Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "World Science Festival" channel.

  1. @NESHMETAL The con man.
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  2. @NESHMETAL Hold the pity. Do your homework. You and the entire cult of Tesla are living in La-La Land, your heads full of historical inaccuracy and non-science nonsense. You're out there with the Flat Earthers, the Scientologists, the Jesus-stops-viruses folks, and all the other nut cases. Tesla was right about only one important thing, his "Westinghouse is right" on AC. Westinghouse did the AC. Tesla voted "Yes" to it. He didn't do any useful work on it. He sat there in the bar of the Waldorf-Astoria running up his bar bills and shooting off his mouth. The press no doubt bought his unpaid-for drinks, and wrote him up. But he didn't do anything useful, scientific, technical, accurate on inventive.
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  3. Three guys on the stage, and you pick the wrong one. Some days are just like that. Roughly a third of them, since you were wondering...
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  4. Yes.
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  5. These people don't seem to have the first clue. The feeling of time passing is an internal event, like seeing that something is blue with one bunch of neurons and tasting that something is salty with another. There are blue things out there in the world, and many people's brains identify them as blue. Or green. The blue things out there are not the same things as the neurons firing for the event of those things showing up. Things change in the world. We may say that is time passing. The things changing are not the same thing as the neurons generating the words "time is passing." Only when people separate the mental events, the brain neurons, and the "things" and "events" out there in the world into three different piles is there any chance of having a sane discussion. Throwing change in the world, time as a mental notion, and the firing of neurons into one big mush helps nobody do anything sensible. IMHO. Einstein's and Feynman's way of handling the mess, by joking about it, may be the best that one can hpe for. -dlj.
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  6. @NESHMETAL Your call. You get to live in your own reality. Good luck.
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  7. The word you're looking for is "pour," but we got it anyway: it's going to be a while before you join the conversation.
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  8. Sorry, I got lost at "You can see three dimension, up-down, back and forth, left-right." I can look up and down, back and forth and left and right. (I can also look off at 4 degrees to all of those, in an infinite number of directions for each.) But I don't see an up when I look up. And if I got to the corner of, say, 44th and 5th, I think I'll find four different buildings. Uh, at any time of day. So that -- oh, it was only a metaphor you say? Fine. What was it a metaphor for? Dimensions, you say? o. Very small o. -dlj.
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  9. Unsubscribed: this whole thing is painfully stupid -- as are these shows ver-ree often. The subscripts to the video say "The way probability's are..." at around 56 minutes. I rather suspect they mean "probabilities." (Later: I see they do it again in the caption: "The way probability's are phrased are as important as the numbers. @")
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  10. @NESHMETAL Built nice sparky machines that looked good in the silent movies. Um, anything else?
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  11. @NESHMETAL None of the above. Tesla invented none of those, nor did he make any useful developments in any. You have bought into, and are spreading, total, ignorant, bullshit. Suggestion: Google up Maxwell, Faraday, Volta. Also maybe electricity.
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  12. @NESHMETAL That's plain false. Start out with Faraday and Volta and the whole earlier generation. Tesla managed to get himself issued a whole bunch of patents for faint variations on stuff other people were making. He invented nothing. And almost none of his little twitches on other people's inventions had any lasting value. When the talking movies came along, nobody even wanted his little sparky shooters, either. And he didn't pay his bar bills at the Waldorf. A lair and a deadbeat of Trumpian proportions.
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  13.  @taanbrown4275  Well, we're getting better at finding them out, century by century. Just do your science homework and you'll learn His thoughts as fully as you are able to.
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  14. Easy: in the "real world" the planet Jupiter may be a whole lot of "distance" away -- probably a couple of light-days. But that's the mere real world. The imaginary planet Jupiter is right here. I've brought it before your eyes SHAZAM almost instantly. No limitation by and 300,000,000 metres/second for me! My imagination can travel light-years in seconds -- and so can yours. It just did. To Jupiter and back.
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  15. "...what the function of these states are." ? Uh, no. "...what the function of these states is" or else make function plural: functions. This is a serious problem, and it's not confined to this one fella. This precise error is only possible for people who can't keep track of the subject of the sentence. A fairly important failure, not a mere grammatical error, no? -dlj.
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  16. Keep those cards and letters coming, layzann gennulment out there in rajohlann... -dlj.
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  17. "panel" perhaps?
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  18. Incorrect. There is always one goat.
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  19. +BethanyGraceMusic One ver-ree bright man! -dlj.
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  20. UrkoZzZ En su página de inicio pareces una persona inteligente.   ¿Por qué publicar esta nota estúpida, fea, y pueril aquí?   -dlj.
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  21. That's roughly true and is certainly true of an "ideal" coin. In the real world all coins are biased and almost all coins in the currencies of Western nations are slightly biased toward heads.
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  22. Horrible hum all the way through. Every audience cough caught faithfully.
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  23. And vice versa.
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  24. @NESHMETAL You haven't done your homework I see...
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  25. @NESHMETAL Nope. Tesla was a lying con-man, and you post like a fool who's brainwashed himself.
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  26. ​@NESHMETAL Part of our lives? He is an irritating little bit of background noise, like all the other grifters who so sadly litter history. Nothing more. Nothing he did improved or even faintly helped with the development of modern communications technology. Now fuck off and do your homework. I repeat my suggestion: just start Googling and Wiki-ing around Maxwell, Faraday, Volta and then whoever you like, and get this low-grade Tesla nonsense out of your system. Good bye.
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  27. ​@NESHMETAL That any serious technology springs from the work or teaching of Tesla is an ignorant fantasy of a small cult of nut jobs. You are being very silly in aligning yourself with them without taking the elementary precaution of informing yourself. You obviously know nothing about our electrical generating, transmission, and use technologies. This is easy for you to solve: simply inform yourself. Once you learn about Faraday, Volta, Maxwell and their couple of generations of genuinely useful inventors and thinkers you will laugh at yourself for what you are writing now -- and you will hold a petty fraud like Tesla in the contempt he deserves. As I said, good luck. Now stop pestering me with your silly cult beliefs. You are making a fool of yourself and wasting my time.
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  28. @NESHMETAL I already told you, we stopped using his sparky machines when the movies went over to sound. Other than those, he made no discoveries nor any "technology." Buying drinks for gullible newspapermen, then not paying your bar tab, is not a technology, just an age-old way of getting a few temporary friends.
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  29.  @taanbrown4275  I dunno. Are the meurons from Schroedinger's cat?
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  30.  @seditt5146  I'm not kidding at all. Tesla claimed to have invented the high voltage coil, and he managed to get a patent on one version of it. Similarly, he took out patents on a whole bunch of trivial variations on improvements to the AC motor. He made his career out of buying drinks for news reporters at the Plaza Hotel, and he was lucky enough to be on the scientifically correct side of a huge public debate, that between Westinghouse, the main developer of alternating current ("invented " a couple of generations earlier by Faraday ad the circle around him), and Edison, the highly egotistical but often successful inventor. Westinghouse was right, Edison was expensively, and rather stupidly, wrong, and Tesla promoted himself as the promotor of Westinghouse. In the real world, it was objective reality that declared Westinghouse the winner. You've been taken in by the flim-flam, and that's a damn shame. I hope you are aware that part of Tesla's reputation rests in large part on the Big Lie, that he invented AC. He flat out didn't.
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  31.  @seditt5146  This is entirely lunatic. Tesla was undoubtedly a very bright guy, but fluid dynamics and electricity are very large fields and there are a lot of academics in both of them. Tesla was a dabbler in both and a loudmouthed self-promotor who claimed credit for a lot of routine work that everybody was doing. His theories of transmission through the aether are a lot of hooey, distantly connected to some bits and pieces of reality known to everybody in the field. Bah, humbug!
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  32.  @seditt5146  You write "Honestly if not for his Wireless transmission experiments we would likely see far far more out of his work as it took up his time and energy away from his high pressured fluid dynamics which really were revolutionary in many instances." You remind me of the olde Flanders and Swann routine about Henry VIII: "If your Majesty had in the higher register that sonority and command of tune which are unfortunately lacking in the lower register, then your Majesty's voice would indeed be one which commanded the appreciation and applause of the masses..." 🤣😂
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  33. Large language models are simply broader guage homunculi. They are no closer to artificial intelligence than your dictionary or your telephone answering machine was. The stupid AI fad of the 2020s continues at high speed... If it can't formulate purpose for itself and can't defend itself -- if, indeed, it doesn't have a self -- it's not intelligent, nor does it "have" intelligence.
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  34. Speed, mass, and length: how nice to have a bit of creative thought, for once, about what the most important "dimensions" are. Or might be. I'm just so fed up with being told they are up-and-down (that's one, not two, of them) front-and-back, and sideways. And then I turn at 45 degrees and nobody rushes out to tell me that my sideways, front and back, two dimensions, not three, have gone all awhack! What a relaxing change.
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  35. No, Wes, I can't. What have you been trying to accomplish that watching Brian on YouTube has suddenly enabled to to carry out? Enquiring minds want to know. Inquiring minds, ditto.
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  36. About 24:11: Chaitin: "...what Goedel and Turing came up with in 1936.." Interruption by moderator: "This was Alan Turing..."
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  37.  @Wasssssuppppppp6869  We've got all these blow-ups to infinity from dividing stuff by zero. So what we'll do is, we'll replace all the zeros with little itsy-bitsies. There are too many particles around the joint, so we'll make them stringy. We've been studying simple harmonic motion since the pre-Socratics, so they'll vibrate, right? What could go wrong?
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  38. Spoiler alert: Brian Greene does not know what consciousness is. I'm outta here at 0:55. Feh.
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