David Whyte : A lyrical bridge between past, present and future

TED 2017

David Whyte : A lyrical bridge between past, present and future (transcript)

Summary

Those were difficult poems for me.

However, you can think that if you work hard and play hard, even if you are in a siever situation but you didn't look back.

You are not jealous of others lives and you love your life more than a beautiful successful life in the TV drama because TV's is imagination and it's not true.

In this poem, we seem to look always the conversational nature of reality. It means that the fact which you want to happen will not happen.

What actually happens is this frontier between what you think is you, and what you think is not you. This is the only place that is the frontier where things are real.

However, I don't think so, because If l can continue to stay there, what l want to happen will happen.

However, we have full disappearance called death.

And then the poem has a contradiction.

“One day, you realized that what you wanted actually already happened”.

So they are always in conflict in our journey, we don't realize many things that are good and bad but they will be shot, but we are alive. Our journey is created our past, present, and future is continuing. This is one identity.

We only have to work hard and play hard, even if what we want to doesn't happen.

Words in this story

lyrical / (of literature, art, or music) expressing the writer's emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way.

threshold /  doorstep, doorway, a certain reaction, magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for.

phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested.

frontier / a line or border separating two countries.

Stuart Russell : 3 principles for creating safer AI

TED 2017

Stuart Russell  : 3 principles for creating safer AI (transcript)

Summary

Now, we will probably satisfy our technological development of AI. It is progressing faster than we expect. And then machines will read everything that is written by a human soon and they'll be able to make better decisions in the real world than us.

However, it will lead to the catastrophe that we can't control the robotic. To continue defensively pursuing an objective that is not aligned with the true objective of the human race but this is dangerous that it possibly  kills people to achieve one objective.

Thus AI has to have three principles. It has altruism, humility and it is useful to us.

Having altruism is to maximize the realization of human objective, but having humility is not known what its human values are. It means to avoid the problem of single-minded pursuit of an objective but to have some ideas of what we want.

In the near future, AI can also learn from what it wasn't right for human objectives and what we really want by watching all of us.

The speaker thinks that he wants to create human- compatible AI that has them.

I think that this is to have something over the human.

This must seek that we have to be better people and learn to be better people.

Words in this story

bribe /noun/ a sum of money or other inducement offered or given in this way.

malfunction /noun/  crash, breakdown, fault, failure, bug, a failure to function in a normal or satisfactory manner.

David Autor : Will automation take away all our jobs?

TED 2016

David Autor : Will automation take away all our jobs? (transcript)

Summary

Will automation take away all our jobs?

First, I couldn’t have the answer, because tractor and ATMs took away vast numbers of our jobs before and even now. However, it's not all of our jobs. They can do their tasks faster and better than us, but they don't make our jobs superfluous.

Just technology magnifies our leverage, and increases the importance of our expertise, our judgment, and our creativity. We haven't prepared, and we cannot qualify for the good jobs that are being created.

There are the principles that are the O-ring principle and the never-get-enough principle there.

It means, our tasks are turned to many O-ring jobs that are important for us to do something, but machines cannot do that. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity, and there’s an amazing amount prosperity in our world. That's why you can’t say that automation takes away all our jobs. It is not decided by the machines and the market. It's decided by us and our institutions. We have to prepare for our new jobs and the answer is “No”.

Words in this story

frivolous /adj/  silly, not having any serious purpose or value

calamitous /adj/ involving calamity; catastrophic; disastrous.

superfluous /adj/  redundant, unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.

equivalent /adj/  equal, identical, same

senseless /adj/ unreasonable, irrational, absurd

Theo E.J. Wilson : A black man goes undercover in the alt-right

TED 2017

Theo E.J. Wilson : A black man goes undercover in the alt-right (transcript)

Summary

I didn't know that the word "Troll" has the meaning that not only a legendary creature but someone who leaves an intentionally annoying message on the internet, in order to get attention or cause trouble. I understand that in our computer, trolls must live thus only evil or bad things spread very quickly and widely. Nowadays, we have smartphones in our hands and can use anytime and anywhere to solve something. It must mean that tolls live in the brain. We believe only things written on the internet but we don't try to get the truth. We have to have more conversations to solve problems. Using the internet to know something and next grade that we have to step up is having real conversations with real people in real life.

The speaker wanted to solve the problems about race and politics in America. He felt that there is only the misunderstanding about black people on the internet and he doesn't want to spread it anymore.

Let go of fear to embrace curiosity and to have courageous conversations with people who think differently from you.

"Conversations stop violence, conversations start countries and build bridges".

Words in this story

articulate /verb/ (of a person or a person's words) having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.

dumped /adj/  deserted,  deposit or dispose of (garbage, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way.

doppelganger /noun/ an apparition or double of a living person.

Nancy Etcoff : Happiness and its surprises

TED 2004

Nancy Etcoff : Happiness and its surprises (transcript)

Summary

I thought that human being was not a beautiful thing when I knew about human desires.    

And then, this time, the speaker tells us that human design is created continuing the pursuit of happiness. How selfish a human is! However, if you think about only yourself, it hasn't made you any happier at all.

It goes against our biology and nature.

People are happiest when in flow, when they're absorbed in something out in the world, when they're active or when they're with other people, and etc.

So if we honestly follow our biology and nature, we will be happy, but social status and money mislead us to selfishness.

We need more understanding for our life. The speaker showed it that underwenting can change your life and your whole values. The true values are happiness, generosity, and forgiveness that come from beyond wealth, adventure, achievement, and materialism.  

It all depends on yourself change.

"How to love this world?"

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it, blame yourself. Tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches".

"First, say to yourself what you would be. Then do what you have to do".

Then I love this quote.

"Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber, for a week, marry a wife, for a month, buy him a new horse, for a year, build him a new house, for all his lifetime, be an honest man".

Words in this story

selfishness /noun/ the quality or condition of being selfish.  selfish /adj/  

materialism /noun/ a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.

irrelevant /adj/ not connected with or relevant to something.

Paul Bloom 1: The origin of pleasure

TED 2011

Paul Bloom 1: The origin of pleasure (transcript)

Summary

The previous talk of the speaker was about prejudice.

This time, he tells us the origin of pleasure. It comes from our beliefs that I think it's like our prejudice.

Human beings are essentialists who are the people who strongly have a belief: a doctrine that certain traditional concepts, ideal, and skills are essential to society.

Thus our belief is changed by the history of an object how we experienced it. It appears not as a simple illusion but as a deep feature of what pleasure and pain.

The beliefs the speaker tells us are, for example, the art must be expensive and an expensive bottle wine must be delicious. Those lead you to feeling happiness without thinking what arts are and what taste is or even if you can't tell the difference. Thus feeling happiness is different from each other. This is the origin of pleasure.

OMG! Essentialism of human is that human doesn't see the essential qualities of a thing. Then we are pleased and we are suffered.

I think that people who feel happy from cheaper copy products will be increasing more than from expensive true one. Is it better for our society?

Words in this story

empirical /adj/ based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.  experiential, practical

malevolent /adj/ having or showing a wish to do evil to others.

extravagant /adj/ gorgeous, wonderful, luxurious, lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.

essence /noun/ true nature, reality, the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character.

Paul Bloom 2: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?

TED 2014

Paul Bloom 2: Can prejudice ever be a good thing? (transcript)

Summary

I had a prejudice that having a prejudice was really bad and we don't have it.

In the dictionary, "prejudice" means a narrow view or opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. It also says harm or injury that results or may result from some action or judgment.

However, the speaker tells us that he wants us to know that the prejudice and bias are natural and often even moral. By the aid of prejudice and custom, we can make good guesses or judge something accurately from creating groups.

However, this distinction sometimes goes awry. Just an exaggeration of normal psychological processes that exists in all of us. This is prejudice also that seems to show up very early and possibly leads to wars, even Holocaust.

We humans have to appeal to our emotional responses, empathy, and the power of reason. Our reason has a principle that we are not better than any other and the understanding of human rights. With them, we can change our prejudice to be better.

Words in this story

distinction /noun/  difference, contrast, classification, a difference or contrast between similar things or people.

duality /noun/ an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something; a dualism.

awry /adv/ wrong, twist

exaggeration /noun/  overstatement