Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "TED" channel.

  1. He just presented a capitalistic system which completely overhauls or even eliminates the classical concept of the class struggle which is the basis of most critique against capitalism. If you think the problems will persist under the system he presented you will have to explain your reasoning rather than tossing lazy assertions.
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  2. mclovin stephano Finland based their school system on the Swedish school system. Meanwhile, Sweden abandoned its working model and started experimenting with discipline and meritocratic schooling.
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  3. When I heard that I thought to myself: Yeah, that will be the one thing most people take from this, despite this having nothing to do with the topic of her talk.
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  4. I wonder how many dislikes this video has...
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  5.  @porche9II  He seems like a far better person than someone who generalises 1.38 billion people.
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  6. She was still undecided on her topic days before this talk? I thought TED invited speakers based on what they had to say, not who they were.
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  7. Waltham1892 And you assume she hasn't done this?
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  8. Book burning has grown sophisticated.
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  9. In an interview Penrose was asked whether there was any problem in physics that motivated his work on tiling. Roger responded that he simply thought it was an interesting puzzle. Not everything has to be driven by utilitarianism.
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  10. And yet, all you comment on is what the video isn't about.
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  11. Did you know that in technical terms, satellites are in constant free fall towards earth? They just have enough tangential velocities that they miss it, all the time.
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  12.  @lena-mariaglouis-charles7036  It's not healthy to respond to opposing views with dismissal and ridicule rather than curiosity. Wouldn't you want to know if my claims were true?
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  13. It's rare nowadays to find intellectuals of her caliber within politics.
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  14. Suppose that the speaker in this video proposed that the European union abandon democracy and egalitarianism for meritocracy, pointing at China's incredible progress over the last few decades as proof that it works. Can you imagine some European citizens being upset over this, writing angry comments in protest?
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  15. An increase in productivity means that less material, energy and labor is required to produce the same value. A technological shift like this will facilitate sustainability, not hamper it.
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  16. How can anyone look at that woman and think she's past due date? She's thriving!
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  17. This will sound alien to you: we are not free independent individual actors in full charge of our actions. This is a metaphysical claim or at best a pragmatic principle as we are biological machines in a deterministic universe. The rules of cause and effect applies indiscriminately, and there is no reason why the human mind get a special pleading. To a great extent we do not choose our genome, our family, or the society that shapes our mind and inform our decisions and actions. We need to stop looking at problems in society as spontaneous eruptions of bad individuals that have to be threatened and policed and acknowledge the conditions that lead them down the road and what we can do to reshape our society such that others do not fall the same way. It is the rational way to go.
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  18. Because "right" ideological ideas never killed anyone. Oh wait!
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  19. Why is it so hard for people to disagree and enjoy a TED talk at the same time? I think her work is important and will shape the way the town will be remembered. I didn't agree with everything she said but she made some good points and I think listening to her perspective was interesting regardless.
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  20. Ok, so unions.
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  21. I certainly hope so. That system is in dire need of a reboot.
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  22. Sounds like Melinda absorbed a rather narrow education, with little exposure to opposing points of view. Needless to say, she was shell-shocked upon first exposure to a free marketplace of ideas. Now she tries to craft a culture where ideas are silently tolerated rather than challenged upon dissent.
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  23. I feel that people often have children because they reach a point in their life where they must decide on what to do with it. Instead of figuring themselves out, they quench their anxiety by taking on the busy task of raising children. In other words, instead of solving the problem, they pass it on, to their children. Once their children has grown up and moved out, the anxiety starts to come back to them, and again, instead of figuring themselves out, they nag on their children to give them grandchildren.
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  24. This was more of a pep-talk than presentation of a new idea.
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  25. Rich Floyd He encourages us to explore the data for ourselves to verify the correlations. Did you do this before you decided he's a liar?
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  26. As with many other issues in USA, the underlying cause is the influence corporations have on politics. Before we do anything else, we have to change the way politics work.
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  27. Yup. They claim to give, yet their philanthropy fund keeps growing. It is almost as though it is just an investment fund with makeup on.
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  28. I think this intense focus on social media platforms is to a certain degree a red herring. I believe Trump and Brexit are responses to real problems in our society which have been overlooked by the establishment. It's probably correct that xenophobic campaigns have relied heavily on social media platforms to promote their campaigns, but let's not pretend they were alone in this. If we want to restore people's belief in the democratic process, how about we begin by listening carefully to their concerns and then develop policy which address these concerns in more sensible ways than proposed by Trump and Brexit. I don't think we can turn this around if we keep dismissing people's concerns as figments of imagination.
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  29. You seem to have a strong personality, a bad one that is.
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  30. Please proceed. Explain what you mean.
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  31. Which box to tick? How to identify yourself? How to present yourself to others? Here's an old radical idea: Be yourself and treat people as individuals.
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  32. I love Esther, but Jesus Christ I'm so sick of talks forcing Covid into the title.
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  33. The metaverse failed to impress mature adults, so let's impose it on the impressionable young using identity rhetoric and bright colors.
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  34. Fashion is like facebook. It provides us with an opportunity to tell a story about ourselves as someone else than we really are.
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  35. The best career path is to get a job then keep it and live a good life.
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  36. Is it? Do you have data to back that up?
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  37. This seemed like a great opportunity for introspection. Sadly it turned mostly into evasive criticism of "them" and how we need to fix them. Next talk should be about the decline of TED and whether it is beyond saving.
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  38. This could have been easily avoided by NATO deciding to not include countries bordering Russia, but they thought that their authority is more important than European peace and security. That's the story here.
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  39. This talk was much more thoughtful than I expected.
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  40.  @porche9II  Read a book on epistemology.
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  41. In the pre-flight safety demonstration, we are instructed to put on our own oxygen mask before we help others.
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  42. Thanks for sharing China, but we already have enough bullshit in the west.
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  43. I didn't know Irish could sound so posh.
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  44. You may be in control of yourself, but you are not in control of what the world makes of you.
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  45. If boxes on forms is causing problems: remove the boxes.
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  46. It's become fashionable to change society through technology, not necessarily for the better, more like a social experiment.
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  47. So... earth was flat? :D
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  48. According to Timothy, it is a mistake to think democracy is a thing that is promoted or undermined by greater forces, such as capitalism or inequality. He argues that it is rather an attitude or practice that individuals must uphold. Then he says democracy cannot exist in a petroleum driven world. Isn't this a huge contradiction, or am I missing something?
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  49.  @paulrevere47  I mean I get it. A condition for peace/collaboration is that the cake is growing. If the cake is shrinking, there is more incentive to take from one another, leading to conflict and violence. Global warming may potentially lead to scarcity of resources such as reduced landmass, food shortage, more destruction by natural disasters, etc. But this argument seems to contradict his earlier statement that democracy does not reply in external conditions but comes from within individuals.
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  50. Care to be more specific about what qualifies gravity as the God of psuedoscience?
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