Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. Correction, USAID was meant to aid in feeding and promoting development in developing countries. That is not what they were doing. Embezzeling, fraud, social engineering, control over news outlets, waste, and directly supplying terrorist organizations is what they were doing.
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  2.  @neosapienz7885  Uhuh, keep telling yourself that.
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  3. I thought mass came from interaction with the Higgs field rather than the Higgs boson, and that the existence of the Higgs boson was simply the confirmation that the Higgs field exists.
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  4. I mean, HR is the enemy of everyone doing real work, so . . .
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  5.  @Sophie-and-Ken  Yup, but if you have the infrastructure and you are likely to be at peace for the forseeable future (not a sure thing today) a few CANDU reactors hooked up to your main power grid are a lot better. (I'm something of a CANDU and advanced CANDU reactor fanboy. I love the extensive safety features and the fuel type and refueling flexibility. Runs on just about anything and virtually can't suffer a serious accident. Love it.) On the other hand, SMRs are ideal emergency solutions for quickly supplementing inadequate( or destroyed) power generation in an area.
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  6.  @ws6002  It's a matter of initial cost plus maintenace vs generated power. SMRs are much less efficient than regular nuclear power plants, especially modern reactors. SMRs are good for emergencies, traditional reactors are better if you have the time to do things properly. The majority of the cost for a CANDU reactor is heavy water, not construction. Assuming that it's planned out properly and no one is intentionally delaying it, like I suspect is the case with Hinkley.
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  7.  @ws6002  If you are referring to Hinkley, I'm pretty sure that's either a case of tax evasion, fraud, or an anti-nuclear government interfering, becuase the delays in that project is insane. That, or they are completely incompetent.
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  8. Thank you for sharing, Sabine. And you don't love and hate science. You love science and hate academia. You did not fail as a scientist, academia has failed at doing science.
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  9. Deepseek R1 is already muscling out o1.
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  10.  @markvalery8632  Yuuup.
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  11.  @markedis5902  Ah yes, halve the population every generation, with roughly double the elderly of the working population. Great idea for keeping a civilization running. In fact, we are trying that experiment as we speak. We call it the Global Population Collapse(TM).
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  12. What causes it is less important than what we can in practice do to ameliorate it. If the answer to that is that we can't without unacceptable costs, such as killing off a third of humanity and instituting strictly controlled reproduction to maintain that level of population, as well as similarly extreme, unacceptable, and/or impractical solutions, the question then instead becomes, what can we do to deal with inevitable climate change? Most likely, it will ba a combination of both. What can we do to slow or lessen the climate change, and what can we do to deal with the changes that are going to happen anyway? My thoughts are that it will need to be a multipronged approach. Build more nuclear plants everywhere to cut down on CO2 emissions. Start serious programs to produce GMO plants and animals that can survive the new climate and the conditions that climate will bring about, and not just domesticated ones because we want the ecosystem to survive too. Get serious with tidal power plants. Start planning for moving costal cities to higher elevations in preparation for higher sea levels. Change building standards and city planning to deal with the increasing amount and ferocity of storms and floods.
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  13. Aw yeah, here come the newest "definitely came from a wet market and not a lab" whoopsie.
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  14. All bodies except Chell, the player character.
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  15. Because science is often a slow and nearly unending parade of failure followed by a single success that unlocks the universe.
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  16. "We are going to force people to buy electric cars by banning the sale of fossil fuel cars in a few years" "So, are you going to subsidize car chargers or give energy credits to people who buy electric so more people want to get one?" "No. The power grid can't support that many electric cars, so we are going to forbid some people from getting chargers, and sometimes we are going to cut power to people who have electric car chargers." ". . ."
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  17. *some people do. Not anywhere near enough of people. They are busy with the fact that they will never own property, never have a family, and their lives are meaningless in the long run.
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  18.  @Cohen.the.Worrier  Hinkley is an anomaly, probably a scam or tax fraud, or it's being built by a government that's anti-nuclear that's inventing reasons to cancel it.
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  19.  @Cohen.the.Worrier  Hinkley is likely either a case of tax evasion, fraud, or a nuclear-hostile government intentionally dragging its feet. If the building of a nuclear reactor isn't done incompetently/delayed by governments then it won't be delayed by decades.
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  20.  @Petriiik  Higher fuel efficiency than cold war era reactors, sure. Higher fuel efficiency than a "modern" reactor like an advanced CANDU reactor (which is decades old at this point)? I seriously, seriously doubt that. Send me the names of some reasearch papers and studies. (Specifically names, because youtube doesn't like links for insane reasons.)
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  21. To a degree, but fine tuning and reinforcement learning can work against the system prompt, to the point that the system prompt is ignored or actively refused. If you have access to Claude or GPT in developer mode you can experiment with this yourself.
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  22. . . . I thought it pretty obvious that while the prefrontal cortex is all kinds of amazing it isn't strictly required for consciousness. Those who unfortunately underwent lobotomy commonly suffered severe changes in personality, cognition, initiative, and inhibition, but they were still undeniably conscious if impaired. Birds do not have a prefrontal cortex, though they have a structure that fulfills largely the same functions, and octopuses have no such structures at all despite obvious, if strange, intelligence.
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  23. Yup. The greenest power production if you have the geography for it? Hydro. Second greenest? Nuclear. But conveniently these morons hate nuclear and only preach solar and wind, which is worthless as a primary power generator for a country. It's only real use is in remote locations without proper power infrastructure.
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  24. "The market is intelligence organizations, governments, and some shady people who you want nothing to do with." Why did you say the same thing three times in a row?
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  25. So, they claim to have proven that being able to unify experimentally verifiable theories into a cohesive whole is impossible? I can't see how that could logically be true, unless this is a simulation. This just sounds like a bunch of philosophers trying to publish a physics paper.
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  26.  @geekstradamus1548  "the United States has lasted longer under its founding document than any currently existing nation with a population of at least 5 million." . . .You really don't know much history, do you? Or much about other countries for that matter? First of all, most countries do not have a foundational document, they have several. Second, here's three random countries with foundational documents older than the US that has a population over 5 million: England (Magna Carta, 1215) Sweden (Instrument of Government, 1634) Netherlands (Act of Abjuration, 1581)
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  27. I believe that either does not exist, is an emergent property of quantum physics, or arises from quantum randomness. Additionally that it is utterly irrelevant for anything. Reality just is, and reality is what we need to deal with, not theoretical realities, regardless of whether we have free will or not.
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  28. The real vital element is potassium for ATP, which only requires supernovae.
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  29. Nah, just to the 50s, in navigation and telecommunication only.
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  30.  @erichodge567  . . . You really haven't been paying attention to Germany, have you? Just put it into Google and you will drown in news articles.
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  31. Another damned green party opposed to nuclear for "reasons" when, if they were informed/genuine, they would be the champions of nuclear power. Same story, different country.
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  32. So, basically like the average human if you gave it 17 pages of the 3 body problem? (Except it didn't get tired of your gobbledeegook as fast.)
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  33.  @lkrnpk  How good would an average human be? Random person you plucked off of the street, not an expert.
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  34. Only kept as curiosities, pets, for entertainment, and in very backwards places.
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  35. I think it did to a degree raise the average, thought not the mean, intelligence back when it required some basic effort and intelligence to get on the internet. The invention and popularization of the smartphone was the death knell for that hope though.
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  36. Looks left and right, sees piles of books Looks back and to the right, sees two large bookcases filled with books sorted alphabetically, first by author then by title "Um, which type am I now again?"
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  37. How do I know that Sabine isn't a climate shill? Because, in difference to all the green parties the world over and a lot of NGOs and government organisations that claim that they want to improve the climate, a large part of her solution is nuclear power. Anyone who doesn't mention nuclear as a big part of how to deal with climate change is not being honest with you and you should ignore them because they don't actually give a shit about the climate, only about the clout, power, and money that pretending will get them.
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  38. 2:18 We could not, in fact, spare a few billion. We have a civilization and infrastructure built for roughly 8 billion and that needs roughly 8 billion to operate. Unless you are talking about the very old or the very young. The very old are not actively maintaining our civilization, and the very young can be replaced with concerted effort in a few years. We could, maybe, spare half a billion of those actively maintaining civilization without issue. 1 billion will cause issues. More than 1 billion will cause serious issues.
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  39. If China is taking it so seriously, why did Deepseek release R1 as open source? R1 is a serious rival to o1, the current reigning champion available.
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  40. Enshittification has been going for a decade and a half already, if not more.
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  41.  @jankadlcek608  Surprise, surprise, learning from a higher quality source, whether it is in the form of data for AI or parents and teachers for humans, produces better results. What a shock.
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  42. Bill isn't wrong, he's just very evil and a monster, which has nothing to do with the climate. Dumb people think he is stupid. Idiotic people think he gives a single shit about the climate. Morons think he isn't Satan on Earth. Even Satan will tell the truth when it serves him. That doesn't mean you should trust him further than you can throttle him.
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  43. A theory without experiments to back it up is just a hypothesis. Good on them for doing the scientific thing.
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  44. "War predictions" Psychohistory is go.
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  45. Congrats, you got blueboxed by youtube.
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  46. Ham or chicken, pineapple, banana, and curry powder on top on a thin crust pizza is amazing.
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  47.  @Aliandrin  A country that puts cream cheese in sushi has no right to speak about pizza toppings.
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  48. *was
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  49.  @GoneSurfing-g8e  lol, it's always amusing to see you people think fascism is right wing. It's a collectivist, everything for the state, nothing outside the state system with suppression of the individual's rights over the "good" of the collective, in other words socialism Fascism is the nationalist reverse to communism's international obverse on the coin of socialism. If you want examples of right wing authoritarian regimes look at Pinochet's Chile in the 80s as well as Taiwan after WWII and South Korea after the Korean war. Those were actual right wing dictarorships.
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  50. If there was a cheap hybrid with primarily electric but the equivalent to a small gasoline or diesel generator for long range travel I would be interested. The reason I would be interested in such a vehicle is that while my daily driving doesn't require extravagant range I do visit family twice a year about 400 kilometers away, as well as intermittent mid-range journeys. A fully electric car would have to have a range (tested in real life conditions) of at least 500 kilometers for me to consider it close to meeting my needs as charge capacity will inevitably drop with time. A hybrid that has close to that range or just above it with the option to charge it on-the-go when needed would give me the peace of mind of knowing that I won't get stranded in the middle of bumfuck nowhere when I go to visit my mom. The reason I still wouldn't buy one anyway is three-fold: First, I don't own a house, and garage space in my apartment complex, if you can call two buildings a complex, is only enough for about a fifth of the cars of people who live here, so I have no way to charge it at home as there are no power outlets on the regular parking lot. Additionally, I have a feeling that I would be forbidden by the company I rent my apartment from to charge in a garage space even if there was one available to rent, as it would currently be impossible for them to tell who is drawing what power and that they could therefore not charge me for it. I'm not even sure there are outlets in there. I do know that you aren't allowed to work on your car inside them, they are simply for storage. Second, while my small town does actually have a pair of parking spots with chargers they are in the center of town, about four kilometers away from where I live, making it impractical to use for regular charging. Third, my economy does not come close to what I'd need to buy a new car. I drive a nearly thrity year old rust bucket that I fix up and maintain regularly for that exact reason. It might be a Japanese rust bucket, but ever since I changed the dying battery it had when I got it a decade ago it's been as reliable as the tides.
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