Reply #7: No wonder people don't get it. This isn't entertaining. But it's great stuff. [View All]

[Gregorian]

The video needs to be watched several times. Even with many years of math, it went too fast for me. I hadn't seen the shortcut 70 rule before. But my math was rigorous engineering math. No shortcuts.

I'm quite out of it today. My head is like glue. And it has been 18 years since I had a math class. I've forgotten a ton.

One thing that keeps coming back is how many different ways there are to look at this subject. That one curve.

We're like infants playing with fire. And yes, we don't know what tomorrow will bring.

He is giving a typical lecture, and it goes way too fast. And as usual I don't like how it's presented. But watching it several times works for me.



For me, the bottom line is this- We live in a modern society. People are either educated or not. And if educated, then we can make educated decisions. Otherwise we are at the mercy of the very thing we modernized to get away from. That being, the law of the jungle. I see people breeding and driving like there's no tomorrow. No wonder my head hurts. I'm furious as I watch this idiocy. And any intelligent person would be. Now that is a subject unto itself. And perhaps I could use some therapy. But the best therapy would be to see every person getting an education. No exceptions. You are alive, you are going to learn math. We're so quick to toss people in a cell. I don't know what could be worse. So when I think of how people tend to react to forcing education down someone's throat, I still say we do it. Lock up the kids and force math upon them.



By the way, even after many years of math, I still needed to see this video. This stuff is easy to forget.


Wow, part 2 is even better. It's all of the stuff I've spent years talking about, and never heard anyone else mention. He's wrong about immigration though, unless he's just talking about US population. And he clearly isn't. But I can overlook that.