Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Minsky (mm=33) was a jewish professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used in the Science Church and development of internet and Artificial Intelligence as part of the transhumanist agenda. He was educated at Philips Academy and at Bronx High School of Science like Neil deGrasse Tyson (Cosmos A Space Odyssey -sequel to PBS show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage of Carl Sagan, pun on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey) and Leonard Susskind (Stanford). |
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He was also educated at Harvard and at Fieldston School like Roy Cohn, Robert Oppenheimer, Nicholas Meyer, Leon Black, Sophia Coppola, Douglas Dirst, Louise Lasser, Sean Lennon, Douglas Lowenstein, Grace Meyer, Howard Wolfson, Barbara Walters, James Toback, Robert Sherman, Gill Scott-Heron, Edward Pressman, Nicole Seligman of Sony, Jeffrey Katzenberg of Disney and AG Sulzberger of The NY Times.
His teacher Albert Tucker also taught John Forbes Nash and Michael Belinski (Phi Beta Kappa, both RAND).
He was an advisor of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 ASO, based on a novel of Arthur C Clarke, with Also Sprach Zarathustra of Uebermensch prophet Friedrich Nietzsche. Its supercomputer HAL was a reference to IBM building chess computers.
He spoke at a TED Conference (red dot Hadit like HAL).
He supposedly was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
In 1969 he and Samuel Papert developed the concept of perceptrons.
His student Ivan Sutherland worked at the University of Utah, one of the first nodes of ARPANET.
His student at MIT Bertram Raphael worked for Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center, which collaborated with Werner Erhard (EST training). Engelbart was a member of the board of jesuit university St Clara. Bertram Raphael sold ARC to Tymshare.
In 1983 (after birth William, the Daemon, Pluto associated with nuclear power) he was a member of the Citizen's Advisory Council on National Policy with Buzz Aldrin, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, Daniel O Graham (CIA, Unification Church, World Anti-Communist League). The council helped writing Ronald Reagan's speech that announced the Strategic Defense Initiative.
At MIT he was the teacher of transhumanist Ray Kurzweil. He coined the phrase Law of Accelerating Returns, based on Moore's Law of exponential growth, which led him to announcing the coming of a Singularity, where Artificial Intelligence exceeds human intelligence. His concept of a Singularity is based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point (Second Coming of Christ who call himself the Alpha and Omega in the Book of Revelation) and the concept of a black hole. The character Will in Transcendence (2014), played by Johnny Depp is based on Kurzweil, as prophet of transhumanism, resurrected in the Cloud, as next step in human evolution.
In 2006 he wrote The Emotion Machine.
He was given the In Praise of Reason Award by Ann Druyan's Committee for Skeptikal Inquiry (Martin Gardner, Sidney Hook, Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Bill Nye)..