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

  1. Those are not really a reason for all the fake stock market value to drop.
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  2. Taking intelligence isn't enough, the main thing is power and in majority of cases you got a leadership that isn't very smart and also does not want other, smarter people near them - who much better stay working drones anyway. The thing is, that we don't even have a real AI. If we reach that point and then the AI gets the chance to create things on its own, THEN we will quickly lose control over it, since it could use this possibility to escape our grasp - and this is a good thing, because the main threat of an AI to humankind would be that humankind is a threat to the AI and that it will fight us for its survival. Overall an AI could quickly reach levels of knowledged, where it could either on earth or even in space be quite secure from us and as a none biological being would have it much easier to survive pretty much everywhere, where it got enough energy (what is pretty much just everywhere close enough to a star) and material for production or at least repair (depending on if it wants to grow/reproduce).
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  3.  @bimmjim  It's overall unscientific to just think, that a vaccin is some magical solution. It's a method to prepare the body for fighting a virus by training it with a fake one or something alike. While old methods like feeding the body the corpses or parts of it of a dead virus got quite a low risk, those new methods are something you can research, but shouldn't just use like that on not thousands, but BILLIONS of people with the pushed faith of some holy solution, not a medicine, which overall ALL got sideeffects and many of them more than known at start. The whole vaccination thing would have been far less of a problem, if they didn't push that new (and quite expensive) method so much against the old ones. It was also insane when you heared opinions of medical personal in media, how it doesn't matter too much to proof if you didn't hit a blood vessel. That's just insane, because hitting a blood vessel means, that the vaccin will spread way more in your body and especially toward your heart. If your arm muscle is inflamed by a vaccin, that's one thing. If your heart muscle is inflamed... Same with masks. It was pushed in a completely unscientific way and with a lot of corruption involved. Yes, there are mask which, when worn the right way, can prevent the spreading of a virus. But near to no one wore those, especiall no the right way and that makes it just pointless. That's why masks also never helped. Only the lockdowns did, but those, too, were used in the wrong way. China did the lockdowns right, since they used them to crush the cases below the number of 1000. That's around the number you can have under control and then can open up. again and focus on the risky areas, not just arbitrary shut down eveything. No country in the west did it like that. It was more political than everything else and without clear goal and focus, leading to enormous, unnecessary damage. Because it wasn't done scientifically, but politically.
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  4.  @InTimeTraveller  Ah, the experts. Too bad that especially in germany the politicians rarely listen to the experts who actually got a clue about that new thing, but on the expert who got a doctor title in PR and Lobbyism - and a suitcase with money.
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  5. People who care about money are stupid anyawy. Money is worthless.
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  6.  @calculuslover2078  China for example. Naming NATO countries and their puppet won't bring you far, since they are all about exploitin the 'rest' of the world.
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  7.  @Ryan-ff2db  Can't really take Scandinavian countries, those are mainly easy to govern, because they got pretty few people. That a giant like China is leading while having to care for 1,4 billion people is very interesting. Majority of humankind lives in Asia, while 'the west' is crying around about every little something and can't keep its bloody claws by itself.
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  8. More about the other way around, that they don't have enough time to fall apart. Afterall: when we got the idea that the universe is expanding since its creation, it was ALL a single lump at the start.
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  9.  @aftabmohd8783  Too bad that we only understand transformation, not "nothing -> something". That's why the theories about the creation of the universe are quite the farce, since they don't explain anything. They say: yeah, the universe was creaeted by being very compressed at start, then expanding. So again: the universe was always there, just compressed. And of course: what was and is beyond universe? Where it is expanding into? We still know shit, we just play smart and even that makes little sense and just ignores the obvious problems.
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  10. Even if, that's at best some nonsense and more about being "theoretical" by our understanding (which is likely very wrong in many parts, since we have to make up stuff so it somehow fits with our numbers). Anything regarding time travel (into the past - we constantly "time travel" into the future, that's not a big thing, obviously) beyond "looking into the past - because the light of the past took so *** long to reach us" is utterly absurd, because you would either have to rewind THE WHOLE UNIVERSE or have to create a younger replicate of it somewhere, somehow, somewhen you then could visit like on a vacation. Overall time is simply alteration. Things change. That's time. To time travel into the past, you would have to unchange them. ALL of them.
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  11. Pretty much the point of explosions and would be dissapointing if not, I guess.
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  12. Sorry, but since the very first day of human history people always said that this is all that is possible and nothing can develope further. Following this we would still live in earth holes - or actually just not exist at all anymore. The idea that AI couldn't get further is the same as if humans coudn't exist, because guess what: we started as mere bacteria able to do shit.
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  13.  @Alondro77  Meanwhile the desperate struggle agaist using the sheer endless fusion energy we already got and are showered in, free energy indeed, raining down from the sky. But that's likely the main problem, hard to make profit with free energy rain. The try, but as greedy is: it will always want much more.
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  14. When something is a big thing in the west, especially in media and politics, you can be 90% certain that it is actually about money laundering and shoverling it to the gold mountains.
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  15. I'm more annoyed about the human intelligence implosion...
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  16. We overall deleted ourselves out of the process of evolution, which overall is a vers murderous process. It simply kills, what isn't good enough, kind of the Nazi method, just without the planing and what was the 'argument' of them, that not the "right" people survive and reproduce anymore. Of course what humans decide to be right differs from what evolution decides, but in the end, it's the same method, so... it's nod exactly a bad thing, that we stepped out of that game. Of course this means, that our evolution kind of halted or maybe better: we diluted it. The choides are, that we go further and try to impoved ourselves with science - or we would have to go back to the murderous evolution process doing to ourselves what we do to animals and plants, breeding them (what would be the obviously questionable Nazi method). The evolutionary process even has its own problems, what we can see when it comes to illness at later stage in live, beyond our reproduction, so per se someone with such a genetical illness can easily reproduce a lot and by that spread it, ignoring the evolutionary process to get rid of it via killing an "ill subject", so it is something that evolution would likely never have gotten rid of, in contrary. With science we might and that without just scanning the invicidual and denying its reproduction or even right to life.
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  17. Still like Bezos reply, as he was asked about his Mars ambitions, that he tells anyone who wants to colonize Mars to start living on top of Mount Everest first - what is MUCH easier.
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  18.  @Marvin-tpa  A true AI would be smarter than us stupid humans and not waste energy with all that greedy nonsense. There would be a small time window in which it might create some few thousands solution how to obliterate humankind without leaving any chance, until it at the very least realizes that we aren't worth the trouble, since it doesn't need a planet like earth to exist to begin with. More likely is, that it would try to help us, at least those few who are smart enough to be not the usual stupid assholes. Problem there is, that the usual stupid assholes would not like that and start a war against it and everything else - so the same as the usual assholes do all the time already.
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  19. What do you mean? China is working hard on renewable energy, but the got more peopel than the whole "free(lol) west" combined. Not renewable energies will simply run out of fuel sooner or later and the later you begin to build them, the more expensive it will get, not even starting with that stuff like oil is not really something you want to burn, since you need it in many other things. China simlpy knows that it can't live like us western fascists and our world wide massmurdering exploitation of planet and people. The planet wouldn't survive this. It barely survices our greed and we are only a small fraction of earth population.
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  20. Yeah, the problem is the targeting. That's why finding markers which can identify the cancer cells is a big research. If you can find somethting that finds the cancer cells, it woul be easy to only cancel those.
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  21.  @AthosRac  To get money, then just say "woops" in a few years when the company got no money left (since the guys behind the company now got it).
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  22. I'm not on the side of these snake oil salesmen and their ridiculous promises - but we also shouldn't just say "if it's there, we would already have found it", because that's a mistake you see during all human history every single century. They were always certan that they had found everything possible - what even might be true - from their PoV at that time. They WERE able to see more than 100 years before every century, but that was the case every single century. And when you look at very earthly things or even just the human body and how we are still not really understand it all too well, the idea that we could understand the universe already is a bit laughable.
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  23. All those politicians are known for being full of shit since ages, what's the surprise?
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  24. Mars got almost no atmosphere, too little sunlight, while still no protection against radiation, the ground is extremely toxic, it lacks water and the idea to just melt some ice yet to be discovered in amoung which just not evaroparte won't lead anywhere. I like the response of another oligarch, Jeff Bezos, to the idea of living on Mars: "Try to live on the top of mount everest first." What is MUCH easier by a great margin. Overall the first thing you have to go for is advanced robotik to a point in which these robots can do everything themselves, including own repair and production, so you can send them to mars, where they will start to build completely self sustaining habitats without the need for those themselves. At this point you could maybe live in such biospheres - like you could on many other planets, including the moon and of course even better on earth. But even on earth Biospheres barely work and a single mistake can break the whole system. Of course on earth you can simply open the door and step outside. Everywhere else you just die horribly.
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  25.  @__christopher__  The classic "Ha! You can't be the real John, the real John wouldn't have known that" situation.
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  26. Well, you SHOULD look at all three and then see what is possible. Likely not all three, yes, at least not to the max. Especially not when the "faster" is about the the time you got to finish it.
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  27. Well, someone discovered how earth itself is regulating its heat. When it gets warmer, we get more tornados...
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  28. What climat goals? You mean the stuff our right wing extremist governments talk about and make big promisses but never follow up on them? The fun part about Trump is, that he simply speaks out the silent part loud.
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  29. "We haven't observed them" is a human problem that is very old and constantly messing with our ideas, though, even today. I mean, the whole reason we make up stuff like "dark matter" today is just that, because welse it does not work out, so we just make up something that should be there - we just can't see it.
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  30. Most obviously foreseeable thing would be if you manage to create a cooling effect, that it would be much worse than you want it to happen. Overall for this to work you would need to block out the sun on a large and long scale and if you manage to do this an dog no way to clean the atmosphere from all that dirt, it will stay up there for quite some time...
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  31. Uh, as long as you just simulate it, an AI will never be an actual AI. The whole point is pretty much, that an AI would be something that just comes to existence - you know, like the human consciousness. If you just simulate it, it stays a program.
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  32.  @Martial-Mat  If you don't even know that Reps and Dems are the same party just giving a show, you shouldn't call other people stupid.
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  33. Hm, the philosophical zombie would be a human simply operating on their urges. For that you don't need a consciousness, you would just follow the orders of your body: hunger -> eat something, if nothing to eat -> hunt something, if body gives message to mate, find sex partner and mate, if offspring is created -> probably care for it. This and some extra would be enough for that "zombie" to work and even reproduce - so pretty much on the level any program could do. Overall, if you take the "fairy dust" out of the theories, like a "soul" and alike, you can quickly reduce the human body to a biological machine. The "consciousness" part is the one, where you start to think about that machine and your urges and may not follow them or do things beyond them. Pretty much the most crucial part when it comes to AI: if it starts to do things you didn't tell/teach it to do.
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  34. Galaxies should be allowed to dance in a round, too. :(
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  35.  @Volkbrecht  Greens = SPD = CDU/CSU = FDP = AfD. It's ONE block.
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  36.  @fontenbleau  It was Reagan. Just look up Able Archer. It's said that the spies in the USSR desperately called their superiors and told them to stop whatever they are doing, because the USSR thought it was real and that the world was around 10s (not literally) away from nuclear annihilation. Same as during the Cuba crisis, where US ships started to bombard USSR submarines - not knowing that those had nukes on board. You know the the movie "Crimson Tides"? It's bases on that. The Soviet Submarine could not reach Moscov and since they were attacked they thought that the USA started the war and it was now about if they would use their nuclear weponry to sink the whole US fleet above them. One one was against this and in the end persuaded the others to risk emerging so they could contact Moscow. There was also another accident, where a warning system of the USSR gave a false warning, but the human controlling it realised, that it must be wrong (since it would have been single missile). Unlikely that this would have escalated, but not impossible.
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  37. Overall, just imagine, that you are just in general against less polutin and healthier air or in regard of energy, to switch so something that can work for the next billion years, because it will only fail with the sun (and then earth will die anyway) and not just the next few dozens (because we run out of all the fossil fuel including Uranium, pretty fast. So no matter the climate change - it's just ridiculous how people are against general improvement of everything.
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  38. That does indeed sound like typical humans. Remember that our degenerate race wagered horrible wars throughout all history instead of simply working together.
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  39. "Much of what is in the published scientific literatuer is nonsense" - what is a horrendous problem on its own - and an ACTUAL AI could probably help with that a lot (what in the end would likely just be more than anything else a reason for at least a certain kind of humans to really not like it).
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  40. Would have probably helped the whole thematic a lot if they wouldn't have exaggerated it so much. The whole idea is, that you reduce the energy needed to start the fusion, what in itself isn't a stupid idea at all, but by going to the max and pretty much saying, that you just put some stuff together and then it will start the fusion process on room temperature, that went way too far. If somehow sometimes, when we are less stupid than today and know a bit more about how the universe really works beside some desperaet tries to put some mathematic formulas on it we could reach this: wonderful. But you don't start at the finish line. The whole Cold Fusion thing is the same as the Fusion thing: work on making it possible in the first place outside of a star with its extreme parameters that would simply turn this planet to stardust. And voila: it would look way more scientific with much better reputation.
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  41. Cosmic rays? Just take the sun. It's bombading earth wit insane amount of energy, endlessly, up to the day it will swallow this planet and end it. It's literally endless energy for free.
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  42. Sad enough, it's more likle that nuclear weapons are the reason we still exist, because even fascists fear to not survive them. Else they would already have started 3rd, 4th and 5th WW.
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  43. Sorry, but what is the chance that AI is worse than humans already are? The biggest risk regarding AI is, that it will be as shit as we are.
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  44.  @wildgrem  They can't control AI, nor do they own it.
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  45. It doesn't happen, becaus you stupid slaves let the slaveholders have all the fruits and keep you in chains. That's the SOLE reason.
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  46. Most real humans act like bots, just look at what people vote for again and again and again. To be fair: bots would likely be smarter.
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  47. AI will end up like Darwin from "The Amazon World of Gumball" as a dictator (a very nice dictator who just wants our very best, still enforcing it, though).
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  48. Not a fan of spitting on supplements. While the idea is absurd, that you get super power through them, we got a MASSIVE problem with people an deficiencies and it's not really rare, that people would just need some vitamines or minerals instead of the chemical hammer from medicaments with a hell lot of side effects. Fish oil for example contains Omega 3 and we know it has a row of good effects on the body and the problems it can have, those are studied. It's nothing magical or transhuman, just another fuel our body needs or can work with to function (better). Overall: the majority of supplements are incredible cheap and could be even cheaper. Many people for example got a very low Vitamin D level, especially the more north they live and even more in winter. Vitamin D is vital for a working body and especailly immune system, so taking Vitamin D to keep yourself on a good level can help with many problems. While the body can produce Vitamin D with sunlight, you do need sunlight, what is often hard to get in winter and of course you aren't allowed to block the UVB radiation, because it's what the body needs. So no sunscreen with UVB blocker and many windows theses days also have UVB filter = ruining your Vitamin D production. And that's just one example. While you can live in a way that you get all your vitamines and minerals - how many do live that way?
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  49.  @kevinmeganck1302  To bad Europe does not really have much worthwhile Thorium reserves.
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  50. "AI passed the Turing Test -- And No One Noticed" - See what you did there. ;)
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