Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda" video.

You are also being deceptive by cherry picking 47:03, you focus on the encumbrance of vehicles, but that's not what autonomous cars solve. Traffic jams are also due to the simple fact that someone brakes for no obvious reason, then then next one take a bit of time to react and stop. All those little times add up as such that someone far away has to wait minutes. When the first accelerate, the "wave" has also to propagate and that can also take minutes. Just because one guy did brake. Autonomous cars can just send "I am braking" and that message would go much faster (almost speed of light). You can consider all the autonomous car as one big car. At crossing, you have the need for traffic light, people have to assess the situation too, even in a roundabout. Autonomous cars don't have to, they can just quickly find crowd sourced solution in a split of a second and even pass few cm from each other at good speed. The thing is that you don't do it to be deceptive. You just can't make a 10h video and you can't have a rebuttal which takes into account what you ignore. It's unavoidable. Those who reply "then get educated", well, that's not that simple, there is more knowledge than the time someone has. Even experts have big holes in their knowledge because of that.
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@havtor007 Of course. It's an answer to "never". So I am free to do so. We used to say that 1MB is all we need and will need for processing. 1MHz was fantazy. Well, some leap later and we speak in To and ghz. On top of that, we have dedicated hardware like GPU for calculations and soon to come quantum processor. Like, computing a chemical raction is hard work for computers, but will be much easier with quantum processor. For century, we thought that any kind of message can be intercepted, hence deciphered. In 2002, I showed that it was BS if you used quantum cryptography AND you had the nice bonus that recipient could detect someome listen on the line... All I did is point out that the guy criticism can apply to himself due to time and space constraints and the human nature.
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@havtor007 And you're missing my original point: we all do that because of time (how much time we have, how much time people will invest, how much time you got to learn) amd space (how much you are willing to write, how much you can memorize). As a more dowm to earth way, even if I could have expanded my initial comment to a book to make sure you got the point, you wouldn't have taken the time to read it. Even if you did read it, you may not even rember the first paragraph. So, yes, we always assume and cherry pick. On top of that, we do other simplifications. I can't make it more clear.
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@havtor007 I see the misunderstanding. The video is about people being misleading by the way theu fre information, what they omit and cherry pick. So I replied about that.
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@havtor007 You're catching up! Just a littler stretch and you'll have a real understanding of the point! You're really very close!
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