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I loathe Stephen Fry.

Fry, disregards the importance of struggle, direction, purpose and work to the human spirit. Those who find themselves without these things, are the fundamental cause to the rise in tribalism Fry seems unable to explain. We as humans have always worked, from hunter gather through to now and Fry is incorrect on this point. Whilst the nature of what we describe as work may fundamentally shift over time, we nonetheless should strive always towards a predilection to design it into our societies

Stephen Fry steps on the stage at @3:30

The Angela Merkel snipe was uncalled for, you are not exactly a paragon of humankind yourself. It seems like your online and other praise is gone to your head Fry.

Good. But I instantly noticed his misogyny. He said nobody should be tutting that he doesn’t mention women because there were no women, they only came later. This is Man’s first and greatest Patriarchal Reversal: the notion that men can exist without women and women are derived from men. But the Truth is the opposite: that all men come from women’s wombs.

Loved him in his comedic rolls. A very funny man. Question : Who built the Great Pyramids, it was most certainly not the dynastic Egyptians. ???

It is astounding how little we know. This recognition is the first pre forward step.

Top of my bucket list is to meet this man just for a few minutes

They know he is a tall man why is he having to stoop like that

The shade is legendary

Mr Fry you are scholar and a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey.

Fry is a pompous fool who thinks himself evolved from monleys.

The depth and breadth of Stephen's knowlege, insights and talent is difficult to believe. For my American friends, check out the old British comedies he used to star in, Blackadder - and A Bit of Fry and Lawrie, where he co-stars with the guy now known as "House". Not just a national treasure, an international treasure!

"or there will be a terrible breakdown of things...a big one...that will make us sort of pause and reorder things...at a governmental level maybe, I don't know": 2020!

Stephen Fry is a good friend of Prince Charles, when Charles is king he will get the honours he deserves, Charles want to make his friend a knight, he doesn't want the queen to steal his thunder.

If Oscar Wilde could ever meet Steven, he would shut the fuck up and LISTEN... Bell Labs ought to Digitise his Brain, we will all be lost when he is gone...

that final question about fighting back for science. dont. just tell the story of science. it is anyway winning as Fry points out earlier in the conversation, the world is getting better more educated, more scientific. so just keep telling the story of science and doing science to the best of your ability. that is always the best ammo against those who would tear it down.

What if we just evolved to not need to eat anymore? What if we could grow a crystalline power supply - similar to how some sea sponges grow glass bodies - capable of absorbing a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum and storing it directly as electricity. Carbon nanotube bodies muscles powered by hydraulic piezoelectric fluid - which would act as muscles but also as the nervous system. Brains that use photons to process data built upon the same crystal growing technology as the aforementioned power supply. The singularity is *going* to happen. We are trending toward it. It is inevitable. The more we fear it, the more it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we no longer need food, drink, nor even shelter or warmth - what could they possibly use to hold us all hostage with? :) Not to mention human brains and emotions but with full control over our subsystems, superhuman bodies, brains capable of true parallel processing and access to vastly more thinking power, we'd be a pretty good match if machines became aware and decided we were a threat xD. Oh, I forgot to mention that data storage would be in two forms; static storage in the form of 5D crystals - look 'em up, they already exist - and fluid (or dynamic) storage which would literally be a fluid. Light + DNA could be used to read/write data. Imagine being able to upload your consciousness to several synthetic bodies and raise a family while exploring space and also doing oceanic studies and any other number of things you'd wanna do. Then imagine sharing all those memories simultaneously amongst your selves using quantum entangled photons a bit like a hivemind :D

Wow-- there is so much information in this that I will listen to it several times before I absorb it all.. we all need Stephen's awareness of what is happening every time we use Facebook, twitter etc.. beware, folks.

Podium is far to low for Fry..lol

Keep up guys

It remains vague about how a piece of program code brought the different science disciplines together.

Magnifique accent français

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Love the Mark Twain quote!!!!!!!!!!

Surely Fry isn't so stupid as to believe that it is really true that Gates has given away his vast wealth? His fortune has doubled over the past decade of supposedly 'giving it away'.

There is a nightmare: Justin Trudeau running the future.

A mediocre comedian is taking about everything,. should be the same, mediocre.

47:01 Music wholly composed by A.A. would be quite a sober tone

Great broad perspectived presentation, very enjoyable!

Congratulations to Alok. Also congratulations to proud parents

Stephen Fry is a wonderful man I like his acting and he comes across intelligent and warm

computers need to be used responsibly

Miguel Nicolelis is a person if you to see somewhere you need hug he and thanks to. Thanks profesor for represent our country as to deserve

"...so we dance, play cricket or baseball if you must...". 😄👍

I would love to see Stephen Fry in conversation with Sashi Tharoor.

the music in the background is a no-no. Can't hear anything over the strong french English accent. Please reconsider next time, sound guy.

No matter the subject, Stephen Fry with prep time can make it fascinating and beautiful.

great talk!

The "Science doesn't know everything" comment reminded me of a line by one of Stephen's friends, comedian Dara O Briain, that "science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise, it would stop!"

The emcee is hot

Not clear...

This lecture should be made mandatory viewing in every classroom in every school on this lovely little planet of ours. I have little faith in today's politicians to solve today's problems, but perhaps Mr. Fry's words of wisdom might inspire the leaders of tomorrow!

Who's here in COVID-19 2020 ????? God, how I wish this lecture was not so damn on. f*cking. point.

I think Stephen Fry is a great human, and wise, but I doubt his predictions of the future of AI and of human society. All humans, including Stephen Fry, don't know what we don't know. What are the limits of A.I? We don't know, we could reach them anyday. I think people are often unaware of how much human intelligence is required to build an A.I. Humans always have to define what the inputs and the outputs mean. AI is a series of computations and algorithms. What the equations optimise and what is optimal are defined outside of the AI. A.I doesn't care and doesn't have the capacity for caring,. It might be able to simulate it the way weather models simulate the weather. But just as weather models don't create rain, simulating human emotions is creating emotions. Can humans live to 120? Some can but maybe there are some inherent limits to the age that a human can still function. It is a mistake to take the current rate of progress in any field of science and assume it will continue. Take physics, from 1890 to 1920 huge progress was made, but that rate of progress hasn't continued. We don't know what going to happen, we can only make educated guess, guesses we and Stephen Fry should be very uncertain about.