time from there, Harvard, MIT and other truly elite institutions?

Remarkably, some of the Irish scientists are beginning to catch on, and are now suggesting that vitamin D might help the body's immune system resist sars-cov-2. They posit a picturesque explanation in terms of marshalling cytokines, rather reminiscent in its vagueness of the hand-waving when immunology experiments had casualties with the cytokine avalanche at the testing on tgn1412. Essentially, a legacy drug that had no effects on other mammals killed humans; such is our knowledge of immunology! More importantly, they properly suggest that taking the elderly out of their nursing homes into the fresh air for 15 minutes a day to experience nature's bounty of vitamin D in the great outdoors may help.

It is a measure of our ignorance that there is a much simpler explanation, and a much simpler way to avoid the killing fields of the nursing homes. Might it not be the case that covid-19 is so damaged by UV light that lengthening days in themselves stall the epidemic? Conversely, keeping people indoors will perpetuate it, and Autumn will possibly revive it. Likewise, we must be open to the model of that the elderly currently in nursing homes may go back to their next of kin for each recurrence. What we can't afford is the current confusion of tongues between different specialists, a confusion imposed by funding of scientific research from the public purse.

Dr Sean O Nuallain

Foundations of Mind Summer School, University of Pisa

info@foundationsofmind.org

Summer school on meditation and consciousness Aug 26-30 2019

Draft schedule below

Noceto Retreat Center, Siena, Italy
August 26-30 2019

Monday, August 26
9am – Introduction Seán Ó Nualláin
9:15 The physics, phenomenology and neuroscience of consciousness
and meditation/ Seán Ó Nualláin
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – computational neuroscience / David Bernal
12:00 – Isomorphism between Cell Language and Human Language / Sungchul Ji
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 Continuum of awareness and here and now  in Gestalt according to a quantum physics dimension / Riccardo Zerbetto
16:45 – Quantum Physics and Consciousness Paul Werbos
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Tuesday, August 27
9:15 – The physics, phenomenology and neuroscience of consciousness and
meditation/ Seán Ó Nualláin
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – computational neuroscience / David Bernal
12:00 – Cell Psychology & Cell Consciousness / Sungchul Ji
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:45 Continuum of awareness and here and now  in Gestalt according to a quantum physics dimension / Riccardo Zerbetto
16:45 – Quantum Physics and Consciousness Paul Werbos
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Wednesday, August 28
9:15 The physics, phenomenology and neuroscience of consciousness and
meditation/ Seán Ó Nualláin
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – The neuroscience of breathing / Gabriele Penazzi
12:00 – DNA Linguistics / Sungchul Ji
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:45 high Computational neuroscience/ David Bernal
16:45 – meditation consciousness and high performance Philip Shinnick
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Thursday, August 29

9:15  Planck-Shannon plots (PSP), Superstructures & Consciousness Quantification / Sungchul Ji

10:15 – 10:30 am Break

10:30. Meditation consciousness and high performance Philip Shinnick

12:00 – Cannabis essential oil: a preliminary study for the evaluation of the brain effects / Tania Re

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 -17.30 Report from a Tibetan Monastery: Inner and outer phenomenology of non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by meditation / Bruno Neri
Evening – Informal dinner discussion

Friday, August 30
9.30 – Student presentations and interviews
1:30 – 3:30pm Lunch

Draft schedule for fom 5 "The new AI scare?" Nov 3-4 2017, CIIS, SF

FRIDAY, November 3, 2017

9:00 am            Introduction by FOM chair Seán Ó Nualláin

9:05 am           Mind & World Introduction by session chair Brian Swimme

9:15  am          What a Real Theory of Consciousness, Quantum Observation, Awareness

                                     and Attention May Look Like – Seán Ó Nualláin

10:00 am         Quantum Mind: Cognition as Vibration – Aamod Shanker et al

BREAK

11:00 am         Reality, Subjectivity and Truth in a Self-Aware Mind – Kirill Popov

11:40 am         Plasma Brain Dynamics (PBD): II Quantum Effects – Zhen Ma

12:20 pm         Cosmogenetic consciousness  - Brian Swimme CIIS

BREAK

2:00 pm           Henry Stapp

2:40 pm           Commentary & Role of Observation in the Quantum World - Menas Kafatos

3:00 pm           Consciousness & Causality: Sub-Quantum Time-Symmetric - Adrian Klein

3:30 pm           Linear Thinking & Self-Consciousness Process - Mansoor Vakili

4:00 pm           Voluntary Action, Conscious Will & Readiness Potential - Syamala Hari

4:30 pm           If AI Asks Questions, Will Nature Answer? - Cynthia Sue Larson

5:00 pm           New Approaches to QM Measurement Problem - Stan Klein, Chris Cochran

5:30 pm           PANEL: Henry Stapp, Adrian Klein, Mansoor Vakili, Stan Klein

SATURDAY, November 4, 2017

11:00 am         Quantum, Entheogenic and Ethnogenic Healing – Chair Tania Re

11:00 am         Are there enough scientific evidences to recommend psychotropic substances for therapeutic use? Implications of a critical umbrella review.  –  Tania Re

11:40 am         Reterritorialization & Mental Illness - Seán Ó Nualláin

12:20 pm         Difficulties in Inorganic and Organic Measurement of Energy, Nature’s Influence and Mind Training (Yi) in Qigong (Qi).Phillip Shinnick and Laurence Porter

BREAK

2:00 pm           Observations – Arora & Behera

2:40 pm           QM Automata, Gödel Numbers & Self-Ref Consciousness - Fred Alan Wolf

3:20 pm           Continuity, Time & Opposition of the Dominant Paradigm - Stan McDaniel

4:00 pm           Mimicking Intelligence - Wolfgang Baer

4:40 pm           AI & the Human Biofield: New Opportunities & Challenges - Bev Rubik

5:20pm            Intention at a Distance as Source of Information Transfer & Wave Function

                                     Collapse – Karla Galdamez

6:00 pm           PANEL: Fred Alan Wolf, Wolfgang Baer, and others

Web 3.0; beyond Silly con Valley

The HBO series “Silicon Valley” has taken over from “The big bang theory”, now gone all soft and domestic, in exploring the inner world of the nerd. In this case, however, the nerds are cast adrift amid vulture capitalists, peers who want to steal their algorithms, and the redoubtable Peter Thiel (a thinly disguised character called Peter Gregory “died” after the first series, probably due to Thiel’s lawyers).

The main character, Richie Hendrix, is a programming elitist; some of the most insightful sequences show that his ideas derive, or can be reconstructed, from physical motion. His capacity to handle meetings is limited and hilariously he loses control of one to his salespeople. A classic line due to Gavin Belsom whose Huli company resembles an anarchic Google; yes, we all want to make the world a better place, but to hell with any company doing so better than us…….

It is unlikely to end well for Richie and Pied Piper. It also fits perfectly with the intuitions many of us have about the real Silicon Valley. It started with the egomaniac nobellist Shockley losing the “traitorous 8” whence came Fairchild, Intel and much else. With Netscape’s launch in the mid-90’s, a frenzy started that famously ended badly in 2001. Yet web 1.0 had many good ideas.

Web 2.0 took no chances whatsoever. After Google plagiarized Adsense, the way was open for companies that produced no content whatsoever but simply channeled Wall Street values. It may be hard to convey to younger readers that it was originally OUR internet; one went there to escape Wall Street values. While the jury is out on Google, there is no doubt that Facebook was initially funded by the CIA. The deal; put all your personal data up on social media and you get spying 24/7 thrown in for free.

Of course, Facebook and Google would not succeed without copyright violation on a cosmic scale. Producers of “content” ie artists, investigative journalists, and others who add greatly to society, are used as a means to the end of enriching upstart multi-billionaires. What can be done?

First, countries like Ireland need to stop whoring themselves out to these companies. Secondly, nation-states need to follow the EC in bringing these scams to book for their copyright violation on Youtube, Facebook, and elsewhere. Thirdly, nation-states should begin to stop Google crawling government sites and demand that all these companies delete all information held on their citizens without a meeting of minds taking place to hand it over. Fourthly, the EU and big countries like Brazil, India and China can create their  own packet-switching network that will allow secure e-mail and other services like blogs. Fifthly, the efforts of the unlucky Richie are paralleled in real life by thousands of gifted coders who might have competed with Silicon Valley but cannot compete with Silicon Valley + the CIA, NSA and the other 3-letter agencies we saw to be involved when a journalist got hold of a new Apple phone left in a bar and these coders must be encouraged. Finally, the nascent violation of safety regulations by Air BnB plus others needs to be stopped now.

The fact that Facebook,  Google and others were founded by college drop-outs will do the rest. In particular, not only are they making classic AI mistakes; Google is also spending billions on biology problems neither it not its hires understand. Let them fail, without further CIA help, please!

PS June 25 2017

I travel reluctantly, and thiswill probably get worse. This year so far the following problems were web-related and maybe GAFA should work on this rather than making unemplyed the whole human race;

1. Are lingus does not really want you to change your booking over the web. So it has an option to do so that doesn't work  and you have t phone them(Lost 3 hours; Feb 2017)

2. Irish Ferries does not really want you to change your booking over the web. So it has an option to do so that doesn't work  and you have t phone them(Lost 3 hours; June 2017)

3. Allied Irish misspelled my name on my credit card. So neither Are lingus nor SNCF had a record of my booking (lost much time and meetingsMay 2017)

Non web-related
In the meantime, SNCF trains are late or pulled; connections missed are already enough stress, thanks

Taxis and public transport from where I live unreliable and you may never get started 

Fom 5 cfp Nov 3 2017 at CIIS - The new AI scare

Foundations of mind 5: The new AI scare

Room 304  CIIS • 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 Nov 3-4 2017

In terms of downloads (150k per year), annual page views (27 million +) and peer-reviewed papers ( over 100 in its first 3 years from March 2014 to March 2017), Foundations of mind (http://foundationsofmind.org/) is now the world’s leading science of mind research group. While centered on cognitive science, it has featured many papers on the quantum mechanics view of mind, the foundations of physics and biology, and indeed ecology and health as manifestations of mind.

Its most recent proceedings volume published in March 2017 received a total of 4,333 downloads in its first month, with the top papers receiving 750+, about what  ACM papers typically take 25 years to achieve. Please note we are secular, and totally independent; we have never taken corporate or state money, nor have we gamed the system as others do by asking our students to link to or download our work.

Abstracts to universityofireland@gmail.com by July 1 2017. Invitation to present at conference and submit a full paper will follow by July 8. Full papers by July 31; notification of acceptance for the proceedings volume will follow your presentation at the conference.

Nov 3: The new AI scare

AI systems will keep us as pets. Massive unemployment as computers learn to drive cars, translate accurately,  stock shelves, and much else. Silicon-based life forms reflecting on the brief carbon-based intelligence era before the singularity.

All of these themes are rampant in the second decade of the 21^st century. Yet they do not reveal the full story. The “pets” idea, repeated ad nauseam by Elon Musk, is an echo of Marvin Minsky a generation ago. It is a safe bet that no, you will not be ordering a driverless taxi to take you to a random destination you specify anytime before 2022. The much-vaunted successes of Deep Thought  are due to a venerable algorithm called stochastic gradient descent, which now converges to a solution because computers are about 100 million times faster than they were during the last AI scare of the 1980’s and almost infinitely faster than during Minsky’s abortive 1950’s scare.

This session invites papers on what computers, even now, can’t do and above all why that is the case. It encourages participants to speculate on aspects of the architecture of the cortex that allows a 20 Watt “computer” (that would be the thing  under your skull) to outperform machines with Terahertz speed and petabyte memory. It invites papers on quantum computation as a natural outcome of human cognition and noesis. It also welcomes those who in turn wish to usher in the new post-singularity era. After all, the phrase and concept originally derive from Johnny von Neumann, the founder of many aspects of computing as well as quantum mechanics.

Above all, we invite recapitulation of the themes broached in Penrose’s masterpiece about the relationship between consciousness and computability. His viewpoint fused elements from the theory of computability (partially recursive functions), non-determinism, tiling theory and phenomenology. The relationship with formal language theory was not explored, nor was an explicit engagement with the fact that all observer-dependent measurement in QM involves the  infinite. The re-assertion of human noesis may pave the way for that of human dignity.

Specifically, we invite papers on the following themes;

1. Machine Translation (MT). Computers have been getting MT almost right since the 1950’s. attendees are asked to consider two dilemmas; that checking  a translation is at least as time-consuming as producing one, and that 99.9% correct is not good enough even for an academic textbook.
2. Kill Chain; use of AI systems in the “Kill Chain” in  combat is burgeoning. Yet it is being done in the face of objections like military strategists Rivollo and van Riper, who insist on precise targeting and reading of the enemy’s psychology.
3. Neglected research: the apparent magic wrought by the likes of Sutskever at Google has meant that linguistics research into issues like speech-acts and conversational implicatures is being elided? The inappropriate use of the word “neural” as a modifier for convolutional nets has led to neuroscience reverting to its 1940’s archetype with invasive fiddling around under the hood again the method de jour?
4. Language was famously promoted as the royal road to the infinite by the symbolists. What is the relation between their “semantic transcendentalism” and the role of infinite quantities in quantum mechanics? What does this mean for AI?
5. Finally, we invite papers that explore the fact that ordering on a  smartphone has met that both AirBnB and Uber were somehow exempt from normal regulations for accommodation and transport. Could this AI scare be a way of persuading us that resistance is futile in our Taskrabbit dystopia? Papers also  are welcome that explain that it is in fact a Utopia. Or is it arguable that the successes of Google, Facbook et al are largely based on truly cosmic levels of copyright violation, and that states should administer many of their functions under the rubric of public libraries (and indeed e-mail systems)

Papers also are invited on the classic foundations of mind themes; the formal  inadequacy of received accounts of mind and brain (leading to $6 billion being spent by the NIH in 25 years on brain imaging without a single therapy emerging); the foundations of biology; the observer in physics; quantum mind..