Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

  1. We used to think the globe itself was ineffably vast. But later in this decade we'll travel to Mars in one twelfth the time it took Marco Polo to get to Cathay, i.e. around 400,000 times as fast. That will be a twenty-five-hundredth of 0.1x the speed of light. In that sense, as a proportion of achieving the speed necessary for efficient interstellar travel, we're most of the way there, and most of that has been achieved in the present lifetime. It wouldn't be sensible to regard it as an inevitability or even probable, to be sure. But then, a century ago in the biplane era, neither was going to the moon, yet it was only 48 years away. We're clever and industrious little buggers—some of us—you can certainly say that.
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  2. PS But I still gave your comment a well-deserved upvote.
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  3. ​ @UnavailableHandle.  No it isn't the same opinion as mine. I don't even know what he means by fake. My reply wasn't to back him up, it was to present my own obliquely related view alongside his. Your emotions are running way ahead of your reasoning. Pointing out someone's account is new is not a refutation of anything, it's just a speculative accusation, perhaps having lots to do with your opinion being different from his. Do you point fingers at people in that manner when you agree with them? Btw, you don't even know the meaning of strawmanning, yet you went ahead and used it anyway. Look it up, kiddo. It means to criticize someone for a position they haven't even taken, which is something I did not do to you. Have a nice afternoon.
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  4. You, seeing Einstein: "Look at that childish and ignorantly immature old man. What a dummy." Bystander: "Do you understand the fundamentals of his thought? Have you looked into it?" You: "I don't have to. I'm a genius, not ignorant of anything, super-mature, and not at all childish. Move away from me. Being so near to someone so much more intelligent and mature than Elon Musk will probably kill you."
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  5.  @derekshaw3700  You just made me incredibly happy. The fact that someone—you—is alive at this moment who is so much more intelligent than Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk makes me confident of a perfect destiny. Humanity's future in everlasting security and bliss is guaranteed by your godlike intelligence. To think I spent all these years worrying. Is it ok if I worship you, O genius one?
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  6. Very.
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  7. Dumb video, that's how.
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  8. ​ @devononair  Don't let them off the hook so lightly. There's a lot of moral self-approval amongst them.
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  9. Then you're betting that a hive mind species can build spaceships. I don't know about that. One could easily imagine hivemindedness efficiently prevents such an attainment.
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  10. So please, please help continue cancer-on-cancer violence.
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  11. No one claims it's ideal. It's what can be done quickly while there's still the time and the resources. It's an insurance policy against extinction by rogue AI (or other threats, but mainly rogue AI). Look into what Hawking said about it. It was his thinking which convinced Musk. You really think Musk didn't think about Venus? You really think he's that dull? Wow, dude.
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  12. 15:14 Turns out it was paid for by Bill Gates, megalomaniac.
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  13.  @UnavailableHandle.  Your own account was once eight hours old. Maybe you're a bot.
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  14.  @ohnono2850  Lovely work. Keep it up.
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  15. You: "Misanthropy is a horrible idea. Let's promote it!"
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  16. The American narrative style is cheesy and tries to tug at your heartstrings every two seconds. Embarrassing.
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  17. Where are millions starving to death "by trade boycott"?
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  18. Yikes, no. You must find metropolitan art museums sickening then.
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  19. First time I've ever seen one of these things get likes. Goes to show who our company is here.
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  20. You've learned a little bit of English. Great. Keep at it.
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  21. I'm an alien and that's totally untrue. But smoke another one if you like.
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  22. Oh?
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  23. Run that shit through Google Translate to make it coherent. Then repost it. Then immediately delete it. Then go back to your life and start doing things entirely differently. Then post intelligent comments after ten years.
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  24. Type Omega-Omega civilization: patrols the universe destroying civilizations that produce lame teen-mind-level videos. Deliver us, o mighty Omega-Omega patrol officers.
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  25. This is really the Essay Channel. Little 5 to 10-minute essays, usually opinionated, set to simple cartoons.
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  26. Yeah, he's not very bright compared to you, who can't spell 'thought' . Better send him an emergency email.
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  27.  @skyeplays1772  Yep, everybody is selfish. Yep—everybody except you.
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  28. 1932? The Second World War started in 1939. The world attended the Berlin Olympics in 1936. And Germany was not dirt poor. On the eve of the war, 1938, it had the 2nd-largest economy after the US and the 2nd highest per-capita GDP, also after the US. Germany was rich.
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  29.  @lez075  The video was not about electing parties. It was about going to war. If you wanted to comment about electoral choices you should have announced it. The world doesn't read minds.
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  30.  @lez075  Ok, enough, just go away.
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  31. Two-child policy now. (Many will go with one or zero, so 1.5 will result. Tidy, swift, painless reduction.)
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  32. U live in your own imagination, like this girl I met who believes that people live in cities on the moon right now. Sorry but yer lost. Please snap out of it.
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  33.  @xxkampflappenxx8368  The word you were looking for is 'subjunctive.' Anyway, what you were doing was was beyond mere speculation or even plausible hypothesizing, and imagination wasn't strong enough a word for it. The idea that significant wars could go on without our knowing it is just fantasy, and maybe even that's too weak a term. 'Sheer irrationality' would cover it better.
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  34. I think it ignored the chances of the perfect superbug arising unconnected with any expression of will. Like Gambler's Ruin, the decisive filter might be the eventual appearance of a bug like no other, in the analogy a losing streak so bad it bankrupts our survival. (Cf. JM Keynes: "In the long run we are all dead.") Btw, it was horrible how you shtupped your housemaid under your wife's nose, got her pregnant, refused to acknowledge the child, and relied on your super-rich fox-hunting buddy to take care of financially supporting her. Appalling for anyone, really, but ten times more so for such a preening moralist. Child textile workers in England sweated day after day in the dim light of stuffy brick piles so you could get your rocks off.
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  35. This channel has a very stupid side to it. Makes sense when you remember it is connected to the Discovery Channel.
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  36. Misanthropy is dangerous, to you and humanity.
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  37. I agree with that. Did Fermi devise his paradox after one too many at lunch? What you say also jibes pretty well with my reply to LinusSpacehead just now. (Sort by Newest.)
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  38. Shove your misanthropy, please. Thank you.
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  39. I doubt there are interstellar aliens. Maybe, but I'd guess it's bots only.
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  40. Maybe the great filter is insufficient stealth. Just as on Earth the great advantage is old money, maybe in the interstellar and intergalactic deeps the great advantage is not showing your face, lest the stealthy well-established races of creatures spot you and wipe you out before you can say Jack Robinson. Setting off so many atmospheric nuclear tests may have been our dead giveaway, or letting our radio and TV programs and other signals leak out across immensity.
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  41. Maybe the great filter is insufficient stealth. Just as on Earth the great advantage is old money, maybe in the interstellar and intergalactic deeps the great advantage is not showing your face, lest the stealthy well-established races of creatures spot you and wipe you out before you can say Jack Robinson. Setting off so many atmospheric nuclear tests may have been our dead giveaway, or letting our radio and TV programs and other signals leak out across immensity.
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  42. Your misanthropy is classic German guilt, Col. Kurz. Try therapy.
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  43. 'Why' is for explaining things like your girlfriend cheating on you. Existence is more about 'How.'
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  44. Ok, start by returning Yugoslavia to communism. See ya.
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  45. Welcome to the world Dunning-Kruger headquarters, where thousands of geniuses deride Elon Musk's lack of brains.
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  46.  @adamhall7077  From what I know, I completely agree. (If it seemed I thought otherwise, you should look up Dunning-Kruger.)
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  47. I was about to agree with you and then you suggested we've passed safely through the internet filter already. I don't believe that for a second. The internet is a way of stirring hive-mind into an innately mostly individual-mind system. It could be raising the tower to dizzying heights at the same time as it eats away termite-like at the supporting beams way down below.
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