Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "TED" channel.

  1. I'm not judging, but this sounds a little gimmicky He is making a lot of assumptions about the waves being picked up that might not have any meaning or validity.  Of course the waves will be affected, and they would probably be affected by anything else that did not wake people up that was at a similar frequency, and waves reinforce or detract from each other too ... that does not necessarily mean your sleep is better?
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  2. For example, just as a hypothetical, I think the idea of Earthships being taken OpenSource might compete positively with this because it addresses the house as a system idea ... although this system is far more flexible than a monolithic massive Earthship that is almost impossible to renovate.
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  3.  @horatio59  shove your stupid ideas where the sun don't shine pal, quit wasting my time and get lost.
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  4.  @samsonthebarbarian5593  Don't give your your warmed over condescending lecture pal. Socialism has very little meaning outside of denoting alternate systems that put people before money. Socialism = Capitalism + Democracy Fascism = Capitalism - Democracy
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  5. This is the ultimate elitist argument ... these people that follow this are neo-fascists, and no one even seems to realize they are out and about buying up the world and people's minds with their capital, pretending to be democratic capitalists ... just Nazis.
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  6. 6:30 - Russia is a rich country but the people are poor ... because the US has strangled Russia's global access to the world economy - as it has to Cuba and Venezuela ... so because this strangling strategy of the USA's has worked pretty much YNH seems to think that is a reason to attack Russia's system ... so if that is true ... why is China who we have done the opposite of strangling doing so well, even though it has a similar plutocratic authoritarians system. China is harder to conquer than Russia. Russia is hugely rich - the biggest country on Earth, and one of the least populated. it is a target for American imperialism because of that, whereas China is a nation we do business with.
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  7. You are just talking about bugs in software, but intelligence, or general intelligence, involved goal setting, and learning, and re-defining goals, etc ... that is, we do not even know what it is, let alone how to define it or understand it let alone program it - and even less debug it. The complexities are so vast it is hard to imagine that we will ever be able to create anything but a clever encyclopedia. We can program it to make war for example, and maybe accidentally turn it against us, but it has no reason to live, it has no friends, it cannot conceive of any of this stuff, which we inherited from all the living life forms that evolved ahead of us, things built into our DNA from maybe as far back as millions of years that are so subtle that we cannot even see evidence of. The idea of AI being a threat is so silly compared to the idea that we are the threat and we have to figure out our own intelligence, or how to grow into it, because we are behaving like mindless robots ourselves.
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  8. -- What kind of an argument is that? What kind of a question is that. You stated that a computer could "read" a book ... so I think it is up to you to define what you mean by read? In what way can a computer understand or enjoy a book. Part of reading for humans, the only intelligent species we know is to understand and enjoy a book. The human brain is also not programmable in the sense of a computer. In a computer programming means the computer reacts the same way to certain inputs ... the human brain does not work like that. Define Intelligence?
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  9. Dude, write a book! ;-)
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  10. In the Civil War rich people could buy someone else to go fight in their stead.  So, this is not totally without precedent.  I think the cuts in line in an amusement park are disgusting, and I would never knowingly go or support an amusement park that did that.
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  11. LaxM But some markets preempt a rational approach from consumers toward self-regulation, such as drugs, or health care.  If you are going to die, you will give up everything you own for just a chance at a cure, and even possibly endanger your family by not caring for them.  We do not regulate everything in the world, i.e. the legalistic approach because that does not work historically, however, if we can record every transaction then we can arbitrate the fairness to "community standards" of any transactions.  There should be somewhere in the middle, but the people who are on top with greed inflamed are dead set against that.
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  12. Uh yeah ... I live next to a creek that goes up into the mountains and mountain lions occasionally come down from the hills along the creek, and then the cops have to shoot them. I'm not joking, living next to a little nature is wonderful, but there is such a thing as too much nature. Pets and kids are vulnerable to predators.
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  13. justgivemethetruth I do agree what the US and West are arrogant, and aggressive, but that also could be understood somewhat by the urgency of world rule or law standards and human rights. It is just that, and the Chinese are right, the the US talks about human rights when it wants to push its economic agenda - so, there is plenty of room or misunderstanding and mistrust.
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  14. Yes we have, and now we are coming to the idea that maybe Russia who has a lot more operatives in the US than the US has operatives in Russia has been working the US for a while now too. This is getting dangerous.
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  15. +Mr. Richardson Part of the evidence for your own theories is based on vegan population that show lack of heart disease and high blood pressure. Japanese population, Chinese etc. One reason I am questionable on the whole vegan thing is the level of "enthusiasm" causes people to become irrational. Why would it matter than veganism has not been around, there are always people who eat less or more of something. If it was so obvious and simple we would have more evidence and see more very long lived vegans in the general population,even if there are more meat-eaters. You talk to me about dogs, but you do not think about the ever-chainging groups of people who are the oldest on the planet or in the country, and almost invariably they are not vegan, they eat meat, some of them even have some back habits, or what we would think of as bad habits. I am not saying bad habits can be good for you, just that some of these variables might not be significant when it comes to some diseases or lifespan. Is that so hard to understand?
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  16. MultiGoban Actually, the big bang is nothing really physical ... it is not a ... proper noun ... it is an virtual noun, an idea. So, it's not really the hardware. The hardware would be all the tools and things that amplify our senses and allow us to model reality past the temporal 2D vision inside our eyeballs. The pixels would be the telescopes and measurements that tell us that the model or something like the Big Bang might explain some things we have noticed about other things we have noticed about other things that we have noticed .... ;-)
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  17. I figure, if you have something to say, please say it without fluffing it up by talking about a genie, particularly for the unnecessary Arab/Islamic references.  God, what a waste of time the way he building this up is gratingly slow.  Red tomatoes ... yawn.  Now, way back in history to the flat Earth.  Can't you make a point without wasting everyone in the audience's time by rehashing everything everyone already knows. 3:32 - Neuroscientist tell us that about 1/3 of the cortex is engaged with vision. Even the camera reference to anyone younger than about 70 is out-dated and does not need to be rehashed.  We all know what the eye looks like. 4:05 - 130 million photo receptors. Then we go and talk about optical illiusions which is also something everyone pretty much that cares understands what they mean. 6:35 - in the normal case our perceptions are accurate Yawn ... vision is only vision, but reconstructing the world as he calls it is perception with a lot more depth and uncertainty than just vision. 8 minutes for a cheap beer joke. 9 minutes for an animal intercourse joke. How closely we see the world is dependent on looking back and seeing what turned out to be important and useful.  Every organisms with "accurate" perceptions of reality has imperfect perception.  6:58 - Just start here for the question posed and the no answer, another slow way to go to the point. And the theory of evolution is not the straw man he seems to want to make it out to be. And evolution is not about children, it's about not want to die, ever, not wanting the light of consciousness to go out, and since you/I are the closest conscious objects and we find ways to value each other more or less and use each other more or less, but it is all about individuals too ... or otherwise what is sexual selection?
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  18. The problem with democracy corrupted by the market system is that so far all we can still do about solutions to this is to talk and watch videos but nothing can be done because those people who cut in line have cut us all out of line.
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  19. 1:09 - "there are many factors besides distance from its star that control whether a planet can support life." Interesting that she talks about that like she knows that since "we" only have one example of a planet that can support life so far. What she said is self-evident, and yet where can you go with it without many examples of planets with life that you can compare and contrast. Doesn't it put the cart before the horse to say her job can even exist at this point? I guess I have been hearing the same information since I was kid in popular scientific lectures or programming ... can't we progress a little, haven't we progressed? The same stuff is said in a little bit different ways by people who look a little different, but essentially the popular public level of scientific talk seems frozen at about a 2nd grade level. Now how are we as a species ever going to progress unless the knowledge we take for granted that all of us have doesn't increase? 30 years ago Carl Sagan was saying the same thing ... why do we need all these new lecture on the Internet saying the same thing?
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  20. roidroid You can "say" anything you want, doesn't mean it makes sense or is true. The Turing test is nonsense and doesn't measure anything in any scientific way. A human being can apply what he or she learns in an abstract sense to other problems. Your example of the pendulum data ignores the setup programmers have to do to configure the machine to understand the data.  Whenever you really look at these programs or results they are illusion, they are programmers setting things up to do do things that appear to be indirect, but they could all be predicted before the program is run. You are listening to marketing content from people who make money working on this stuff, the words sound impressive, but it's like then your printer stops working because it is no paper in it and you say "it thinks it's out of paper" you are anthropomorphizing behavior that you have no business describing that way.
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  21. Lord Vivec Thanks for that clarification. Of the children that did not get vaccinated, I wonder if anyone did any studies as to whether they had lesser frequencies of autism? That would be another way to get some objective data on the subject.
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  22. Michael Parthun >> Don't criticize people for wanting to be happy. That's not what I am criticizing ... don't work so hard at twisting the truth just to attack someone whom you disagree with.  It's just a stupid Internet post.
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  23. Brilliant ... this is the most informational and idea dense TED talk I think I've ever seen.
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  24. No, but a programmer can program a computer to simulate words so that it looks like poetry to humans. That is a dig on most poetry by the way ... most poetry is like a wordly inkblot test.
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  25. +Sichan Yuh Maybe you ought to really read Wealth Of Nations instead of posting what you think it might have said.
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  26. ***** So she's just like me, trying to pick up girls?
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  27. Great way Hamas has of offering safety and security to their local population ... uh, let us set up this rocket launcher next to your kid's school!
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  28. ***** I could do Australia ... no way I would live in Saudi Arabia.
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  29. ***** You would be #1 on the list, you ignorant misguided misanthrope ... see, that's how it's spelled ditship.  Now, can you figure out how ditship is really spelled?
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  30. nahiag We are killing people in many ways.  Killing people was not the point of my post, and I am not advocating that.  To maintain growth we have to ration healthcare and so we sentence a bunch of people to death to maintain the economic and political status quo.  We make up reasons to war.  We adulterate our food to the point where a significant amount is killing people.  Lots of you people replying her I would consider ignorant in a big way and many totally crazy.
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  31. k0smon This might be fine for one man to realize for himself, but I think there are cases where the human mind will die from believing bad news.  I am sure he is right in some cases and perhaps comforting to allow someone not to fight or try to change reality and accept what happened.  It would be a horrible job  to have in my opinion and I am not sure what I would do, or being in a situation of dying I'm not sure what I would want to hear either.  I suspect in many of the cases where he says no you are not going to live, that the patient/victim senses that already.  I think it would be more sensible to say relax, be calm, we are doing everything we can and not render opinions.  It also might be that the mind in not wanting to accept death would question what he has said and so spend the last minutes of their life in conflict about what this guy has told them and if he is right or wrong.
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  32. some men take all the women, that's why so many men are raging, mad and hateful. another byproduct of capitalism
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  33. +Themen Jamal  I am not sure I understand your question, or rather its point. What part are you talking about ... loneliness? I am not sure, but if that is what the numbers say, then our society seems to be set up that way. But is that really an answer? Do they have a solution for it? If a given person is lonely, what difference does it make that he knows that. What difference does it make to all of us if we see someone who is lonely, or the government ... does anyone care. Maybe loneliness is a result or something else, for instance some kind of bullying or oppression, see above. Who can avoid loneliness? What can you do about it? There is a subtext here that is useless and blaming of individuals. How does this loneliness come about? Or when people are told that society is one way, ie fame and wealth and high achievement ... how conscious are they, and when they develop habits of individuality ... how do they change or find out it isn't working. In other words, what is this guy telling us? I don't see any value to it, as he says we all know this, but what can you do about it? They say money and achievement don't get to happiness, but they can certainly facilitate making friendships, having families, avoiding conflict. I think this guy is shirking away from the what are real political ramifications of this study because the reality would be that our society kills some people so that others can live better. Do we really think that these people that are lonely choose that? How do they get there, how can they change? Agree or disagree with the study ... I don't know. what is there to agree or disagree with? Just sayin' ;-)
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  34. Not a bit, purely based on the state of the world and the make up of those who have run it for most of history.
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  35. +josh mcgee Yeah, me too. To me, this looks like the art he shows at the end, it is someone's creative reaction to looking at the data or ways data is analyzed and then put in a form to be entertaining ... his talk is the artwork, which is a kind of advertisement for art ... there is no real information or knowledge her, certainly not "A Visual History Of Human Knowledge" except in an artistic license kind of way. Most TED talks are like this, big title, little point. ;-)
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  36. I'd rather have Russia "trying" to interfere with our election than having billionaires taking our system over from the inside by money and corruption - and the GOP extreme billionaire elites have been doing a great job of killing all the aspects of democracy through the right-wing think tanks posing as charities for tax exempt status, lobbying, citizen's united ... and lots of others. It is fairly absurd to call what we have democracy any longer because it doesn't represent the people. The vast majoroty of Americans want unviersal health care, free or at least affordable education, fair wages, and what they get is a little more enslaved and a lot more ripped off every year. The Russians are the least of our worries, at least for now. The Americans that think like the Russians are a lot closer and more powerful.
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  37. Occam's Razor says that we can study crime, violence and evil better if we stick to the data and facts and leave out things like God that only complicate things.
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  38. Look at the asshat guy in the first row who is not clapping ... he's probably responsible for all the nasty comments here. Maybe his mommy didn't love him.
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  39. videoguy640 Not really ... and I would not use the term " dismiss" either. Any average person who lived in the time and environment, with the exposures to computers ahead of other people and the opportunity and knowledge to start a business could have filled the vacuum of a Bill Gates or a Steve Jobs. History is full of ideas that came around just at a certain time with multiple independent discoverers. There is really not much dispute about that. So ... maybe in the next hundred years we will realize how arbitrary our patent system is to give all rewards and monopoly to one person who can then drain everyone else for the most possible money. That is a fascist institution on its own that supports and sustains the very problems we have. If we wanted to be sure to move as fast as possible forward in technology at the lowest cost we would drasticly reduce or eliminate patents. When you look at things with limits, as in calculus, discoveries and progress is going too fast now for a 20, 60, 0 year monopoly ... it is totalitarian.
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  40. Phlaked Corn Actually the permaculture experts do not need massive amounts of water and energy to create an environment.  What that says is that human beings really had to work hard to destroy most of the environments we have destroyed, like the Sahara/Africa.  Check out some of the permaculture videos and a TED Talk by Allan Savory to find out about this.
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  41. Most of our economy from the consumer side is built to feed the monkey. Everywhere you look or listen you hear distracting stuff, see distracting images, and perceive other people seeming to be OK who give in to bad behavior. We are led down the primrose path by all kinds of messages that this is OK and will work out fine.
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  42. These good old day speeches and arguments never seem quite to sell me on this ... America has been a problem country since its birth ... and we love to do nothing, preferring instead to fantasize about a nostalgic past that never existed. Basicly what Liu, a good guy actually, is saying is that in the past Americans at least knew what was going on and had some fight in them, but now, the corporatocracy has won and turned Americans into lazy stupid farm animals.
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  43. Great idea ... and what if you can hook up someone to a computer and suck their brains out? Seriously, this could go in some very ugly directions.
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  44. SangoProductions21 Billions of people are mentally restrained in one way or another ... maybe you are one of them since you don't seem to get that.
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  45. Mikolaj1406 talking about them is helping them since most of the positive thinkers seem to be only able to be positive if they just forget everyone else ... the speakers world is a world of delusion.
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  46. Fascinating ... I love bees !
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  47. Intelligence as we view it ... reverse the "God created man in his own image" ... man created God as a virtual image of what we wanted to be, but can never be ... and that is intelligent. A consciousness must always guess, and depending on its initial conditions and what information it has readily available - that means primed to use, it will make non-optimal plans and suggestions. AI is impossible because humans are not what we think we are; human are not intelligent. Look at this planet and what we have done to it, and what we do to each other. Though we understand that problems of over-population we refuse to discuss it or do anything about it. We will most likely destroy ourselves before we attain an intelligent social code of equality and consciousness - until then we will just be about figuring out how to cheat each other and the planet out of resources, energy and domination to please our baser instincts.
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  48.  @biterness2323  Shut up, the present state of this planet and its human population, not to mention the environment, definitely proves that humans as a group are not intelligent. Your aggressive positivism is just the latest fad nonsense.
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  49. How do they/can you tell the difference between an old viewer and a young viewer?
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  50. > If it was in a tornado you could easily leave the house and rebuild Thanks Conor, I guess you could, but the point of a house for most people, please excuse my preconceived notion is that the house should be able to weather such events. There is something valuable here, I am just not sure the house I saw here is it - but it's a start. I like the Wiki/OpenSource methodology because it's the "process" and the "system" that are important and need to be captured, improved and distributed.
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