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

  1. I'm reminded of HAL's famous words from 2001: A Space Odyssey: "This kind of thing has come up before and it has always been due to human error."
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  2. Hopefully we'll become more logical ourselves by trying to design workable AI.
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  3. You need to be very careful when you talk about inequality, especially as being a good thing! Of course we're not all equal in every way, such as good looks, intelligence, fitness, and charisma, but I think every human deserves equal rights and equality under the law, and I will uphold these values as long as I'm alive!
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  4. Eugenia has managed to create a cube of clarity out of a ball of confusion!
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  5. It seems to me that quantum computers could come in handy with modeling of digital twins.
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  6. Is it really fair to reduce any individual to a finite list of social categories? This reminds me of a scene from the Woody Allen film Annie Hall, in which he reduces a woman he just meets into a long list of categories and she responds positively by saying, "That was wonderful! I love being reduced to an intellectual and social stereotype!"
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  7. There are obviously many more that three important traits to humanity - in fact, possibly infinitely many, so Eugenia's cube is a vastly oversimplified picture of the reality of our society, but it's a start and I think it's a very good model!
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  8. I agree that dogma is one of the worst traits of humanity, but part of the problem with dogma is its mindless adherents. I think we all need to think for ourselves, which is ultimately the only defense we have against dogma.
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  9. I have a PhD in algebraic number theory, so I know a lot of abstract math, but I never understood or appreciated category theory before, which is highly abstract in-and-of itself. For me, I don't really get most abstract mathematical concepts until I see them applied to something more down to earth, which Eugenia has managed to do quite well here! I never imagined high level mathematical concepts such as category theory could be applied to social issues, which I think Eugenia has succeeded in doing here! Excellent speech!
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  10.  @joebloggsgogglebox  I appreciate your opinions, but I think you're being too harsh on intellectuals such as Eugenia. Although I agree that we all need some "street smarts" as well as immersion in the "real world", I think a big part of the problem is that many of these "real world" people you're talking about, especially here in the good old USA, are highly ignorant and a huge part of the problem Eugenia is describing here! Perhaps I'm a bit of an intellectual snob, but as I see it, the quality of education here in the USA has dropped tremendously during the past 50 years or so, and its replacement with ignorance is a huge contributing factor to social issues.
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  11.  @joebloggsgogglebox  I agree. I think it's sad that most educated people who have a lot of intelligent things to say about what's wrong with our society are preaching to the choir.
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  12. When computers were first used in 1952 to predict the outcome of the presidential election, they predicted a landslide victory for Eisenhower. The computer operators weren't happy with its prediction, so they reported a closer result. As it turned out, Eisenhower did in fact win by a landslide. Someone remarked afterwards, "The biggest problem with computers are humans!"
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