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now let's compare that with fish farming you can farm one pound of fish with just one pound of feed and depending on species even less and why is that well that's because fish first of all float they don't need to stand around all day resisting gravity like we do and most fish are cold blooded they don't need to heat themselves fish chills
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so i come from the tallest people on the planet the dutch it hasn't always been this way in fact all across the globe people have been gaining height in the last years in developed countries on average we have gotten centimeters taller and scientists have a lot of theories about why this is but almost all of them involve nutrition namely the increase of dairy and meat in the last years global meat consumption has more than quadrupled from million tons to million tons
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the last years global meat consumption has more than quadrupled from million tons to million tons something similar has been going on with milk and eggs in every society where incomes have risen so has protein consumption and we know that globally we are getting richer and as the middle class is on the rise so is our global population from billion of us today to billion by which means that by we are going to need at least percent more protein than what is available to humankind today and the latest prediction of the un puts that population number by the end of this century at billion which means that we are going to need a lot more protein this challenge is staggering so much so that recently a team at anglia ruskin global sustainability institute suggested that if we don't change our global policies and food production systems our societies might actually collapse in the next years currently our ocean serves as the main source of animal protein
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to consider this my element so who am i chris kind of mentioned i started a company with my husband we have about people internationally if you looked in the book you saw this
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so besides this thing this is my science slide this is math and this is science this is genetics this is my grandmother and this is where i get this mouth
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you have my friend who has a on personal recorders he makes enough money just by running ads to support his family up in oregon that's all he does now and this is something that have made possible and then you have something like this which is it's a wonderful organization of people and doctors who go to developing nations to offer plastic surgery to those who need it children with cleft palates get it and they document their story this is wonderful i am not that caring
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i'm a i have always decided that i was going to be an expert on one thing and i am an expert on this person and so i write about it so the short story about my it started in i was i wasn't happy with my job because i was a designer but i wasn't being really stimulated i was an english major in college i didn't have any use for it but i missed writing so i started to write a and i started to create things like these little stories this was an illustration about my camp experience when i was years old and how i went to a camp christian camp and basically by the end i had made my friends hate me so much that i hid in a bunk they couldn't find me they sent a search party and i overheard people saying they wish i had killed myself jumped off bible peak you can laugh this is ok
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told me you cannot buy a banjo you're just like your dad who collects instruments and i wrote a post about how i was so mad at him he was such a tyrant he would not let me buy this banjo and those people who know me understood my joke this is mena this is how i make a joke at people because the joke in this is that this person is not a tyrant this person is so loving and so sweet that he lets me dress him up and post pictures of him to my
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but the thing was my friends read it and they're like oh that mena she wrote a post about wanting a stupid thing and being stupid but i got emails from people that said oh my god your husband is such an how much money does he spend on beer in a year you could take that money and buy your banjo why don't you open a separate account i've been with him since i was we've never had a separate bank account they said separate your bank account spend your money spend his money that's it and then i got people saying leave him
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only a couple of people read it i don't write this for this audience i'm showing it now but i would go insane if this was really public about four people probably read it and they tell me you haven't updated i'm probably going to get people telling me i haven't updated but this is amazing because i can go back to a day to april and say what was i doing this day i look at it i know exactly it's this visual cue that is so important to what we do i put the bad pictures up too because there are bad pictures
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exposed this or they worked hard to expose this you know are scary this is what you see i see this and i'm sure scared i swear on stage about because this is not something that's friendly but there are that are changing the way we read news and consume media and these are great examples these people are reaching thousands if not millions of readers and that's incredibly important during the hurricane you had posting about the hurricane on their updating it frequently this was possible because of the easy nature of tools you have my friend who has a on personal recorders
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and i set a goal i said i'm going to win an award because i had never won an award in my entire life and i said i'm going to win the south by southwest award
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are these people and why are they reading this and i realized i don't want to reach these people i don't want to write for this public audience and i started to kill my slowly i'm like i don't want to write this anymore slowly and slowly and i did tell personal stories from time to time i wrote this one and i put this up because of einstein today i'm going to get choked up because this is my first pet and she passed away two years ago and i decided to break from i don't really write about my public life because i wanted to give her a little memorial but anyways it's these sorts of personal stories you know you read the about politics or about media and gossip and all these things
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these things resonate with us and if you think about you think of high art the history paintings about you know all the biblical stories and then you have this these are the that interest me the people that just tell stories one story is about this baby and his name is odin
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you have day nine they're talking about his apnea day he gets pneumonia his baby is so small and i've never encountered such a just a disturbing image but just so heartfelt and you're reading this as it happens so on day everybody reads that he's having failures breathing failures and heart failures and it's slowing down and you don't know what to expect but then it gets better day he goes home and you see this post that's not something you're going to see in a paper or magazine but this is something this person feels and people are excited about it comments that's not a huge amount of people reading but people matter
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so so what you've probably heard these things before we talked about the well and about all these sorts of things throughout our online history but i think are basically just an evolution and that's where we are today it's this record of who you are your persona
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we talked about the well and about all these sorts of things throughout our online history but i think are basically just an evolution and that's where we are today it's this record of who you are your persona you have your search where you say what is mena trott and then you find these things and you're happy or unhappy but then you also find people's and those are the records of people that are writing daily not necessarily about the same topic but things that interest them and we talk about the world being in this panel and i am very optimistic whenever i think about i'm like we've got to reach all these people hundreds of millions and billions of people we're getting into china we want to be there but there are so many people that won't have the access to write a but to see something like the computer is amazing because software is simple
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hundreds of millions and billions of people we're getting into china we want to be there but there are so many people that won't have the access to write a but to see something like the computer is amazing because software is simple we have a successful company because of timing and because of perseverance but it's simple stuff it's not rocket science and so that's an amazing thing to consider so the life record of a is something that i find incredibly important and we started with a slide of my and i had to add this slide because i knew the minute i showed this my mom my mom will see this because she does read my and she'll say why wasn't there a picture of me this is my mom so i have all the people that i know of but this is basically the extent of the family that i know in terms of my direct line
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so i have all the people that i know of but this is basically the extent of the family that i know in terms of my direct line i showed a norman rockwell painting before and this one i grew up with looking at constantly i would spend hours looking at the connections saying oh the little kid up at the top has red hair so does that first generation up there and it's just these little things this is not science but this was enough for me to be really interested in how we have evolved and how we can trace our line so that has always influenced me i have this record this census of another grabowski that's my maiden name and there's a theodore because there's always a theodore this is all i have a couple of facts about somebody
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i have this record this census of another grabowski that's my maiden name and there's a theodore because there's always a theodore this is all i have a couple of facts about somebody i have their date of birth their age what they did in their household if they spoke english and that's it that's all i know of these people and it's pretty sad because i only go back five generations and that's it i don't even know what happens on my mom's side because she's from cuba and i don't have that many things just doing this i spent time in the archives that's why my husband's a saint i spent time in the washington archives just sitting there looking for these things now it's online but he sat through that and so you have this record and this is my great this is the only picture i have
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gives you the ability to personalize the learning experience to each individual student so that every student can have a book or a course that's customized to their learning style their context their language and the things that excite them it lets you reuse the same materials in multiple different ways and surprising new ways it lets you interconnect ideas indicating how fields relate to each other and i'll just give you my personal story we came up with this six half years ago because i teach the stuff in the red box and my day job as chris said i'm an electrical engineering professor i teach signal processing and my challenge was to show that this math wow about half of you have already fallen asleep just looking at the equation
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what are some of the people that are using these kind of tools well the first thing is there's a community of engineering professors from cambridge to kyoto who are developing engineering content in electrical engineering to develop what you can think of as a massive super textbook that covers the entire area of electrical engineering and not only that it can be customized for use in each of their own individual institutions if people like kitty jones a shut out a private music teacher and mom from champagne illinois who wanted to share her fantastic music content with the world on how to teach kids how to play music her material is now used over times per month tremendous use in fact a lot of this use coming from united states schools because anyone who's involved in a school scale back the first thing that's cut is the music curriculum
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ironic thing is that bees are not out there our food intentionally they're out there because they need to eat bees get all of the protein they need in their diet from pollen and all of the carbohydrates they need from nectar they're flower feeders and as they move from flower to flower basically on a shopping trip at the local floral mart they end up providing this valuable pollination service in parts of the world where there are no bees or where they plant varieties that are not attractive to bees people are paid to do the business of pollination by hand these people are moving pollen from flower to flower with a paintbrush now this business of hand pollination is actually not that uncommon tomato growers often pollinate their tomato flowers with a hand held vibrator now this one's the tomato
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they're out there because they need to eat bees get all of the protein they need in their diet from pollen and all of the carbohydrates they need from nectar
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one thing i forgot to mention is that to obviate the problem of nitrogen all of those blue dots in our body you remove the nitrogen and replace it with helium a gas there're a lot of reasons why good it's a tiny molecule it's inert it doesn't give you so that's the basic concept we use but the theory's relatively easy the tricky part is the implementation so this is how i began about years ago i'll admit it wasn't exactly the smartest of starts but you've got to start somewhere
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little fishes and invertebrates aren't the only things we see down there we also see sharks much more regularly than i would have expected to we're not quite sure why what i want you to do now is imagine yourself feet underwater with all this high tech gear on your back you're in a remote reef off papua new guinea thousands of miles from the nearest chamber and you're completely surrounded by sharks diver look at those diver uh oh
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diver i think we have their attention when you start talking like donald duck there's no situation in the world that can seem tense
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my favorite line from the article can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin i have to laugh they don't call us fish nerds for nothing we actually do get excited about finding a new dorsal spine in a guppy but it's much more than that i want to show you a few of the guppies we've found over the years this one you can see how ugly it is
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the second goal for those of us who have mastered the first goal call it spiritual fulfillment call it financial success you can call it any number of different things i call it seeking joy this pursuit of happiness so i guess my theme on this is this guy lived his life to the fullest he absolutely did you have to balance those two goals if you live your whole life in fear i mean life is a sexually transmitted disease with percent mortality so you can't live your life in fear
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this is the first of two rather extraordinary photographs i'm going to show you today it was taken years ago i was years old at the time i had just returned from one of the deepest dives i'd ever made at that time a little over feet and i had caught this little fish it turns out that particular one was the first of its kind ever taken alive
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and i had caught this little fish it turns out that particular one was the first of its kind ever taken alive i'm not just an i'm a bona fide fish nerd and to a fish nerd this is some pretty exciting stuff more exciting was the fact that the person who took this photo is a guy named jack randall the greatest living on earth the grand of fish nerds if you will and so it was really exciting to me to have this moment in time it set the course for the rest of my life but really the most significant most profound thing about this picture is it was taken two days before i was completely paralyzed from the neck down i made a really stupid kind of mistake that most old males do when they think they're immortal and i got a bad case of the bends and was paralyzed and had to be flown back for treatment
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but really the most significant most profound thing about this picture is it was taken two days before i was completely paralyzed from the neck down i made a really stupid kind of mistake that most old males do when they think they're immortal and i got a bad case of the bends and was paralyzed and had to be flown back for treatment i learned two really important things that day the first thing i learned well i'm mortal that's a really big one and the second thing i learned was that i knew with profound certainty that this is exactly what i was going to do for the rest of my life i had to focus all my energies towards going to find new species of things down on deep coral reefs when you think of a coral reef this is what most people think of these big hard elaborate corals lots of bright colorful fishes and things but this is really just the tip of the iceberg
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now it's pretty obvious at this point there's a zone here in the middle that's the zone that centers around my own personal pursuit of happiness i want to find out what's in this zone we know almost nothing about it scuba divers can't get there submarines go right on past it it took me a year to learn to walk again after my diving accident in palau during that year i spent a lot of time learning about the physics and physiology of diving and how to overcome these limitations
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took me a year to learn to walk again after my diving accident in palau during that year i spent a lot of time learning about the physics and physiology of diving and how to overcome these limitations i'm just going to show you a basic idea we're all breathing air right now air is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen percent oxygen percent nitrogen it's in our lungs and there's a phenomenon called henry's law that says gases will dissolve into a fluid in proportion to the partial pressures you're exposing them to so basically the gas dissolves into our body the oxygen is bound by metabolism we use it for energy
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but after a couple of years just writing songs wasn't enough i had all these stories and ideas and i wanted to share them with people but physiologically i couldn't do it i had this irrational fear but the more i wrote and the more i practiced the more i wanted to perform so on the week of my birthday i decided i was going to go to this local open mic and put this fear behind me well when i got there it was packed there were like people there
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but i took a deep breath and i signed up to play and i felt pretty good pretty good until about minutes before my turn when my whole body rebelled and this wave of anxiety just washed over me now when you experience fear your sympathetic nervous system kicks in so you have a rush of adrenaline your heart rate increases your breathing gets faster next your non essential systems start to shut down like digestion
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i have stage fright i've always had stage fright and not just a little bit it's a big bit and it didn't even matter until i was that's when i started writing songs and even then i only played them for myself just knowing my roommates were in the same house made me uncomfortable but after a couple of years just writing songs wasn't enough
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so then it was my turn and somehow i get myself onto the stage i start my song i open my mouth to sing the first line and this completely horrible vibrato you know when your voice comes streaming out and this is not the good kind of vibrato like an opera singer has this is my whole body just with fear i mean it's a nightmare i'm embarrassed the audience is clearly uncomfortable they're focused on my discomfort it was so bad but that was my first real experience as a solo singer songwriter
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but singing in front of all naked strangers scares me more than anyone knows not to discuss this at length but my body image was never my strength so frankly i wish that you all would get dressed i mean you're not even really naked and i'm the one with the problem and you tell me don't worry so much you'll be great but i'm the one living with me and i know how i get
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and you tell me don't worry so much you'll be great but i'm the one living with me and i know how i get your advice is gentle but late if not just a bit patronizing and that sarcastic tone doesn't help me when i sing but we shouldn't talk about these things right now really i'm up on stage and you're in the crowd hi and i'm not making fun of irrational fear and if i wasn't ready to face this i sure as hell wouldn't be here but if i belt one note out clearly you'll know i'm recovering slowly but surely
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if we want to design a foot what do we have to do we have to first know what a foot is if we go to the dictionary it says it's the lower extremity of a leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking that's the traditional definition but if you wanted to really do research what do you have to do you have to go to the literature and look up what's known about feet so you go to the literature
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now you might have noticed something else about the animals when they were running over the rough terrain and my going to help me here when you touched the cockroach leg can you get the microphone for him when you touched the cockroach leg what did it feel like did you notice something spiny it's spiny right it's really spiny isn't it it sort of hurts maybe we could give it to our curator and see if he'd be brave enough to touch the cockroach
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now crabs don't miss footholds because they normally move on sand until they come to our lab and where they have a problem with this kind of mesh because they don't have spines the crabs are missing spines so they have a problem in this kind of rough terrain but of course we can deal with that because we can produce artificial spines we can make spines that catch on simulated debris and collapse on removal to easily pull them out we did that by putting these artificial spines on crabs as you see here and then we tested them do we really understand that principle of tuning the answer is yes this is slowed down and the crab just zooms across that simulated debris
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i want you to imagine that you're a student in my lab what i want you to do is to create a biologically inspired design and so here's the challenge i want you to help me create a fully dynamic contact model the translation of that is could you help me build a foot and it is a true challenge and i do want you to help me of course in the challenge there is a prize
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maybe you're familiar with this literature the problem is there are many many feet how do you do this you need to survey all feet and extract the principles of how they work and i want you to help me do that in this next clip as you see this clip look for principles and also think about experiments that you might design in order to understand how a foot works
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see any common themes principles what would you do what experiments would you run wow our research on the of animal locomotion has allowed us to make a blueprint for a foot it's a design inspired by nature but it's not a copy of any specific foot you just looked at but it's a synthesis of the secrets of many many feet
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she's got food she's really rushing back because it's hot to try to feed her chicks and then there's another fellow that will leisurely come by look how fat he is he's walking back to feed his chicks then i realize that they're playing king of the box this is my box up here and this is the system that works you can see this penguin he goes over he looks at those wires does not like that wire he the wire we have no data
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i want to talk about penguins today but first i want to start by saying that we need a new operating system for the oceans and for the earth when i came to the galapagos years ago there were people that lived in the galapagos now there are over there were two jeeps on santa cruz now there are around a thousand trucks and buses and cars there
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now just consider the smartest person who has ever lived on almost everyone's here is john von neumann i mean the impression that von neumann made on the people around him and this included the greatest mathematicians and physicists of his time is fairly well documented if only half the stories about him are half true there's no question he's one of the smartest people who has ever lived so consider the spectrum of intelligence here we have john von neumann and then we have you and me and then we have a chicken
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so imagine we hit upon a design of ai that has no safety concerns we have the perfect design the first time around it's as though we've been handed an oracle that behaves exactly as intended well this machine would be the perfect labor saving device it can design the machine that can build the machine that can do any physical work powered by sunlight more or less for the cost of raw materials so we're talking about the end of human drudgery we're also talking about the end of most intellectual work so what would apes like ourselves do in this circumstance well we'd be free to play frisbee and give each other massages add some lsd and some questionable wardrobe choices and the whole world could be like burning man
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now one of the most frightening things in my view at this moment are the kinds of things that ai researchers say when they want to be reassuring and the most common reason we're told not to worry is time this is all a long way off don't you know this is probably or years away one researcher has said worrying about ai safety is like worrying about overpopulation on mars this is the silicon valley version of don't worry your pretty little head about it
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the computer scientist stuart russell has a nice analogy here he said imagine that we received a message from an alien civilization which read people of earth we will arrive on your planet in years get ready and now we're just counting down the months until the lands we would feel a little more urgency than we do another reason we're told not to worry is that these machines can't help but share our values because they will be literally extensions of ourselves they'll be grafted onto our brains and we'll essentially become their systems now take a moment to consider that the safest and only prudent path forward recommended is to implant this technology directly into our brains now this may in fact be the safest and only prudent path forward but usually one's safety concerns about a technology have to be pretty much worked out before you stick it inside your head
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going to talk about a failure of intuition that many of us suffer from it's really a failure to detect a certain kind of danger i'm going to describe a scenario that i think is both terrifying and likely to occur and that's not a good combination as it turns out and yet rather than be scared most of you will feel that what i'm talking about is kind of cool i'm going to describe how the gains we make in artificial intelligence could ultimately destroy us and in fact i think it's very difficult to see how they won't destroy us or inspire us to destroy ourselves
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the point is something would have to destroy civilization as we know it you have to imagine how bad it would have to be to prevent us from making improvements in our technology permanently generation after generation almost by definition this is the worst thing that's ever happened in human history so the only alternative and this is what lies behind door number two is that we continue to improve our intelligent machines year after year after year at a certain point we will build machines that are smarter than we are and once we have machines that are smarter than we are they will begin to improve themselves and then we risk what the mathematician good called an intelligence explosion that the process could get away from us
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is often caricatured as i have here as a fear that armies of malicious robots will attack us but that isn't the most likely scenario it's not that our machines will become spontaneously malevolent the concern is really that we will build machines that are so much more competent than we are that the slightest divergence between their goals and our own could destroy us just think about how we relate to ants we don't hate them we don't go out of our way to harm them
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we don't hate them we don't go out of our way to harm them in fact sometimes we take pains not to harm them we step over them on the sidewalk but whenever their presence seriously conflicts with one of our goals let's say when constructing a building like this one we annihilate them without a the concern is that we will one day build machines that whether they're conscious or not could treat us with similar disregard now i suspect this seems far fetched to many of you i bet there are those of you who doubt that ai is possible much less inevitable but then you must find something wrong with one of the following assumptions
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intelligence is a matter of information processing in physical systems actually this is a little bit more than an assumption we have already built narrow intelligence into our machines and many of these machines perform at a level of superhuman intelligence already and we know that mere matter can give rise to what is called general intelligence an ability to think flexibly across multiple domains because our brains have managed it right i mean there's just atoms in here and as long as we continue to build systems of atoms that display more and more intelligent behavior we will eventually unless we are interrupted we will eventually build general intelligence into our machines
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some trends that will impact cities first of all work is becoming distributed and mobile the office building is basically obsolete for doing private work the home once again because of distributed computation communication is becoming a center of life so it's a center of production and learning and shopping and health care and all of these things that we used to think of as taking place outside of the home and increasingly everything that people buy every consumer product in one way or another can be personalized and that's a very important trend to think about so this is my image of the city of the future
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we've been developing at the media lab this little city car that is for shared use in cities we got rid of all the useless things like engines and transmissions we moved everything to the wheels so you have the drive motor the steering motor the breaking all in the wheel that left the chassis unencumbered so you can do things like fold so you can fold this little vehicle up to occupy a tiny little footprint this was a video that was on european television last week showing the spanish minister of industry driving this little vehicle and when it's folded it can spin you don't need reverse you don't need parallel parking you just spin and go directly in
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maybe that's most of the time you have a dinner party the table folds out to fit people in otherwise a conventional one bedroom or maybe you want a dance studio i mean architects have been thinking about these ideas for a long time what we need to do now develop things that can scale to those million chinese people that would like to live in the city and very comfortably we think we can make a very small apartment that functions as if it's twice as big by utilizing these strategies i don't believe in smart homes that's sort of a bogus concept i think you have to build dumb homes and put smart stuff in it
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and so we've been working on a chassis of the wall itself you know standardized platform with the motors and the battery when it operates little that will lock it in place and get low voltage power we think this can all be standardized and then people can personalize the stuff that goes into that wall and like the car we can integrate all kinds of sensing to be aware of human activity so if there's a baby or a puppy in the way you won't have a problem
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and for hundreds even thousands of years the home was really the center of life life was very small for most people it was a center of entertainment of energy production of work a center of health care that's where babies were born and people died then with industrialization everything started to become centralized you had dirty factories that were moved to the outskirts of cities production was centralized in assembly plants you had centralized energy production learning took place in schools
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you had auto networks in fact the model was really give everybody a car build roads to everything and give people a place to park when they get there it was not a very functional model and we still live in that world and this is what we end up with so you have the sprawl of la the sprawl of mexico city you have these unbelievable new cities in china which you might call tower sprawl they're all building cities on the model that we invented in the and which is really obsolete i would argue and there are hundreds and hundreds of new cities that are being planned all over the world in china alone million people some say million people will move to the city over the next years that means building the equivalent of the entire built infrastructure of the us in years
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we think of it as a compact urban cell so provide most of what most people want within that walk this can also be a resilient electrical community heating power communication networks etc can be concentrated there
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go up to if it's manhattan density you connect everything with mass transit and you provide most of what most people need within that neighborhood you can begin to develop a whole of and the vehicles that can go on them i won't go through all of them i'll just show one this is boulder it's a great example of kind of a mobility parkway a superhighway for joggers and bicyclists where you can go from one end of the city to the other without crossing the street and they also have bike sharing which i'll get into in a minute this is even a more interesting solution in seoul korea they took the elevated highway they got rid of it they reclaimed the street the river down below below the street and you can go from one end of seoul to the other without crossing a pathway for cars
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as you might imagine i'm absolutely passionate about dance i'm passionate about making it about watching it about encouraging others to participate in it and i'm also really passionate about creativity creativity for me is something that's absolutely critical and i think it's something that you can teach i think the of creativity can be taught and shared and i think you can find out things about your own personal physical signature your own cognitive habits and use that as a point of departure to misbehave beautifully i was born in the and john travolta was big in those days grease saturday night fever and he provided a fantastic kind of male role model for me to start dancing my parents were very up for me going
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i hope you'll understand my english in the mornings it is terrible and the afternoon is worst
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so to start i want to introduce some characters from a book i made for teenagers the best example of quality of life is the turtle because the turtle is an example of living and working together and when you realize that the of the turtle looks like an urban and can we imagine if we cut the of the turtle how sad she's going to be and that's what we're doing in our cities living here working here having leisure here and most of the people are leaving the city and living outside of the city so the other character is otto the automobile he is invited for a party he never wants to leave the chairs are on the tables and still drinking and he drinks a lot
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very egotistical he carries only one or two people and he asks always for more infrastructure freeways he's a very demanding person and on the other hand accordion the friendly bus he carries people in sweden brazilians
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and before you say it's a norman foster design we designed this in and this is the model how it's going to work so it's the same system the vehicle is different and that's the model what i'm trying to say is i'm not trying to prove which system of transport is better i'm trying to say we have to combine all the systems and with one condition never if you have a subway if you have surface systems if you have any kind of system never compete in the same space and coming back to the car i always used to say that the car is like your mother you have to have good relationship with her but she cannot command your life so when the only woman in your life is your mother you have a problem
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another issue is a city's like our family portrait we don't rip our family portrait even if we don't like the nose of our uncle because this portrait is you and these are the references that we have in any city this is the main pedestrian mall we did it in hours yes you have to be fast and these are the references from our ethnic contribution this is the italian portal the ukrainian park the polish park the japanese square the german park all of a sudden the soviet union they split and since we have people from uzbekistan kazakhstan tajikistan unclear we have to stop the program
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i'm working in cities for almost years and where every mayor is trying to tell me his city is so big or the other mayors say we don't have financial resources i would like to say from the experience i had every city in the world can be improved in less than three years there's no matter of scale it's not a question of scale it's not a question of financial resources every problem in a city has to have its own equation of co responsibility and also a design
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curitiba rio it's like two birds kissing themselves oaxaca san francisco it's very easy market street van ness and the waterfront and every city has its own design but to make it happen sometimes you have to propose a scenario and to propose a design an idea that everyone or the large majority will help you to make it happen
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and it's an example of living and working together and this is where we have more density it's where we have more public transport so this system started in we started with passengers a day now it's passengers a day and it took years until another city which is bogota and they did a very good job and now there's cities all over the world that they are doing what they call the of curitiba
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which is bogota and they did a very good job and now there's cities all over the world that they are doing what they call the of curitiba and one thing it's important not for only your own city every city besides its normal problems they have a very important role in being with the whole humanity that means mostly two main issues mobility and sustainability are becoming very important for the cities and this is an articulated bus double articulated and we are very close to my house you can come when you are in curitiba and have a coffee there and that's the evolution of the system what in the design that made the difference is the boarding tubes the boarding tube gives to the bus the same performance as a subway
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this is the design of the bus and you can pay before entering the bus you're boarding and for handicapped they can use this as a normal system what i'm trying to say is the major contribution on carbon emissions are from the cars more than percent so when we depend only on cars it's that's why when we're talking about sustainability it's not enough green buildings it's not enough a new materials it's not enough new sources of energy it's the concept of the city the design of the city that's also important too
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so we started doing some repairs also one of the physical therapists reported that mahmoud could be provided with a leg but not immediately the legs were swollen and the knees were stiff so he needed a long preparation believe me i was worried because i was breaking the rules i was doing something that i was not supposed to do in the evening i went to speak with the bosses at the headquarters and i told them i lied i told them listen we are going to start a couple of hours per day just a few repairs maybe some of them are here now
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suddenly they started fighting two groups of mujahideen started fighting we could hear in the air the bullets passing so we dashed all of us towards the shelter mahmoud grabbed his son i grabbed someone else everybody was grabbing something and we ran you know meters can be a long distance if you are totally exposed but we managed to reach the shelter inside all of us panting i sat a moment and i heard rafi telling his father father you can run faster than me
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we have several teams in the main part of afghanistan at the beginning when told me we would like to start it i hesitated i said no you can imagine i said no no no no we can't and then i asked the usual question is it a priority is it really necessary well now you should see me i never miss a single training session the night before a match i'm very nervous and you should see me during the match i shout like a true italian
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we provide the patients the afghan disabled first with the physical rehabilitation then with the social reintegration it's a very logical plan but it was not always like this
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we provide the patients the afghan disabled first with the physical rehabilitation then with the social reintegration it's a very logical plan but it was not always like this for many years we were just providing them with artificial limbs it took quite many years for the program to become what it is now today i would like to tell you a story the story of a big change and the story of the people who made this change possible i arrived in afghanistan in to work in a hospital for war victims and then not only for war victims but it was for any kind of patient i was also working in the orthopedic center we call it this is the place where we make the legs
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i was also working in the orthopedic center we call it this is the place where we make the legs at that time i found myself in a strange situation i felt not quite ready for that job there was so much to learn there were so many things new to me but it was a terrific job but as soon as the fighting intensified the physical rehabilitation was suspended there were many other things to do
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glenn thank you the case is rather convincing i have to say but i want to bring you back to the last months and to edward snowden for a few questions if you don't mind the first one is personal to you we have all read about the arrest of your partner david miranda in london and other difficulties but i assume that in terms of personal engagement and risk that the pressure on you is not that easy to take on the biggest sovereign organizations in the world tell us a little bit about that you know i think one of the things that happens is that people's courage in this regard gets contagious and so although i and the other journalists with whom i was working were certainly aware of the risk the united states continues to be the most powerful country in the world and doesn't appreciate it when you disclose thousands of their secrets on the internet at will seeing somebody who is a old ordinary person who grew up in a very ordinary environment exercise the degree of principled courage that edward snowden risked knowing that he was going to go to prison for the rest of his life or that his life would unravel inspired me and inspired other journalists and inspired i think people around the world including future whistleblowers to realize that they can engage in that kind of behavior as well i'm curious about your relationship with ed snowden because you have spoken with him a lot and you certainly continue doing so but in your book you never call him edward nor ed you say snowden how come you know i'm sure that's something for a team of psychologists to examine
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is very as we've seen at ted is very articulate in presenting and portraying himself as a defender of democratic values and democratic principles but then many people really find it difficult to believe that those are his only motivations they find it difficult to believe that there was no money involved that he didn't sell some of those secrets even to china and to russia which are clearly not the best friends of the united states right now and i'm sure many people in the room are wondering the same question do you consider it possible there is that part of snowden we've not seen yet no i consider that absurd and idiotic
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there is an entire genre of videos devoted to an experience which i am certain that everyone in this room has had it entails an individual who thinking they're alone engages in some expressive behavior wild singing gyrating dancing some mild sexual activity only to discover that in fact they are not alone that there is a person watching and lurking the discovery of which causes them to immediately cease what they were doing in horror the sense of shame and humiliation in their face is palpable it's the sense of this is something i'm willing to do only if no one else is watching this is the crux of the work on which i have been singularly focused for the last months the question of why privacy matters a question that has arisen in the context of a global debate enabled by the revelations of edward snowden that the united states and its partners unbeknownst to the entire world has converted the internet once heralded as an unprecedented tool of liberation and democratization into an unprecedented zone of mass indiscriminate surveillance there is a very common sentiment that arises in this debate even among people who are uncomfortable with mass surveillance which says that there is no real harm that comes from this large scale invasion because only people who are engaged in bad acts have a reason to want to hide and to care about their privacy
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last year mark and his new wife purchased not only their own house but also all four adjacent houses in palo alto for a total of million dollars in order to ensure that they enjoyed a zone of privacy that prevented other people from monitoring what they do in their personal lives over the last months as i've debated this issue around the world every single time somebody has said to me i don't really worry about invasions of privacy because i don't have anything to hide i always say the same thing to them i get out a pen i write down my email address i say here's my email address what i want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts not just the nice respectable work one in your name but all of them because i want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online read what i want to read and publish whatever i find interesting
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not a single person has taken me up on that offer i check and i check that email account religiously all the time it's a very desolate place and there's a reason for that which is that we as human beings even those of us who in words disclaim the importance of our own privacy instinctively understand the profound importance of it it is true that as human beings we're social animals which means we have a need for other people to know what we're doing and saying and thinking which is why we voluntarily publish information about ourselves online but equally essential to what it means to be a free and fulfilled human being is to have a place that we can go and be free of the judgmental eyes of other people
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i mean not too long ago i was on a plane and i heard the voice of a woman pilot coming over the p a system and i was just so excited so thrilled i was like yes women we are rocking it we are now in the stratosphere it was all good and then it started getting turbulent and bumpy and i was like i hope she can drive
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i'm going to suggest to you no we've gone about as far as we can go trying to make a difference trying to not see color the problem was never that we saw color it was what we did when we saw the color it's a false ideal and while we're busy pretending not to see we are not being aware of the ways in which racial difference is changing people's possibilities that's keeping them from thriving and sometimes it's causing them an early death so in fact what the scientists are telling us is no way don't even think about color blindness in fact what they're suggesting is stare at awesome black people
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other direction same need same guy same clothes same time same street different reaction and she said i feel so bad i'm a diversity consultant i did the black guy thing i'm a woman of color oh my god and i said you know what please we really need to relax about this i mean you've got to realize i go way back with black guys
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thing is going to be harder and i know it but i'm just going to put it out there anyway when we see something we have to have the courage to say something even to the people we love you know it's holidays and it's going to be a time when we're sitting around the table and having a good time many of us anyways will be in holidays and you've got to listen to the conversations around the table you start to say things like grandma's a bigot
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it was especially hard to hear about the beatings and the burnings and the lynchings of black men and i said you know this is a little deep i need a break i'm going to turn on the radio
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i need a break i'm going to turn on the radio i turned it on and there it was ferguson missouri michael brown old black man unarmed shot by a white police officer laid on the ground dead blood running for four hours while his grandmother and little children and his neighbors watched in horror and i thought here it is again this violence this brutality against black men has been going on for centuries i mean it's the same story it's just different names it could have been amadou it could have been sean bell it could have been oscar grant
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this violence this brutality is really something that's part of our national psyche it's part of our collective history what are we going to do about it you know that part of us that still crosses the street locks the doors clutches the purses when we see young black men that part i mean i know we're not shooting people down in the street but i'm saying that the same stereotypes and prejudices that fuel those kinds of tragic incidents are in us
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the pilot is good now here's the problem if you ask me explicitly i would say female pilot awesome but it appears that when things get funky and a little troublesome a little risky i lean on a bias that i didn't even know that i had
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so here's a disclaimer about me though before we get too deep into this i grew up in a very sheltered environment i was raised in downtown manhattan in the early two blocks from the epicenter of punk music i was shielded from the pains of bigotry and the social restrictions of a religiously based upbringing where i come from if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind you were the weirdo
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it's worth mentioning though that i didn't hate my body or my genitalia i didn't feel like i was in the wrong body i felt like i was performing this elaborate act i wouldn't have qualified as if my family though had been the kind of people to believe in therapy they probably would have diagnosed me as something like gender and put me on hormones to stave off puberty but in my particular case i just woke up one day when i was and i decided that i wanted to be a girl again puberty had hit and i had no idea what being a girl meant and i was ready to figure out who i actually was when a kid behaves like i did they don't exactly have to come out right no one is exactly shocked
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and then it occurred to me perhaps if they could look into the eyes of the people that they were casting into second class citizenship it might make it harder for them to do it might give them pause obviously i couldn't get million people to the same dinner party so i figured out a way where i could introduce them to each other without any artifice without any lighting or without any manipulation of any kind on my part because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers without the fear of him ripping your face off for me photography is not just about exposing film it's about exposing the viewer to something new a place they haven't gone before but most importantly to people that they might be afraid of life magazine introduced generations of people to distant far off cultures they never knew existed through pictures so i decided to make a series of very simple portraits if you will and i basically decided to photograph anyone in this country that was not percent straight which if you don't know is a limitless number of people
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here's what i was starting to learn that was really interesting self evident truths doesn't erase the differences between us in fact on the contrary it highlights them it presents not just the complexities found in a procession of different human beings but the complexities found within each individual person it wasn't that we had too many boxes it was that we had too few at some point i realized that my mission to photograph gays was inherently flawed because there were a million different shades of gay here i was trying to help and i had perpetuated the very thing i had spent my life trying to avoid yet another box at some point i added a question to the release form that asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to percent gay and i watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me
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the shock though by and large people opted for somewhere between to percent or the to percent marks of course there were lots of people who opted for a percent one or the other but i found that a much larger proportion of people identified as something that was much more nuanced i found that most people fall on a spectrum of what i have come to refer to as grey let me be clear though and this is very important in no way am i saying that preference doesn't exist and i am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative because if any of you happen to be of the belief that sexual orientation is a choice i invite you to go out and try to be grey i'll take your picture just for trying
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