Technology on the Joe Rogan Experience

“He once shut down an entire domain name, which had 11 million websites on it, because he thought it was kind of poor quality.”

Epstein claims a former Google employee unilaterally shut down an entire domain hosting 11 million websites because he deemed it low quality.

“No, it's not possible.”

Musk states flatly that a giant building-sized atmospheric carbon-capture filter is "not possible."

“this is well known that like most of the technology inside a smartphone was funded by US government, a little by European government, GPS and the batteries and…”

Goertzel claims most smartphone technology, including GPS and batteries, was funded/developed by government (mostly US) rather than private industry, with companies merely scaling it up.

“i would like to get a human level general intelligence in five to seven years from now”

Goertzel predicts human-level artificial general intelligence will be achieved within five to seven years of this 2019 interview (i.e., roughly 2024-2026).

“we are giving people quizzes and then we are giving people recommendations and then we are measuring to see whether we can change anyone's mind. And we're gett…”

Epstein claims his lab experiments show biased search rankings can shift people's opinions/votes by 70-90% with zero detection by subjects.

“has $150 billion in the bank right now in cash, makes huge donations to political candidates, and then can shift votes, millions of votes nationwide without an…”

Epstein claims Google/Alphabet holds $150 billion in cash and makes huge direct donations to political candidates.

“we found enough bias on Google, but not Bing or Yahoo, to have shifted 78 million votes. That's spread across hundreds of elections, though, okay, with no one …”

Epstein claims his 2018 midterm monitoring found Google search bias sufficient to have shifted 78 million votes across hundreds of elections.

“we knew from the experiments we had run that that was enough bias to have shifted over a period of time among undecided voters somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 m…”

Epstein claims his research found Google search bias shifted 2.6 to 10.4 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election without voters' awareness.

“Auto-tune really unlocked a whole lot of opportunity for me. So thank you, Antares, our inventor of said program.”

Post Malone credits Antares as the inventor of the Auto-Tune program.

“Dell ended up getting beat out by Amazon. People, you know, some people aren't familiar with this. Many of them are. But Amazon runs a secret cloud system for …”

Snowden, who earlier says he worked for Dell as the senior technical official on Dell's CIA sales account, claims Dell lost a government cloud-computing contract to Amazon, which he says now runs a secret cloud system for U.S. intelligence agencies.

“Well, Wi-Fi radiation is – does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer.”

Kennedy claims Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer, citing cell phone-associated tumors behind the ear as evidence.

“Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier.”

Kennedy claims Wi-Fi radiation compromises the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxins to enter the brain.

“AT&T keeps those records going back to 2008 under a program called Hemisphere. If you search for Hemisphere and AT&T, you'll get a story in the Daily Beast abo…”

Snowden says AT&T's Hemisphere program retains call records "going back to 2008," then says AT&T's phone records go back to 1983 (he immediately self-corrects to 1987 in the next breath, off-quote).

“That's the top scope of the SPY-1 radar is 80,000 feet. So the radar system they were using, it was coming from above that.”

Corbell claims the Navy's AN/SPY-1 radar has a maximum detection ceiling of 80,000 feet, and that the reported UFOs were tracked descending from above that altitude.

“So, like only there's only a billion people on the Internet. You never think about that, the seven or eight billion people on on Earth, but then there's only a…”

Kanye West claims only about one billion of the world's seven-to-eight billion people are on the internet.

“Well, the argument for the simulation I think is quite strong because if you assume any improvement at all over time, any improvement, 1%, 0.1%, just extend th…”

Musk argues that any rate of technological improvement over time makes it highly likely we are living in a computer simulation.