Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. Modern way of achieving "equality" even goes against real equality. Look at least at the laws that require "at least ...% of employees to be female". It is not equality of opportunity, it is exactly the opposite. Modern political correctness has become an abomination
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  2. Implying that people who don't have kids have less of a stake in the world is huge red flag. Straight up JDVance-like talk
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  3. There are children who are not evil??? I dont believe
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  4. Singularitarians are like religious fanatics with blind faith in miracles. Someone tell them, that "exponential growth" that they like so much actually can slow down, stop or be reversed in certain circumstances. They think it is totally unstoppable, but with no proof. They think that literally endless growth of technology is possible. But that is absolutely ridiculous. Endless growth of anything contradicts laws of nature of this very universe.  What about Kurzweil, well, that guy is so afraid of death, that he desperately wants something to make him immortal in the next 30 years at least. Simple as fuck - death anxiety in him is enormous and unrestricted. Maybe he should have learned more about Terror management theory - that would explain much of his own motives to him. Not to say that he is awfully ignorant about neurobiology and still thinks he knows everything about brain
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  5. My gawd, stop making comments about cats... the main topic here are not cats. I may surprise you, but many people dont care about cats at all
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  6. Social monogamy is the most common way of family life in our species. But strict monogamy (without cheating) is an almost non-existent biological nonsense
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  7. I am more like Newton.. so antisocial and misanthropic. And will never have sex)) lol More important, I agree that for many people it is hard to understand how to see interest in abstract things, or how to concentrate on thinking constantly... I dont see anything interesting in simple human life, but I see much interest in understanding how this world works. And I am always thinking... it is much more productive than talking with someone... when I try to explain my views to others, they dont understand... as much as I dont understand life and views of other people.
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  8. What is wrong in living with parents if you love them? Here in Russia many people have always continued to live with parents even when they created their own family already. It is only in most rich countries people can think that boomerangers is a weird phenomenon, in much of the world it is not like every nuclear family can afford their own appartment
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  9. There were only 2 big catastrophes with nuclear power: chernobyl, cause of awful human irresponsibility, and fukushima, cause of tsunami, which happen only in certain areas of planet. Place reactors far from places where tsunamis, earth quakes and volcano eruptions can happen, and be responsible. That's it
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  10. Indeed, my mom passed away suddenly, noone expected it, from her old heart disease. She was 72. Would she be better off if she survived to 96, but slowly deteriorating, becoming bed-ridden, experiencing dementia, cancer or some other horrors? I asked myself that. Death and disease is tragic anyway. Only way to avoid them is to never be born. So we shouldn't subject new people to that
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  11. She is right. Female education is very important for improving woman rights in developing countries.
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  12. What you do with callous-unemotional kids? Euthanise them
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  13. There is no other meanings of life, than those, which we create ourselves
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  14. Humans do not deserve immortality at all, even if we stop population from rising. I hope we will never be able to make ourselves really immortal
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  15. There is a huge possibility that it never happens. And I hope it never happens. Or at least not in my lifetime. Save 21st century for normal organic life, and then you can do whatever you want, fuckers
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  16. Our country now is officially developing ideology that multiculturalism and tolerance are against Russian values :( If only I could move to other country right now....
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  17. Yes, majority cannot into serious conversation... I don't see anything interesting in gossip. I am just so antisocial that I don't see any point in getting closer with other people, I also never spend time with my friends, always prefer to be alone, so the relationships would be unbearable thing
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  18. Andrew, oh yeah and calling someone "stupid" just because you dont agree, is very smart
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  19. Falling birthrates is good cause world has too many people. Japan with their density obviously needs less population
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  20. Humans are very effective at denying facts, especially when it has to do with denying flaws of humanity itself... Bill Nye is underestimating human flaws as well, at least the fact-denying flaw. There are creationists still nowadays! Even people who think Earth is flat! There ARE many people who can deny facts forever, no matter how obvious those facts are
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  21. "Perfect" and "American English" must not be in the same phrase ever...
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  22. Now everyone wants to be leaders, and almost noone wants to do actual job
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  23. well, I am all of this, anti-social in some ways also... I don't break the law, but I despise many "unwritten laws" by which society functions, and usually break them) I don't trust people, not sure if I can let them closer to me. this seems quite dangerous. more you trust someone, more probability that they can hurt
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  24. I tried hard to see good in people, tried to learn more, but more I learned, more I disliked our species...
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  25. Yeah. We tend to forget that human level of intelligence is not that big. In fact, humans are not even able to control most of their instincts using conscious thinking, so I wouldnt call that "intelligent" at all. Thus, level of intelligence much higher than that of humans is more than possible. And much more intelligent organisms wouldnt consider us even remotely intelligent. Also, if one day we invent superintelligent AI, it will probably treat us their pets. And that will be right
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  26. I think that everything is more simple: civilisations are crap. When "intelligent beings" evolve on some planet, they have too big chance to kill each other and destroy everything. This will happen on this planet, for sure
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  27. I believe that current state of medicine in most countries, which allows people to live twice as long as they did during hunter-gatherer stage, which has beaten many illnesses, is more than acceptable. We already have so much, and still feel that is not enough? Then it will never be enough. No matter how you improve lives of humans, they will never be happy with what they have, they will always want more and more and more. And why do you need much longer life if you will still not be happy?
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  28. If you teach everyone to be leaders, and everyone will be leaders, then what is the point? There must be not only leaders in the world, actually non-leaders should make a majority. Plus many people dont want to be leaders. I dont want to be leader, for example, and nothing can convince me that being a leader in anything would be good for me
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  29. No, climate change cannot be reversed. Risks can be reduced, but reversing what has already happened is impossible. Noone actually even does very much to reduce more future harm of climate change
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  30. After Just Now just because we still dont know functions of many genes. in the future we will know more. 
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  31. Pedro, I dont bring religion, dumbie. Creationism is denial of evolution, it is pseudoscientific bullshit. It is not the same as simply being religious. And if you think climate change isnt real, you need to check facts rather than believing silly conspiracy theories
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  32. If those migrants can work hard for communities in a new place, why didnt they do that in an old place? Why did they just give up on their own countries? Not like most of them are from totally broken, war-ridden, impossible-to-live-in places...
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  33. If I think your beliefs are stupid, I have a right to say that. Btw, your beliefs are stupid
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  34. Fuck Bible
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  35. quite. not only worth the pain, but usually even don't worth time spent on those people. only few people are really interesting enough to spend really much time with them... I prefer to communicate in the internet not only because of sociophobia, but also because too hard to make myself spend more time with other people in real life, it is becoming annoying very fast
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  36. for me only rel pleasure in the world is learning more about the world) if talking can help, I talk with others... but usually reading helps more. or watching documentaries. 
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  37. I don't know how to use that google+ sorry
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  38. don't know why but I have no pleasure in all this, in human life. every struggle or anything else, 
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  39. only important is reality.. my own feelings towards it can be important for me, but not more
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  40. what am I to cherish me? I am just a part of universe, and want to know about other parts
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  41. Wow. You just presented evidence why evolution can happen - you exactly said why is it possible for DNA to arrange itself in so many ways, which is exactly why mutations produce new phenotypes and exactly why so many species can exist, while all descending from common ancestor. And yoj are so ignorant about biology that you think that what you said disproves evolution! Lol.
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  42. Whether we have free will depends on whether there are non-conscious processes in the brain which always determine conscious decisions. And if there are those processes, we dont have real free will. And if it is so, we will have to talk about it, no matter what consequences are. You cannot lie simply because you think lie will make people better. But, yeah, I think we still dont know whether we really have free will. There is not enough evidence
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  43. Singularitarians believe in their own fairytale just like Christians believe in rapture... suddenly something will change radically, and utopic world will be real... bullshit. In both cases same crap
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  44. 04:40 - one more reason why we shouldget rid of population growth. Not only overpopulation is harmful now, it will be more harmful when robots replace people on most jobs.
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  45. Dinosaurs = lizards? Facepalm. You got even that wrong. Dinosaurs are by absolutely all criteria from a very, very different group of reptiles - Archosaurs, while lizards are lepidosaurs. Birds are closer to dinosaurs than lizards. When creationists try to seem informed about biology, they really look like total fools
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  46. Yeah, studies show that population and consumption are already unsustainable, and they both grow much faster than technology advances. So..
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  47. 03:15 - these thing which will monitor our health will not change much. Many people already know that they can live healthier and know what they should do for it but dont do it anyway. It is their choice after all. I know, for example, that my left eye sees badly things in the long distance, but that doesnt influence my life, and I dont do anything with it. The device to monitor health would simply tell me constantly "you have problems with left eye", I would say "shut up" and turn it off. So, no, those devices will not change that much
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  48. Well, I think we humans dont deserve immortality, so hope we will never be immortal
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  49. And digitall copy cannot be 100% copy. Because our organic biological nature influences our psychology and consciousness. Consciousness hosted in non-biological matter will always be different from ours
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  50. To develop better we must also change ourselves genetically in the future... no social development can fully eradicate human agression and prejudices
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