Comments by "David Terr" (@dcterr1) on "Cleo Abram" channel.

  1. I love your quote at 12:56, "I don't think that we can be afraid of knowledge for fear of what we'll do with it.", and I completely agree! I think we need to be much more afraid of ignorance and what we can do with it!
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  2. I think most new technologies in-and-of themselves are neither good nor evil - it's how we use them!
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  3. Your videos are amazing! Now I see that the way we currently approach cancer is just another way in which our medical system is broken! If we were to approach it properly in terms of prolonging our life expectancy as much as possible, we'd be focused on early detection, as you say. In addition, if our society weren't so geared toward the rich, then perhaps we'd all receive the diagnoses and treatment we need and money wouldn't be an issue. So let's not look for a cure for cancer, but rather a cure for greed!
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  4.  moizsalwatiaq9717  Now that's a scary thought!
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  5. "If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to save every day 'til eternity passes away just to spend them with you." - Jim Croce
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  6. One thing I think is really sad is that Vincent Van Gogh, who is now widely regarded as one of the greatest artist of all time, only sold a single one of his paintings, to his brother Theo for 85 cents, and now his paintings sell to rich collectors for millions! What's more, he died penniless and insane at age 37, due to suicide.
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  7. Despite the encouraging things you seem to be saying about psychedelics, my personal experience with them hasn't been good. When I was 19, a horrible kid in my dorm slipped a DMT pill on me at a party and I ended up freaking out for most of the night. A few years later, I used mushrooms with some friends on a camping trip. I nearly freaked out again the first time due to some scary hallucinations in which some pickup trucks on the road looked like they were turning into cows! Since then I've avoided hallucinogens and I don't think I'll ever go back, even under medical supervision. I've even hallucinated a few times from edibles, and I didn't enjoy that either! However, if as some research seems to be indicating, hallucinogens turn out to be beneficial to people with severe mental conditions like depression or mania, then I'm all for legalization and medically supervised treatment with these drugs. Meanwhile I'll stick with drugs I feel more comfortable with, like marijuana and alcohol, but mostly life!
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  8. Those VTOL planes look awesome! They also look like they're very easy to learn to fly! I took 2 years of flying lessons in a 1969 Piper Cherokee and I just barely got it down at the end. Based on what I've seen in this video, I'm pretty sure I could learn to fly this VTOL in just a month or so. Perhaps VTOL aircraft will become the flying cars we've all been dreaming about since the Jetsons!
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  9. All this exciting new technology is fantastic, but don't forget what Gandhi said: WE must be the change we wish to see in the world!
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  10. You rock, Cleo! I've watched all your Huge If True videos and I love your the way you approach journalism with optimism and hope, which I think we all need right now! Kudos to you, and keep it up!
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  11. "What do we mean by value?" Very good question, especially since capitalism depends on this question! And not just for art, but for brand name products, stocks, gems, precious metals, and all kinds of other stuff whose real value isn't so clear cut!
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  12. I find it rather ironic that San Francisco is the first American city with self driving taxis and also the locale of The Love Bug.
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  13. I don't know about others here, but I'm actually more worried than excited about all this new video technology! What about fake videos that make it look like someone is saying or doing something they're not, and how do we catch the forgers of these videos? Recently my friend showed me a very realistic looking video of Trump claiming that he invented water. Although this was clearly a joke, what if something like this were made that wasn't meant as a joke, like Putin surrendering or Trump declining the 2024 presidential nomination?
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  14. Since we already have this technology, we might as well ask it to help us solve our most pressing world problems, like fixing climate change and nuclear proliferation, curing cancer, and making commercially available fusion power. Of course, first we need to become proficient in asking computers for what we want rather than literally what we ask for!
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  15. Another fantastic video! I didn't realize the ocean floor was so badly mapped, but I'm glad we're fixing this!
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  16. "Are there female robots? The possibilities are limitless!" - Woody Allen (from Sleeper)
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  17. You're as fun to watch as Ann Margret - just as pretty and much smarter!
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  18. Very educational and entertaining introduction to quantum computers! I like the submarine analogy. Let's see where that sub will take us! Bon voyage!
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  19. This is my favorite of your videos I've watched so far! I agree with everything you say. More energy, not less, is certainly the way we need to move. The Kolmogorov scale is a logarithmic measure of how advanced a civilization is in terms of its energy use. Right now we're at 0.72 on this scale, and if we want to become a Class I civilization, we'll need to bring this up to 1.00, which means we'll need to increase our energy output by a factor of around 600. Clearly fossil fuels aren't the way to do so, since they're limited and they're also contributing to climate change. Clean energy would be fantastic, except I'm not sure if it could provide all our energy needs. Fusion is our best alternative IMO! Why not launch a Manhattan project to develop fusion power to meet the world's energy needs? Meanwhile, renewables and nuclear energy are probably our best alternatives.
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  20. It's ecstasy when you lay down next to me. - Barry White
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  21. I believe that if AI destroys us, it will be our own fault!
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  22.  @Ryan88881  Marijuana clearly has different effects on different people. Some people can't handle it, but I can, and as I said above, I don't handle hallucinogens nearly as well, so as they say, to each his own!
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  23.  @Ryan88881  Well let's just say to each his own and leave it at that. And if I need to have another hallucination, I wouldn't mind if Cleo is in it!
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  24. I'm kind of worried about fuel efficiency of these supersonic jets, and whether they could compete with more conventional aircraft.
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  25. Wow, since cold fusion turned out to be a hoax, I never imagined I'd see the day when you could create fusion energy in your garage! Since many other important technological innovations start out small like this, like the cyclotron and the PC, perhaps practical fusion will also start as a personal endeavor, and perhaps you'll become the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs! If so, I want to be one of your first investors!
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  26. Na na na na na na na, na na na na, hey Jude! - The Beatles
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  27. @@Scottrichy Yes, I suppose that's where I was supposed to send this message.
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  28. If Elon Musk can help Ukraine defeat Putin, than he'll be a hero in my book!
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  29. "Come with me my love, to the sea, the sea of love, I want to tell you how much I love you!" - Phil Phillips
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  30. Wow, this is some amazing new technology! This could even revolutionize sex, though it's purely visual for now.
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  31. Another great video! I've learned so much from you about clean energy in just the past week! Since we're already fracking for oil, why not frack for enhanced geothermal energy instead? Of course, we still need to worry about seismic activity, but since we're already contributing to that with oil fracking as well as probably much more serious problems, I say do it, at least for now.
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  32. This is fascinating new research! I agree that these trees may succeed in reducing the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere, but I'd be extremely surprised if they could actually put an end to climate change, which I think at this point is inevitable and will be catastrophic. But any effort we can make to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases will definitely help!
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  33. This is fantastic! If I can't get to go into space before I die, I'd at least like to go faster than the speed of sound!
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  34. I'm gonna make a supersonic woman of you! - Freddy Mercury
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  35. You nailed it again, Cleo! I love your videos, almost as much as I love seeing you in them!
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  36. A friend of mine recently told me that the US government was secretly trying to get people hooked on LSD during the 50s and 60s and was even promoting many of its proponents, like Timothy Leary, Ben Kesey, and Tom Wolfe. Can anyone else here concur with this rumor, or is it just unsubstantiated folklore?
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  37. Hi Cleo, I enjoy all your videos about all this exciting new technology, but like many other people, I'm still very concerned about lots of scary things going on right now, such as climate change, fake news, and the possibility of human cloning, aren't you? And what about fusion? I think you made a video about this, but don't you think we should have a sort of Manhattan Project to develop it, seeing how urgent it is? It's nice to have a young, smart, optimistic woman such as yourself pitching all this amazing new technology, but aren't you afraid of the possibilities for dystopia during the 21st century? I know I am! Perhaps you can make some videos about what we may need to do to save the world. Just my opinion.
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