Comments by "David Butler" (@davidbutler378) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. Luv the idea that she got her education because of the miners of Britain and Russia helping each other. Need a lot more of that.
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  2. About redesigning society/technology: as long as centralization of doing things is the paradigm, things will continue to spiral downward. The reason that is true is centralization puts control in the hands of fewer and fewer people and that is counterproductive. There is less chance of competent control. We need to find decentralized ways of getting things done. The more people in control, the better the potential outcome because of the increased chance of competent people in control.
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  3. I agree Moloch is a problem in both centralized and decentralized systems. Getting the vast majority of people thinking for themselves rather than following their favorite elite is a problem. Change is a process best made over a long period of time to allow for course corrections.
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  4. I thought she put things into context. Lex's focus is having a conversation with Putin. It's a challenge that he tries to gain insight in many of his podcasts. Fiona nailed how to interview Putin. Size up the man and ignore the politics: a skill Lex has in spades.
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  5. My sister-in-law is a big fan of Fiona Hill: she is sitting back enjoying your podcast.
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  6. This podcast guest, like many other guests whom you've had on your podcasts, contributes well with the. Knowledge he has acquired. Good job both of you.
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  7. A better name for Liv's podcast: Loki vs Moloch.
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  8. The way to deal with someone who waffles is to establish a space after the interview where you summarize what was revealed in the interview. If you do that with everyone you interview then wafflers have a reason not to waffle because the waffling will be evident to anyone viewing the podcast and you'd have a right to point out the waffles.
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  9. Maybe there should be a high financial penalty on schemes to make money from money and that collective penalty directed toward traditional means of creating new businesses.
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  10. There was a time when "public right to know" meant something. Then, of course, there were more small town newspapers than there are now. Newspaper editors then we're usually the business owners.
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  11. About children and animals vs children and robots: animals who assume the role of pet retain their wild instincts whereas robots, currently, are animated toys with no instincts. I remember my grand niece (6) eager to approach her grandma's cat with little understanding how the cat viewed (a giant) her and what a cat can do out of fear. A robot, currently, is just a novel toy to a child.
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  12. The problem with promoting mass transit over privately owned vehicles is mass transit is urban and that non urban areas become inaccessible. I live in Weymouth which is suburban so my ability to go anywhere is very limited except via Uber which would probably disappear, thank you very much.
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  13. Human beings as an earthly infestation is an overly excessive negative perspective about ourselves. If we ever encounter a cosmic enemy, it will be a thought process we'll have to discard out of necessity.
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  14. I used your revealed self history to encourage a young Uber driver to prepare for the auto taxi that's around the corner. You're right, sometimes we need to tell the self critical voice to shut up. I mostly tell that voice to take a break and I'll tell it when to return. David Butler
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  15. This guest is a challenging task: I applaud you for taking her on. In my world-view, in the moment after death there is a conversation. This podcast seems to be a prelude to one such conversation.
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  16. It's likely that the first Earth interstellar visits to other planets will leave Earth origin microbes behind. Perhaps, Earth origin mammals behind.
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  17. I had a suspicion in Feb 2020 that the China lab was the source of the virus but could not find any evidence in the media or Wikipedia. This podcast gives some evidence that the virus did come from the lab. Waiting now for the proof that Trump and Biden are worst presidents that we've had so far. I'm convinced that future history, in evaluating presidential competence, will show a line moving downward for the past half century.
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  18. I'm sure Jordan Peterson would be willing to set aside some counseling time before you took that Starship flight.
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  19. Imagine the impact if government service began by being trained, specifically, to do the government job the same way soldiers are trained.
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  20. Maybe there should a required high school course spanning an entire year which discusses all the horrors experienced in the last hundred years with a required essay at the end by each student on how they think the horrors could have been prevented.
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  21. That was a beautiful tribute to your children: they are very lucky to have you as their father.
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  22. The Star Trek Prime Directive concerning sentient life comes into play for discussions about changing other planets.
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  23. Something you might want to do in the future using content from past podcasts is mentoring videos. There is plenty of mentoring advice embedded within your podcasts. Something you could use a new hire to do after you've figured out what mentoring you want to do.
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  24. It's fun to speculate about intelligent life beyond where we can travel, however, human exploration and technological has always traded the simpler ways of living for something more hazardous. Be careful what you wish for: the Aztecs discovered the Spanish didn't have the Aztec best interests in mind. Probably in our best interests that the equivalent of the V haven't come a knocking.
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  25. Replicants are just a more complicated versions of the various impacts you have on other people. Just as you have the right to privacy, you have to right to specify how replicants of you would be used. And, frankly, no replicant is likely to be better than the original: xerox copies are't same as originals. Every podcast you do is creating a replicant of you and your guest(s). David Butler
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  26. Alex, you consistently do well with your podcasts. Any sine wave is do to your guest(s).
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  27. I disagree with statement that we have too many people on Earth currently. It's truer that we are not effectively using the gifts that our 8 billion people have. We could support double or triple our current population if we more effectively tapped the abilities of all the Earth's population. And colonizing the rest of the solar system would be more certain.
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  28. Good effort without the suit.
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  29. Earth to Mars and then reverse is the wrong picture. The picture should be Earth to the moon then to Mars: the starship to/from Mars should be built and serviced on the Moon.
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  30. Actually, environment has a greater impact on life more complex than microbes. The eight versions of human species were shaped significantly by the Earth habitat that a given population of uccupied.
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  31. Stargate replicators come to mind although they never made paperclips.
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  32. Unlikely that game players addicted to shoot-them-up games will transition into games not including enemies to defeat. It's hard to find a game where part of the challenge doesn't include enemies to defeat. That is the source of Moloch.
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  33. Wanting know everything there is to know about a person ... for all persons ... that is shrinking the small amount of privacy we have left. Do you want what is going on on China to also go on in the rest of the world? I think not. David Butler
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  34. A podcast less than a half an hour long and with Penrose in the studio!
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  35. If Hal, the refrigerator, started giving me advice about what I removed from it's interior, I'd locate Hal's speak center and disable it. I don't need a machine like Hal to tell me what to do.
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  36. Except in the very short term, I prefer typing to handwriting. Typing can always be edited while handwriting is just there.
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  37. In Nardia, the most stunning person was a witch akin to the nasty Wizard of Oz witch.
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  38. God, another materialist in his fascination with body processes and overlooking the human being containing those processes. Get over yourself.
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  39. Alex, there is a Stanford University neurologist who would be an interesting guest to explore injuries to short term and long term memory. Yesterday, watched his lecture on the effects of such injuries.
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  40. The cliched phrase 'Timing is everything' captures what's wrong with the 'cultural filtering' in our country. Doubling or tripling the number of young people your age with your level of success would be far better than having another Elon Musk. A goal of 10 to 100 times the actual number of young successful (at your level) people globally would increase the chance of doubling or tripling that number. It would increase the chance that true democracy could emerge and would make it a lot easier to deal with broken and evil people. David Butler
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  41. Alex, Jordan Peterson vs two materialistic scientists would be a howl because neither of the two could peddle their standard wares
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  42. Somehow jumping from the first second of the Big Bang to the dinosaurs in single year cosmology is bs: there is lot more that happened in 13.8 years of Space/Time. And, he knew that there been a switch of inflation coming before the Big Bang that was definitely worth mentioning. Is being 'dumb' a prerequisite to getting the Nobel these days? Better pushback needed here? David Butler
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  43. Enjoyed discussion.
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  44. Imagine what it was like to be human 300,000 years ago then you'll understand why we have the need to see beauty.
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  45. I think the Star Trek prime directive will be a philosophy of any advanced aliens so, sorry, no sneak peaks at advanced technologies.
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  46. It's possible to become very fond of machines and ignore the consequences of decisions made on fellow human beings
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  47. I agree, Michael, that the podcast watchers are just there for the ride and the host has a responsibility to the guest(s) as well as the audience. The thing is, podcast emotion is a sine wave that begins and ends with the podcast, and that audience has left as you continue with rest of your life. In my case: I'm watching after the initial audience has moved on and hope my comments are useful then I'm on to: Next!
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  48. The geo junk yard could be harvested to supply scrap for an operating Moonbase. A potential future SpaceX contract.
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  49. About views, likes/dislikes: a better measure for anyone involved in media, for themselves, is the frequency of joy in their involvement in the process. I recommend maintaining sufficient inventory that maximizes flexible use of your time. Your self judgement of your best content remains part of that inventory.
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  50. It's common for the extremely wealthy to frame their life as about how they tried to do the best for other people. It's exactly how most of us less wealthy would frame our lives. However, it's probably how Hitler and Stalin would frame their lives so there is an emptiness to that framing unless there considerable evidence to prove the validity of the sentiment. Only that first conversation after death proves whether that sentiment is accurate.
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  51. With the heroes you've mentioned: choose some large number to multiply the number of heroes you admire and realize that's the number of heroes globally that we have. Choked, in most cases, by the elite holding the reigns of power.
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  52. The "all men are created equal" was about elites not a government's constituency. If the founders had literally believed the statement, women and black man would have the vote during Washington's presidency.
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  53. If like Brian Greene one is disposed to believe that only Science can determine whether something is true or not then your logic is based on emptiness. Denying the human ability to transcend is choosing Brian Greene's world of emptiness. There is more to being alive than Science.
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  54. A common Twitter tweet vitality is from animal lovers. Frankly, less than 5 cute pooches/kitties a day is good.
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  55. Cynics are cowards.
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  56. The nodes in Transformer sound a lot like Wolfram's atoms of space. Maybe designing Transformer points to how to start a standard model of Space/Time.
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  57. Individuals in this debate are privileged individuals not the unwashed. Individuals at the top of hierarchies. Those like myself don't count in this debate -- I'm not privileged. I only count in direct democracy which has never existed. Alex, try ties with color and patterns. David Butler
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  58. I suspect the just minted coder does a lot of hard coding whereas a more experienced coder juggles pieces of code in an app labyrinth of code design. How does that apply to language designers?
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  59. Love Steve Wolfram ideas.
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  60. Your desire to read books parallels my recent desire to consume podcasts from various sources which I have effectively exhausted. Hard bound texts often have only a forest of words to consume. Videos mix verbal/textual content with images and physical gestures of individuals tying elements of the video together. In my student days, there was text, unimaginative sketches and instructors almost devoid of personality. Never impressed by comics so science fiction was my refuge. Books, at that time, were almost completely text; an aspect of books I greatly disliked because I lacked the life experience to imagine what the book described.
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  61. Boy, do I dislike the reductionist mentality: it's a horse with blinders to keep it on the straight-and-narrow.
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  62. Is dimension emergent from Wolfram's unstructured space and is String theory's many dimensions just an emergent property of Wolfram's unstructured space? That is, will String theory be 'stuck' until someone can explain Wolfram's unstructured space can inflate? David Butler
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  63. The Bell curve book and Jensen paper controversy was not about g factor or IQ score. It was about perception of individual and common group capacity as human beings. Whenever there is a hierarchical judgement based on limited measures of capacity there is going to be a pushback. Measuring just intelligence without including other capacities invites pushback. A smarter approach to the Bell Curve chapter 10 would have been in placing IQ score in context with capacities separate from IQ. Then any racist claims would have sounded hollow. One capacity different from IQ is stamina.
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  64. I'm looking forward to seeing you as an academic vs Science podcaster. Neil deGrasse Tyson has my Yahoo email address - I don't do Gmail. I'd like you consider (as you do with that new U) advising in a new area. I'm considering Tyson in the Writer role in my current proposal to OECD. Tyson is flassy and I think you could keep him on track: Early days with contact with Tyson. David Butler
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  65. Unlike the dinosaurs, assuming the NASA rocket fails, the human race will rebound.
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  66. Orwell was wrong because, although a human being can be broken temporarily, spirit can not be broken. The source of spirit is before birth and continues beyond death and creates all that is admired in human beings. Even atheists know that.
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  67. Be careful about wanting to be a (drone) robot: longer existence is not necessarily good. Maybe dying is just a transition: can't say yes/no from personal experience - a gut instinct says there is a transition worth waiting for.
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  68. A society with warriors is really a state with some of it's population under command of that state. For example, the National Guard who can be used to help fight fires or fight in Iraq. Nothing wrong with having warriors but it matters what role they undertake. Are elected leaders or the entire adult population better decision makers on the number and roles of warriors? I lean toward the latter rather than.the former because our elected leaders seem to constantly make bad choices. However, just my opinion. David Butler
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  69. About shifting G factor to the right: another book then movie about that.
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  70. As I've tweeted, what fascinates me is the 8 versions of human that became one. With limited extra-planetary transport currently available to us, the next few generations will have to content themselves with single cell life. I've always preferred Star Trek over NASA.
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  71. Michael, now that you are self publisher, you may wish to emulate Medium before they became literature for a fee. That is, Open Source publisher ... say with ads.
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  72. There was a book then a movie which answers the question of whether to take the dumb/smart pill. It concerned a guy and the mouse that died. David Butler
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  73. I see the connection between dreams and creativity but I ignore the current dream especially if it's stressful because I want to see what the next dream will be - don't care what kind of dream it is as long that it is different. David Butler
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  74. Personally, I think the "Am I in a simulation" question is something you grow out of. However, if this is just something you are charmed into doing then I recommend the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series. Skynet has it's charms.
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  75. Assembly math with the origin of cell Genesis. Is fascinating.
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  76. About shooter games: very popular with younger (much younger than you) Steam players - I despise those games ... Especially, the survival enemy versions. However, I created a guide to deal with enemies: 'Robot lore'. Even the things we like to do have drawbacks so we adapt in order to continue what we like doing. This podcast is interesting. David Butler
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  77. The only way, long term, to be an effective criticizer of government is to be invisible to that government and mobile.
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  78. It's sometimes, for me, interesting to watch chess demonstrations but watching chess gets old for me because 64 squares seems like a tiny space. I like a game space spanning billions of cubes with fast travel doors. Something beyond classical computers ability to calculate. A thought.
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  79. It's more likely that overall intellectual potential increases over time with more favorable social conditions in the same way living conditions improve with more favorable social conditions. Bad aspects of things tend to have more prominence than good things.
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  80. About people who think the world revolves around them: that is common for the very young even as they move into 'practice adulthood' (i.e. 20s). Those who never realize how important other people are: sacrifice receiving the joy meant for them are to be pitied. Psychopaths, however, require close scrutiny.
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  81. The guards watching the guards (Lost TV series) problem is only a problem if everything is controlled centrally. Widely dispersed, appropriate knowledge and emphasis on competence deals with the problem.
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  82. So, no witch and the wardrobe?
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  83. McBeast shut up and enjoy making the podcast and let Fridman be Fridman. He is doing his thing and you enjoy doing yours.
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  84. 40-60k for an electric car/truck is not an amount many of us can find in our wallets.
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  85. About the Higgs confirmation: I've seen comments that the Higgs field is a minor player in explaining mas. No explanation, however, of what else explains mass in those comments. Maybe the Nobel prize for the Higgs confirmation should have waited a bit longer. David Butler
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  86. Neanderthals, on average, had larger brain cases than modern day humans but modern day brains are more complexly structured than Neanderthal brains.
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  87. Your discussion mixing free will, Consciousness and determinism reminds me of the TV series Devs (i.e. deus as in God) in which the series principals argued about free will and determinism. Ultimately, choices were made based on individual states-of-mind. The final series outcome suggested, to me, that free will and determinism are just opposite perspectives of the the same coin. The principals had just trapped themselves to making the outcome happen. Maybe it's better to focus beyond ourselves and let the outcome determine itself ... that is, do the best we can. Just a thought. David Butler
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  88. A better test than academia's favorite (i.e. don't have to think too hard) 'Turing test' is have a list of tasks that humans are good at and a list of what machines are good at and use items from both lists as part of the test. David Butler
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  89. This sounds a lot like Fermi's paradox - there is an online game that shows how negative that hypothesis is 'Grabby aliens doesn't sound fortunate for us earthers: Independence Day wouldn't likely go well for us. Good idea, however. David Butler
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  90. Mathematica or it's open source equivalents can make tough physics equations like Einstein's field equations easier to understand. Especially if you can view the ideas geometrically.
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  91. The recent switch in physics in putting Inflation before the Big Bang implies that Space is fundamental and Time, Matter and Energy are emergent. It, also, suggests Christ stuck out his pinky and the universe began. Also, means Multiverse theory is debunked. Luv to hear Steve Wolfram explain how I'm wrong. David Butler.
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  92. Wow, three stooges. Haven't given them any though in a very long time because American culture has evolved considerably since they did their movies. Never was impressed by the competitor: the marx bros.
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  93. Balaji may have found a path to true democracy without resorting to violence.
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  94. Wolfram, this structureless thing sounds like 'quantum type' space rather than 'macro perceived' space. So, since Inflation is supposed to happen before the down-graded Big Bang, how does this structureless space inflate prior to the Big Bang? David Nutler
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  95. Maybe a population majority of nations (i. e. list of nations whose sum of population exceeds 4 billion) have ethnicities connected to their source nation's populations. European, Asian and African ethnicities interested in a global not tribal welfare of each given ethnicity. Then internal horrors within a nation would be less palatable.
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  96. The answer to the dilemma that I posed in my last comment is a far better usage of our most fundament resource: human beings. The problem with the light bulb is current levels of centralization. A switch to more decentralization means we using ourselves in a different way.
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  97. The IQ controversy missed the point. The objective should tapping as many capacities of every individual as possible: maximize the advantages of a varied use of human capacities and minimize the disadvantages of specialized use of human capacities. A focus on a single capacity encourages narrow hierarchical specialization.
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  98. Good job, Michael, moving to electronic publishing. You may want to add reader feedback in the same vein as online games encourage feedback: of all varieties.
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  99. About race: current theory has 8 versions of human until the very recent millennia. The different human versions, to great extent, specialized in different Earth habitats and thus developed different survival skills. The 8 human versions merged to become current day Homo Sapiens. Race, effectively, emerged as the 8 human versions merged into one.
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  100. Konstantine's experience with school is vastly different than my native born experience with Boston schools. The intellectually gifted in the schools that I attended were very rare and useful for more challenged students on getting by scholastically. College was a shock to me because I discovered how far from special I was. I didn't learn about privilege until I was out of high school. That is when I decided how much I disliked privilege. David Butler
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  101. He is evil in a cockroach sense.
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  102. About a startup company becoming a $billion to $trillion company in the future. That sounds like the pirate Bill ,Gates who crushed all his competitors. I think India has a better idea of starting a lot of little companies to distribute the wealth around a bit. It wouldn't hurt this country to try that idea here. David Butler
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  103. There are many famous Time photos during the Vietnam war. A child running in the street sticks in my mind.
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  104. Infinity is an indicator that we are at a border of our perceptions and can't say anything meaningful at that border. When you include infinity in your hypothesis, you are venturing into delusional space. The question you need to ask is why is there an infinity here and how can I remove this infinity. Otherwise, you might as well consider your hypothesis worthless. Steve Wolfram, you too enchanted with your cellular automata to ask yourself useful questions. David Butler
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  105. About UFOs: the videos available about UFOs don't seem credible to me. Even the military videos. Oh, there are fanciful drawings and artistic depictions but little Physics that lend credibility. It's all suggestive but shadowy. No journalistic footage that doesn't imply Photoshop was used. Not much different than "Earth vs the flying saucers". A real, publicly witnessed alien visit won't require Photoshop.
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  106. In the next century, technological innovations will be impressive but is dwarfed by the importance of releasing human potential in greater terms than today's world. That will be especially important should there be a permanent Martian civilization. Extraterrestrials runs a distant third.
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  107. Since you've created a lot of content with your podcasts, I suggest you think about re-packaging the part of the content that is not out-of-date into shorter videos orientated around themes. Many of your potential viewers don't have the time to sit-view for 2-3 hours. I'd recommend using that new university you are affiliated to get the glitches out of the re-packaging. Hope that helps.
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  108. Don't deny yourself the times of sharing: just find ways to thicken your skin. Sharing is part of self development that I think works for you: it's a version of joy that you often call love. Just remember you matter especially to those you have yet to meet.
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  109. Elona, wait until some of your top employers write a letter criticizing your public behavior. Of course, if you fire them, they'll land on their feet .... no longer being too fond of you.
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  110. One of problems with automation is there is a great effort preparing for the tasks that machines will do but not so much for the humans that are out of a job. There are a lot of problems about that currently and not much real effort to do something about that inconvenience' - incompetent leadership. Gavid Butler
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  111. I guarantee that, if you look a thousand years into the future, one of things that wouldn't have changed significantly is human nature. The best way to verify that is to look a few millennia into the past: not much of a difference between human beings then and human beings now. Only things that have changed are some enforced social rules.
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  112. About illusion: those still stuck in the matrix movies need to remember that the Greeks reduced movement measurements to a paradox because they assumed time could be divided endlessly by 2. There is no paradox because the thought experiment was wrong about how anatomy works.
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  113. Consequences of being raised in a box is explored by the two 3 year TV series: Twelve monkeys and Legion. Each comes to the common sense conclusion that consequences are far better if no one is not raised in box. Yet some philosophers seem fascinated by thoughts about such things. Is someone raised in a box a victim or villain-the-making? David Butler
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  114. Public information is often dumbed down because practitioners in a particular specialty (ex: medicine) have their own lingo for their specialty. Simulation is a way the public can be more knowledgeable about the various specialties without being entangled in a specialty's lingo.
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  115. Despite the prevalent desire of educators to view Turing machines as a fundamental form of computation, I really dislike relying on an infinite paper tape as a mechanism for computation. Infinity is an indication that something is missing in a hypothesis. I'm not offering a replacement idea for the Turing machine ... Just saying that I hold my nose when the idea of Turing machine is mentioned. Somehow, the idea not needing memory to do computation is a dumb restriction. David Butler
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  116. This podcast is interesting but I think that online game potential for challenge combinations has far exceeded chess combinations for decades. And, the real chess grandmaster is a computer. David Butler
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  117. Again, Richard's thoughts on life success overlook the social structure effect on individuals and the life success of individuals. Society has a selection process for where individuals fit in the social hierarchy. Only a few reach the top and merit is rarely the deciding criteria. My point is that specialty is a safe home and career inconvenience is rarely chosen.
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  118. Alex, with the fondness that you have for robots, consider choosing a Steam game studio to create a robot world simulation world game reflecting the kind of world you'd like the world to be. I recommend using the Chinese game studio which created the Dyson Sphere Program' game.
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  119. About God. Although God is in everyone's heart ... even Brian Greene's ... God is not just above the clouds. That is religious arrogance. The important thing to remember about God (Christ) is that first conversation's content just after the moment of death. Those who think God is a dispenser of wishes to be fulfilled have a surprise coming.
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  120. It's amazing that physicists have their own materialistic creation theories but are completely incapable of understanding how counterintuitive a lot of their notions really are. Come on: atoms have consciousness? God, consciousness can't be more fundamental than matter? Not saying it is just amused by the tiptoing around a notion. That thinking will inspire laughter in the future. David Butler
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  121. About Michael's unpublished books: what is it about leaving books unpublished when you can easily make them downloadable from a web site. Is it about getting paid or do you want to share your thoughts? What is wrong about electronic publishing? Hard bound is a far more limited media: electronic you can have an unlimited number of links, images and video to go with your text.
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  122. God (Christ) didn't create a terrible world and then create Adam and Eve : God created Adam and Eve and their progeny (with Satan's assistance) turned the world God created into a terrible world. David Butler
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  123. When you speak about Iran, you seem to overlook that Persia ruled for 250 years then Alexander the Great tore them to shreds. Neither opponent (Persia or Greece) seem particularly admirable to me.
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  124. About being the little person watching the big people doing their thing: despite the perception little/big, little/big is mostly an illusion. Yes, some have advantages and others don't but for anyone of us it's our life that matters. Someone else's life belongs to them in how they live it. And, honestly, simulation never approaches reality despite perceptions to the contrary.
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  125. About imagining something exists in order to create it: most new things are variants of existing things with new features. Plenty hard to create something new even that way. Only God creates something from nothing and even then only occasionally is it completely different from anything else. Creating the first angel from nothing is hard even for God but the second angel from nothing is a lot easier. Take water to wine: Christ knew the missing ingredients: just snap the fingers and add the missing ingredients made from nothing. So will such future magic be done. David Butler
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  126. God as a physical being: that is a human perception that is self serving. Considering how small the local universe is to the total universe human perceptions of God are ridiculous ... Like atheism - fine if that makes you feel better. Best question in this podcast: what is outside the universe? Choose the answer you want. To me, it's obvious. David Butler
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  127. She should discuss her presentation skills with Brian Greene: Mr honed presenter even as a post doc.
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  128. Interesting story. Another reason to do something about incompetent US policies.
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  129. Your guest seems overly optimistic about human use of information. His knowledge and professional experience pared with someone knowledgeable about human psychology would make an interesting podcast.
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  130. The focus in this podcast is more about young and middle age (not a surprise) adults than older adults. Past 60 the body and the brain shrinks: the information still applies but the reality is quite different. Is what it is: "Life in the big city". Waiting to hear about creativity which does tend be in 90-120 min spans for me. David Butler
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  131. About the Jan 6 event: America has been drifting down it's own slippery slope in a similar way that the Roman Republic drifted just prior to the crowning of Julius Caesar. Everyone seems to be walking in a dream wearing their version of 3D glasses: we got lucky (sort of) with Trump. We may not be so lucky with the next would be Caesar who charms his way into power. When we realize what happened: it'll be too late because our version of Hitler
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  132. Maybe, there should be a non college tutor option for high schoolers and post high schoolers which leads to a junior or senior year bachelor entry to college. Then admissions testing would be unnecessary for those individuals and the path to an undergraduate degree would be more flexible. I failed my first college attempt but succeeded in getting the degree later. David Butler
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  133. By discussing 'fault tolerant' you've distinguished between classical computing and quantum computing since superposition requires fault tolerance.
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  134. And, there is this old guy in Weymouth having a meal while listening to the exchange of your words. At the same time conversing with his sister about something she is excited about.
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  135. I'm obviously enjoying this podcast. The C++ podcast discussed the importance of computer language garbage collection. Seems Marketing should do its own garbage collection with the purpose of enhancing personal privacy. That probably requires government regulation before Marketing will make the effort. Seems privacy will only be in the periods and stripped from the content. David Butler
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  136. This guy will never contribute (ultimately) anything of value since he already thinks he has all the answers. This must have been a practice podcast since I think you have a better sense of smell than this guy has. David Butler
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  137. Just a thought on my last comment: drop Inflation and Big Bang terms and say what it is. Creation event: empty space expanding then time, matter and energy just popping up begs the Membrane theory. I can imagine many baby boomers choking on this comment. Heh, heh had my chuckle - next?
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  138. Except at the very beginning of the podcast, I don't think the fisherman viewer got much out of the podcast. I, however, found your guest comments fascinating.
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  139. Informative.
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  140. Maybe the defense/prosecution regulations should be rewritten placing, in particular cases, greater emphasis on harm on society and less on individuals with significant advantage. It'll put some big criminal defense firms out of business: No loss there.
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  141. AI replacing humanity is the (cy) Borg question. We are far too technologically primitive to be capable to answer that question. The earliest we can be capable of answering that question is when we are multi-planetary in our solar system.
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  142. About the meaning of life question which you ask at the end of each podcast: perhaps what you are asking is what is the legacy that the guest would like to create since the followup question is about death. Legacy thoughts drive older people facing death.
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  143. No Lex, Michael is just repeating what happened to that journalist and how off target the American media were at that time. It's rare to choose to tell the truth rather than minimize your risks. I doubt that I'd choose to tell the truth under those circumstances.
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  144. Your guest and I are on the same page. The Materialist physicists... especially the stringers ... could benefit by listening what this guy has to say.
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  145. What Fiona is saying is share what your passions are with Putin and elicit what Putin's passions are. Avoid anything political because you can get the answers you seek other ways. Example: your passion for chess and the fact that AI are the real grandmasters. Seek the man not the politics.
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  146. Is it possible to specify how to stimulate chained research papers? That could be handy in Science/Technology game simulations.
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  147.  ʟᴇx ғʀɪᴅᴍᴀɴ  Thank you.
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  148. The long term cheapest way to provide more space telescope time is to automate telescopes across the surface of the moon. Just a small Moon base staff to do periodic maintenance.
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  149. Python 3.11 is Software 1.0: perhaps Python 4.0 would be designed to work with neural networks - Software 2.0.
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  150. For a desert to become a forest requires climate change and changes in habitat. One of the current obstacles to global political change is a lack of appreciation of the diversity in individual human capacities and lack of understanding of how to best utilize human diversity. Even in this country there is the us/them mythology. How ridiculous to build a wall around this country to keep others out: a zero sum mentality.
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  151. About American intermixing of whites and blacks (a very complicated topic) there is the white and black elite and then then there is the rest of us of various ethnicities. There is a truce between different ethnics and there is the tribal connection within each ethnicity. Even Irish vs British American tribalism. I definitely see tribalism emanate from my siblings.
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  152. Michael a smarter way to deal with family (definitely not my family) who wants to give you money is to find someone (easy enough) who needs the money and neglect to tell the giver of the money. That way, at least three people end up happy.
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  153. You might want to do a podcast featuring Coffeezilla and Michael Malice. I'd be hilarious.
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  154. Balaji's proof of authenticity using crypto chains can handle the 'I am not a robot' issue.
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  155. I suspect that in today's America, the first born is the practice child and the second child benefits as the first child learns. I'm very familiar with first child / second child interaction.
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  156. Santa Clause is a mispronunciation of bishop Saint Nicholas and diverts focus from the celebration of Christ's birth. Halloween is another example: the phrase was "All hallow's Eve" or the night before All Saints day. Witches and all the other garbage is really inappropriate for the night before All Saints day. It's really a pagan celebration. And, yes, I went for candy when I was a child.
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  157. The journalists of today are no different than the journalists of the 30s and 40s: almost all run in the same pack, however, a tiny few have integrity and what they do is not about themselves. That is who Michael is talking about.
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  158. Two guests on your podcasts are better than one guest. I suspect that you've long since have come to that conclusion even if it's more work for you. Amusing to watch guests unintentionally interrupt. My siblings definitely don't that drawback. This podcast is definitely fun to watch.
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  159. Except for EA deep in the past, I only purchase Steam games - not impressed with Steam competitor's offerings. Not impressed by 99% of the Steam games I review. especially the PvP games. Chose a different open game recently over you guest's games because the prices were excessive. I don't like PvP games because there is always some harassing moron blowing up my stuff - encourages me to look for a 2-by-4;to correct the moron's behavior.
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  160. When the focus is primarily on technical capacity to do something there should be at least an equal focus on how that technology impacts human capacities otherwise the technology is effectively useless.
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  161. Loki is a good name for Win-Win because it encourages keeping a close eye on what Loki is doing. Loki is mischief.
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  162. Experience is cumulative and after a short time period most experiences are forgettable. Asking 30 days after about a podcast is asking most people to say 'Duh'. Probably the common response to an experience is to digest it with other experiences within the subconscious. Generally, my response to a podcast (other than comments) is: 'Next!'. David Butler
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  163. Time is not fundamental. It is emergent from space just like matter and energy. Inflation then 'Big Bang' dictates that.
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  164. Interesting your of history
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  165. The best way to get a criminal to interview is to offer a worse consequence if they don't: pointing to an example of when you actually did the worse consequence with someone else. No one sane thinks they are a bad person. Bad people are a significant percent of the total population.
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  166. Alex, your goal setting strategy seems appropriate for you. Continue to go with your heart: it's a good heart.
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  167. Describing the universe becoming more and more intelligent reminds me of 12 Monkey speculation that Time required humans in order to think. Never bought into that idea.
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  168. It seems today that to be a successful theoretical physicist you also have to embrace materialism over everything else which puts one into an empty void. Not a good place to be. David Butler
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  169. Ah, I was wrong. Python 3.11 is in machine learning. Why no comment about Software 2.0?
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  170. I probably comment too much but I like how your 'thinking' has been developing over time: stay on that path.
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  171. Santa Claus, unlike Christ, is magic: before the age of 7 everything is magic. Christ, on the other hand, is the super adult that adults are in awe of in the same way that children of that age are in awe of adults.
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  172. Not to discourage you from thinking about how things could go wrong for human beings but it's best to explore how things can go badly or go well. I expect things, over all, to go two steps forward with every step backward. I wish Science Fiction writing would spend more time examining the more positive thoughts about the future and pull back on the negative possibilities for the future. Despite the feeling to the contrary: Skynet is not going to happen no matter how many psychopaths we have among us. Of course, Skynet will come from your choices: I'll just be dust by then.
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  173. What if Sagittarius A has a universe inside: would tapping energy from it affect the inhabitants of that universe?
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  174. Assuming a true quantum computer (not a classical computers simulation) existed: how would Transformer run on such a quantum computer? Just a thought for your quest.
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  175. Use of media to share your thoughts requires a patience similar to the patience needed to pursuing a scientific career. Media feedback is more immediate, and if you focus on the content feedback, useful in the pursuit of your scientific career. Likes/Dislikes are for the media channel and are otherwise irreverent. Media comments are best proceeded by a bot to narrow what you read.
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  176. Alex, your guest is not talking about reform because he doesn't have a clue of how to initiate reform: he is expecting revolution. Same posture in the other video that I saw him in. He focus is on the American elites but not on the vast majority of Americans not working for large businesses. He doesn't see the vast number of tiny businesses in this country. His vision is different.
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  177. I agree with Liv that lab bio is the greatest danger to humanity. 12 monkey TV series comes to mind where a viral pandemic enabled a crazy cult to do something even worse.
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  178. Although I studied Chess a bit when I was about your age, I was never attracted to it: thiat is pre-Bobby Fisher. Sorry, I find Settlement Survival far more intimidating since they challenges are far more devious and the development choices are uncountable. However, still interested in this podcast.
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  179. The TV series 'Timeless' mimics the last 5 mins of this podcast. The evolution of memes by progeny. In the series case: the re-spanning of how to build a time machine.
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  180. Strongmen rise to power because of the support they can generate. What are the long term strategies that the global population can use to prevent strongmen from gaining power? It's the general population that have the ultimate power not the leaders or even the elite supporting a given leader.
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  181. The 'I am not a robot' tech also relies on with-in-image recognition. I dislike that part of the tech because it's a difficult on us older folks. Something an apprentice programmer is clueless.
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  182. Your guest is a treasure: a gift to those who viewed this podcast.
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  183. Be careful about anthropomorphic machines. The fictional Borg were corporal machines which like wolves gobbled up their prey.
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  184. Infinity is a red flag: don't venture here there are dragons. That is, you are approaching a boundary of human fragility. Physicists swimming with infinities approach a quick descent.
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  185. I agree the Fermi paradox is a far too negative view of the universe. The planetary zoo is much more likely scenario. Frankly, I suspect that interstellar commerce is far more hazardous than living on a single planet.
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  186. I like the thought that physicists might have to redefine entropy: never liked or believed the current definition. Seemed like too much a leap of faith. Hear that Brian Greene?
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  187. Alex, you should definitely have a conversation (not a podcast) with Turok: interesting ideas about science in general.
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  188. Sorry, Coffeezilla, I never saw you on Glee.
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  189. Sorry, I was never impressed by Kerbal even through it is sorta an engineering game. Factorio, Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere are far more challenging than Kerbal. I've struggled for years with Factorio and Dyson Sphere to get to the end of the game. The only way for me to beat Dyson Sphere was to create a detailed game guide with an accompanying game notes file. The closer to the end you get in Dyson Sphere the more complicated the game play becomes. Of course, being 76 is also a drawback.
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  190. About the US government: the leaders of our country, for at least the past century have been as competent as most of the Roman emperors. In the past fifty years there has been a decline in leader competency. We are below the competency of those emperor's who followed Charlemagne.
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  191. Atheists really don't have a clue of the emptiness they choose by ignoring transcendence.
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  192. About reading books discussion near the end of the podcast: smart phones have plenty of content from mainly text to videos and podcasts. However, a lot of time is required that people around your age just don't have the time to spare. It's very clear from text exchanges with my nieces and nephews, who are around your age. 30 mins a day means one of your podcasts takes a week to complete. Just thought you'd like to know. David Butler
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  193. When you are young (24) chasing the almighty dollar makes sense especially if you can do it well. When you are a bit older (30+) and have already attained success then how your impact effects many others becomes more important.
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  194. Rather than than refer to something as infinite, it's better choice to say it's (effectively) uncountable since infinity is not a number and uncountable is referring to an unknown number.
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  195. I expect to be dust in 2030 so I really don't care about skynet showing up in 2045. However, I'm encouraged that many of today's hierarchies, by necessity, will have disappeared and there is a potential that a much larger, again by necessity, percent of the global population will be making the important decisions. That eventuality is well worth preparing for today. David Butler
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  196. If space is structureless in the way you describe structureless then how do you describe emergence from space? That is: if time, matter and energy were emergent from space then how do you describe emergence of each? David Butler
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  197. Any advice to young people should explain how to find mentors to help them on their life path. Only some them will listen due to naivite.
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  198. I've never liked the super wealthy because it means resources controlled by the few so I've always thought of Forbes as a version of Hustler magazine.
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  199. Your paperclip maximizing species can easily be trumped by competitors and become extinct long before it gets off planet.
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  200. Although intelligence is Richard H's speciality, his speciality is too narrow to see the forest from the trees. That is, intelligence is not the only capacity a human being has: it's just the intellect. It's the same blinder that materialistic physicists have: assumptions morph into hypothesis then into pseudo laws. It's easy to overlook the inconvenient. Richard overlooks physical and especially spiritual.
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  201. About your frequent question about existing contact by extraterrestrials: studying animal forms of intelligence on our world, prior to actual extraterrestrial contact, is the best strategy to pursue.
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  202. Lex, in terms of what I understand about your personality, you are far closer to conventional than weird. Witness your preacher attire of black suit, white shirt and black tie which you are obviously comfortable in wearing. I don't remember ever wearing a suit in the last 40 years.
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  203. "The most important person in the room is the interviewer": hmm, depends on the interviewer ... but, you do alright.
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  204. I'm not convinced that machines should be babysitting human beings. It strikes me that thinking is similar to choosing representative government because the masses just can't handle real democracy. Considering the number of incompetent leaders this country has had recently: that thinking is arrogant. Just because you are talking about machines doesn't mean that thinking is less arrogant. David Butler
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  205. Being the oldest: all my siblings are younger siblings, though at my age, age differences are insignificant. There is nothing more disturbing than a sibling telling you how much smarter they are than you and you are an idiot. An event not as infrequent as I'd like it to b. Have you read 'Stranger in a strange land'? That was not on your list.
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  206. I've spent some time looking at many types of rocket engines when I first investigated SpaceX. This young lady, however technically knowledgeable, is almost speaking gibberish as she describes Ion engines .... Seems almost bored with her own description. I'm sure I'd do worse but ...
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  207. Your guest needs to work on eye contact. I had that problem when I was her age: she needs to ask herself what's blocking her from making eye contact.
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  208. I've never liked MS: especially the underhanded way they treat OpenOffice. They luv to crush competitive software. Any Open Source comments are a smokescreen.
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  209. Sorry Michael, but as a proponent of anarchy, you are not entitled to define joy since you are in a different universe. Joy is a selfless act that you do for another that reflects back on you. Come back to this universe and do that act for Lex and you will discover what joy is.
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  210. How will Software 2.0 affect MS Office and OpenOffice?
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  211. How do you expose the true source of financing for politicians? Political mechanisms to expose such funding has failed.
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  212. Not familiar with the 'Her' movie which, if I'm still alive in a few years, I might see on Hulu. I remember the AI movie of this robot boy who was never accepted by his adoptive mom ... a robot who pines for her even after the human race becomes extinct. That was a movie worth watching. David Butler
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  213. A time traveler journeying back a century, who prepared for the difference in cultures, would be more knowledgeable and appear far smarter then than today.
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  214. Although there are many who are enchanted by Turning and his machine, I've never been impressed by Turning despite the impact that Turing has had to computer design. I liked the simplicity of the IBM card than the silly paper tape imitation of the Turing machine ... I especially dislike the use of infinity in any theory. Infinity is on the border of human limits lazy and programmers too lazy to put any time into 'useful' UI. You two guests, however, are better than Turning and the lazy ones in our midst. David Butler
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  215. About public criticism: consider the 11 year-old, Danny, who took the blame for his dad's murder of Danny's aunt. Leaving Juvie at 16. The plot of the TV series: 'Twisted'.
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  216. The way for America to deal with China is the same way that that America dealt with the Soviet Union: divide and conquer. That is, find the Chinese localities willing to deal with American localities but lower the national sword expeditions. Let the Chinese communist party trip over itself and have to make deals with it's populations. Don't let the Chinese communist party play one community against another. David Butler
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  217. A podcast about arresting criminals is interesting but is about an after the fact fix. Preventing someone from becoming a criminal is a lot harder but a better approach. The question to ask, beyond genetics, is what in society encourages criminality. Anyone can become a criminal. My dad was a cop yet he had criminal thoughts: everyone does.
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  218.  @phoenixfire8226  I'm mostly thinking about broken people like sociopaths rather than criminals. I understand your focus on behavior incentives but prevention also means other kinds of incentives.
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  219. You want to surrender your human decision making to a machine made by someone else? Better to work out your personal things by yourself excepting sources of advice. David Butler
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  220. I guarantee that if you look a millennium into the future
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  221. I think the moon is the most convenient platform to build a lot of relatively inexpensive telescopes that can be constructed and maintained by a large moonbase operating similar to The antarctic base. That would be the impetus for creating the Starship version that can take a large number of colonists to/from Mars. I think some wealthy will want something more than a trip around the moon. I think booking time on the moon will become a reality.
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  222. I lost my slide rule decades ago. I don't miss it even tho it was important to have one in Boston Latin school.
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  223. Wolfram would gain insights if he looked beyond celluar automata: he's done a great job mining that. Plenty of focus on individual human beings from a collective perspective. Not enough focus on the how diversity develops and the ideal ways that diversity can develop. Question: how to re-shape hierarchy to .maximize harmonious contribution of all the human adult population. Especially, early dealing with psychopaths and other broken human beings. David Butler
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  224. Just a thought follow-up to my last comment. Consider re-packaging some of your podcasts for local (Austin) consumption with shorter time requirements. Collections on the same theme, say: aliens or history or politics, etc. The idea being to see what works locally that might also work nationally/internationally. If you already have this idea then definitely go with it. David Butler
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  225. What would biology engineering theory say about the materialist physics of consciousness theory of a prior podcast guest?
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  226. There is a 30 year difference in my programming experience and your interviewee. Now I understand how culture filtering works ... I was doing similar things in my time but the culture wasn't ready. There is got to be some way to deal with culture filtering damaging the chances of today's babies. So much waste in this country's way of doing things. David Butler.
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  227. Love the change of outfit which is obviously Michael's idea. What is also obvious is that Michael is a true friend who has had a big impact on you and you probably on him. I'm glad you are friends and ignore those who don't get you. Their loss.
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  228. Success in life (run the "wonderful life" clip) is creating as much joy as you have the capacity to create.
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  229. Alex, you are not boring. However, a patterned tie and non black suit would be an interesting novelty.
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  230. Your guest seems naive about how human beings in a society react to a threat like a pandemic..With the lies from Trump and wary view about about what Fauci was saying, it was hard to believe anything we told. And, it wasn't obvious what to look up on Wikipedia. I know because I tried to figure out what the truth was and I never really discovered the truth until late in the pandemic. David Butler
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  231. Fiddling with Inflation and Creation is diddling with Transcendence
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  232. Sounds like Win-Win's name should be Loki.
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  233. By aliveness I think he means outside-the-box or self insight which are rare for most people. For me, inspiring joy in another is far more satisfying and there are plenty of opportunity to be in those moments.
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  234. Skynet looms put on the far reaches of the universe or not.
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  235. Ages ago, I read Animal Farm out of curiosity but not knowing the details of Stalin's rule because it wasn't in accessible history books. Read the Nazi book much later again out of couriousity. It's amazing how ignorant my generation was when I was young: in some extent still is.
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  236. A more likely cause of human extinction is genetics: especially if COVID was released from that Chinese lab.
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  237. I dislike tests, also ... especially the time limit tests.
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  238. I agree that violence for political change is not a good idea. Real social change is like a desert becoming a forest with many streams interweaving through that forest.
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  239. One way to understand God's relationship with human beings is to go back as many millennia as you can then live the lives in each generation that brought human beings to today. See how we human beings changed over the generations and see God's hand in those changes. Of course, you'd need a united book of scripture to see that. Something we currently don't have available to us.
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  240. My last comment was just an observation how many people focus on the trivial and overlook what is actually more important. I generally keep my opinion about Christmas and Halloween to my self because many might be threatened in some way.
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  241. The idea of payload cost seems to escape the mind of engineers when seeking to solve defunk satellites in high orbit. Putting parachutes on defunk satellites to bring them down sooner is stupid. Putting the junk in even higher orbit to be harvested as Moon base resources is a better solution. Fewer missions to supply the moon with my idea.
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  242. The thing about something you've purchased such as a book is that after you have it is how much time you will to spend before you begin to enjoy having it. If your answer regarding your book, Michael, is instantaneously then my response is "Yeah, right".
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  243. Alex, good guest choice. However, the Marxist example is too simplistic: the exploitation agency is two fold. Yes, large businesses exploit the employees but the government exploits all the weaker businesses: both the owners and the employees. Where is the guest's plan to deal with all the exploitation? The guest's idea of business democracy really only applies to large businesses. There is also government fascism to smaller businesses.
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  244. Current visions of immortality are like desires to go to hell repeating whatever you've ever done over-and-over. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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  245. I agree that AI will be another tool (actually more like jewelry, these days) like a watch. I don't think AI will replace human beings. It's more likely it'll be a tool we tap then something will come along and replace it.
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  246. There is a lot happening in material sciences these days: especially with various quantum approaches.
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  247. I really think this podcast is thoughtful and your insertion of thoughts from prior podcasts helped your guest in making this podcast interesting well done.
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  248. So, this is a 'How to do podcast' type of video? It's fun to watch others (you like) having fun. Chess pales (to me) compared to playing an online game like 'No place like home' 2 years Early Access by Polish rookies. David Butler
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  249. About AI wisdom: typically tools can, initially, reveal a wisdom that wasn't present in the prior human culture until the human culture is changed. That is likely the impact AI will have. Decades ago, cell phone usage evolved in a similar way.
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  250. Never liked Warren Buffett: his reputation always seemed cheesie to me.
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  251. Such as?
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  252. McBeast's description of his lifestyle seems to be one where he'll be more and more isolated as he lives his life. That is a cage that will be harder and harder to escape from as he becomes further and further removed from the rest of us. Even pity for his circumstance won't be sufficient.
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  253. It's important for the privileged to understand they have a responsibility to the rest of us. Everyone has a job based on the capacity to get the job done. Even post-docs are privileged despite the struggle they face getting their career on track. The privileged can find a less privileged job if they are unwilling to do due diligence for their responsibilities. The privileged belong in the limelight for the rest of us to keep a close eye on. Far better not to be in the limelight: I don't need 15 minutes of exposure.
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  254. Think what your son will think if
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  255. down the line your son reads your affirmations.
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  256. It's obvious she has the knowledge but, unlike your more experienced guests, she doesn't know how to ask you questions to narrow down to where you want to go. You don't need my advise about choosing guests but I think you know what I'm talking about.
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  257. This academic worship of Turing is annoying. Yes, the guy was brilliant but can't we think beyond what Turing can up with?
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  258. This is take it on the chin advice but also a way to have a little fun. Briefly, allow yourself the luxury of imagining your critics as uninformed idiots: just to remove the sting. Then be generous. For each critic figure out where the criticism is coming from then, gently show them why they are an ass. Ask Michael: he can tell you how to politely tell someone they are an ass. If you do it right, your critics will thank you for the feedback.and mean it.
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  259. It's important to distinguish between weak human being leaders and leaders who are psychopaths. Weak leaders can travel down a slippery slope. Psychopaths have no conscience so need no path to commit evil: just the right emotion is all that's needed. A serious effort to deal with psychopaths early would remove some the evil from this world.
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  260. The 'Flynn effect' sounds like a cultural effect. Is it more prevalent in Europe and Asia than in the US?
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  261. So, Stalin is anyone without scruples untethered in a political system without controls on use of political power.
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  262. She is right. The advances in technology has restored the boundary between the scribe and the peasant. Take a light bulb: currently there is no affordable 3D printer available to create light bulbs when you need them. Destroy all the light bulb factories then what happens?
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  263. Did some wiki searching while watching this podcast. Assembly theory is a useful magnet for recently coined phrases. For example: 'circumstellar envelope' a mouthful way of saying stellar halo and my favorite: 'interstellar and circumstellar molecules':which is definitely a mouthful. Alex, you must be in heaven. David Butler
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  264. I agree with most physicist's caution that Star Trek dreams in the coming century is unrealistic. Colonizing our solar system is gonna be the most we can do. It's just as well since we still have plenty of other tasks to accomplish. Star travel can wait: be satisfied with the fictional videos that are yet to come
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  265. Anyone who has heard the small voice (different than a conscience) more than once knows that is not a silly machine. Don't worry, the moment after you die (a long time from now) you'll know for sure because there'll be conversation about the meaning of life. David Butler
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  266. Ah, stepping around the importance of diversity and how this country has yet to understand how to pop the cork and let the genie out of the bottle. Someone needs to bring the founding father's true intent into 21st century context. I don't have that ability to do that but maybe there is someone who can. Maybe, you could bring that person onto your podcast. David Butler
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  267. Question: how does relearning a skill relate to G factor? I use OpenOffice-Draw infrequently: usually years apart. Everytime, I must relearn how to use Draw but I usually relearn the skills quickly. David Butler
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  268. I like this guy because he seems well grounded and seems willing to sponsor the best connection with whoever he is in contact with. He is interesting to watch making his explanations in course of a conversation. I suspect you really enjoyed your conversation with him.
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  269. Maybe Twitter should have threads similar to an online game has threads. Rather than follow individuals, follow Twitter threads - adding/deleting the threads as you wish. Religious scripture quoting should be an added/deleted thread Twitter threads would enhance free speech in that a Twitter member could choose what gets popped on them.
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  270. I prefer open source over MS but never got around to using Linux. There is an Linux app to undo manipulations that MS puts into Windows.
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  271. About seeking wisdom without using organized religion or a comparable compendium of 'assembled wisdom': assemble your compendium of all the limits of what it means to be a human being then examine all that we know and describe it in terms that a human being can understand. Actually, much easier to sift thru existing compendiums pulling out the wisdom you prefer. If you get my point.
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  272. A good place for a freshly minted coder is work in a game studio interested in creating simulation games.
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  273. Can electric rockets be used to travel to/from Lagrange 2 so that the Webb telescope be serviced. Despite what NASA says about servicing, it'd be dumb not to be able to service the Webb - it's ROI issue.
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  274. The most dangerous people to an authority's rule are those are those who benefit from the authority's rule because they are the potential enemies from within. Witness Stalin.
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  275. Thinking of the future rockets that'll make Starship look small, I wonder how electric engines will look like in those rockets: especially the fuel handling.
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  276. I suspect that $10,000 poll would have a different result if the participants agreed to be one of the potential victims.
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  277. About being mean to celebrities like Joe Rogan: being a public figure leaves you open to the occasional thrown pies and the like. I think Brian Greene is a bit arrogant so my podcast comments are sometimes unkind but it's a balance to the adoring comments he usually receives. Who am I to rate someone else's genuine thoughts? For that reason , I don't need to be on the limelight: it's better to stay out of the limelight.
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  278. Until there a better understanding what space is AND physicists continue to mimic Einstein in saying Space/Time then it's not clear whether time is fundamental or emergent.
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  279. About the mystery of the IQ scores drifting upward: you are only witnessing one capacity undergoing change without checking whether the other capacities are also changing. This is the problem with your formulaic measure of intellect. Again, another forest vs trees issue. You need a wider academic consultation approach. Don't worry, other academic specialties are doing the same thing.
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  280. Question: what trend in wealth distribution has occurred in the past decade ... where is the concentration of money and where is it not? That will answer a lot of the questions you are asking. David Butler
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  281. I disagree about bypassing establishing a Moonbase first on favor of going to Mars sooner. Best to do the easiest first then the harder next. Anarctica then the Moon then Mards then Titan, etc.
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  282. About the 16‰ IQ 85 or lower: that implies a responsibility a nation has to its population. I doubt that an immediate fix is in the cards. However, a more serious focus on short and long term consequences is a wise objective.
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  283. The thing about human genetics is that it is the result of the merging of 8 human ancestors so race is an important effect on genetics. Although there is only one human species today, there is a wider genetic diversity than Richard has been willing to acknowledge. Elon's Martian colony is likely to widen human genetics diversity due to radiation effects.
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  284. About the 11 and 12 year-olds taking the SATs: the quartiles of the top 1% later years career results could well reflect biases in the career specialty hierarchy rather than individual achievement.
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  285. I'm wary of proponents of any party line (especially Chinese Communists) because it's another version of the victor rewriting history.
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  286. Joe Rogan is okay but not really my cup-of-tea. Coffeezilla is on the money about your podcast niche. If you are going to pass the staff in 2023, you should consider the niche your substitute is best for - everyone tends to be different.
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  287. Finding single cell life is very likely and probably abundant, however, the search should done very carefully - a NASA approach - the Prometheus approach is the approach of the foolhardy.
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