Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Talks at Google" channel.

  1. A guy with that many Z's and A's in his name has no business complaining about anybody else's entropy.
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  2. Monotones only for this Ward. Thank you, Nurse Ratched.
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  3. She believes, and she teaches a lot, that cleverly planned hand motions are a useful part of your and her act. There must be times, perhaps even whole seconds, to which she doesn't have a scripted hand-motion ready to apply. I'd guess these might be the "clutches" moments you are noticing.
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  4. My impression is that this is a relatively good litmus for intelligence: smart people are good at using the "Do I know or don't I?" tool.
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  5. ​ @APeeKay  That's another pretty good litmus, too. But taking a second look at Maboyd's post, above, it seems to me he's wrong about at least Krugman and Miller. Krugman was famously fast to call himself wrong on the Trump Bump and his last ten years have been a pretty constant process of self-reflection mixed in with his evaluation of others. 'Course Krugman has it easy: he isn't wrong very often. Miller is a slightly different case: it's a bit silly to say he won't admit to being wrong when his entire career is considering degrees of rightness/wrongness. Stiglitz? Does Maboyd have an actual factual case?
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  6.  tech four9  That's a pretty strange theory, Tech. Why does your common fucking idiot feels any desperate need for justification for their stupid beliefs? And why would they go looking for premiere intellectuals for that rationalization? Wouldn't the next common fucking idiot over be more trustworthy to them? Just askin' 😎
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  7. Squishy soft marshmallow test: https://boomerandecho.com/weekend-reading-debunking-the-marshmallow-test-edition/ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impulse-control-marshmallow-test-fails-in-new-research http://behavioralscientist.org/try-to-resist-misinterpreting-the-marshmallow-test/
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  8. Tremendously sensible survey by Truex. Minor note "Xi for life" is a mis-statement. They've removed the term limits, but Truex probably isn't responsible for the headline. In Canada in my childhood we used to joke that Mackenzie King was the only person who had been in power longer than Stalin, almost but not quite true. There is nothing in law to prevent Mrs May from ruling England for life. IMHO, the Constitutional amendment making Xi's repeated re-election possible was a bad move, a blip in the effort to move toward Chinese government under law. (I very much wonder what has happened to the three people, -- was it? -- who voted againt the amendment.) Still, it is silly of our people to mis-state the case. It is legal for Xi to run for re-election. That' s all, so far.
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  9. Very annoying echo in the audio.
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  10. I've never met a person of any ethnicity who couldn't code-switch down-class. If you couldn't, Marky, you weren't being bullied for your "standard English." You were being picked on for being a stupid, incompetent human being -- and quite possibly for being a little bit smug about yer fancy white way of talk. Assuming there's a jot or a tittle of truth to your unlikely tale, that is...
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  11.  @CynHicks  Expressing doubts about a message posted on YouTube is "bullying" now, Cyn?
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