*humanitarian

Adding video to channels (Humanitarian) - requested by jonny.

rules replace thinking.

neither rules nor incentives are enough.

oh wait, haven't i said that somewhere before?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED, talks, wisdom, morals' to 'TED, talks, wisdom, morals, how to fix the Sift' - edited by MINK

oh look, this video isn't as popular on the Sift as "man pissing and walking at the same time"

>> ^MINK:
oh look, this video isn't as popular on the Sift as "man pissing and walking at the same time"

Surely because sifters don't have the right incentives to up-vote insightful videos.

^haha

i'll rephrase that without the sarcasm

i think it's probably because the kind of people who like this video by definition don't give a shit about upvotes, and the kind of person who gets bored by this video likes to watch men pissing in the street.

i am always amused that the TED talks that get upvoted are either "cool tech" which hasn't got a practical use outside of a TED talk, or "humanitarian/environmental" stuff that people already agree with anyway, and are just upvoting to reinforce their predecision.

when someone comes along with a game changing idea, it's like it's too obvious and truthful to appeal to anyone especially. if he made the talk about "practical wisdom applied to global warming" then the global warming handwringers would all upvote.

so it's interesting, for me this talk is so relevant to the sift and the way the sift has developed with the addition of rules and the erosion of moral incentives.

this is exactly why many users argued against powerpoints and siftquisitions, but most of them have left now. So they won't see this vid and upvote it.

PUT SIMPLY

Good rules don't make good people, and actually they can have the opposite effect, which will be blamed on the people (not the rules) and more rules will be added to regulate the people, which creates a positive feedback loop.

Moving this video to cybrbeast's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

It's strange that this didn't make it. I even saw it pop up on Digg. Maybe people just missed it as so often happens.
I'll beg later when I have a power point again.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Fantastic. *promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by dag.

Brilliant, id been thinking something along the same lines needs to be promoted in...well not schools, but society in general, for a while now.

Imagine if we returned to having some modicum of moral right when making decisions on what to buy. Now extend that up the ladder to people with serious economic power to push real positive change in the world.

Their moral guided decisions could vastly change the way the world works, instead of the heartless pursuit of wealth just for the sake of wealth.

Sounds a tad on the verge of being socialist, but its not, you can still make a profit, just don't fire 30k workers and ship your jobs overseas to kids working in underground factories or other simile, it doesnt have to mean the end of profits, or productivity...it may well lead to increased productivity, give the proverbial rat-race a reason to want to do better in their jobs.

Anyway, great speech.

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Could you change the embed for this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-zdh_bQBo

*philosophy

Adding video to channels (Philosophy) - requested by mauz15.

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Could you change the embed for this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-zdh_bQBo

Done. I didn't know TED had an official YouTube channel. Much better player.

thinking people need very little to live on
a cup of tea
a girl with big tits (if he's lucky)
just a little bit of good music
and their own imagination

One of the main points in the talk is the application of common sense. Rules should not be set in stone, but common sense should override rules when the situation warrants it. Rules are merely guidelines. (Unless you are in a game like Magic the Gathering or Warhammer, in which the rules are non-negotiable.)

^Has the whole world gone CRAZY?

Am I the only one who gives a shit about the rules?

*promote

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