Recent content by petermarkley

lol That’s my prediction and I am confident I won’t be proven wrong. I don’t know what to tell you … However the rest of your post does make me worry we are talking past each other and maybe you aren’t even getting the meaning of my prediction—so you may later see something that you think...

Lol I like that phrase, so expressive! 😄

Slightly different topic, but I never quite understood the point behind coupons and discounts. If a company can afford to lower a price, just lower the price … why turn it into a game where it only applies to a subset of customers who perform an otherwise pointless task, which basically means...

Ah, you seem to be thinking not far from Biblical morality! 😉 I wish more professing Christians had your attitude. Oh boy, that won’t happen with me. Not because I’m afraid for my safety (although you certainly make a valid point), but because as an autistic person I am horrendously...

I’ll have to echo that. We have launched immediately into worldview topics, which is no real surprise. Basically, I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see. Just because the intelligence that humans have is somewhat ineffable, does not mean it’s reducible to anything resembling what AI...

It’s a pleasant (mild) surprise that we agree on that. In my understanding, the argument of “what’s the point of punishing” comes from that naive Secular Humanist view that I mentioned. In this view, the depraved part of human nature belongs in the same philosophical category as any other...

The difference is human thought and creativity. In art, “original” doesn’t mean “unlike anything that’s gone before;” it just means that some thought and work was put into it that inspires people and moves our cultural dialogue forward. Human beings have intelligence that AI fundamentally does...

I am going to answer this two ways (at least). In theory, it should be a pretty easy answer: So if I interpret your question to mean, “How would you order society according to the standards of right and wrong that you believe in,” that’s the ideal that I would say we should aim towards...

I already got notice of a pending privacy complaint on my video … 😵

Thank you for sharing! Since it wasn’t a video of mine per se I guess I didn’t think about sharing it here … I’m glad you did 😊

I have no interest in debating that topic, I’m afraid. Sorry if that’s disappointing. Even the non-debate polite discussions on it, I’ve already had a bit more of than my appetite tbh … It’s almost to the point I can create a playlist of them: Dapper Dino 👈 (this one was especially exhausting)...

As a side note, there is another content creator, an astronomer named Professor Parks PhD, who had previously been sharply critical of both Will Duffy and me due to our “science denial” young earth creationist beliefs. In addition to his basic advocacy of mainstream science, he seemed to assume...

I finished the video late Sunday night, and I had seen people doing video premieres around 3pm so I figured that was a good time to do it (a lazy google search about “best YouTube premiere times” seemed to corroborate this). My wife and I also wanted to be available to watch the live chat...

Good question. For many years I myself have wondered what purpose the “premiere” feature on YouTube serves, since it’s not a livestream and the content is inherently asynchronous. Why try to synchronize everyone’s first viewing? It just seems like preventing someone from watching if they are...

I don’t really touch on economics in my video, the angle I took is more personal and emotional. But I think you’re spot-on and that definitely fits as another piece in the puzzle of American decline. I’m sort of technically “homeless” right now myself! 😅 (We are currently living in a temporary...