Marvin Minsky: Health, population and the human mind

August 31st, 2009 | by health |
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http://www.ted.com Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.

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  1. 29 Responses to “Marvin Minsky: Health, population and the human mind”

  2. By fluoridemakesudumb on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    CORDELL

    complete fucking waste of time. eccentric fool ranting on non constructive things.
    wtf tedtalks?

  3. By fluoridemakesudumb on Sep 2, 2009 | Reply

    DANIEL

    the NWO would love this nutjob.

  4. By thoth81 on Sep 4, 2009 | Reply

    ARMANDO

    You and I are most likely members of one of the last generations to not have augmented memorization storage. We can sit our great-grandchildren on our knee and regale them with tales of when “people were un-modified and had to work at memorizing things” haha…with molecular nanotechnology many things are possible - even perfect memory storage, similar to how data is stored on a medium inside your computer.

  5. By jasonlajoie on Sep 6, 2009 | Reply

    BRET

    Your statement in parenthesise is the key to your point. I see your point, but I don’t remember most of what I studied in school 15 years ago. Try imagining remembering what you learned 200 years ago.

  6. By Cornelius on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Спасибо! У Вас часто появляются очень интересные посты! Очень поднимаете мое настроение.

  7. By thoth81 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    CLEMENT

    I have to disagree with you. When individuals are capable of possessing more knowledge (in a perfect state of memory), it seems likely that the rate of discoveries would increase exponentially as due to their personal knowledge bases more correlations could be made between various disciplines and fields of knowledge. It would be like experts of different fields that get together now to brainstorm on issues, except inside your head. Faster, yes?

  8. By Cornelius on Sep 8, 2009 | Reply

    Можно и довольно серьезно поспорить по этому поводу… А вообще интересно!

  9. By thoth81 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply

    AUBREY

    Excellent point about inflation. People forget that inflation significantly affects those of the debtor class, while members of a creditor class experience negligible decreases in their wealth or purchasing power (because they have more money to soften the blow of their money being worth less).

  10. By John on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply

    Великолепно. Тема заинтересовала. Пошел серфить яндекс

  11. By jaicket on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply

    COLE

    Well, we don’t know whether or not it’s plausible because we don’t yet understand the human mind well enough, so it’s probably best in the time being to stick to currently scientifically plausicle solutions rather than philosphically plausible ones

  12. By Bunker on Sep 11, 2009 | Reply

    Сенкс за инфу, почитал с интересом.

  13. By dragonstorm83 on Sep 13, 2009 | Reply

    CORDELL

    there is a point where you might as well shave it all off. he crossed it a decade ago O_O

  14. By polymath7 on Sep 15, 2009 | Reply

    ELISHA

    Minsky isn’t really trying to make any jokes in this talk; he’s just an exceedingly eccentric personality.

    He is also, as it happens, the author of the single best explanatory essay on humor I have ever read.

  15. By Jianju69 on Sep 15, 2009 | Reply

    EZRA

    Mr. Minsky has been working on these ideas for many decades. Please read his book, Society of Mind for more detail. Yes, people all over the world are working on developing these ideas & their own related ideas as well.

  16. By robotaholic on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply

    ANTHONY

    he is my fucking hero

  17. By schzx on Sep 18, 2009 | Reply

    EFRAIN

    As a means of supporting a large population, he didn’t even mention mind uploading (probably too a too out-there idea for TED, though, but not for reasons of implausibility)

  18. By ZodyZody on Sep 19, 2009 | Reply

    BRADLEY

    If you haven’t noticed, human ‘time’ is not on the same plane as ecological time. What goes up, must come down; it’s a basic building block of nature.

  19. By freesk8 on Sep 19, 2009 | Reply

    ANDREW

    I’m taking a long-term view. There has been no famine in Europe since the early 1900’s because of industrialization, which was caused by free market liberalization and the freedom to innovate and keep the profits. The rich employ the poor. The rich create jobs, but the poor tend not to, except for poor entrepreneurs, who create their own jobs. Trickle-down DOES work. Taxing the rich too much destroys jobs, hurts the poor, and reduces the incentive for the poor to become entrepreneurs.

  20. By freesk8 on Sep 23, 2009 | Reply

    ALLAN

    That’s not true. Bad regulation that shielded corporate lenders from the risks of making risky loans to people who were bad credit risks is one cause. The government creating too much money supply, leading to inflation is another. Inflation is a stealth tax on the poor. Then there is the fed creating low interest rates, which inflated the stock market by encouraging too much debt. Government over-spending and taxing too. Mostly, the recession is caused by the government and bad regulation.

  21. By R055HP on Sep 26, 2009 | Reply

    CLYDE

    De-regulation couoled with overpopulation is the cause of the current global recession.

  22. By R055HP on Sep 28, 2009 | Reply

    ALBERT

    The poor are NOT getting more food. In many parts of the world poverty is worsening. The world’s ecological crises have been caused by overpopulation coupled with over-development. “Liberalisation” does not make the poor richer. The trickle-down-thoery of economics is wrong. Making the rich richer does not help the poor.

  23. By popitypop on Sep 30, 2009 | Reply

    ARMAND

    agreed.. his jokes are so lame, he has to move on to hide the fact that he just told a joke so as not to lose face..

  24. By popitypop on Oct 2, 2009 | Reply

    BILLY

    yea… hes right.. parts of the world is over populated, parts of the world is underpopulated.. it aint spread out through out the entire world.. th reason y we re so freaked out is b coz of the rate of growth, we re scared tht we d b overpopulated in the near future..

  25. By kristin7858 on Oct 5, 2009 | Reply

    CHASE

    he is a horrible public speaker

  26. By ExecutiveSuite on Oct 6, 2009 | Reply

    DAN

    If you haven’t noticed, humans don’t generally follow the ecological route as other animal populations…

  27. By sunrisewalker on Oct 7, 2009 | Reply

    EMERSON

    Even if he was talking about genocide, our population will probably do that using just the carrying capacity of the planet

  28. By thejudicialbranch9 on Oct 10, 2009 | Reply

    BRAD

    + Syndromes: Draconian - Organizational_studies_and_human_resource_management, Unintended_consequences, Transhumanism, Human capital, Human Development Theory, Welfare Economics, Common_aspects_of_mediation

  29. By Nowekian on Oct 11, 2009 | Reply

    EZEKIEL

    i haven’t heard him say anything abuout genocide, ****. The dangers of overpopulation are very real… and he’s simply detailing a few of his own ideas, cockhole. Forums are intended to scrutinize and criticize ideas. A place for those to find the evils that have been masked, and find more viable solutions, poon face. Its a mode of education, not a place to insult people, *****. So don’t call me an asshole, you vomitous pile of pig ****.

  30. By 1schwererziehbar1 on Oct 13, 2009 | Reply

    BRENTON

    this video is a good excuse for some to talk about genocide without other people recognizing the evil. enjoy your ******* forum, assholes!

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