Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Bill Burr Responds to Bear Video As Only He Can!" video.

  1. I hate that whole concept even though I hear it all over the place: getting married, having kids, and 'slowing down'. Negative. That's the time to hit the gas and accelerate. That's a major level-up in the game, an accomplishment achieved. NOW life becomes all about really working even harder to leave this family a true legacy. The most successful people I've known in life worked this way. Work hard, obtain wealth, achieve all your set goals, great, reaching this level unlocks all these new more ambitious possibilities so then they double down on their efforts. Establishing a family should not be a peak, it should be a FOUNDATION, a START to your success, not the destination. This concept is also why I've come to not understand the concept of 'retirement'. You mean I just spent my entire life mastering a skill or set of skills, and after 30 years or so, just when you have the most knowledge and experience ever, you stop, take all that with you, and go sit and sip tea and play golf or something? I can see not wanting to WORK anymore in your latter years, but I strongly feel if you're someone that's done something for decades you have an obligation to mentor those behind you. If anything reducing the learning curve is vital to society as a whole. Why allow others to make the same mistakes you made and got past, that's wasted effort everyone pays for. It's like they talked about in the AI discussion with Carmack a week ago: AI has the advantage that once it learns a skill, it's learned forever. The new version of the software doesn't need to be taught how to do something by a teacher or mentor it's first day on the job, it comes preloaded with that knowledge from when the first AI learned it, and so on. It doesn't need the 10,000 hours to become a master, it already has access and knowledge of the experience of every other version that's ever done it, and can leverage that to be even better than before right out of the box.
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  2. What's even worse than that video is BEING the bear in that situation. Let me explain: Several years ago I helped track down a deer on my property that was gut shot by a young inexperienced hunter. It happens. No Judgement. But thanks to the conservation laws of our great state, only certain people can be armed during such a search for a wounded animal, so I'm the unarmed sap who finds this poor creature, a full grown whitetail, I think it was like a small 8-pointer, and it was so weak and exhausted that I could hold it down on the ground from running away while I'm calling to get someone to finish it off. It took about 10 minutes for a gun to get there. Meanwhile, for that whole time, I'm sitting here holding this deer down, that's as frantic and terrified as it can manage to be near death, and the whole time it's making that same noise as the deer in that video, and looking at me. This experience taught me three lessons: 1. I'll personally never take a questionable shot at such an animal. 2. I never leave the house without a KNIFE after that. 3. Our state laws regarding hunting do not apply to a sidearm carried for personal protection, especially on your own property, so I'll always have a pistol for such events.
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