Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "Double Down News" channel.

  1. Amen.
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  2. They will NOT be able to say "Wir haben es nicht gewußt".
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  3. Everything America has done in the world failed. Yes, if you assume it was ever about results on the ground. I have come to believe it is more about the process to them. The interest of the people running American politics is to keep the weapons flowing.
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  4. Has it been that bad content-wise? I don't experience this as a new type of content. I do experience (shadow) banning of comments by what appears to be AI software that supresses anything that is likely to cause people to respond and discuss (they should watch ads, not talk to each other). This annoys me but I appreciate the content they serve which educates people about what is going on. I would not have known how bad it is if it weren't for YouTube. I am afraid though it is primarily people who are interested and who already know, that are being served this content. And I have seen clips disappear.
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  5. We are all in a simulation. 😂
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  6. אָמֵן
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  7. I wonder if it would make much difference. If people were given a menu allowing them to select their stories of choice, I would expect them to pick the same stories. They like getting worked up and feeling righteous about it. Facebook will figure out what you want to see alright. But that is merely a convenience, to make it as easy as possible for you. People would find other ways to get to their fixes.
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  8. To a Dutchman who gets only the "highlights" of British politics while not actively looking for backgrounds, this is clarifying and I believe it. What I do not understand though is why the BBC would be a willing member of the establishment that is described here. If this lot gets their way they will sell off every existing public service. I would imagine the BBC to be one of the first things to go. Is it being corrupted from within as well and if so, through whom?
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  9. Overpopulation being a problem is just indisputable. Who is talking about race? The biggest footprints are still in the western world, of course it is about us first. The planet is at stake and this man starts a social justice debate. Because this is his thing, not because it is relevant. 🤦
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  10. We? I assume you are talking about humans. That is actually the scary part to me. Not that AI will go rogue, but that it will get better and continue to do exactly what humans demand from it.
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  11. I don't know the source anymore but I heard that canabis was indeed banned because blacks were using it, so they could be criminilized and put in prison). And it didn't stop there, the same trick was pulled on Asians that got too successful in business (they banned opium based products so they could put them in prison). And on latino's (the banned cocaine, which was their favorite drug).
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  12. No one is claiming AI will become life, you just made that up. It's called a strawman arument. Nor does anyone claim AI is thinking or sentient. We do have software that can learn. The idea is there will be machines that are given some goal and that they will come up with creative and unanticipated ways to achieve that goal. And that those ways may not align with our interests. This is not unthinkable and it does not require life-like intelligence.
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  13. This is what your face does when you realize "Humanity is fucked, there is nothing I can do about it, I am over 60 and I have no children."
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  14. If it is not too long it might just pass. It is more that YouTube suppresses discussion than it is being biased towards anything. Anything likely to trigger a response is suppressed.
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  15. ​ @Cruelty-Torture Because you're not human and thus you don't care.
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  16. You mean Isteal.
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  17. I am not too thrilled about the concept of a referendum. It would make impossible to govern. Say, a party says "we want to end up there" and they get voted in. They start working, they make plan: we will do this, we will do that, and then we will be there. By the time they want to do that, the people say "We don't mind you going there, but we don't want you to do that!" and tgat would be it. Anything unpopular would be blocked, the country woukd be paralized.
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