Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. And never assume that any amount of evidence and rational debate will dissipate a firmly established paradigm until those who hold the theory die off.
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  2. Literal-mindedness. Many continental Europeans suffer from it.
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  3.  @JL-fh4qw  It's called a PARADIGM And it takes a PARADIGM SHIFT to change. See T. S. Kuhn.
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  4. Capitalism. And being a country on the periphery of world power.
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  5.  @David-bh7hs  Quod erat demonstrandum?
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  6. And other cool stuff. It would be interesting.
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  7. I suppose it depends on what you count as dinosaur. Smaller dinosaurs may have survived for longer because they ate less (possibly also because they were herbivorous or omnivorous and able to eat a more varied diet) and had less mass and surface area, making them better able to survive in the colder climate caused by dust particles blotting out the sun.
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  8.  @lsfornells  Yes, you are correct.
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  9. ​ @sebastianm.5630  Does anyone know why?
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  10. Be under no illusions, the Five Eyes and the EU won't let anyone use this without being able to intercept and read the 'encrypted' data.
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  11. Economics (at least as currently practiced in the majority of western economics departments since the 1980's) is basically a pseudo‐science, especially neoliberal/neoclassical economics. The economics of Mises, Friedman, et al of the so‐called Washington Consensus or Chicago School is basically pure quackery and serves the same role as theology does in religion, that is, as a formal apologia of 'free market' or laissez-faire capitalism (or corporatism). It's what has damaged the economies of scores of countries, including the country where it originated, the USA.
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  12. Libertarians come across as selfish narcissists.
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  13. Perhaps we need a radical paradigm shift in our scientific theories. Something as radical as going from hunting and foraging to settled agriculture, or from using stone tools to using copper.
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  14. Because it's pseudoscience, not real science.
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  15. ​ @ninakore  'Post truth' is a term probably coined by people who dislike the broad group of philosophical theories that fall under the umbrella term of post modernism and specifically the related concept of relativism.
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  16. Sweet? Do you mean fresh water?
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  17. A train is a railroad locomotive.
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  18. Then you are like a Jew or a Russian voting for Hitler, or a barnyard animal voting for the pigs in George Orwell's (Eric Blair)Animal Farm.
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  19. Implication on the post-modernist movement...?
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  20. Could be a new hypersonic vehicle the Russians are testing.
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  21. And?
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  22. And it only works for approximately 20 seconds. 1 thunderflash grenade would probably do the trick just as well with the added benefit of concussing the would-be robber.
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  23. All so esoteric. And pretty much pointless too as 99% of people driving motor vehicles or using machinery that runs off oil (whether diesel or petrol/gasoline) neither know nor care about such things and are not in any real position to do anything about it even if they did. It's basically the bureaucrats and technocrats in Brussels who create these rules and always in close consultation with the automobile manufacturers and oil industry. We either all go electric or similar or otherwise we're just we're just arguing over things that will only change by crisis or fiat.
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  24. The famine in Russia that you allude to was caused by various factors — weather, war, civil war, invasion — not by the supposed evils of either Stalin the man or communism, the economic, political and philosophical system. Indeed communism was designed to prevent such famines (which were regular occurrences) and seems to have succeeded until the 1990's when it collapsed under relentless pressure from capitalism and proto-, neo-, quasi-, and full on fascism.
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  25. It's a case of turning the theorizing and turning it into practical applications. Even then such applications need to be commercialized to make it worthwhile for a company to bring them market.
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  26. And I'm cynically sceptical of my pessimism.
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  27. Their patents were running out so the manufacturers had to effectively ban their use worldwide and force people to replace them with new – and patented – gases.
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  28. It would have been faster were it not for the USA demanding that the USA and not China should be behind Britain's internet.
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  29. Strictly speaking.... Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) considers itself Chinese. That should tell you enough.
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  30. Thanks
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  31. A "willingness to work" (which must be qualified by the words "for capitalists") based on fear of starvation if you don't is not and never has been a morally good argument, nor one that is empirically true. You are dressing up an economic necessity (the 'need' to work) in the language of morality.
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  32. They have no choice. Colonies of an empire invariably take on aspects of the core culture of the imperium. The IMF, United Nations, European Union, as well as the multitude of private and public organisations are directly or indirectly controlled or otherwise under the influence, of the US deep state and thus have global reach, are pervasive and, together with the domination of the world's mass media, academia and think tanks by the Anglosphere, dominate public discourse.
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  33. There isn't a left wing in the USA. In the USA you have only two corporate parties (themselves corporations in everything but name).
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  34. What is your alternative hypothesis, that the moon was a rogue planet the was captured by the Earth's gravitational field?
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  35. ​ @ninakore  'Post truth' is a term probably coined by people who dislike the broad group of philosophical theories that fall under the umbrella term of post modernism and specifically the related concept of relativism.
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  36. Rent!
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  37. Technically correct... but in some other way not correct? What is the 'non-technically correct' part and does it negate the central message of the video? Can you explain?
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  38. Technically correct... but in some other way not correct? What is the 'non-technically correct' part and does it negate the central message of the video? Can you explain?
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  39. But CO² (carbon dioxide) and methane are both found in nature with the former being necessary for plant life.
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  40. ​ @G0ldbl4e  What makes an equation ugly?
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  41. But there was no location. And there was no time. Neither existed prior to the expansion of the universe and even if they did it would not matter because what came before and what came after are unconnected. Just watch the video again.
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  42. Science is often counterintuitive, none more so than physics.
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  43. You're assuming that democracy is a universal norm that everyone should aspire to. Just like Americans believe the same of the thing they call capitalism. Maybe it's because you're a member of the Anglosphere to whom such beliefs come naturally or, if you're a Germany, feel compelled to be an Anglophile, forever praising them while beating yourself up about a war and a political system that threatened the Anglosphere and was destroyed by them. Implicitly, your post hints at an intolerance of other people's viewpoints and negation of their cultures where these are opposed to those of the West.
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  44. Wires that learn/AI sounds oncreasingly dangerous to me. It may form the basis of an autonomous 'intelligent' robot that may be used for nefarious purposes or become dysfunctional and pose a danger to humans or humanity itself.
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  45. How much is this due to the nefarious activities (weather modification) of certain countries and how much to the effects of ordinary industrial pollution of the kind which we are probably unable to change anyway without a major overhaul of the current socio-economic system? How much of this is manufactured, or at least a crisis that has "not been allowed to go to waste"?
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  46. Throw enough money at the problem and enough scientists (the Chinese have lots of both) and – voila! – problem solved. There's nothing a white person in the West can do that a non-white person in the East can't. It would be complacent hubris to think otherwise.
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  47. Me too.
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  48. That's something to think about.
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  49. The blob, evidence of geoengineering?
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  50. You didn't defend or save Europe. You defended your fellow Anglo-Saxons, the British and granted a temporary reprieve to its weakened empire (which you would eventually destroy anyway), all the while building up an even bigger empire of your own, one which included Europe. Uncle Sam is no saint.
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  51. "We"? Whose this "we" that you speak of? Do you mean the private corporations of the West? They will privatise the land and monopolise any resources to be found there.
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  52. Piece of advice: put punctuation marks inside the underscores, etc. and not outside of them and maybe it might look how you intended it. Eg. Sun. and not _Sun_.
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  53. But your idea then leads to the infinite regress problem: who or what created God? And why the singular, why not the plural, Gods? I would assume it would take more than one God to create something as complex as the universe.
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  54. Is that why China is coming along in leaps and bounds? That was the way in which human societies were structured for tens of thousands of years as hunter-gatherers before the first urban civilisation came into being.
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  55. It would seem to imply the use of organic tissue that may be on some level considered 'alive', thus entailing certain moral considerations when scaled up to anything bigger than something that occurs inside a test tube or Petri dish.
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  56. That's the point of the sanctions. They aren't designed to hurt Russia or China as much as they are designed to hurt Europe, major competitors of the USA.
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  57. I recall reading somewhere that oil does not in actually come from dead plants but its really made by as-yet-to-be-explained natural processes occurring deep with the Earth's mantle and also that the related idea that we are running out of these so‐called 'fossil' fuels is an erroneous one. I don't know how true these claims are though.
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