Comments by "Psiberzerker" (@Psiberzerker) on "Veritasium" channel.

"How much should you trust an autonomous car?" Honestly, that's not the moral dilemma here. How much do you trust YOURSELF to drive the car? You don't trust the car, which was designed in this case by BMW, but you don't even ask yourself how much you can be trusted behind the wheel. Okay, you can handle it. (Every drunk driver ever) but what about that guy? What about that guy "Fixing" his autonomous car, so it takes the route He wants to take, because he knows the best way to work? Not trying to mess up the navigation system that keeps his car from navigating into your car, but how much do you trust Bob to mess with his autonomous car? The car isn't the problem.
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Look guys, (Strawmen, whatever.) If the terms Global Warming, and Climate Change confuse you, at all, you're not going to follow this conversation. European Americans. <That was the reading comprehension test. Do those 2 words used together trigger your Political thoughts? Okay, have a nice life... Try not to trip over your own bar on the way out. There's a reason why we call it "Peer Review."
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@flobbie87 Plants turn LIGHT and carbon dioxide, into sugar (and Oxygen) When there's light. When it's dark, they exhale trace amounts of Carbon Dioxide, and Water for example, at night. The oxygen is a byproduct, so is the water, and so is the miniscule amount of CO2. However, rotting plants, also release Methane, and CO2. Also, Humans, Concrete production, Cars, Semi trucks, Trains, and Power Plants. But they're technically right. Plants can, sometimes release, a little CO2.
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I guessed 1/C, but just because of experience in Mensa. The great lie there was that IQ was a measure of Intelligence (Which can't be measured, or Quantified. 1 IQ, the quantum of Intelligence is meaningless. Therefore, 100 IQ was meaningless.) It just measured how well you took Multiple Choice Tests. (I eventually scored a 158. FWIW.)
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"Intelligence is no barrier to stupidity." ~Mensa.
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Probably every "Wise man" from myth said that, at some point. Hey, Einstein, where do I put this? IDK, over there somewhere. The myth being that Einstein was a brilliant man, so therefore, he spent all this time talking about stupid people. That's where we get all these quotes about stupid people from Einstein. (Or did Mark Twain say that?) Confucius say: "I don't know." A lot of stuff we "Know" Socrates said are actually Plato saying "Socrates said..."
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Cars don't kill people, drivers kill people. Incidentally, 1:47 How many people are killed by guns, every single year? Pick a year, any year, look up the fatalities for Guns. Pistols, Rifles, Shotguns. Now, look at fatalities from Automobiles. Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles. Accidents, Suicides, and Murders. Taken together, cherry pick the best year you can find where guns are significantly deadlier than cars, or vice-versa. It's kinda funny how we're even having this Gun Debate, but people don't "Trust" a car they can't drive. "If it kills someone, I'm legally responsible." Yeah, but if you kill someone, you're legally, and Morally responsible.
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@sage1476 Okay, how much do you trust Windows after an update? It's not just the software, how much brake fluid did Bob drain yanking stuff out of the car before he got down to the CPU? How many sensors did he disable before he tried to put it all back? We humans are not capable of writing the system that can compensate for other Humans.
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@sage1476 Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger, and Colombia were pretty much capable of running their missions with minimal pilot input, until landing. (Apollo 1 wasn't even supposed to leave the ground.) They all failed because of bad components. That's basically the level of human-computer-machine interface. Pretty much the most reliable component in that loop is the auto-pilot. Air disasters are almost invariably either operator Eror, or bad maintenance. They're almost never the auto-pilot.
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@sage1476 Yes, but it's still, literally Rocket Science, and the Autopilot/telemetry never failed. "Oh, it's only 35 year old" rocket science. So, it's still not impressive, or 7 of the most highly trained people in America trusting a self piloted space-plane. So, we had similar technology that was virtually 100% reliable, decades ago. But people don't trust a car they can't control. Or, people just like being in control.
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I' concerned about Albedo. Across the volume of the Atmosphere, 100million black balls isn't a significant amount of Infrared radiated back to be absorbed by Greenhouse Gasses, However, this isn't that widespread, yet. Neither was Asphalt, at first. White would be better for Global Warming, but not if they're not Stable, and break down into toxins in the water. (Which these were design to prevent.)
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Liquids are fluid. Not all fluids are liquid. Glass is about as fluid as Glacial Ice. That's not a liquid, either.
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It's the format. You ask a question, hold out the mic, and then edit it down to all the funniest answers. Obviously, the right answers aren't as entertaining, but it's not like this is a new schtick. So, I guess the answer is because Ed Sullivan did it, and it made people a lot of money.
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People look stupid. Holding a camera makes them look stupid on camera.
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In the 70s, they banned Sulfides. The sulfides (This is complicated) were the opposite of a Greenhouse Gas: They reflect light before they hit the ground, and then re-emit the Infrared that Greenhouse Gasses (Methane, C02, and Water Vapor*) absorb. You know that Thermal Imaging we developed, around the 80s? Yeah, they put those in Satellites now. We've been measuring it since then. We couldn't detect it because the Sulfides kept it down to an insignificant level. (They also cause Smog, Acid Rain, sometimes rotten egg smells on the wind, but also certain types of fairly attractive cave formations.) *Water Vapor is a greenhouse gas, but another allotrope is right around tied with fresh fallen snow for diffusing the problem. Unfortunately, we can't control Cloud formations, but there's easier ways to fix it. Methane comes first, mostly because it's not stable, and naturally breaks down into the other 2 of the top 3 Greenhouse gasses. Also, there's CO2, and Methane sequestored in the glaciers, rising oceans also soak up all kinds of photons... It's not so much a runaway effect as several, and those are just some of the ones we know about.
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There's no cheap way to fix it. Honestly, if I could come up with a Profitable way to fix it, I would have sold it by now, but the cheap way to do it is how we're causing it. It's going to cost us, a lot.
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Then that's not "100%" correct.
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We can't pave the planet, plant a little grass out front, mow it every weekend, and drive a Tesla. We still cut down all the forests, and pave the planet. That little bit of lawn doesn't make up for your roof tiles, and you're still having everything (Including that Tesla) shipped to your door, with diesel.
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@flobbie87 All of it? Lots of different places, including water, and nutrients dissolved in that water. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. It's also used like Pennies in organic Chemistry. Just about every single molecule, in all these reactions, other than Carbon Dioxide is literally coated in Hydrogen. I guess the answer is the hydrogen comes from the Big Bang. Everything else was fused in stars, out of Hydrogen.
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@flobbie87 I didn't think you're "Wrong." But just for the sake of Chemistry, water is the substrate that all life as we know it is dissolved in. Also, it's the hardest molecule to get hydrogen out of. It takes more energy to pry the ears off that oxygen than to rip 2 triple covalent nitrogen atoms apart, and there's a whole nitrogen cycle to do that, despite the fact that air is 3/4 nitrogen. So, why don't you extend me the courtesy of not assuming I'm wrong, either.
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IDK how they did it, I wasn't there. You have direct experience, and more data to work with, nobody can solve it with a Thought Experiment. I, like you want to know if I'm wrong, but I can't say it's worth $10,000.00 to me. I don't even have the 10K to wager on it. Good luck!
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I'm assuming any space-suit that can shield you from ambient radiation from the Sun outside the van-allen belts has sleeves that can handle that.
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Oh god. Save me from the "Right" research, and the "Wrong" research. Research yields Data. That's all it's for, there's no "Right" data, or "Wrong" data. If you're looking for the "Right" data to prove what you've already decided, you're in the wrong major. You should really switch over to Divinity.
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That's the most delicious demonstration I've ever seen!
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An autonomous car won't work. On our roads, that's great, you can create a car that won't hit other cars on the street. You can't make a car that won't hit a child in the street. That's what we're talking about here, all the times where a computer has to make a choice, which human being to kill (In milliseconds. I'd trust an onboard computer to make that choice in milliseconds, because it can think in milliseconds) but our roads weren't designed for them. They're designed for people, that have to get from point A, to point B, even when point B is right across the street from Point A. Or point B is bouncing across the street, because Suzy didn't catch it.
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