Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. Joe: you have an exceptionally good, entertaining and unique style. WELL DONE and Thanks!
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  2. Give a homeless man an empty house and he will soon be homeless again with one fewer houses available for anybody else.
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  3. (Not to overlook the intelligent content of course as none of us would be here without that. :-) ) Definitely one of my faves.
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  4.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  I'm sure you are just about the smartest dude on Earth, obviously smarter then Mr. Musk. But difficult things get done sometimes just the same and I expect it won't be insurmountable to create autonomous cars that are 10X better than humans within a few yr.s. In fact most of the major automotive manufactures are betting big on exactly that.
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  5.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  By the time I spend as much TIME on it as you apparently have vehicles will be running around the streets with no drivers already. Logarithmic AI learning. I bet 5 yr.s ago you had a litany of reasons why EVs would never happen too.
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  6. SOME say "military intelligence" is an oxymoron.
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  7. I agree, non routine work is still a long way from being robotized and there is too much to do and too few folks able and willing to do it. Every employer I talk to is exasperated by how hard it is to find just minimally adequate employees for ANY type of job.
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  8. Yeah he used it as a metaphor not a literal number.
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  9.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  I think you smoke to much pot.
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  10.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  Elon and many others directly involved in FSD cars are banking on it. But YOU know better?
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  11.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  What does "right now" have to do with 3 yr.s from now? Are you high? Right now they are making impressive progress.
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  12. A Great genius and war hero murdered by Evil Christianity. We should never forget.
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  13.  @joescott  It's plain silly to take it an entertaining reference as numerical precision. It's part of your style that makes these things fun.
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  14.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  Hell yes we will, today the missiles are often barely controlled at all, reckless fools texting, old geezers who can't even stay between the lines, drunks, sleepy....
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  15.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  So you think Elon is deceptive or delusional or you don't have a point at all?
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  16.  @thomasmcgillivray3997  Place you bets. Put your money on it, I have. Talk is cheap.
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  17. pluggie Hahaha Indeed. ((PS. I like your handle for some strange reason, it seems we were all induced to come up with entertaining or, as in my case, silly names))
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  18. It's all unknown hence the title "UFO".
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  19. Why is THIS time different? We've had the same predictions for basically the same reasons at least since the Luddites 200 years ago. Instead we all got vastly richer and far superior jobs leaving the worst of the drudgery to machines. The horse became obsolete but the 'horse men' did NOT, they didn't just die they learned new trades and how to drive a car. If machines replaced jobs instead of simply re-inventing them (as they always have SO FAR) then UNemployment today would be around 99%, not 4%. One thing has never changed in my 35 years of being in business....It's still incredibly difficult to find qualified folks able and willing to do difficult jobs. Some of these jobs are replaceable by robots soon others are several orders of magnitude harder to robotize than, say driving a semi truck or assembly line work. Diesel mechanic or maintenance welder for example, very NON ROUTINE work requiring thoughtfulness and continuous creativity. (you didn't think such job descriptions were so demanding but that's only because Americans are foolishly taught to disrespect any work that gets your hands dirty) Good riddance to truck drivers and Fedex package destroying personnel!
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  20.  @mk3ferret  I lucked out both last time (great recession) and this shameful failure of government--happen to be surrounded by agricultural dominated landscape and I can't keep up with business, as usual. Last time 'everything changed' as my construction customers suddenly stopped but I had already been gradually swinging toward ag., this time ag related are exempt. Very few cases of the virus and zero fatalities in my county.
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  21.  @mk3ferret  I learned long time ago to avoid "retail customers" (with a few exceptions, it can be rewarding to help someone passing thru but stranded with a breakdown say) and serve business with $100k to $2M industrial machines that lose thousands per day for down time, my substantial bills don't look bad on that background. Quality, speed, high skill and integrity...big opportunities there and always have been.
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  22. jason shirrill What's the matter with you? I'm sure Joe get's an obvious joke.
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  23. 50 yr.s ago.
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  24. I don't know of anyone promoting supersonic hyperloop potential, 900 mph (if that wasn't a mistake) is definitely supersonic.
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  25. Perhaps one should practice "living off the land" on Antarctica first as that will be 10k time easier that living on Mars. I fully support the mission, can't wait to see it happen, but it's going to be one foreboding, desolate place where many are sure to get sever cabin fever if they are fortunate enough to survive for long. I would love to visit briefly (not an option) but NO WAY it's going to replace Earth except for those who never leave the house anyway perhaps.
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  26. We DO NOT KNOW that "30% of jobs will disappear", this same sort of prediction has been made every decade since the Luddites some 200 yr.s ago and been wrong every time. I remember reading a rant around 1990 in the newspaper lamenting the computer revolution because now bankers no longer needed to manually sum endless strings of numbers, no more type setters, etc., etc., many other mind numbing jobs becoming obsolete. Good riddance to crappy jobs! Do you suppose that op-ed writer was using a manual typewriter??
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  27. Don't EVER click on mass shootings, your feeding the media and the next deranged idiot. There is no useful info possible beyond the headline anyway, it's only titillating crap. Get OFF IT.
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  28. Unfortunately--today I believe one can create such as Smallpox from 'scratch', using available genetic code and technologies. You are entertaining Joe, well done as usual.
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  29. Ending a decade ago I went thru 4 or 5 Irobot floor machines, including shop unit and floor washer...tossed 'em all. More trouble than they were worth.
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  30. Money not only makes things happen--things happening attracts money.
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  31. 4:45 Those rates will fall commensurate with more typical investments, no way it will stay at that sort of return, competition will see to that. 80% fewer cars on the road??? WTH? I wish but how? And Uber has so far managed to increase traffic I understand, contrary to predictions.
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  32. I'm guessing there were a few dozen conspiritards who had their religion offended.
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  33. I know nothing about rabbit holes. But I know gopher holes and there is no end to those unless I fill with proper mix of O2/acetylene and detonate them.
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  34. The USD is backed by something --it's a bet on the future productivity of America and confidence that it won't be severely deflated. 7:20
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  35. Snow avalanches can carry much farther than you'd expect, skimming on a cushion of air. Camping in less than perfect location could be a reasonable choice for many reasons, that's the norm in such realities, there are no ideal options plus it's going to get dark and everyone is worn out already.
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  36. I hope you, Joe, are as much a capitalist as anyone, nothing wrong with that. Elon is a national/international hero (as much as i loath that term in general), but I think practical rocketing around Earth as a substitute for airliners is *pure fantasy*.
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  37. Sure. That's why Elon Musk hides out in a bunker never to be seen in public.
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  38. What the hell does that have to do with the price of rice? Ever hear of a joke response to a joke? I knew it was a joke just wasn't certain YOU did. :D
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  39. Hilarious that aliens can cross half the galaxy and then make a navigational error in the last 100 ft. and crash. Or that they happen to look like a hominid. There is only one thing that's unique about Earth that aliens could possibly be interested in--that's the particular biodiversity.
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  40. Tesla fully intends to produce the bot, no question about that. How long it takes is another thing.
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  41. They don't live long. :D
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  42. How about that the air (gas) the plate was traveling in was, at lower altitudes, traveling about as fast as the plate itself in the same direction?...or was the plate way ahead of that early on?
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  43. A cheesy trike car/plane is complete shit as a car and compromised as a plane...some combinations just don't work, like making a sports car that doubles as a rock crawler, ain't gonna to work.
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  44. Moore's Law has been "ending" for decades now, so we'll see. I remain to be convinced.
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  45. First explorers have always died. It will be different THIS time bc we will get to watch it all on cam. I'm all for it. Be some titillating footage of struggle, conflict, panic, treachery, cannibalism and murder then one last living individual gasping their last.
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  46. Like your style Joe. "Everyone knew it was going to blow our minds but it still managed to surprise us." lol
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  47. First car was '73 Pinto hatchback with tiny 1600cc, wasn't bad for $3000k new, mine was old, lol. Did the job They didn't burst into flame without a severe rear-ending that might be fatal w/o fire. Did a study on it for engineering class.
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  48. One problem with the notion that 'our mind creates reality' is that when we get it wrong the consequences are REAL. A delusional person pays a high price for their disconnect, they may be entirely convinced that since 'matter is mostly empty space' that they can walk through walls but if they test that by stepping into a busy street without looking they get run over just like anyone else.
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