November video topic poll
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I came in late for the poll, but I do have a suggestion for a future video, maybe for your main channel: the 2024 Nobel in physics went to computer scientists for AI research. This has provoked controversy with some physics communicators saying “we want our Nobel back”. I would love to know your thoughts on it, since you’ve commented on the Nobel in the past.
Given that Geoffrey Hinton got the physics Nobel price for his work on AI, having a Redux video on the state of AI would be a good fit. Especially since you also gave us a Nobel price (horror) story recently, too!!
Funny, I just commented basically the same thing. 😊
these polls always end before i see them and get to vote ;-(
Should AI win out, Ed Zitron has been writing about the financing of AI (and its inevitable collapse) for about two years, worth checking out
You're doing great, Angela!
On the nuclear power, a particularl thing I've been wondering is with Microsoft spinning 3 mile island back up to power ai. Is this clean? Will there be surplus power for the surrounding community? It's certainly a way to power AI without fossil fuels though, and more nuclear is better than less imo
Patreon needs ranked choice voting!
The Halloween special came in 2nd place last October. Can this year be redemption? It's pretty close
I'm very interested to hear what you have to say about "AI." Are there a lot of differences between now and what you said about it in your first YouTube?
Apparently ChatGPT o1 now qualifies for Mensa. Really kind of hoped we would have figured out how to create an economy that doesn't require so much human effort before creating a technology that completely devalues human effort. Even just where we are today, I believe most people working desk jobs right now could be replaced by their own phones. Just prop it up in a chair and turn on speech mode. Pretty sure by the end of the year, ChatGPT will also have video avatars, at which point interacting with AI will be functionally indistinguishable from interacting with real human beings on a phone. And not just any human beings, but very knowledgeable and capable human beings with reasoning skills and recall abilities that are superior to most other human beings. Even if it does make mistakes sometimes, so do real people. Once everybody has a little professor in their pocket, why exactly are we going to continue paying each other money to to do stuff that our phones can do better?
For 50 years I have been passionately, ferociously anti-nuclear power. Is it time for me to reconsider in light of the potential for potential climate disaster, masses of people dying while struggling to escape starvation and lethal heat waves? How much of climate disruption is already baked in (Ha!) and even if we stopped all C02 creation in an instant right now there would still be climate disaster in the next 50 - 100 years?
When there is a problem where large-scale societal change is the only hope, why people are so occupied with roasting red herrings like this nuclear vs. not nuclear thing? (This is a comment I also could attach to the ChatGPT question above with a different quote, probably from Bullshit jobs.) "In the early 1970s, they already knew about the threats to the environment and the unsustainability of industrial consumer societies, already had the radical social movements like the hippies, anti-war and civil rights efforts, and already experienced oil price shocks that awakened them to energy scarcity. Compared to today, they had more spare time, relatively more spare income, more community participation, more trade union membership and far less individual and collective debt. There were only 3.5 billion people on the planet and per capita energy use was far lower, while ecosystems and climate were in a reasonable condition. If there was a moment for a social tipping point it was then."
I couldn't pick one. I picked five but please do the ghost one before Halloween!
Ai would be fun but Halloween would be interesting from a science point of view
We need Halloween Angela 🫡