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

  1. Tell me about how the story is completely different!
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  2. I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm well aware of how evolution works. Wouldn't you agree that the first sexual life form must logically have come from an asexual parent? So where would this life form find a sexual partner? Everything else is asexual at the moment. I argued that the first lifeforms to have sex most probably came from the same parent, and thus committed "incest" by definition.
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  3. If it relied on religious sentiment I don't think it would qualify for TED.
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  4. Her hair reminds me of Hillary Clinton. Yuck!
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  5. " I accidentally the Hirshhorn Museum... is it bad? :/ " Yes Liz, in fact it's fucking aweful.
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  6. You're an idiot. There's no force involved. They just provide the tools for family planning. If people don't wanna use it they don't have to. Women just rather not have 6 children if they had a choice. By increasing health and wealth they will produce less children, by choice.
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  7. If I ever get really famous I'll sell my excrement on Ebay.
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  8. Not liking his personality or his methods does not take away from his great contribution to modern society as a scientist.
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  9. Threats to democracy: censor, propaganda, mass surveillance, search results manipulation, non-transparent government, corporate finance of political campaigns, supragovernmental institutions, private central banks, etc.
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  10. k
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  11. 5:54 I find it a bit funny that he asserts "frictionless motion" while giving it a new push every other second.
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  12. @Nemesis000000 Tell me about his attitude towards atheism! I don't get any negative vibe from this talk.
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  13. Learn the difference between knowledge and suspictions.
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  14. This woman is gold!
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  15. I'm studying for a master in mechanical engineering. I did not expect us to use programming when I started, but we've had several courses involving coding. Of course, it's on a basic level. But I have not doubt it's a valuable skill that can be used to automate a lot of the boring repitative work eg. math, documentation, etc.
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  16. I would argue that it's the hierarchies, the power distance, and the authoritarianism that make up the problem. Note that this applies to all institutions whether they are religious, corporate, governmental, etc. By removing religions you've only removed one of the many vehicles in which corruption thrives. If religions could just find a way to decentralize and flatten their powerstructure I don't see why it couldn't coexist with peace.
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  17. Calculating emotions sounds really interesting.
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  18. I wonder if such treatment is accounted for in their evaluation of the environmental benefits. It requires energy and are in some cases poisonous.
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  19. Mark Blyth has a far more accurate diagnosis of this problem and it does not involve social media. The problem in brief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg The revolt against the creditor class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSS4GCA__As Global Trumpism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkm2Vfj42FY Why people vote against their "best" interests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGITb0W4A
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  20.  @AverageJoe483  Sounds like cherry picking.
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  21. You're confused. The Ukranians aren't fighting for independence. They're fighting for dependence, on EU economically and NATO militarily.
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  22. I assume you ment fossil fuel CO2 emissions. If atmospheric CO2 was zero, just about all life on earth would die. Anyhow, there are many answers to your question. In short the risen temperature cause other events that works as feedback loops. It can take some time before the feedback kicks in. The major one is said to be the increased amount of vapor (a strong greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere, which raise the temperature, which release more vapor, which raise the temperature even further, etc.
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  23. Wasn't a rebuttal. He told which passages he think are wrong, not why. Still an inspirational talk.
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  24. Exactly.
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  25. The message that real leadership isn't about command and control, but to build a climate of possibilities, can be generalize to many other areas.
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  26. Who is the crybaby really who can't listen to a woman's personal experiances of domestic violence without feeling accused? She never said men are always the abusers. In fact, Leslie specifically took the time to clearify that it is not so ( 2:25 ). "Everyone thinks that domestic violence happens to women, that it's a women's issue... not exactly. Over 85% of abusers are men,"
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  27. So instead of genuinely try to achieve flight, let's just pretend to try, in a spectacular manner?
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  28. @ClintSevilla No. He specifically stated that this elevated state of mind can be achived without religion.
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  29. No it's not.
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  30. It is the same fucking data that predicts your weather. On top of the direct measurements of temperature, you've got shrinking glaciers and entire ecosystems moving north.
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  31. Since you obviously like to think of yourself as a critical thinker, keep this in mind: Critical thinking is about critizising ones own conceptions, not those of others.
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  32. That's why the constitution of every democracy protects minority rights, some more, some less. But yeah, some level of tyranny will always be there. "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
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  33. @noor121212121212 Wow, this is news to me. Who told you all this exotic knowledge?
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  34. @DoYerBest Nice generalization and strawman. First of all, atheism does not require belief in modern cosmology. Secondly, modern cosmology explain the early development of the universe, not the origin. Likewise the theory of evolution explain the diversity of life, not the origin. And I'd say the most common position among atheists who belive in modern cosmology is that we don't know how life or the universe started.
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  35. 04:35 It's kind of counterintuitive that vaccines, health care, and reproductive services can somehow reduce the world population. This was picked up by the conspiracy theorist think tank, and 20 min later the message was clear: Bill Gates plans on killing a billion people using hazardous vaccines. *facepalm* Or perhaps high birth rates are associated with health problems, low life expectancy, low living standards, low social status for women and low educational levels? Nah. He's the devil! ;)
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  36. Assuming we live in a deterministic universe, we still cannot predict the future with certainty. What we can do is gather the information we can, as accurately we can, and do our best to interpret it, and try to estimate what the future will likely look like.
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  37. You again? Get off your soap box Hitler! The deal is off. You're living on borrowed time!
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  38. This is exactly what the Occypy Wallstreet movement needs in order to be understood. Hard undeniable facts.
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  39. @Eric Miret How you view yourself does not matter if you can't sustain yourself. Sustaining yourself in a market economy requires you being competitive.
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  40. @Eric Miret Show me peer reviewed research concluding that market economies maximizes human wellbeing.
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  41. @SpaceChronologyCom You miss the point. It's a reminder that in the golden age of their ancestors, they were all one. It injects the idea of toleranse and secularism into their identity. If there's anything that can resolve the seemingly endless religious conflicts down there, it's this object.
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  42. Religion has its' own stages from which it spreads its' ideas. Don't be a prick just because this is not one of them.
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  43. You're fucked in the head.
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  44. Learn the difference between suspiction and knowledge.
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  45. Wait, is she asking profit driven businesses to decrease the demand for their services?
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  46. It's not percentage, it's a correlation coefficient where 1 is full positive correlation -1 is full inverse correlation and 0 is no correlation. If you want to get a better idea of how strong 0.3-0.4 correlation is I suggest you do some research online, because I'm no expert on correlation.
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  47. So instead of trusting data that is gathered by accurate instruments and compared systematically side to side, I should trust your personal experiances that you compare based on intuition and memory? No thanks.
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  48. You gotto understand that the claims you make are quite extrordinary. Such claims are not thrown around carelessly without evidence. If you're going to claim that the technology to increase human cognitive function ten-fold has been around since 1992, you got to give me more than just assertions.
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  49. Your questions regarding terminology are most likely answered in the report: "Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact" by Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri
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  50. To keep up with today's rapid development we are told that mastering anything particular is wasteful, because that skill is soon obsolete. Instead we are taught to counter the unknown problems of the future, leaving many of us unemployable by employers of today.
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