Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "TED" channel.

  1. So a man who has already failed massively to understand the nature of the internet should give us advice on how to use the internet effectively? And what actual solutions did he offer beyond his wish that people would play nicer? Desperately naive.
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  2. ***** "He implies that women are more important than men" No he doesn't, but his case is based on flawed data. And women ARE treated APPALLINGLY in much of the world. Unfortunately, he conflated their plight with that of American women.
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  3. Excellent talk, highlighting the dark side of personalisation.
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  4. Giving it our values? I hope not. The values of Mao Zedong or Hiitler are obvious fails, but I wouldn't want a computer that had the values of the average right wing Christian American.
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  5. No room at the inn. How very Christian.
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  6. Why not just put robots on the field and forget about all this tedious using your own senses and abilities nonsense? Better yet, scratch the games entirely, just make up virtual matches and stream the footage to the audience's Oculus Rift headsets and save billions in wages each year. So, the future has no actual sportsmen any more - at best, they're just drones who can follow orders.
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  7. Hmm, the days of thought crime are rapidly approaching. Just what we need - new ways to intrude upon our privacy. Still, the colour amplification will be interesting to use on political broadcasts. If only politicians were held accountable for being lying scumbags.
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  8. Yeah Jimmy MISinterpretation of holy texts. Sure, if you like. And what about the massive number of AMERICAN boys who are sexually mutilated? How about starting at home with the things you CAN change Jimmy - but no, because you accept that because it was mandated in your ridiculous holy book. Prosecute the customers of mutual transactions like prostitution? Why not legalise and regulate prostitution instead? Jimmy just throwing up the usual western talking points and cheapening the serious points of violence towards women in the Middle East and Africa by their association with his more questionable "facts". I trust Carter's good intentions, and equality for all is an unquestionably laudible goal, but his narrative is deeply flawed.
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  9. I couldn't disagree more. Oversampling has certainly cheapened music, but judicious, sparingly used sampling has enriched the art form in ways that simply were not available previously.
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  10. Smexi Jebus Nothing kneejkerk about it. Carter's intentions are good but his facts are nonsense.
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  11. Check your house - if you have a cat, then the house has a parasite.
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  12. Liking fries on facebook surely decreases your intelligence score by 30 points.
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  13. Another breathlessly excited video about the brave new world. I notice he didn't talk about 3D printed guns, custom designed bombs, and all the other  ways that the same technology can be abused. Not actually being a naysayer - all the stuff he talked about is exciting, but we need to approach it with equal measures of excitement and caution.
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  14. On behalf of humanity. thank you soo much. If we ever needed proof that the medical and biotech industries were ammoral scum, this talk is it. Even when they're not even in business any more, they're still stopping others from progressing.
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  15. Perhaps making it multilingual was not a design criteria?
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  16. Worse still, it's a "moral" bias from an American perspective. I don't see a huge amount of morality in most American business or politics at the moment. So much for freedom of speech.
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  17. Excellent speech. Really admire people who can deliver a good speech. On almost any subject.
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  18. Azureus9999 I know exactly why. He's wrong because he suggests that hope in science to prolong life, is as misguided as believing in fantastical elixirs in spite of the fact that it had quadrupled our lifespan and for the first time, not only understands down to a sub-cellular level what causes death, but is genuinely on the brink of being able to switch off that process. He's wrong because he spouts stupid new age bullshit about simply coming to  terms with death. He's wrong because he makes stupid book analogies that do nothing to adequately contextualise death, much less offer any meaningful succour for those of us who would rather not face it.  This entire talk was basically a not too bad historical overview, disappointingly framed in the context of resigned, anti-science, hippy, tree hugging nonsense.
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  19. Yeah, lovely nationalistic rallying speech, but far from true. Africa is solving problems that the rest of the world solved 30 years ago. If the continent wasn't so racked with tribalism, crime and vicious religion-based war and violence, it could have come along for the ride. And if this man truly thinks that Africa is the global hub of innovation, I'd like to ask him why the biggest global population of AIDS sufferers is Africa, yet all the drugs come from the USA? African mobile coms - ha ha. The only reason they need to use phones from the dark ages, is because they can't co-operate long enough to raise the standard of education and living across the country.
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  20. KilluaXIII I think Carter was actually one of the better ones. Boring, but he didn't make the world a worse place.
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  21. We've had an unregulated market in Europe. That was when kings and lords ruled, raised armies and subjugated the working class. The working class didn't self regulate the markets. They didn't gain power by solidarity. They lived miserable, shitty lives, whilst the rich lorded it over them. You present an unrealistic all or nothing - deregulation or total communism and regulation dichotomy that is not realistic, or necessary.
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  22. Pedantic. Wages are considered operating expenses, not profit.
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  23. How short sighted are you? How short is your memory? How limited is your imagination? We've already seen how monitoring of individual phone calls was used for voyeuristic purposes. We've already seen obtained from monitoring used corruptly. We've already seen massive government overreach. We've already seen murder of innocent people by the police. We regularly see the rise of fascist governments and the USA is hurtling in that direction now. Do you REALLY need someone to join the dots for you?
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  24. Exactly the same as aquarium DVDs. It's not TV, it's a video screensaver, travelogue combined with low level exhibitionism, and a bit of nostalgia. Point a camera at a piece of dog crap for 24 hours and it'll get an audience. It's the vicarious life of people too lazy to go live themselves.
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  25. Brilliant. And something I have always thought - people make really shitty witnesses - too much emotion, senses too easily fooled, memories too unreliable, cultural biases too strong. More science, less opinion; but of course, our entire "justice" system is based upon appeals to emotion, and opinions, not on facts.
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  26. Excellent talk and delivery!
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  27. Jordan Haines Masturbation kills millions of "potential babies". Not depositing your sperm in the most women possible kills "potential babies". That's not a smart way of defining whether or not abortion is moral or should be legal.
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  28. Pickles Christ Controlling OUR OWN thoughts maybe ;-) 
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  29. Wow, she sleazed that up goooood.
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  30. Great, another way for the government to invade our privacy. Just imagine a Christian government -thought crime can become a reality in this life!
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  31. Personally, I thought that she deliberately sleazed up the whole talk. She's clearly intelligent and she presented the topic moderately well, but the clear undercurrent, complete with husky voice, provocative looks, and deliberately sexual giggles and body language somewhat cheapened the subject. Or made it more fun. I can't decide yet.
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  32. I don't understand why everyone is getting so excited. Yeah, a bit of open plan, fresh air, and free range is nice, but exposing kids largely unsupervised to danger seems ill advised. There metal edged steps, concerningly high drops, overcrowding and more. I certainly wouldn't allow my 4 year old loose in this space with the sparcity of supervision that was shown.
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  33. I'd be interested to know if this has become a viable business that justifies the amount of time that the villagers give to it.
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  34. What utter twaddle. It missed the point in so many ways, I can't even be bothered to start.
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  35. I think that George Orwell's vision of the future will not be a fraction as bad as the  real future.
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  36. I don't know. In independence Day, Jeff Goldblum managed to connect a Mac to an alien computer AND plant a virus in the time it took to fly to the ship. And in Star Trek, EVERY computer in the galaxy can connect and  exchange data right away. It must be super easy when all you have to worry about is a few terrestrial operating systems!
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  37. I'm as impressed by this man's approach, as I am nauseated the barbarity of scum who will amputate the limbs of innocent people.
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  38. Yes, I agree totally with your assessment. Unfortunately, these things seems to be applied on a continuous pendulum, and right now we are waaaay too far over onto the nurture without structure side. It's all touchy feely and kid's rights, without worrying about society's rights to have socially well adapted kids in it, who do not have a massive sense of entitlement.
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  39. It's not a new book, it's only the end of it.
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  40. The world would be safe is you simply arrested everyone, or shove a camera up our asses too - there are limitations on acceptable intrusion. "Learn the facts" How can we learn the facts when you're committed to obscuring them? Bullshit from start to finish.
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  41. Absolutely agree.
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  42. I would certainly not have expected all of those knock on benefits, but I wonder why it has taken India, almost unique on the whole planet, this long to realise that crapping in your drinking water is not a good idea?
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  43. PurpleTF2 Precisely. Nobody minds if someone prefers what their used to - human beings accept change slowly, if at all,  but to say that this is less valid is a very narrow definition. Like Mark said "Rockists".
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  44. With the intrusion of the world's governments, I don't even want my computer to know my name, let alone any other information. Incognito mode = NSA track this user There's a reason why people see companies like Google as the bad guys - because you are. Because you put profit above people and ethics.
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  45. I'm concerned that Evans' concluding take away point was "makes strategy interesting again", as though business were sitting around bored by the already incredibly difficult job of making money. I think I'd have found this talk more interesting if he'd compressed the introduction, and discussed more examples of precisely HOW businesses are supposed to interact, or for that matter how a business can dis-intermediate competitors at various points of the value chain. The talk was too fast, and too jargon laden for my taste.
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  46. I'd be pretty pissed off if all you had to remember me by was a key or a tube of toothpaste. Meaningless. I'd sooner be forgotten.
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  47. LanttuLoL Have you been following these NSA stories AT ALL? 
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  48. An interesting philosophical question, but I think before it was asked, "What is poetry" was the one that should be answered. If Stein wants to vomit stream of consciousess gibberish onto the page, at best, she is communicating the fact that she is communicating nothing but sounds and shapes. For 99.9999% of human beings that would not count as communication at all. She has shared nothing of her mind or her "humanity" with us because her words do not relate to any kind of shared experience except for those who have experienced an LSD nightmare. On the other hand, the poem about the deer, whilst generated by computer, and carrying no meaning TO THE COMPUTER, is based upon things that have meaning to most of us - words and imagery that communicate. So the ultimate issue for me, is how existential and trippy should be the role models that I allow it to learn from. Personally, an apparently schizophrenic lunatic like Stein would not be a good starting place.
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  49. ***** I'm a Jedi - don't oppress my people! ;-) 
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  50. I wondered that, but nevertheless, whatever Adam's motivation, the life afforded Derek as a result of the man's involvement seems far more fulfilling than it otherwise would have been, and that's all that really matters. Given that Adam was very careful to refer to this severely autistic person in such that he was talking for him, rather than merely about him, suggests to me that maybe he cares more than you may fear.
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