Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "TED" channel.

  1. It's great that we have the most complicated machine in the universe in our skulls so we can mimic simple slime molds in order to solve our problems.
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  2. Would you refrain from going to the doctor just because you cannot define health well enough? Would you refrain from consulting an engineer from building a bridge, just because you are not sure enough where to place it? Science will never tell you how to behave, but it tells you how to behave when you want to pursue well being. Of course it can also tell you how to achieve suffering. The doctor can tell you how to best kill someone. The engineer can tell you how to destroy the bridge.
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  3. If we would spread vaccines via witchdoctors or preachers, we wouldn't have this problem. The Anti-Vaccer crowd would be the biggest fans, praising how they mystically strengthen your immune system.
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  4. "We can be ready..." Trump gets elected
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  5. Never heard of "slash" written out.
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  6.  @spinfrost  Pyramids are pretty unimpressive compared to the Colosseum when it comes to architecture. They are just huge. But a pyramid is the easiest thing to build. It's basically a pile of rocks.
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  7.  @lukapopovic6668  No, they are two different animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid
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  8. Billy Ray You are exactly the kind of moron, who would be the biggest supporter of vaccination if we sold it through witchdoctors and New Age gurus. You are all about authority, that's why you blindly follow your leaders instead of accepting the evidence.
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  9. Most depressed people already feel "responsible" for their emotions. The effect is that they get even more sad. Nothing good comes from that mindset. Instead you need to cultivate beginner's mind. Not guilt, but acceptance needs to guide the process.
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  10. Yes. Buy our cars.
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  11. Why don't Siberian tigers just eat us? 🤔
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  12. He's funny and a great orator... but that's about it. Both his audience and he seem to be very convinced about their intelligence and prudence yet they fail to see that their conception of religion is outdated. It is like he was talking about primitive nature religions the whole time. Modern monotheistic religions don't claim to provide scientific facts, they offer a philosophy. EDIT: I'll leave this up as an example of someone completely changing his mind on a topic. I totally disagree with me from six years ago.
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  13. Anyone, who defends an aweful, misanthropic ideology is a fair target for direct criticism. It is disgusting how you defend Islam in such a lazy manner.
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  14. Do you usually dive a mile deep?
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  15. Biologists should determine what's safe, not the amoral idiots on "ethics" boards.
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  16. An AGI will most probably learn probabilistic behaviors from a continuous repertoir by making use of first order derivatives. Of course you can think of all of this as "if-else" statements, because every computer only works with discrete numbers at some level, but that's not a helpful way of thinking about it.
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  17. >explains the exactitude and complexity of the pyramids What complexity? They are piles of rock featuring only a single corridor inside for the most part. The exactitude can easily be gotten with sticks of a known length.
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  18. He only had two or three religious affiliations to distinguish and he boiled them down to the majority in a country. But lets assume he would have showed that there is little difference between religious affiliations - so what? It only shows that different religions are similar in their impact. If you actually look at the countries in the graph, you notice that the ones at the bottom are less and the ones at the top are more religious. People in Sweden aren't as Christian on average as those in Greece. To say that religion has nothing to do with the education of women is just a ridiculous lie. I'm endlessly disappointed in Rosling for having implied it. He acknowledges progress, but he doesn't have the balls to admit what leads to progress.
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  19. Panpsychism is not in opposition to materialism.
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  20. Precisely. Feeling really, really responsible never leads anywhere good. In the best case it leads to pride and selfishness. In the worst it leads to shame, self loathing, isolation. Happiness is a skill, not something you will into existence by the brutal force of your dissatisfaction.
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  21. Because it's a TED talk without the X. TEDx is people talking about how bad masturbating is and how they are Muslim feminists etc.
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  22. What do you think qualifies as emotion?
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  23. When you need to rely on the bravery of others you don't mean that you want there to be some inner struggle, you want them to stand fast. Whether that is because they overcome their fear or because they had none to begin with is irrelevant.
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  24. standev1 Why should we heal people?
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  25. "Perhaps some things are universal (such as murder vs kindness), while others (such as how one ought to dress) need only be defined by cultural context." No, forcing someone to dress in a certain way is an immoral action: it impedes the well being of the person. A child in the Middle East suffers just like a child in Europe.
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  26. You don't need to scan a brain in order to see that a rape victim is sad.
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  27. So one is popular and happy, the other lonely and unhappy. That's not surprising in any way.
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  28. There is plenty of people, who agree with him, and plenty, who inspire him, or from whom he draws his ideas. He's one of my favourite public intellectuals, but not "ahead of every other human".
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  29. Clark Magnuson " I do think" And I think elephants are pink and can fly. Doesn't matter what you think.
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  30. Magic is intuitive but demonstrably false. Physics is counter intuitive but demonstrably right.
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  31. I've seen one abominable halfwit claiming that NOT believing in a diety is simple minded. XD Can you believe it...
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  32.  @AlokKumar-tk1ty  Exactly.
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  33. TheWeekendWar You making pointless posts doesn't count as "the conversation".
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  34. "Has been" If it's not true, it's a worldwide conspiracy as yet uncovered with me being a conspirator. Do you also think that the earth is flat?
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  35. +cragethGER It's technically engineering, but yes, it works through science.
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  36. standev1 Are you ok with medicine as we practice it?
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  37.  @jayarava  What kind of clown are you? Do you want me to send you a list of the adaptations to running in human biology? One of the most distinctive features in humans is sweating. I wonder how an aquatic animal profits from that. Or from springy joints at their feet. There is really not a single feature of our anatomy adapted to aquatic life and dozens adapted to walking on land.
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  38. His consciousness as fundamental physical phenomenon doesn't make much sense, since there is a spectrum of consciousness and we first had to evolve to the degree of consciousness we have. A bacterium has none, we definitely have it. So it's something that arises slowly, nothing fundamental. His second idea is similarly far fetched. Consciousness is, as far as we know, always connected to information processing in complex animals. There is no reason it should be found somewhere else. I think there is a much more elegant explanation, a purely neurological one. Daniel Dennett wrote on some attempts.
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  39. I think the "antagonistic reaction" is due to her misleading people like you. Humans did roam costlines, but there is no evidence whatsoever that they "embarked on a path towards aquatic existence".
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  40. A belief is more easily upholden when many people buy into it. Monotheists are used to practically everyone in their soceity sharing their believes. The mere existence of Atheists is a hard blow to the common delusion.
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  41. That's completely wrong. The Greeks started mathematics and physics. Babylonians were great astronomers a millenium before the Arab tribes started their conquests.
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  42. I see the Nazis are nosing out conspiracies again. Who are those "top dogs" and why don't they want people to be knowledgable and competent?
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  43. Bigsby That was truly masterfully put; you speak from my heart.
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  44. Rejecting dogma is not a dogma, you unbearable cultist.
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  45. Zizi Mugen "it's a matter of degrading all that is not one's own worldview" That's what you do with every single religion, that's not your own. Not as a person, but as a fundamental aspect of your faith. Monotheism is fundamentally exclusive and arrogant.
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  46. Why? Do you think suffering should be fought? Do you think happiness should be sought? 
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  47. Demonstrate his thesis? He shows it clearly in this video, though short it may be.
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  48. BGriffith1992 Yeah because it consists of nothing. For example for not playing the piano you don't need a piano, fingers or a brain. You see what I mean?
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  49. liu Tianyi You really think religious extremism was the main cause they murdered people in a whole other country? You are as naive as the people who claim middle easterners hate Americans for their freedom.
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  50. standev1 Do you think people being against health should be taken seriously in medicine?
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