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Photons for the energy transition with BART VERMANG
Bart Vermang received the M.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Ghent (UGent) and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He later acquired an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and became professor at Hasselt University (UHasselt) in 2016. Currently he is PV program manager of the PV technology & Energy systems group at imo-imomec (i.e., a joint research institute of UHasselt and imec), and co-leads the underlying “thin film PV technology” team. In addition to actual thin film PV research, there are also research activities on Solar Fuels in this team. Bart is a member of the operational Board of EnergyVille, the executive board of imo-imomec, the Belgian Energy Research Alliance (BERA) board, and the editorial board of the Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells journal (Elsevier). He is co-president of the Young Academy of Flanders, and in 2021 he was awarded the Laureate in the Class of Technical Sciences prize by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (KVAB).
Can Belgium decarbonize without renewables? Can renewable energy development follow COP28 expectations? Is exponential growth of renewables sustainable? Is realizing the Energy Transition by 2050 still feasible? Could our Energy Ministers do more?
Solar energy is the most widely available energy resource on Earth, and photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is currently cheaper than any power source ever before. In 1839, Edmond Becquerel discovered the operating principle of a PV solar cell, and in 1883, Charles Fritts developed the very first working cell. It was not until 1954 that the first practical silicon solar cell was demonstrated at Bell Labs, and in the last decades the PV industry has undergone remarkable growth due to both efficiency increases and cost reductions. Today, PV solar energy is the new king of global power markets, as is stated by the International Energy Agency (IEA) based on PV expansion being at its fastest pace in two decades. An even faster pace is projected in the coming years, with the very low cost of PV solar energy driving the global demand for renewables. The history, rise and future of solar energy for the energy transition will be discussed during this presentation.
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Why do people kill? A talk by ALETTE SMEULERS
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Alette Smeulers is professor at the University of Groningen. She is specialized in perpetrators of international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as terrorism. In her research she takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. She has published widely in the field. Her most recent book on Perpetrators of mass atrocities: terribly and terrifyingly normal?...
A Strange Quantum World: Evidence In The Laboratory with Alain Aspect
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Alain Aspect is Professor at the Intitute d’Optique at the Université Paris-Saclay, and professor at the École Polytechnique at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. He is also Emeritus Senior Researcher at the CNRS and member of the Académie des Sciences, the Académie des Technologies and several other academies in Austria, Belgium, Italy, UK and USA. He has received multiple prizes for his wor...
Cognitive Warfare: The Forgotten War with Tanguy Struye de Swielande
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Tanguy Struye de Swielande is Professor of International Relations at UCLouvain. He specializes in geopolitics, geoeconomics and the foreign and defense policy of the major powers (USA, Russia and China), the Indo-Pacific region, decision-making analysis, foresight cognitive warfare and the impact of new technologies on world order. The nature of warfare has evolved, with the result that we are...
The Artificial Intelligence In Science And The Science In Artificial Intelligence
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Prof. Dr. Max Welling is a research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam and a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research. He is a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) where he also serves on the founding board. His previous appointments include VP at Qualcomm Technologies, profess...
The Science Of Sexual And Gender Fluidity with Lisa Diamond
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Lisa M. Diamond is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, and president-elect of the International Academy for Sex Research. For nearly 3 decades, she has studied the development and expression of gender and sexuality across the life course. Her current work focuses on the biobehavioral mechanisms through which social stigma, social stress, and socia...
The Beginning And The End Of Time with Thomas Hertog and Erik Verlinde
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Thomas Hertog is a Belgian cosmologist at KU Leuven university and a key collaborator of Professor Stephen Hawking. He received his master’s degree in physics from the KU Leuven and his doctorate from the University of Cambridge. He joined the University of California as a research fellow in 2002 and became fellow at CERN, Geneva, in 2005. In 2011 he returned to Belgium where he is currently pr...
Weird Science: Exploring Paranormal Belief And Experience with Chris French
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Chris French is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is also Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit. He retired in 2020. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and a patron of Humanists UK. He is a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the British Fa...
Are We Living In a Virtual Reality? with David Chalmers
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David is a philosopher at New York University. He is Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and co-director of the PhilPapers Foundation. He is interested in the philosophy of mind (especially consciousness) and the foundations of cognitive scie...
The Technology That Divides Us: Is Social Media Making Us More Polarized, Or Are We The Problem?
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Chris Bail is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. A leader in the emerging field of computational social science, his research examines fundamental questions of social psychology using social media data, bots, and the latest advances in machine learning. He regularly consults with corporations, non-profits, governmen...
What is missing from our understanding of the cosmos? with Wendy L. Freedman
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Wendy Laurel Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her principal research interests are in observational cosmology, focus...
Game theory: to cooperate or not to cooperate? with Tom Lenaerts
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Tom Lenaerts is Professor in the Computer Science department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is co-heading the Machine Learning Group (MLG). MLG targets machine learning, AI and behavioural intelligence research focusing on time series analysis, causal and network inference, collective decision-making, social AI and behavioural analysis with applications in mobility, medici...
Du café aux mathématiques avec Hugo Duminil-Copin
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This event is held exceptionally in French. Hugo Duminil-Copin est actuellement professeur titulaire de mathématiques à l'Université de Genève, ainsi que professeur permanent à l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques de Bures-Sur-Yvette. Ses travaux portent sur le développement de modèles probabilistes pour analyser les phénomènes physiques omniprésents que sont la criticité et les transitio...
Microbes for a sustainable future with Eveline Peeters
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Eveline Peeters is an Associate Professor in the Bioengineering Sciences Department at VUB, and a member of Microbiology Research Group. She holds a PhD in Bioengineering Sciences, during which she studied extremophilic archaea, prokaryotes thriving in extreme conditions, and worked together with her mentor Daniël Charlier to investigate molecular mechanisms of transcription regulation with a f...
The Dark Side of the Universe with Laura Lopez Honorez
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Laura Lopez Honorez obtained her PhD from Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2007, and after being being a Postdoc in Madrid University, Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she got appointed as a FRNS Research Associate at ULB in 2016. She works in theoretical physics in a research field at the interface between Particle Physics and Cosmology. Her research is mostly...
The Place Of Linguistics In Artificial Intelligence with Marie-Catherine De Marneffe
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The Place Of Linguistics In Artificial Intelligence with Marie-Catherine De Marneffe
Molecular click adventures: the Nobel prize in Chemistry with Morten Meldal
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Molecular click adventures: the Nobel prize in Chemistry with Morten Meldal
On Fish, Fascists and the power of collective behaviour with Ian Couzin
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On Fish, Fascists and the power of collective behaviour with Ian Couzin
Dopamine nation and the neuroscience of addiction with Anna Lembke
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Dopamine nation and the neuroscience of addiction with Anna Lembke
The dark side of humanity with Alexander Hinton
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The dark side of humanity with Alexander Hinton
How to get smarter, live longer, and be healthier. An advice from Andrew Huberman
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How to get smarter, live longer, and be healthier. An advice from Andrew Huberman
How to be better at learning after age 25
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How to be better at learning after age 25
What is Neuroplasticity? Professor Andrew Huberman explains
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What is Neuroplasticity? Professor Andrew Huberman explains
On the origin of time with Thomas Hertog
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On the origin of time with Thomas Hertog
Predicting catastrophic events with Didier Sornette
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Predicting catastrophic events with Didier Sornette
Why do we get the wrong leaders? Brian Klaas at Science and Cocktails
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Why do we get the wrong leaders? Brian Klaas at Science and Cocktails
The Science Of Ageing with Professor Dame Linda Partridge
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The Science Of Ageing with Professor Dame Linda Partridge
Genetically modifying everything with John van der Oost
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Genetically modifying everything with John van der Oost
The Biggest Mysteries of the universe with Gianfranco Bertone
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The Biggest Mysteries of the universe with Gianfranco Bertone
How do prejudices and racism develop in children with Judi Mesman
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How do prejudices and racism develop in children with Judi Mesman

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  • @p0indexter624
    @p0indexter624 День тому

    the question is the answer

  • @panospapas5499
    @panospapas5499 3 дні тому

    THEORETICAL PHYSICS IS AT THE BOTTLENECK. OTHERWISE JIM WASTE HIS PRECIOUS TIME TO TALK TO US (PEOPLE WITHOUT THE PROPER BACKGROUND AND THE INADEQUATE IQ) ABOUT BLA BLA BLA.............

  • @craven5328
    @craven5328 5 днів тому

    An old Douglas Adams quote feelz apt: "It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

  • @Michael-it6gb
    @Michael-it6gb 6 днів тому

    There's a lot of assumption in the "archeological record" to why and how instruments were invented. But what is most assertive in this talk are the old inventors like Newton and Einstein were autistic. They weren't. They were never diagnosed. As Baron-Cohen said himself stated, this is all anecdotal, but why then make the statement "autism drives invention". If autism continuous like that, then there should be plenty of evidence in a modern setting, with modern scientists/inventors diagnosed on the autism spectrum.

  • @michael4250
    @michael4250 11 днів тому

    American Indians were "peaceful" villages? Non-hierarchal social organizations have ALWAYS been defeated by hierarchal social organization since the dawn of recorded civilization.. Are they unaware of that? Or just willfully ignoring it to advance a spurious concept.

  • @encolpio8
    @encolpio8 12 днів тому

    Portraying the West as democracies when they're repressing their students as they protest a genocide... well, this didn't age well...

  • @curtingdebaptismcurtgolp262
    @curtingdebaptismcurtgolp262 12 днів тому

    #Mexicourt

  • @IakobVIPA
    @IakobVIPA 13 днів тому

    Google, UA-cam, Facebook, twitter (X), LinkedIn, Instagram and other social networks are under the control of the US and this guy talks about China and Russia. OMG what kind of world we live in. people completely lost their minds

  • @corinthiabowman5299
    @corinthiabowman5299 14 днів тому

    Did anyone else see a wine glass with a kidney bean on top instead of a chair? 😂 I tried really hard to see the chair after he said it was a chair and my brain said "nope... wine glass and kidney bean" 🤣🤣

  • @LewindVargas100
    @LewindVargas100 14 днів тому

    😊

  • @contemplatingangel
    @contemplatingangel 19 днів тому

    The measurement problem seems so human centred? Why talk about looking and measurement? Why not interaction of one physical system with another?

  • @amongus-xq8lu
    @amongus-xq8lu 19 днів тому

    Fourth

  • @BarrieBrown
    @BarrieBrown 20 днів тому

    A crow can make tools too - so where's the proof for the supposition of the THEORY of evolution. Oh, sorry, forgot it's not politically correct to ask embarrising questions. Don't mention that Darwin said it was logical that if after his time no PROOF of transitions were found then the whole theory should be scrapped. Don't mention the over 101 HARD SCIENCE proofs that logically rule it out have been found since his time. If you've bought this foundation as a fact, you're being played. Can you guess what the adjenda is?

  • @seanburton5298
    @seanburton5298 20 днів тому

    Integrity tests are also done on US NAVY warships!

  • @seanburton5298
    @seanburton5298 20 днів тому

    A former KGB agent as a leader who knows about human psychology, no kidding 😉

  • @JoshuaMoreno-dv6ek
    @JoshuaMoreno-dv6ek 22 дні тому

    The mountain right behind pyramid of sun the copy why not check

  • @JoshuaMoreno-dv6ek
    @JoshuaMoreno-dv6ek 22 дні тому

    I think the kings are buried in the mountain why haven't we check this out let

  • @kennethroe4321
    @kennethroe4321 22 дні тому

    I absolutely love how informative, deep, and nuanced this lecture is. One of the best lectures I've seen in a great deal of time.

  • @essentiallorddon3043
    @essentiallorddon3043 24 дні тому

    I listened to him do a talk for SITPO (skeptics in the pub online).I didn’t know i could learn so much in a 45 minute talk

  • @hyungdongkim8959
    @hyungdongkim8959 27 днів тому

    Great lecture!

  • @souvagyamaity2000
    @souvagyamaity2000 Місяць тому

    Third

  • @carlonharrington
    @carlonharrington Місяць тому

    Urge the author to study Steven Greers Material and remark/write on that as well.

  • @MarkNancy-he8ku
    @MarkNancy-he8ku Місяць тому

    This guy is a repressed comedian.... He should probably be working Vegas... Not a serious subject

  • @Metacryptic
    @Metacryptic Місяць тому

    Excellent !

  • @raxitkaria
    @raxitkaria Місяць тому

    Why that intro on that good content

  • @fliegeroh
    @fliegeroh Місяць тому

    I'm a little turned off by all the "rock star" adulation. He's becoming insufferably conceited.

  • @JasonSmith-ej2fg
    @JasonSmith-ej2fg Місяць тому

    That was unwatchable, I made it 10 minutes - done. He brings up these random decisions then decided they were irrational just because he claimed they were - no proof ANYWHERE. Just because something sounds irrational doesn't mean it is. Data and research is required to prove the end result, regardless of how it sounds - that guy hasn't learned that VERY BASIC lesson. Long story short, don't believe ANYTHING without provable data because it's probably BS and you're being manipulated.

  • @scottgreen3807
    @scottgreen3807 Місяць тому

    I’m starting this video NOW, I’ll tell you more soon but, I’ve big ideas about time. You made it up. Thats all. It’s a branch of math and you made that up too so, make it maluable as you wish? Well you do. The universe appears designed but I see active expression in it. Time is nothing but the confluence of persistence and change. Expressions. Expressions explain yer odd quantum behavior too I believe. The universe to living beings in the end will appear as a living being because you’ve nothin bigger to grasp on to. It’s there though.

  • @user-nj4ed3xt4u
    @user-nj4ed3xt4u Місяць тому

    This lecture could have been given in the past, pick your date. This lecture could be given in the future, pick your date.

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Місяць тому

    😂So true ……..🌞

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Місяць тому

    😂Know …but Don’t Join Anything….and Take Nobody Nowhere ….. let them Learn Lifetime…..🌞

  • @yetanotherjohn
    @yetanotherjohn Місяць тому

    BECAUSE CASH IS SPEECH AND CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE

  • @lynnlowery8204
    @lynnlowery8204 Місяць тому

    Simple accountability would be just as effective

  • @lynnlowery8204
    @lynnlowery8204 Місяць тому

    Go sir !

  • @user-xd9xy5yl9l
    @user-xd9xy5yl9l Місяць тому

    It's not just the wrong people. It's the narratives that are spun that grab you.

  • @user-xd9xy5yl9l
    @user-xd9xy5yl9l Місяць тому

    Do it like Singapore. They have some of the best business leaders becoming ministers for a year. It's prestigious and pays very well. The country is doing amazingly well.

  • @Philadelphiamalayale
    @Philadelphiamalayale Місяць тому

    YOU are wrong about the Stanford study. They recruited 24 'emotionally stable' students determined by psychological testing - RANDOMPLY assigned roles of guards or prisoners.

  • @Philadelphiamalayale
    @Philadelphiamalayale Місяць тому

    DR Fouci is the worst bioterrorist. You may include Bill Gates in that group too.

  • @Philadelphiamalayale
    @Philadelphiamalayale Місяць тому

    You won't dare to say a lousy sentence about Obama. You know you can get away with saying STUPID jocks about Trump. From that itself, you know who you are afraid of. Many people talk to themselves when they are alone, but studies show that intelligent people do it even more. This self-talk habit can actually be beneficial for cognitive development and personal growth.

  • @sveu3pm
    @sveu3pm Місяць тому

    sure, you are science and we are all idiots . we are seeing in Gaza and elsewhere what kind of science your corporate masters have in mind And we all remember 2 years of kovid fascists like you claiming they talk for science but in fact talking for big pharma and corporate greed How can you just calmly talk about quantum physics when there is genocide going on in Gaza.????

  • @MsHumble4
    @MsHumble4 Місяць тому

    It is all about MONEY ! Easy to see. But only affects some. There are some who have plenty and can still be NORMAL. There has to be a Law to stop that few class of Men and Women to have more than x number of money. Stop the Hidden Governments as they are the ones those we vote for fear them.

  • @ShonMardani
    @ShonMardani Місяць тому

    Why do not admit that we do not know the nature of matter? And that einstein died as a looser and made sure other scientists also will go down faking it.

  • @saadibnasaadhusain
    @saadibnasaadhusain Місяць тому

    Did you use Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates to draw this?

  • @daisymickey9330
    @daisymickey9330 Місяць тому

    Thank you for this video!

  • @WyattScott
    @WyattScott Місяць тому

    Great vid, thank you!

  • @adicristian354
    @adicristian354 Місяць тому

    slave to father hawking

  • @david_porthouse
    @david_porthouse Місяць тому

    The collapse of the wave function is very likely to be a nonlinear process, for which computer simulation is needed. Any simulation needs to make use of a random number generator. I believe I am stating the obvious. I will propose in outline how to go about it. This is likely to be a long posting, I am afraid. Our first difficulty is that the Schrödinger equation, or any equation like it, is very very accurate at the ensemble level and we can assume that the modification of it is forbidden. And yet we need to inject some randomness. There are two ways to do it. *The first way* is to hypothesise that some nonlocal degree of freedom is involved, so even if we know nothing about Bell's Theorem we could have guessed it anyway. Just playing around with the Minkowski formalism, we notice that there is more than one way to travel faster than light. I suggest that the Schrödinger equation describes an oscillation in one of the ways, which is capable of destructive interference with itself. We can have an orthogonal tachyonic Wiener process in the other way, which I will just call tachyonic Brownian motion (TBM). This comes into action during the nonlinear interaction between the wave function and the electromagnetic field, and can then lead to an outcome which does not have an issue with Schrödinger's cat. No aetiology is proposed for this TBM and I am guessing that it is quantified by having the Planck time as its characteristic time. Nitrogen tri-iodide has the unique property that it is so unstable that it can be detonated by an alpha particle from something like polonium-210. Nitrogen trifluoride is stable. A computer simulation of tri-iodide under bombardment needs to have an outcome which is qualitatively different from the trifluoride. In any well written simulation the trifluoride behaviour will be isentropic, while with the tri-iodide there will be a destruction of unitarity and a substantial rise in specific entropy. It is suggested that the missing ingredient in the simulation is TBM, which being normally orthogonal is quiescent in the trifluoride, but is sufficient to detonate the tri-iodide once an electromagnetic field is also present. Two molecules of nitrogen tri-iodide are in fact a detector in the classical sense, and constitute the smallest detector that I can think of. What is called the Heisenberg cut comes between one and two molecules of tri-iodide. Maybe in the future somebody will think of a smaller detector, but it won't really affect the argument to be given here. The computer simulation of two molecules of tri-iodide will need to run in at least twenty four dimensions of configuration space, which is impossible in practice, and gives us a hint of what we are up against. All detectors are just too complicated to model by the formal method using TBM. We do need a detector to get the collapse of the wave function in our simulation, but we will need other ideas. *The second way* to reconcile the immutability of the Schrödinger equation to the need to use a random number generator involves a bit of handwaving. We just throw away the Schrödinger equation and replace it by a classical system with some ordinary Brownian motion for any object heavier than the Planck mass. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is replaced by the Fürth Uncertainty Principle on the same scale, so hardly anyone will notice. Yes, it is handwaving, but we have TBM as an aetiology and no known practical alternative. Classical BM will be much more disruptive than TBM and of course we are reinventing decoherence. We shouldn't have much trouble collapsing wave functions using it in our simulations. If we have an electron in a potential well, then the electron is modelled by the Dirac equation plus TBM. The electromagnetic field is modelled by correlated TBM so the wave function and the electromagnetic field together can act like a nonlocal Vernam cipher. The potential well is considered to be a dimple in a heavy object so it is modelled with a bit of classical BM. I have already written a little computer simulation of the Dirac wave packet, and I am guessing that the propensity of the monochromatic wave packet to be a tachyon is going to be significant. I intend to put a series of computer simulations in the public domain which anyone will be able to modify. If they wish, they can rip out TBM and install some other way of doing things. What has been described here is the projected solution to the measurement problem as we start our programming. We will just have to see how we get on.

  • @32ModB
    @32ModB Місяць тому

    I thought religious beliefs became unfashionable centuries ago😊

  • @ili626
    @ili626 Місяць тому

    This is all relevant to aligning SAI with humanity

  • @ili626
    @ili626 Місяць тому

    What about school administrators and university professors? I’ve experienced bad faith, unethical and incompetent leadership from people in these roles several times.