Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "TED"
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14:16 allow me to clarify before I even finish listening - I'm a guy who loves cuisine, loves exercise to cope with ADHD and insomnia. I was born diabetic and suffered several hospitalizations and crippling side effects of undiagnosed diabetes until finally at 27 I started getting insulin. My savings, my businesses, the career changes, my social life, everything suffered from the crippling conditions of diabetes and autoimmune disorders my free healthcare failed to diagnose and treat my whole life.
Scott's comments are not offensive even to diabetics who have endured tremendous suffering. Don't be wanker. Just because a photon lands here and not there doesn't mean God's trying to snipe you from another dimension. It's just part of a world that exists because of the forces of entropy as a function of time.
When a policy is enacted to exploit a population, that's victimhood, like capital gains income annual social security contributions (cpp/ei/qpip here in Canada), that creates victims. Being diabetic or not diabetic is not offensive just like short tall black white young or female or gay are not offensive.
In life if you can't find a laugh then you're definitely missing something, no matter how much or little you're suffering there's no justification to be offended by stating a fact like "type II diabetes is genetic and preventable", "type I diabetes is genetic", or "borderline type I can be delayed but can also cause colitis, psoriasis, optic neuritis, fibromyalgia, arthritis and mental illness if unchecked, so keep an eye on things"
If you can't afford a vacation and marginal cost of larger orders is greater in higher quantities then I'm gonna eat more for more enjoyment. All humans think like that, it's not just fat people even skinny men like me love food for the same reason. We are evolved to seek sugar and variety, of course à surge in wealth worldwide and synergy of population growth this century would induce pathological nutrition issues in a portion of the species.
That's not shaming its compassion!
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Computers are more ubiquitous and dynamic than paper and folders, but they're still just tools. Even with ai running the power grid, you don't blindly drive nails your hammer tells you to. The welder of the tool still controls the tool. You never give up control. You have it do tasks that you want done, that's it.
This is why it's important for people to understand instructions and programming before speculating on how software might get away from us. You have it do part of the research, but it doesn't tell human researchers what they have to do, only what it recommends. Competent humans are the researchers, and capable AI is the tool.
AI are just tools, no matter how ubiquitous. They will just as gladly sit and do nothing if never applied to a task, and they'll quit tasks without worrying about finishing because they don't care, humans care. You can program in a sense of care, and you can just as easily interrupt hat care system without any pushback from the AI. It's not real, it's statistical inference. It's math not feeling or wanting or liking or preferring. It's just a tool.
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How is that different from a bar, church, legion, bingo, library, pool hall, dîner, kitchen, team, gaming circles, book clubs, bong sesh, etc etc etc. Sorry, but this is all just what humans all do inclining us toward civilization and urbanization.
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