Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

twitter.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

281–290 of 438 posts

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#281

Post by TeMPOraL »

_yb2s wrote: post #176
ternnoburn wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sort of. They got the outcomes pretty close, but the movie was based on a premise of eugenics and equating poverty with low intelligence.

The movie was based on the (indisputable?) fact that intelligence is heritable- but not Eugenics, which takes that a step further and advocates for people deciding which other people are inferior and superior and organizing society around that. One could argue that the movie tries to make a case for eugenics, but it didn’t directly do so. I think the movie could also be seen as looking at culture instead of genetics,…

For better or worse, "eugenics" at this point is basically a cultural repulsion field surrounding most of practical aspects of genetics. You dare to even suggest there are measurable genetic differences between people, and someone will shout "eugenics", rounding any conversation down to "yeah nazis said the same thing".

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#282

Post by hartator »

nox101 wrote: post #245
pksebben wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll offer a slight adjustment; "Finance in general encourages risky behavior". It is an industry explicitly dealing in moving and dealing in risk. We periodically become very aware of this. See financial news in 1893, 1901, 1907, 1910, 1914, 1920, 1937, 1949, 1953, 1961, 1970, 1973, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2011, and so on and so on. It's almost as if a zero-sum, value neutral industry controlling the bul…

What part is zero-sum?

Speculative assets are by definition are zero-sum.

If they go to infinite or to zero, they still produce zero.

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#283

Post by TRiG_Ireland »

tim333 wrote: post #195
daveguy wrote: post #190

Just a friendly heads up. Anyone who wants to avoid Twitter, since it has become so toxic, can use the domain xcancel.com in place of twitter.com or x.com. like so: https://xcancel.com/3blue1brown/status/1876291319955398799 This links to independent Nitter to provide a full thread.

That doesn't have the reply from ChainPatrol: Hello! This was a false positive in our systems at @ChainPatrol . We are retracting the takedown request, and will conduct a full post-mortem to ensure this does not happen again. We have been combatting a huge volume of fake YouTube videos that are attempting to steal user funds. Unfortunately, in our mission to protect users from scams, false positives (very) occasional…

The original Twitter link doesn't show any replies either. Maybe it does if you're signed in, but I no longer have a Twitter account (and nor do most people).

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#284

Post by rglover »

It's deeply haunting to think about how badly AI is going to mess up the world over the next few years. Today, it's YouTube videos. Later, it will be a rejection of the insurance claim for a kid's life-saving surgery.

If you're in a position of influence in an organization that's losing its marbles over AI, please, at the very least encourage others to pump the brakes and think.

If there was ever a time to speak up when you know implementing something will lead to a likely disaster, it's now.

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#285

Post by npoc »

hartator wrote: post #282
nox101 wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What part is zero-sum?

Speculative assets are by definition are zero-sum. If they go to infinite or to zero, they still produce zero.

You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value.

Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life.

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#286

Post by _yb2s »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #281
_yb2s wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The movie was based on the (indisputable?) fact that intelligence is heritable- but not Eugenics, which takes that a step further and advocates for people deciding which other people are inferior and superior and organizing society around that. One could argue that the movie tries to make a case for eugenics, but it didn’t directly do so. I think the movie could also be seen as looking at culture instead of genetics,…

For better or worse, "eugenics" at this point is basically a cultural repulsion field surrounding most of practical aspects of genetics. You dare to even suggest there are measurable genetic differences between people, and someone will shout "eugenics", rounding any conversation down to "yeah nazis said the same thing".

I suspect your idea of “practical aspects of genetics” includes ideas about how people different from you shouldn’t be allowed reproduce, and very little about things like researching the function of a newly discovered microbial enzyme.

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#287

Post by [deleted] »

kepano wrote: post #226
janalsncm wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, I am not against backups but that doesn’t solve the actual problem. The problem isn’t losing the files, it is losing a reliable source of income. Putting the videos on Vimeo/S3 bucket/some random website doesn’t solve that problem. People create videos as a full-time job, which is only possible because of the traffic YouTube brings. Also I think the analogy is pretty solid because it clearly illustrates the em…

It is certainly helpful to hang up a shingle where all the people are — the mall, the town square, the marketplace — but your patrons should know that a bridge exists to your flagship, your headquarters, your farm, your factory of ideas.

[deleted]

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#288

Post by jjk166 »

ars wrote: post #240
VyseofArcadia wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's Finland where if the punishment for a crime is a fine, the fine scales with the income of the perpetrator. I like that system.

So you're saying that if I'm rich and I want to speed I hire a driver with no money and quietly cover the fine for him? I've always wondered about this loophole in that system.

How often are you getting speeding tickets that having a driver on payroll is cheaper than fines?

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#289

Post by connicpu »

rglover wrote: post #284

It's deeply haunting to think about how badly AI is going to mess up the world over the next few years. Today, it's YouTube videos. Later, it will be a rejection of the insurance claim for a kid's life-saving surgery. If you're in a position of influence in an organization that's losing its marbles over AI, please, at the very least encourage others to pump the brakes and think . If there was ever a time to speak up…

UnitedHealthcare is already using AI to deny claims, and reportedly I've heard that 90% of the AI denials that are appealed end up approved when it gets to a human.

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

#290

Post by hartator »

npoc wrote: post #285
hartator wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speculative assets are by definition are zero-sum. If they go to infinite or to zero, they still produce zero.

You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value. Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life.

> You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value.

If you think about it, the "economic" value is just the market trying to discover what everyone value in life.

> Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life.

Finding a cure for cancer will be infinite value and most people will give anything for it - including all Bitcoins in the world. This - finding the cure of cancer - is the way better store of value than anything. The reverse is not true.

Post reply on HN