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

  1. He is evil in a cockroach sense.
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  2. 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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  3. There are many famous Time photos during the Vietnam war. A child running in the street sticks in my mind.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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created a lot of content with your podcasts, I suggest you think about re-packaging the part of the content that is not out-of-date into shorter videos orientated around themes.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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. She should discuss her presentation skills with Brian Greene: Mr honed presenter even as a post doc.
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  28. Interesting story. Another reason to do something about incompetent US policies.
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. By discussing 'fault tolerant' you've distinguished between classical computing and quantum computing since superposition requires fault tolerance.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. Informative.
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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. Is it possible to specify how to stimulate chained research papers? That could be handy in Science/Technology game simulations.
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  47.  ʟᴇx ғʀɪᴅᴍᴀɴ  Thank you.
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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