Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The University of Chicago" channel.

  1. We have food surpluses everywhere and obesity is a world-wide problem. To get starvation or even malnutrition, you need to arrange for a war. We have agricultural problems in the nutrition chain, particularly overconsumption of sugars and meat. Hunger, however, is a side-effect of war, not an agricultural problem.
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  2. "No further ado" lasts 5:45.
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  3. This is called a non-YouTube-friendly presentation. Echo. and. um, echo, cough-cough, Hegel mumble... But aha! Good news! The transcripts (of the original Strauss seminar) are here: https://leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu/node/124
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  4.  Aron TB Suchkind  I think you're misunderstood Robert's post. He obviously doesn't think evolution is a myth.
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  5. Successful nations live on plants that fix nitrogen as they grow, e.g. soybeans in China and lentils in India. These two successful cultures dominate the world's population. Unsuccessful nations devote all their technical skills to war and hence end up with very limited populations. At the extreme, the unsuccessful countries are not content to limit each others' populations through mass slaughter: in the current century, they have extended their technological "ability" to threatening human life entirely.
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  6. Terrible echo. That hard wooden wall immediately behind the speaker is part of the problem, but that's not all of it: you need to consult an audio professional if you want to stop making fools of yourselves. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton have cleaned up their act in the past couple of weeks, so University of Chicago is now the clear worst academic audio on YouTube.
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  7. It's certainly true that quantum computing could change or future. On the other hand, I will change the future of the entire human race when I decide whether to have coffee or tea for breakfast. This is not a matter of any "butterfly effect." It is the profoundly solid fact that I will have had tea or coffee. Now then, can we have a little less tub-thumping portentousness in our YouTube headlines? Maybe just tell us what this particular video has to say about the well-known possibility of quantum computing?
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