TED Talks
Why we ignore obvious problems — and how to act on them | Michele Wucker
Why do we often neglect big problems, like the financial crisis and climate change, until it’s too late? Policy strategist Michele Wucker urges us to replace the myth of the “black swan” — that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable catastrophe — with the reality of the “gray rhino,” the preventable danger that we choose to ignore. She…
Science & Technology
A Menu of Foods We Might Lose Forever | Sam Kass | TED
What does a warming planet mean for the foods you love? Hosting a dinner party that features a menu of foods that could disappear within our lifetimes, culinary entrepreneur Sam Kass invites us to chew on the reality of climate change by exploring the things — like chocolate and coffee — it puts at risk.(Recorded…
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Is AI Progress Stuck? | Jennifer Golbeck | TED
Will progress in artificial intelligence continue to accelerate, or have we already hit a plateau? Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck interrogates some of the most high-profile claims about the promises and pitfalls of AI, cutting through the hype to clarify what’s worth getting excited about — and what isn’t. (Recorded at TEDxMidAtlantic on June 8, 2024)…
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The Best Channel
May 23, 2019 at 3:25 pm
TED videos is prefect ??
AURELIO KILLIAN
May 23, 2019 at 3:26 pm
Number 10
O'SSÉIN - Master Your Mind With Me
May 23, 2019 at 3:27 pm
Because we are not being in tune with our own selves.
We are walking zombies, fumbling in a limbo of constant stress and anxiety.
Detaching and practicing awareness is the only way.
Payhole Everdouche
May 23, 2019 at 3:51 pm
Are you a Master of the Ridiculously Absurd or a Guru of the Absurdly Ridiculous…???
giuliete1
May 23, 2019 at 3:29 pm
This lady got a bunch of things wrong in the very first 2 min of video
Alan Greenspan’s real job was NEVER to look out for the economy. And the financial meltdown of 2008 was orchestrated to be exactly what it was: a huge ripoff from banks. People do solve problems… the ones they consider to be problems… it’s a matter of perspectives
Proverbial Potato
May 23, 2019 at 3:57 pm
Also people make economic predictions all the time. Just because you take a cynical position doesn’t mean that everyone else is ignoring a so-called “obvious grey rhino”. That’s not to say that one shouldn’t consider worst case scenarios, but at the same time one must not create problems by fixating on problems that could happen, or those that are truly out of anyone’s control.
Aaron Long
May 23, 2019 at 4:25 pm
@giuliete Eh, the nominal job of the Federal Reserve is to regulate the supply of fiat money. That job is guided by two factors: The interest rate, which is supposed to hit a 2% target, and the unemployment rate. But the Fed (it’s a committee, Greenspan never acted alone) has a limited set of levers they can use to influence the way markets behave. As for ripping of banks… no. The Fed is staffed and run by bankers for the benefit of banks, and many, many banks went bust in 2008. So what happened? Greenspan and his cohorts chose to believe their de-regulatory rhetoric in lieu of the facts. To admit that there was a problem, that there was massive lending fraud and irresponsible speculation would have been tantamount to admitting that their de-regulation drive for the past 30 years had been a mistake.
The root problem isn’t the Fed. The Fed has been around since 1913, and for many, many years after that, the American economy was functional and effective. The root problem is that since the 1970’s, moneyed special interests have gotten very effective at subverting democracy, sabotaging regulation, and enriching themselves at the expense of regular people. The way we know this is true is that we somehow have both political parties in this country clamoring against corruption from Wall Street, and yet somehow they’re still unable or unwilling to regulate Wall Street. Even the modest, pro-forma regulations passed by Dodd-Frank are once again under attack, as the same entities who profited immensely from the 2008 crash lobby to re-create the conditions which allowed it to take place to begin with.
Peggy Harris
May 23, 2019 at 3:35 pm
So…we should get out of the stock market?
Payhole Everdouche
May 23, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Clearly, you’re an effing Genius…!!!
Matthew Menich
May 23, 2019 at 5:07 pm
Yes stop gambling.
Siyathokoza Zulu
May 23, 2019 at 3:38 pm
this talk just broke and built me back up all in 10 minutes
Payhole Everdouche
May 23, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Another fragile snowflake remade…!!!
Mindprovement
May 23, 2019 at 3:39 pm
We are always trying to make simple things complicated.
Spencer Adams
May 23, 2019 at 3:41 pm
Drexel sam
Payhole Everdouche
May 23, 2019 at 3:42 pm
I have a huge problem with this presenter, and it’s obvious to me. That horrid outfit, has got to go.
El Pelado
May 23, 2019 at 3:44 pm
En serio?????? Subtitulos en Birmano, pero no en español?
Flower Productions
May 23, 2019 at 3:48 pm
Am I the only one who thought this woman was the granny on the train from Captain Marvel, from the thumbnail?
Payhole Everdouche
May 23, 2019 at 3:53 pm
Yes…!!! It’s her awful outfit and them bedroom eyes…!!!??
domsau2
May 23, 2019 at 3:49 pm
To summarize: inform yourself about the problems that can happen.
Active Worker
May 23, 2019 at 3:51 pm
The responsability is mainly on our leaders who have tough decision to take.
On our local non-political side, we can vote, debate, ideate and create startups.
Fandyus
May 23, 2019 at 3:55 pm
I never experienced these times but i sure do miss the times when TED was about innovation and technology.
No offense to the guest.
Spencer Arnot
May 23, 2019 at 4:00 pm
We ignore obvious problems because there are hidden financial motives for some “representatives” to ignore obvious solutions. Take the current carbon crisis for example. Why not nuclear? The tech has significantly advanced in the last 50 years. It could solve a big problem but it’s being blocked. This is just one of many examples.
LO V3
May 23, 2019 at 4:06 pm
It’s the little lies we tell ourselves to live the lives we think we want. “This isn’t the time to talk about it” “What can I do about it” “It’ll all work out for the best” sayings like this keep ourselves from seeing and admitting the problem as well as beginning the change within yourself that is ultimately needed.
Julia Cherenkova
May 23, 2019 at 4:15 pm
I know one huge problem ignored by the majority of people, it’s CLIMATE CHANGE!!!11
Spencer Arnot
May 23, 2019 at 4:38 pm
@Julia Cherenkova Obvious problems often get ignored because there’s a hidden financial motive to obscure, denigrate or simple ignore the obvious solution. Nuclear is one such solution to the climate crisis. No carbon emissions, constant base load power, inexpensive and plentiful fuel source. And yet I bet you’ve heard nothing but horror stories about it, right? Curious don’t you think?
Ell Jay
May 23, 2019 at 4:47 pm
Unless you ignore problems with breeder reactors, then I don’t think fuel for fission nuclear is plentiful enough for the entire world to use it for that long. It’s only fusion where there’s some hope for a panacea.
Gabriel Zhang
May 23, 2019 at 4:24 pm
As a Chinese, I’d like to list all the things that could happen when dealing with matters and give each one on the list a possible solution. And that help me hold many alternatives in my life and optimize the best one out of them.
Aaron Long
May 23, 2019 at 4:28 pm
“We” don’t tend to ignore obvious problems. “We” have a political system which forfeits our ability to address big systemic problems to representatives, and those representatives have contrived to ignore obvious problems and/or thwart proposed solutions because it is politically convenient to do so.
Spencer Arnot
May 23, 2019 at 4:40 pm
@Aaron Long Just follow the money!
mhtinla
May 23, 2019 at 4:42 pm
According to the media: ABC, NBC, NYT, TED…, the “obvious” problem in front of us is the orange man, not the black swan or the gray rhino.
Matthew Menich
May 23, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Yea what the fug is she really talking about?
Elrayah 23
May 23, 2019 at 4:44 pm
Answer:
We dont want to deal with them. There you go. Video over.
World's Netizen
May 23, 2019 at 4:46 pm
election crisis? yeah, but it is a very big and time-consuming project which might need one or two generations to fix. Needless to say, it needs a dedicated long-time group to work on it and keep an eye for its’ oversight.
SURAJ GAJHANS
May 23, 2019 at 4:58 pm
India??..
We are doomed as a nation today!
David G
May 23, 2019 at 4:51 pm
LOL a liberal women trying to teach the mindless sheep.
Cok van Gaalen
May 23, 2019 at 5:09 pm
speakproject.net lucid dreamer youtube Dan Lutz youtube thepeoplesclub.org cre8change gocamelot.com thishow thomas williams spreaker
Cok van Gaalen
May 23, 2019 at 5:13 pm
Zeitgeist moving forward
Xubin Yang
May 23, 2019 at 5:12 pm
You should stay in China for a while, and live in the living area of ordinary people, not the special hotel or guest house that the Communist Party has arranged for you.
Combat Bananas
May 23, 2019 at 6:21 pm
Yea no thanks. I don’t want them recording me jerkin off. I hear its like -150 points for that on your social credit score.
signalamplifier
May 24, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Ya triggered?
Combat Bananas
May 24, 2019 at 1:59 pm
+signalamplifier -34 points on your social credit score, disagreeing with positive Chinese statements. No groceries for you this week.
signalamplifier
May 24, 2019 at 2:31 pm
+Combat Bananas the talk does not praise nor chineese neither us governments. You might enjoy using your brain instead of parroting standard phrases about muh freedom.
olli tuovinen
May 23, 2019 at 5:26 pm
Allahu akbar.
Mabel Pereira
May 23, 2019 at 5:38 pm
Well spoken, inspiring!
Combat Bananas
May 23, 2019 at 6:14 pm
Strange audience eh?
Will B
May 23, 2019 at 6:43 pm
i heard hearsay that hearsay is up. sell sell sell! 🙂
Cheryl Sibson
May 24, 2019 at 5:33 am
hersay not hearsay HER SAY I think she makes the point, that we can’t take it with us when we die.
Scott Sanders
May 23, 2019 at 7:40 pm
The whole economic blitz in 2008 was pre-engineered by the Federal Reserve to suit their agenda, that’s why most people didn’t see it coming and those that did had a handle on the machinations of a nefarious organization like the Fed and had some kind of a heads up. The Great Depression of 1929 was also pre-engineered.
nosirrbro
May 24, 2019 at 12:18 am
No… no… no…
I’m really going to need a source on that if you actually believe that and want to argue in favor of it.
Scott Sanders
May 24, 2019 at 6:48 pm
There’s tons ob books out there on this, you just have to search for them yourself. Try Katherine Austin Fitts, Cliff High, Anand Giridharadus, Parag Khamma, Wayne Jett for instance
nosirrbro
May 24, 2019 at 7:39 pm
+Scott Sanders You know full well someone on the internet isn’t going to read the entire portfolio of several authors’ books just in order to resolve a comment dispute, if these books had any truth to them whatsoever there would have been without a doubt shorter form articles on the subject using them as a source.
Anders Løbger
May 23, 2019 at 7:41 pm
Why the poor sound quality? Struggling to understand I gave up after a few minutes.
Bob Frog
May 23, 2019 at 8:10 pm
Is this moron seriously praising China? Mass Murder Champs of the 20th C?
John Kesich
May 23, 2019 at 9:06 pm
Do honest bankers give mortgages to people with no income, no jobs, no assets? Do honest brokers think slicing and dicing such toxic assets turns them into AAA investments? Do honest regulators and financial commentators not understand the scam unfolding before their eyes? Do honest politicians bail out the bankers and leave their victims to twist in the wind? Even going so far as to let the banks illegally foreclose on thousands or millions of them?
BoBo Mill Tv
May 23, 2019 at 10:29 pm
We do not ignore obvious problems, we do not understand them, mostly…
Cryptonymicus
May 24, 2019 at 5:36 am
AND we don’t want to pay for the repair.
BoBo Mill Tv
May 24, 2019 at 9:47 pm
+Cryptonymicus -true!
ACANKU!
May 23, 2019 at 11:14 pm
I think the real problem is, that ignoring a problem and jump over it is a prooven strategy first used by psychopaths to be “successful” in reaching their goals and later imitated by sociopaths, which are today the most politicians and rich powerful people. They have learned nothing than ignoring problems. Thats why they are where they are now. Ignoring two problems solves the first problem (in many cases, not all, but they think in all cases) The thing why this happens is, the people always look UPWARDS. They dont want to help someone who is downwards. So if you want something important and you dont get it, just ignore and get something they want. Now they want you and you have solved a problem by just ignoring it and moving forward. This doesnt work out on climate change. You cant push forward. In this case you have to go slow and maybe a little back but as I said, powerful people have learned something different and they are not able to move back. Just look at what shady things they did all the time. This shady things to crush and ignore problems, neglet them and discredit them is their MAIN JOB. Ignoring and moving forward.
Stefan Nikola
May 24, 2019 at 2:38 am
Wow! I’ve been saying that for years! I hear you. I hear you. I’d like to add that since Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha, and Lao Tzu never taught any lessons about responsibility that there’s no responsibility ethic in the world. Psychopaths and sociopaths are irresponsible for their thoughts, feelings, words, and actions, yet they succeed. I don’t like the world as it is, and I have no power to change it for the better. I’m eager to leave!
End Of Innocence
May 23, 2019 at 11:20 pm
The speaker is very invested in establishment narratives and does not understand how the world really works, and is this mostly wrong.
DeathAngel
May 23, 2019 at 11:33 pm
my grandma just died, I’m the one your talking about who has to clean up the 30 years of horded newspapers and a bunch of other junk.
Matheus Serra
May 23, 2019 at 11:35 pm
After the invite of Brazilian researcher Joana D’Arc Félix who lied about her doctorate degree for TedEx the program lost my respect and confidence …
Being Human
May 24, 2019 at 3:02 am
Ifyoudontseeitjustlook
Vikram Srinivasan
May 24, 2019 at 3:23 am
Which fool will live in China? ?
seneca
May 28, 2019 at 12:16 pm
Vikram Srinivasan living in China can be amazing. The best 6 years of my life were there.
Karina Royuki
May 24, 2019 at 3:44 am
灰犀牛不查真不知道是什么意思
Talloolah Moon
May 24, 2019 at 3:52 am
Very funny arrogant aunty
Washington Strong arm
May 24, 2019 at 4:13 am
Global warming , climate change, vortex, climate moo, climate poo, I wonder what will be the next name for the hoax…?
B Welkinator
May 24, 2019 at 4:32 am
In-equality is NOT a problem. That there are stratum of relative economic prosperity is a fact – but NOT a problem.
Cryptonymicus
May 24, 2019 at 5:35 am
It’s easier to deal with the dust in the corner than the roof caving in on our heads. And the fact is a great many of us aren’t capable of dealing with the roof caving in.
韩淑君
May 24, 2019 at 6:22 am
I see several Asian audiences who look more like Chinese in view of their impassive expressions. For most of Chinese who have access to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, they know a giant grey rhino is dashing toward us and hundreds and thousands of black swans are fluttering overhead right now. But more people are sanguine about China’s prospect and are completely unconscious of obvious disasters. In fact no one would like to ignore problems. People would like to face them and act on them if they know what is happening.
Giovanni P.
May 24, 2019 at 7:37 am
Alan Greenspan wrote a paper/thesis prior to the events that occurred in 2006. His thesis extrapolated that a crisis like this would occur under the right conditions…
Good Joke
May 25, 2019 at 12:03 am
I still didn get the answer, how to act on them?
Sherry Li
May 25, 2019 at 12:09 am
Climate change.
Sarah Collins
May 25, 2019 at 1:34 am
Black swans are very common if you live in the right place. You just have to be prepared to go there.
(Australia has only black swans)
desame suo
May 25, 2019 at 7:12 am
Some scientists and politicians might think that people ignore climate change. Actually they also ignore that we can’t stop using cheap energy . We all have limited money, so we can’t help using cheapest energy. If all human being stop using fossil fuel, our civilization will collapse.
ELLE Frank Hittlerová švejnar
May 25, 2019 at 9:18 am
©
Kleber Alanis
May 25, 2019 at 10:10 am
With that laughter and double thumbs up, she just basically called suckers the people whom she sold her NY apartment to.
DeeJay Aech
May 25, 2019 at 12:26 pm
The public school system.
mmisbach
May 25, 2019 at 6:56 pm
Grey Rhinos: The less control we have over a problem the more likely to not see it. Self imposed blind spot. If you feel like someone’s got your back, you’ll take more risks. We are scared to remove our blind spots, but if we do it enables us to handle them. #TEDTalk
Positive Leonine
May 25, 2019 at 7:15 pm
Interesting speech.
Jacob Opstad
May 25, 2019 at 10:01 pm
I had just barely become an adult but I could tell something was going to happen when I saw all those people trying to invest in real estate.
Thirukumaran Sabapathi
May 26, 2019 at 5:54 am
Grass is always greener on the other side {for most}
Максим Голубинцев
May 26, 2019 at 10:51 am
We’re like children, who are closing theirs eyes and thinking that nobody sees them, we think that if we don’t speak about problem it won’t happen with us
judyslome1
May 27, 2019 at 10:47 am
I published a way to eliminate all postpartum hemorrhage at vaginal birth in 2010. It has been ignored . Grey rhino. see:
Minimizing bleeding and tearing at vaginal births: one practitioners experience. Women and Birth. 2018 Apr;31(2):e144.
barry weber
May 27, 2019 at 5:17 pm
Great talk.
renate løland
May 27, 2019 at 8:04 pm
As a norwegian this sounds very veep to me
Sultan Al-thobaiti
May 28, 2019 at 6:42 am
Nice
Ramona Sz
May 28, 2019 at 6:46 am
Can we take a step back and use the same speech in order to understand why, oh why we do completely nothing (nowhere near enough) about climate change?