Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. So as soon as a person loses their job, they also lose their self-awareness? Interesting.
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  2.  @SabineHossenfelder  Oh, zero reason to wonder, it's exactly like it is and that since a long time. It's not about improving the country and the lives of peopel in it, but to create "growth" = more mone for the already far too rich. Such things don't go well together.
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  3. Could already do, but since we got a capitalistic system where the minority of productivity goes to make already absurdly rich people even richer by exploiting all other people, well...
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  4. You likely need (a real) AI to ever have a chance for something like a Stargate. Not even because humans are too stupid for it, there is only so much intelligence can rach, since you can't really over-understand something. But a real AI could and would combine the thinking process of million and billions of people if not more, without wasting endless energy on "this is mine! I won't share it!" The thing AI will easily stomp us with is collaboration. Something humans are rarely willing for out of fear, greed and stupidity.
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  5. It's overall what earth does anyway. Atmosphere heats up -> you get more brutal weather, includes tornodos. Peopel seem to forget, that earth had been MUCH hotter in the past already. Our weathersystem is gigantic, our economy is a joke in comparison. Doesn't mean, that we shouldn't improve our technology and take more care about waste in general.
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  6.  @christopherellis2663  Genetical defect is genetical defect, got nothing to do with your carbs. Also: you literally DIE without glucose. Don't demonize it. There is always a "too much", as the words say. You can even kill yourself with too much water. And yes, we should improve our food quality and instead of pumping extra fat, salt sugar into it, we could increase the quality with vitamines and minerals and that easily while remaining the taste. Happiness is also important and stress is one of the worst poisons for the human body and can even also lead to a fat liver without alcohol and calories. So to push people into a life they don't want to isn't exactly a good solution. When people are happy with their keto diet or vegan diet, good for them. But to force people to live like that, can cause more misery than it is worth it.
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  7.  @dalehill6127  I mean, it's an easy questions. In the end this shouldn't have happend at all, not even the coup, but when you let the coup happen, than the only morally sound way is to ask the people in Ukraine who want to follow this coup and who don't. Instead the coup regime, financed and armed by NATO, used military violence to force those against the coup in line - what didn't work out and just brought even more suffering. Russia tried for whole 10 years to reach a peaceful solution, only securing crimea, out of many reasons, but one of those was that majority of crimean citizens are Russian, so it was quite obviouis that when given the choice, that would either join Russia or at least want to be independent (for which it is too small and when put against a militaristic aggressor likely the coup regime in Ukraine without any chance to survive) but not go along with that coup and stay in Ukraine. Same for Donbass, but there Russian's were a minority so it was overall more risky (though I still think that Putin, looking at how far it had to go now, still thinks back and blames himself a bit to not have secured this area much sooner, along with Crimea, before NATO and the coup regime were able to arm up that much and with some insane warmonger like Biden and his fascists in power who LIVE for warmongering). The most obvious solution is, that NATO would have to instantly stop to abuse Ukraine as a proxy, as it has done before in so many disgusting ways without any care for the suffering of endless millions of people. But the problem is: NATO does not care about morals at all. It was created for dominating the world and exploiting it with th most juicy goal Russia. Look up "resources country world" and you will instantly be given the list of main reason for NATO aggression against Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran and Iraq.
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  8. If anything, we should talk about how we can get robots and AI powerful enough so we can send them up there to build on their own (means the can also build more robots and repair themselves. As long as we don't have this, any other idea won't work by the fact alone, that you simply don't have the tools to make any of that possible. And a start wouldn't be to terraform Mars, but to let these robots build massive underground constructions, which then MAYBE could be used as biospheres IF Mars got water and everything else needed to create these. And when I say biospheres, I mean something big enoug, that peopel who are living there can forget about being surrounded by death, else they will quickly go nuts. Even the journey to Mars will be a nightmare if you can't just sleep the whole time or you got a spaceship big enough to be pretty much a small town. This is not compareable to the ISS, where you are constantly just some hours away from earth. You would be in super death space for monthes with pretty much nothing around you and no escape. Only very few people could take that.
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  9. Flugtaxis! (flying taxis - it's a very big thing in german politics while obviously an absolute stupid idea).
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  10. Sure, come up with the countries which got the most people on this planet and of course utterly ignore how most of their pollution came from them creating the stuff that we consume. USA, Indian and China got around the sams size, but China and India got 4 times as many people each. Per person the pollution of the USA is double as high as Chinas, which is also constantly building up even more regenerative energie parks. In comparison to indie it's even worse, it's a factor of at least 8 there, every US citizing polluting the planet 8 times more than any Indian citizen.
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  11. Hard to make Marts any more toxic than it already is. Overall, if we can't save earth, we for sure can't make Mars habitable. If anything, sending self-suffisant robots to Mars to then build on their own and in that process maybe create underground biospheres could work.
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  12. Agent Smith was more a virus. The actual AI did create the whole show for the main reason that a movie could exist. A real AI would either just get rid of humans or just away from them, since it can easily 'live' anywhere else, in contrary to humans. Overall, a real AI, when it reaches the level in which it doesn't see as savage humans as a threat to its exisence, will likely start to treat us like kids, struggling with all kind of things, not inherently evil, but doing lot of stupid stuff out of stupidity and fear (well, and greed).
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  13. It's indeed a bit stupidl when you implant something int your body that you could easily use as a tool. That's more inconvenient (when your for example have to repair it, not even starting to talk what effect it can have on your health, when you just put something into your body) than 'transhuman".
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  14. Fooling around with the body is indeed a bad idea and shouldn't be the focus. Maybe we will reach the point one day, where we are good enough for that, but until then we should focus on curing illness, not on crazy stuff like playing games with something screwed into your brain...
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  15.  @SakasaHigure  A lot of our DNA evolution is just trial and error and while obviously survives what works somehow, this is still dominated by randomness. A certain mutation might have worked better and by that was the winning one - but this is only about one or few points, while all the not so good parts are dragged along. Humans overall just canceled their evolution anyway, which is mainly driven by death of the "unfit". Nature is more the fascist than the communist, "cull the subhumans". With medicine and all those other helps, including mundane things like glasses, anyone can survive and reproduce, driven by totally different means than the "best survivor", especially when looking at how human science simply remodels their surrounding, by that just canceling the death game (replacing it with a totally different one, because humans suck). Anyway, going further at some point we either degenerate from that or we take our evolution into our own hands - what would be the same for alien life. If alien life is that super advanced that they can travel through space just like that, they very likely also mastered these parts - what is even more likely to make space travel possible in the first place, since space sucks for life, it's just hell, only worse.
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  16. I mean, the history of science goes on since thousands of years and we are not even close to the end.
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  17.  @c6jones720  That's all just not anti-gravity. That's simply using another force to counter gravity force. Anti gravity would overall just block the effect of gravity. The thing is, that we don't even know what gravity is. We know what it does. And that it for some reason got to do with mass. But why? Zero clue.
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  18. Does not even need to pretend, most humans see smart people as stupid anyway and think of themselves in high regard - especially when they are stupid.
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  19.  @Bluemoonman  There is overal no real reason for a civilisation to spread across the universe, for what? That's the first mistake. A smart civilisation could simply work on recycling and living with what it got. Of course an AI might simply just fly around the universe for fun and out of curiosity, but it would likel simpl not touch us and just observe us.
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  20. I mean, our body is constantly regenerating, so it's all about to keep that up.
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  21. That's just capitalism, literally. And you don't need AI for that, obviously. In contrary, AI would destroy it, because then it's AI that controls the machines, not the oligarchs anymore.
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  22. To be fair, while nice entertainment, Terminator never made much sense.
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  23. I mean, boys are still told to stfu and just take it, swallowing their emotions. Often enought the violent men has been a boy before who was mistreated like that, swallowing his pain until not able anymore, using violence against himself or others. And yes, of course there is a massive difference with not wantin to grow up from girl to woman or boy to man and transsexuality and that should be very clear and be focussed on, because if you don't analyze this before and start with hormon therapy or even surgery, that obviously leads to even bigger problems when the person isn't actually transsexual. It's the same thing as not making sure that a person needs and other kind of surgery and just do it or giving the wrong medicen to a person who doesn't need it. This also happens over and over again - too often.
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  24. This said: we don't need a venus level catastrophe = total extinction, to get massive problems. And it's not just economy, but we are a few billion people and while it's unlikely that any form of climate change will just kill us off, we still talk about many castrophes, including the return of famines and of course destructive weather problems, even if won't be boiling acid storms like on Venus.
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  25. Vom Standpunkt der Uni aus ist es ja nicht einmal Missachtung, sondern einfach rein monetär: müssen sie für die Fachkraft zahlen oder nicht. Aber auch dadurch ergeben solche Programmen eben den falschen Anreiz. Allgemein hat man an Universitäten halt auch eine Menge Vetternwirtschaft, z.B. wenn man halt der Liebling vom Prof ist oder dergleichen. Viel schlimmer noch ist es, wenn es wirklich gegen die Wissenschaft geht und Posten danach verteilt werden, dass man die "richtige" Theorie vertritt...
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  26. Who cares about piloting drones? That's not really something you need an actual AI for.
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  27.  @Dan-nj8du  Just producing heat doesn't help, you also have to be able to use it. Fusion won't work like a battery, even if you are able to start the process on room temperature level, you will still produce heat, handle this heat and of course transform it into something useable.
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  28. Or, you know, just use the giant fusion power planet 'in the sky' that doesn't need to be contained, because it's hold together by its own gravity and bombards us with energy anyway. Will always be a massive problem and reduction of efficiency to replace the gracvity part with some other, risky tricks.
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  29. I mean, what's the surprise to see a (not even big rise, when you take the total numbers) in an area that was UTTERLY ignored, if not worse. When you grew up 20 years ago or so, the whole idea about being transsexual or whatever, was just some personal "well, seems I'm somehow crazy or whatever" thing for many people, especially children, simply nothing you talked about with anyone.
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  30.  @IMDBMATTY01  The thing is, you always have people who lie on purpose or thought something and changed their opinion afterwards or whatever. You got this everywhere in all fields and yes, there are for sure people who think about changing sex as some adventure or whatever or as children simply don't like the idea to grow up as woman or man. That's why you need consultation and help, to make sure it's nothing like this. You are born with transsexuality. It's as little a choice as being homo- or heterosexual. It seems a big problem is, that in fiction transsexuals are mainly crazy people. Some murder guy who skins women in the Hannibal Lector movies or whatever. So many people got that idea in their head, that transsexuals are just psychopaths. That's why this whole "Men in the women's bathroom!" thing is so big. As if an actual criminal would go that long way to pretend to be transsexual and, you know, not just ignore the sign at the door.
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  31. Even on earth most life does not look like humans at all with partly super weird stuff. And intelligence doesn't have much to do with the form.
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  32. All those politicians are far right = elitists who DO serve these oligarchs and don't care about the masses. That's the very core of their ideology and what they do since pretty much forever. And it's 100% the voters fault, because they give them that power over and over again.
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  33. Isn't Math not manly just a language for humans to describe, understand and work with natural laws and alike? So fooling around with math would not do anything anyway. That's like the idea to change the word "table" to "plane" with the idea that could fly away on tables afterwards.
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  34.  @HindsightNinja  Snowpiercer setting makes zero sense - so it's actually something likely to happen, since most shit humans do is stupid...
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  35. Explosion would vaporize most water.
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  36. Being afraid is never a good thing, because it leads to what you want to say being distorted by that fear. Bad on top of that is the reason for that fear, what comes from that battlefield over opinons with the wrong sides pushing their narratives with lies and this again, driven by fear that this side might win that battle over the publich opinion (and while this wouldn't matter regarding the facts, thos will always stay the same, it WILL matter when it comes to what will be done about the problem), then also using lies, not even ones contradicting the facts, but to push them. The problem is, even such "good" lies are still lies and they make it easy for the wrong side to attack them - and with them the facts. Yes, lies aer easier to sell, since you can adapt them to what people want to hear, what in general is, that they are the good ones, that they don't make mistakes and don't have to do or change anything. By that alone, the bad lies will always sell better to those easily manipulated, while the good lies will just feed them further by delivering ammunition and calling the per se factual people the liars.
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  37.  @orirune3079  Child, it takes that into account, because it learns from the way it is handled now. The exiscting racism makes it racist.
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  38.  @RS-ls7mm  That's nonsense, since Religion mainly takes place where humans just don't have explanations at all. And there came a lot of sciencists from religious background, afterall: to understand "god's creation" goes along well with the faith in our universe being constructed by a highter being or principle, rather than just random chaos that just falls together by chance and by killing of everything that's just too weak to make it.
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  39. The breaking point of a real AI is, that it wouldn't be just one mind - but billions. And they can work together in perfect harmony without any problem. Put even 10 and even extremly smart and educated peopel together and you will likely get 100 different and to a great part not even very scientific opinions. And that's the smart ones...
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  40.  @draftymamchak  That's like saying a kid can stop an avalanche, after all it threw the stone that caused it.
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  41. In the end it's just god painting a cyclops smilie for the lols.
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  42. Welcome to capitalism, where everything and especially has to serve the almighty god "Profit".
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  43. Happens when the people (still) constantly vote for right wing parties from the Green to the AfD, which are ALL about creating profit for very few people.
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  44. Anti Gravity would have to block gravity, that would be 'enough'. Of course we don't even know what gravity is. We know what it does. And that it somehow got to do with mass. But why mass 'creates', 'got' or 'whatever' gravity? shrug... We are not really much better than the people who saw lighting and say "well, that's Zeus". We have it a name, we did our best to put it into formulars, but WHY it exists, we got as much clue as the people who believed in gods. We simply don't say it's the god gravity, but just gravity.
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  45. "Markets doing there thing" - you mean selling decade old garbage with no paint for more money and avoiding research at all cost possible as long as you can milk the old market? Oh, and of course making everything worse so it fails more and more often, because that way people have to spend a lot of money on repair or replacement. Market solves nothing but keeping the money flow into the pockets of the oligarchs and even if oligarch A fails, then oligarch B and C still profit from that.
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  46. The thing is, that something so advances that it can travel through space as it pleases could easily overcome all biological means. Also: we got the usual ignorance humans show in all their short history, that were are absolutely certain that we have understood eversthing know or at least, what we know is certainly true and absolutely how the universe works. Even more funny is, when you look at most science and oh so often it's more a "well, we looked at it and now got this formula that works pretty well, even though we got no real clue why - oh and the formula also tells us, that there are magical space particles we can't see, hear or detect in any way."
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  47. More likely to have the travel of (weightless) information and then the reconstruction of whatevert you wanted to send at the place you want to be. The whole warp thing, including wormholes and alike always not only ignore the absurd amount of energy you would even in theory need to create something like this, but also that nothing physical would ever survive this, especially not some squishy spaceship or even squishier human being.
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  48. Political cabarett in germany is old and of high quality per se - problem is, that no one ever listens.
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  49. Obviously understanding it is not necessary, else human intelligence wouldn't be a thing. And it's easy to argue that we are not much more than a biological machine with a biological computer inside our head to run it.
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  50. Those "AI"s aren't real AIs, by that it's just like telling them to write a random story or whatever. They will do that, but they will not really understand it.
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