Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Yes, when everyone is confused and scared shitless, it's a good bet that they'll be driving cautiously and safely!
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  2. You're still an idiot for not knowing how to calculate cost of electricity.
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  3.  @RCAvhstape  And by doing that Google is digging its own grave.
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  4. Yeah, all of this technology to replace the old cheap thing known as "wear warm clothes when it's cold" or "strip naked when it's hot". Mind boggles how efficient and sustainable all this new technology is. And how much "greenhouse emissions" it saves.
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  5. Almost perfect, but in the future it will be the ISP switching off your modem to "save the climate" and "because of energy crisis". We're already almost there in Europe.
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  6. Just use your hand like you're on a bike. No need to overcomplicate things. If you're extra cautious you can also shout "on your right" or "on your left" when overtaking vehicles (depending on whether you are left-handed or right-handed).
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  7. @Rev Hitit Basic arithmetics!
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  8.  @TechnologyConnections  The algorithms are designed by humans, too, and serve goals of those who design them.
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  9. After watching this I'm even more satisfied that I don't drink coffee.
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  10. @Rev Hitit Yes, the connection to primary school maths is apparently way beyond your level of comprehension. So I guess you are right after all.
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  11. Bad color, terrible startup time, expensive, prone to fail, brainwashed sellers trying to portray them as "eco friendly", governments trying to ban a perfectly working product (incandescent bulb) with this half-assed new invention, which was clearly worse than what people were used to before.
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  12. Probably too simple for an engineer.
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  13. The real interesting question is: what will the aggregate effect on electricity price be when everyone adds 12 kWh/day of (likely at night!) usage because they want to drive their little "efficient" electric car. For comparison, my own TOTAL electricity usage is 2.3 kWh/day.
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  14. @Rev Hitit Ok, don't worry about that, I realize you took the short bus.
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  15. What was your indoor temperate on the average, without the fireplace? And how well is that house insulated? I read recommendations that in autumn/winter heat pumps should be set to maintain temperature 20C. Which frankly SUCKS.
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  16. And that's actually good for the world. P.S. You won't be able to afford to travel either. That's also good for the world.
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  17.  @cannaroe1213  or maybe wear a hat and a thick pullover
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  18. My thoughts exactly - this is nothing new, "curated" content is simply what most people prefer to consume because seeking out information takes effort. Laziness, even more than fear or greed, is the major driving force for humanity's "progress" throughout history. There is nothing new about this, and the only thing which ever changes is who the nanny/curator is, and as we can see there are billions of dollars of potential advantage in it. If it was any different, people around the world would vote for parties that promote liberty, which quite obviously only a very small percentage does. Maybe the 3% who use the subscription feed, but probably even fewer than that. I don't think there is any fix for that, as it is a game theoretical result supported by human nature.
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  19. @ mega corporations are (still) run and owned by humans
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  20. @lucyla9947 An average employee cannot be held responsible either. That's what insurance is for. And when insurance companies step up to offering professional liability insurance for AI models, or demanding higher fees for humans than AI, you will know that these models have become "responsible enough".
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  21. @lucyla9947 At corporate level the management and decision makers are of course responsible for what the AI does or what happens because of its introduction. If the company breaks any laws and harms others, it can be sued out of existence or criminally prosecuted regardless of whether it was AI or devil who made them do it. Likewise, if a company makes poor decisions that lead to decline of their business because customers go shop elsewhere. So there is already very much financial responsibility for AI-caused problems, just like for any other kind of bad corporate decision. Obviously, any company will also try to shove that risk as far on someone else as is realistically possible, as that is the basic scheme how companies operate (minimize risks, maximize returns).
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  22. Well, it's their life so why would you care about it.
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  23. @Sylas Grayson Not when it comes to wearing seatbelts or not.
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  24. @ayporos You shouldn't limit someone else's freedom just because you are worried and frightened. I suppose using the same logic someone could argue that you should be doing <insert some healthy activity here> because not doing that healthy activity may shorten your life and the person is concerned. It's basically none of their business and annoying. Also, if someone wishes to commit suicide, it is their informed choice (unless they are suffering from some sort of mental illness) and other people should respect that.
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  25. @ayporos Maybe YOU are too dumb for freedom, but do not generalize this to other people. Why we have society? So that some people can oppress others, that's why.
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  26. @ayporos WTF is postmodernists.
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  27. @aypors Sounds like some utter bs which I certainly don't subscribe to. All I want is the world to fuck off when it comes to what I may or may not do and stop claiming that I owe something to it (without myself harming others, or telling them what to do, that is).
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  28.  @georgelaxton  It's not a joke, laws in Switzerland have been recently introduced that permit that sort of thing.
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  29. The electric grid can also collapse for plenty of other reasons (hacker attack? solar flare?), leading the idiots without a fossil fuel heat source to freeze in their all-electric homes. This is basically asking for trouble (or asking for a complete dependency on political whims of those who control the power grid), a way into modern serfdom or even the eventual collapse of human civilization.
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  30.  @eDoc2020  but the whole point is to replace gas infrastructure not to keep it unused as a backup... the cost is not only fuel, also maintenance of the delivery system
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  31. As someone who visited US twice, using an outlet adapter thingy to match my European devices, I can confirm that American outlets are just wobbly and suck. All of them, no exceptions.
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  32. The solution is to throw the damn thing out of the window and get naked as nature intended.
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  33. As long as the government does not force you to buy the better can opener, it's ok.
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  34. Kickstarter?
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  35. You do not need summer cooling in Germany.
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  36.  @kkobayashi1  I don't use hot water (except for cooking/tea).
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  37.  @oldgreg315  well still at 2.3 kWh with my "use"
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  38. Shows brown light, claims it does not exist, calls it orange. All right.
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  39. @Rev Hitit Oh yes, I'm pretty sure we had such "problems" to solve in primary school maths. Along with those about people buying stuffs, finding out when trains going at different speeds pass each other and similar shit.
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  40. Quick, somebody make a video about teletext and put a deep fake version of Technology Connections in it.
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  41. You're not supposed to leave them unsupervised.
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  42.  @robotnikkkk001  You may be onto something there Sherlock, but the problem is not China.
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  43. Actually, what he is calling "orange" is brown the whole time. Next this racist is gonna tell us black does not exist, huh?
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  44. Thanks ..d nowadays we have YouTube where we don't need TV Guardian any more, but where all creators and viewers are happy to censor themselves lest they get no money or the comments mysteriously disappear.
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  45.  @ileutur6863  You got it quite right concerning the intended side effects, however, most consumption - and resulting environmental destruction - in the world is not done by the 1%. It's just done by the 99% who want to be like the 1%. In fact, you could view the 1% as a sort of safety valve - while they amass virtual assets, they don't produce all the pollution, disease, and cruelty (except maybe indirectly through politics; however without them, pretty much the same thing would happen through other politics, as long as the mass is allowed to grow).
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  46.  @centralintelligenceagency9003  Yes, people with more access to resources and especially violence have always dictated life for those without it, although it has been more or less covered up to create an illusion of freedom and opportunity for the powerless because it keeps them content. Of course, occasionally peasants will get fed up and revolt (more often than not, to their own detriment, e.g. make planet earth more of a garbage dump than it is). Accordingly, even more resources will be invested in suppressing dissent in the coming decades (from online censorship to armed police). Now you understand why every state in the world is drifting towards authoritarian (of course, with mass support from the victims).
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  47.  @TechNextLetsGo  Yes, in the future you will generally not be allowed to experience a real book or a real cigarette.. or a real anything for that matter - that will be only for the elite. And if you are particularly naughty, your access rights to experience that simulated thing will be remotely revoked, too (by a virtual person). Edit: you won't have enough space for a real bookshelf either. Edit 2: and if you are not happy with the virtual shit you are allowed to watch and interact with, without ability to move around much (that's not good for the climate), the society will offer you drugs and remote "therapy" to make you happy again.
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  48. Dark chamber with a hole inside sounded inappropriately familiar, but you lost me at images projected on the opposite wall.
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  49. Dude, it was so misleading. Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in dishwasher detergent compartment.
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  50. The problem with some new inventions is that they are, for lack of another word, pushed down our throat. Or our bloodstream. So no, in most cases it's not a matter of not noticing "progress", it's a matter of not wanting other people to define what's "progress" for us. No matter how "progressive" or well-meaning those other people pretend to be (hint: you can make a bet that in the grand scheme of things, they really are not acting in our best interest).
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