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

  1. Once we convert to autonomous cars, I think alcohol consumption will increase quite a lot.
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  2. Digitalbumpin You will never make a career as a fortune teller. I just found his mannerism a bit odd, as though he wasn't completely sober.
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  3. I think the primary reason behind this is the assumption that poverty breeds violence and not the other way around. If the relation is the opposite or mutual, then we need to communicate this and start acting accordingly.
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  4. This is a TED talk. It's dumbed down to appeal to a broader audience.
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  5. Finally TED features something really interesting. This is a completely new angle to me. Thank you Sebastian!
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  6. He could lose that animated background. It just makes it harder to discern the flying papers.
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  7. John Thorgard Chill! Haha, I wasn't being serious.
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  8. It's already fairly easy to make bombs given you have access to the explosives or chemicals. As for guns, you still need to buy the ammunition. Sure, it makes it a bit harder to regulate, but I'm not sure it's gonna make that much of a difference.
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  9. Our leaders have shrunk the world, without bringing people together. Our society rewards selflessness, only in exchange for loyalty. Once we extend a hand to the world, we let down the expectation of loyalty towards our country, and we are truly on our own. There is no home for a humanist today.
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  10. eggory I don't think he suggests that we abandon reasoning. He just proposes that we shouldn't ignore other important parts of human nature.
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  11. What are you talking about? He demonstrated that the method works, showing video footage of swelling brain tissue, and showed a LSFM image where the neuron structure could be discerned, produced using the method. What is this supposed 90% speculation made up of? The examples he provided of problems where the method may help provide answers?
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  12. So, citizen of the world means to be a humanist activist. How original.
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  13. Affiliation to such a diverse group as Islam never really tells much about the individual.
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  14. Try to narrow it down to a manageable number like 3 or 5 that you think are of highest priority and focus on them. This is certainly better than not thinking ahead at all.
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  15. A talk about how much we can learn from cave fish without a single example?
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  16. TGGeko He never said capitalism is a bad system, only that there's room for improvement. What can possibly be more capitalist than exposing capitalism itself to a competitive market of ideas?
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  17. The reason our salary is a sensitive issue isn't because of envy, it is because of the qualities we associate with salaries in our society. It is assumed that our salary is more or less proportional to our contribution to society as a product of our capability and effort. This means that a person earning less is often viewed as lazy, underachieving, and/or selfish. No one wants to be viewed as such, and no sensible person wants to expose coworkers as such.
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  18. His prediction sounds very far fetched, but I guess all of them sounded so at the time he made them, yet many came true.
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  19. Thank you James for an excellent talk! I think you were very successful in giving a layman a peak into what particle physicists actually do and care about.
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  20. Well technocrats theorize about a point where AI is advanced enough to improve itself. Then what?
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  21. At the small university I studied at, research is being done on automation of product development processes. A typical project ends in a few engineers looking for new jobs. Sometimes the only thing left to the engineers is to set up external constraints on the design space, and optimized concepts ready for production pops out, complete with all necessary documentation. I find it realistic that most development work will be automated within a few decades.
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  22. Umm... what... what is... nevermind.
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  23. TheEvolver311 Sure, but what about the women who are offered the opportunity of higher education Arab world? What about those who did seek higher education but are discouraged by teachers, students and even family from continuing? What about the women who completed their education and now face the male dominated corporate environment of the Arab world? Don't you think Leila's talk may be helpful to them?
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  24. She suggests that the current voting system generates extremist ideologues. She diagnoses the problem and prescribes a solution using Politics-Industry Theory™, a body of work she originated and championed over the last seven years. She seems like quite an extremist ideologue herself.
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  25. Thanks Tzeporah for bringing clarity to a very confused debate.
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  26. So the threat to democracy is that people elect the wrong party? I hope you realize how contradictory this is to the idea of democracy. This is brain washing designed to justify persecution of political opposition.
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  27. ...and what does that make him? Evil?
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  28. This one: A U T I S M
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  29. The derivative (slope) of the income distribution curve is a fair representation of incentive, do you agree? What this lady is warning us about is that this curve is becoming increasingly exponential. What does this mean? Well it means the poorer you are, the less incentive you have. It also means that more people have less incentive and vice versa. Wouldn't it be best for everyone if this curve was more linear, that is to have the same incentive regardless of social class?
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  30.  @whateverrandomnumber  Probably something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
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  31. Vote for RFK Jr.
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  32. Great talk. He really put his finger on what I think is the key problem with modern politics. CEOs across the globe in charge of a successful companies spend fortunes on generating information on which to make informed decisions and thereby reduce risk. ...but when it comes to a President of an entire nation, basing positions on intuition is suddenly the norm. Statistics, studies and facts are only acknowledged and applied if they are compatible with the intuition. It's so dumb.
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  33. A potential downside to this would be that traffic becomes yet another thing that is managed from above, rather than something that is available for pretty much anyone who holds a job. It could easily become a tool for a monopoly corporation or an authoritarian state to use against the interests of their citizens. So you are trying to protest? Nope, not gonna happen. Your car will not go to that meeting place you agreed on. You are journalist reporting on the wrong-doings of your government? Well, now your car is going to a special place where few journalists return from. We have to think about what can go wrong too, before we do away with our perhaps most important means to freedom of mobility.
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  34. I assumed this type of thing was covered by some kind of defamation law.
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  35. Too bad we live in market economies which evaluates us relative to others rather than to our past selves. According to markets, it doesn't matter where you started if you are still last.
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  36. I have to say I'm very skeptical of IMF after how Greece was treated during its government debt crisis. IMF ignored warnings that austerity measures were too harsh and were likely to result in Greece being more indebted in the future rather than less, instead trusting their flawed macroeconomic models. Over the years, their policy has slowly shifted from austerity to stimulus, but IMF never formally admitted its error and the suffering it caused Greece. Rather, they seem to believe the failure of their policy mostly relates to Geek government's failure to do as they're told. https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2019/10/01/sp093019-The-IMF-and-the-Greek-Crisis-Myths-and-Realities
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  37. My solution is to not attend meetings I don't feel for.
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  38.  @boaz2816  Yes, I agree. Sometimes intuition isn't the best guide. A typical analogy is our perception of colors. We can trick our brain to perceive any visible wavelength of EM radiation using only three discrete wavelengths, as exploited in RGB displays. The reason is our perception of colors is based on the relative activation of only three receptors, each of which responds to a certain overlapping range of wavelengths.
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  39. Tell me what you want to hear him say.
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  40. I love her genuine reaction to the applause at the end. She's appearently flattered. Usually people just nod politely while mumbling "thank you" a few times.
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  41. Chris Anderson
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  42. The best way to repair the harms of colonialism is to leave people alone to do their thing.
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  43.  @DegreesOfThree  Driving force in what sense?
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  44.  @DegreesOfThree  Yeah, I'm looking for details about their methodology, observations, analysis, conclusions, etc. Are they sharing these? They draw conclusions but don't explain well how they arrived at them.
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  45. Black Mirror, S1E3.
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  46. Explain yourself.
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  47. At the moment, yes. But China is actually currently making an effort to reduce inequality, investing in healthcare, education, etc.
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  48. Biden admin colluded with twitter to censor speech, weaponized the legal system against a political opponent. Hillary questioned election results, suggesting Trump was not the legitimate president.
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  49. 8:29 That mask looks like Michael Myers, not Hannibal Lector. Silly girl!
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  50. It seems Chris and Whitney both feel entitled to the service that Twitter provides while at the same time demand freedom from its negative side-effects. What if these side-effects are not avoidable, but are trade-offs we must accept with the service?
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