Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?" video.

  1. to go further... A Kitten playing with a string, is actually learning about it's environment. It is fascinated by the shape and movement-style of the string. It curiously messes with things it doesn't understand. It's constant batting at the string actually teaches it more about how the string moves, and why. Eventually as it can better predict the movement of the string - the game is no longer interesting and the kitten looses interest. "Play" is: instinctive & intuitive "learning".
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  2. this is happy
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  3. Depriving people of jobs that don't need to be done, useless jobs - why is this negative? What if an eccentric millionaire paid people to stand on their heads on his front lawn. If he stopped paying people to do this - would it be negative? Why mourn the loss of a pointless, useless job?
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  4. Why is our curiosity endless? Curiosity in most animals gives an evolutionary advantage: the urge to explore discovers new food sources; combined with learning - it gives you the power to predict things about the world around you. If we can predict the movements of predators we can better avoid or defend ourselves from them. Then we invent weapons, fences and safe houses. Understanding the seasons allows us to better predict when and where food will be, then we invent farming.
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  5. you'll get used to it.
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  6. "messing with things we don't understand is dangerous" That is a ridiculous statement. There is literally ZERO knowledge which humans have discovered by any way other than this. Messing with things we don't understand - is the only way we have of approaching an understanding of ANYTHING. "Messing with things we don't understand" is practically the very DEFINITION OF LEARNING.
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  7. People don't need employment. What people need is food, shelter, medical care, social interaction etc. The progress of technology is making most of our needs cheaper, easier to get. Thus we can all work less. But it doesn't always work perfectly. Sometimes housing (shelter) is too expensive. And to properly keep up with the changing cultural/social landscape we must always upgrade our phones/tvs/pcs/etc.
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  8. wood is a "metabolic material"
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  9. Do you build houses by stacking Thetans up really high?
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