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She gets money from selling novelty vids to television programmes. How does this make the world a better place?
by corndoge 9y ago
She gets money from selling novelty vids to television programmes. How does this make the world a better place?
- executesorder66 9y agoShe is providing entertainment. Some people believe that the arts are worthless, and the only thing worth doing is science. Others don't believe that, and enjoy entertainment, and appreciate people who create the entertainment.
- godzillabrennus 9y agoEntertaining people with science. Making machines less scary so people are less fearful.
- stcredzero 9y agoMaking machines less scary so people are less fearful. So when Skynet finally decides it's Judgement Day, it's easier for Skynet to eliminate the most dangerous scourge on Earth: Humanity.
- lsc 9y agoYou are downvoted, of course, because we all know what side our bread is buttered on. When the revolution comes, many of us here will probably not be friends with John Connor.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoOTOH, if she inspires people to make more shitty robots, Skynet will only have shitty toothbrushing robots to work with. Also if Skynet starts eliminating people, it itself will become the most dangerous scourge; if it's self-learning it'll shut itself down.
- icc97 9y agoI agree. The machines she makes are genuinely funny. Making something funny is hard and takes skill. Beyond that she manages to give personality to her robots. I guess what I'm trying to say is she's providing actual comedy rather than just entertainment. I view comedy as a higher level somehow.
- musage 9y agoMaking people less fearful of machines by derping around and normalizing Google Home and et al, how is that something to write home about, proudly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab47XHidvwQ&t=1m55s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab47XHidvwQ&t=1m55s You might as well call "social experiment" videos "entertaining people with science" because there goes theory and engineering into the pixel displays people consume them on. Oh, but call to action for victims of some thing or other, so how could anyone possibly "hate", right? Isn't she self-deprecating enough, already? This is the equivalent of cat videos for nerds -- same shit, different target audience. A dime a dozen, and it's all crap in the same patterns. The sad part is, most people aren't shills, this is simply what they come up with anyway, even when they're not backed by marketing teams, they do their best to produce similar output. I think it's insulting my intelligence, as part of a pebble on a beach of shit. And instead of allowing each pebble to hide behind the beach, I hold the beach against each pebble.
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- alkonaut 9y agoInspiring girls to work in science and tech. Showing that it’s a fun and not a scary area. Not world changing but very important.
- jacquesm 9y agoNot just girls. I've shown her stuff to kids of all sexes and they universally love it and ask about how they can do something like that themselves.
- nightski 9y agoAnd what are you doing to make the world a better place? I'm guessing you are setting the bar pretty low, so she in fact is looking pretty good :)
- swayvil 9y agoBy showing us something strange and beautiful. Technical yet artistic. It is convention breaching and paradigm cracking. Inspiring, educating and illuminating too. The world can use as much of that as it can get.