Number three, a strong eagerness and willing to learn. Here's what I appreciate the most from junior designers. They are more often open to listen and learn, to feedback, provide insights to improve current design practices, offer enthusiastic support to senior designers. Finally, number four, a worthwhile investment to your team and company. It can cost more to train junior designers, but the value they can offer often outweighs their cost. It simply doesn't take anything from your company to give junior designers a chance.


Up next we have Michael Anne Bradley and the title of her talk is Artificial Intelligence and Suffering. Michael Anne is the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Local Provo United Way and specializes in creating systems and operations that enable meaningful social impact. She is passionate about fundraising and online crowdfunding, using technology to foster community and radical self-sufficiency empowered by the internet. In addition to her involvement with the MTA, she serves as treasurer on the board of the group, the group LDS Earth Stewardship. She and her husband Don live in Provo, Utah. I want to also just thank Michael Anne for her tireless service on behalf of the conference. She's done a lot of work. So, thank you. So, I'm going to be talking today, as mentioned, about artificial intelligence. And can you hear me okay? Perfect. I don't have slides. So, my first confession is that I don't know actually very much about artificial intelligence and I'm only a very rudimentary programmer. My hope today is to give you some ideas about AI and religion and helps that someone much smarter than me will take the ideas and develop them. But what kind of spurred my thoughts was a blog post I read on the ethical technology blog called Post Human Desire. It was written by Anthony McCauley. He was talking about, it's part of a bar discussion about the prerequisites for sentient artificial life. The author of this article, Anthony McCauley and others, argued that the experience of the Buddhist sensation of dukkha, or in other words a combination of suffering and desire, is the basics to all living creatures and therefore would be requisite for artificial intelligence to also achieve something like sentience. He asked the question, is it even possible to get to the essence of desire for such a radically other consciousness? What would happen if we were to nest within the cognitive code of an artificial intelligence, dukkha itself? What would be the consequence of an algorithm of desire? This wouldn't be a program with a specific objective. I'm just thinking of desire with no set objective. What if the aspect of the programming were simply to want and keep it open-ended enough that the AI would have to fill in the blank itself? Binary coding may not be able to achieve this, but perhaps in quantum computing where indeterminacy is an aspect of the program itself might be possible. This is a really interesting question, right? We look at the basis of existence for whether it be animals or humans, that is desire. What would it look like to program desire for an AI? I wanted to think for a second about what is the Mormon standard for sentience and existence? What would AI have to be like in order to be sentient conscious from a Mormon perspective? I think it is actually a really potentially fruitful way to steer artificial intelligence because we've already used mathematics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, all these things, and it was closer towards what a legitimate sentient AI might look like. I think we need to bring religion into the mix as well. I think religion has at least as much value as philosophy when we're considering what consciousness is, what individualism is, what humanity is. My questions are twofold. One more in theology is sentient AI, even like a logical possibility is, does our theology give us any space for a sentient AI? If we did have a sentient AI, why might that be desirable as opposed to an AI that is simply super intelligent? What is there that's advantageous about being conscious? There's a quick definition. I'm defining sentience as the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. It's that subjectivity, that kind of sense of individualism and meanness that I think a computer doesn't currently experience but I think is essential for really powerful artificial intelligence. Let's start from a couple basic ideas behind Mormon theology. I think a lot of us in this room know that in the Mormon book of Abraham, we learn that God rules over all the intelligences that Abraham's eyes had seen from the beginning. The Lord showed into Abraham the intelligences that were organized and among many of these are the noble and great ones. We know that most Mormons interpret these intelligences that were before the world existed as the kind of building blocks of a spirit, almost like the atoms of a spirit. The spirit comes and inhabits a body and then that intelligence becomes spirit, becomes bodies that we see walking around us today. We know that AI at its most basic level is information, numbers, data. It's not hard to perceive that then. These kinds of things that we know make up computers as intelligence in raw form. So far, so good. Computers arguably are at that basic building block of intelligence and if we can figure out how to cobble those pieces of intelligence together to make a spirit and then perhaps make a body, we could have a computer that was created, a computer that has achieved intelligence. The other angle I want to look at is Mormonism in animals. Looking at animals, comparing machines to animals to help us understand consciousness is at least as old as Thomas Aquinas who talked about how he made the comparison of an arrow moving toward its target as much like an animal moving towards its target, like maybe like a lion moving towards its prey to show that they're equally without agency. You can do a lot of comparisons with animals and machines to figure out like how are they different than us, how are they the same from us, and I think Mormonism gives us some productive directions there too. We have a really unique view of animals that actually is not very much at all like what Aquinas stated. President Joseph Fielding Smith, for example, said that Latter-day Saints do not take the view that animals have no reason and cannot think. We have the divine knowledge that each possesses a spirit and the likeness of his body and that each was created spiritually before it was naturally or given a body on the earth. Naturally then, there is some measure of intelligence in members of the animal kingdom. This idea once again shows us that there can be different degrees of intelligence that you can have different degrees of sentience, and there are comparable quotes from Brigham Young and Joseph Smith about how animals have achieved a kind of sentience that is both different and same to us. So I think there's room there again for a computer, a built kind of intelligence. Now the last place that Mormon theology makes room for a sentient technology is the way that we describe objects. This is probably the most interesting angle out of the three. We actually have several scriptures that reference objects as experiencing a kind of emotion. In Luke 1940, when Christ is entering Jerusalem during Palm Sunday, the Pharisees tell Christ to keep the jubilant crowds quiet. Jesus answers, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. The stones can recognize another living being, and they can have emotion, they can have joy. Another example, 1 Nephi 1912, prophesying the coming of Christ later on in the Book of Mormon, and the rocks of the earth must rend, and because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the spirit of God to exclaim the God of nature suffers. Once again, an object can experience and express a kind of awareness of what is going on around it and what it means.  So the earth is aware, the earth has an experience. Now Mormon sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card was undoubtedly inspired by this story when he wrote about this character, this thing, in his earthfall series called the keeper of the earth. This description he has of the keeper of the earth is incredibly Mormon. I think we can all resonate with it as an extension of Mormon concepts and ideas. In his description of the keeper of the earth, he describes it as a benevolent spirit that uses the earth itself, the magma and continents, as a sort of information storage and processing system. Mind and memory lived in the currents of flowing stone and the magnetic flow. Vast amounts of information were deposited in crystals on the underside of the crest, changed by fluxes and temperature and magnetism. I think if you were to do an informal poll of most Mormons, they would find this wholly compatible with their theology, this idea that intelligence can be stored in something that's not just a human brain, they're not just neurons. There are many variations we could imagine that would be able to form an intelligence that could be aware and sentient. So that being said, let's just assume for a second that Mormonism, the Mormon theology is doing something more than just describing its own particular worldview, but it's actually describing something kind of real about nature and the world as it really is. So let's assume that Mormonism is right and animals have a kind of spirit and inanimate objects have a kind of spirit, or in other words, an ability to experience subjectively. And it is therefore in the realm of possibility for artificial intelligence to have a spirit and or sentience and or subjectivity. What benefit might we have towards striving towards a sentient AI as opposed to a simply super intelligent AI, one that can do better math problems or solve better algorithms? We know right now that complex real world problems remain well beyond the grasp of computers. Humans themselves have been unable to solve these issues and so we can't program something to do something that we can't even do ourselves. We can't even provide computers with the instructions to follow or even delineate the goals that our computers need to achieve. Technology as it now exists can only work with what it is given. So the problem is it's a problem that we need simply better algorithms, better logic or better methodologies, maybe. Right now though, I think in an attempt to make AI more fruitful, it seems to work better to make it more like a human with embodied agent approaches, neural net research, statistical approaches to mimic the probabilistic nature of the human ability to guess. Our attempt to make computers more like us, more like humans, is a simply that we don't know how to be other than human.  That may or may not be true that we aren't unable to imagine that. I think we need to move towards that and I think looking at things from a Mormon perspective gives us at least the idea that it could be possible. That being said, I think the ways that Mormon theology describes what sentient objects and animals and so forth, what makes them sentient is their again subjectivity and their emotion, their ability to experience. The rocks can cry out. The earth can groan. And we're learning through research that emotion provides an invaluable role in providing information, improving speed of decision making, assessing relevance, enhancing commitment. A subjective artificial intelligence, or in other words a sentient one, one that could react to its environment and experience its experience in motion might be key to enabling artificial intelligence to solve some of the complex real world problems. So I think what we come to at the end actually, what I think is probably going to be the most fruitful direction for us to go when trying to leverage our technology to be able to solve some of the most complex problems is to not go the direction of just mimicking humans' probabilistic nature and our ability to guess with statistics and so forth and not to simply mimic our brains by doing more neural net research. I think what's actually going to be the most fruitful is to be able to integrate technology with ourselves more, to take the best of what it is that we can experience as humans with all of our emotion and subjectivity, but leverage artificial intelligence to accommodate for the various weaknesses that we might have as human beings, our tendency to make irrational decisions, our tendency to be short-sighted. This is what we popularly call cyborgs and I think kind of this mishmash of emotion and computer mechanics. I think striving towards an artificial intelligence that is separate from us, that can do its own thing, is valuable, but I think being able to mix the human and the technological is probably the most realistic in terms of what could actually be accomplished and actually be beneficial. So just in conclusion, I hope that we, as we are considering ways to make our world better, hope we don't forget to include religion as a possibility of inspiration and a possibility to give us an idea of what direction we need to go next to be able to solve some of our most complex problems. Thank you very much.


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minutes Which isn't too bad. We have not pulled cyber dragon. We have not pulled red eyes So that's kind of interesting All right Let's keep on going Thanks for the five by the way caveman Uh, are you talking about discord? You can join the discord you can your it'll just be read only Yeah, but if you are a patreon or a youtube member you have full access So you can join in there if you want, but you just won't be able to like chat or whatever Three goes per case five displays per case Uh, no, no, no, it's it's there's no even ratio. You can't predict it. I keep saying this but It seems like there's complete randomness in terms of what you're gonna pull There's I don't think it's like you're guaranteed to get this mini per display.  Where did you buy these boxes? Sasiato link is in the description if you guys want to buy some you can check out the link below use code ruxin gftp To get five percent off and you can get them from the same place. I got mine deco talk or heat soul No ghost or caribou. I could see that happening at some point though. All right case yesterday zero ghost Yeah, I've heard of zero ghost cases. That's why there's really no ratio. You can get zero You could get uh You know Zero you could get even worse you you get well not worse. You could get better. You could get six Should add monster born as a ghost term Well, that would have been way too many ghost errors like at this point. It's like you got to have a bad one. That's just how it works Rock sandy. Thanks for becoming a youtube member or continuing to become a discord member. I appreciate it. I'll go fibracks Hello rock sand Zero no zero to six. We pulled six So zero to six ghosts and then apparently someone said they pulled 29 from three So i'm guessing they pulled more than that. I would just say zero to a unknown number of ghosts is the ratio So you really don't know Tins, uh, we'll probably do a few cases of tens Tins we is pretty they're pretty easy to open cases because they're really short That's okay dragon. If you don't that's if you don't want to enter and that's fine It's really just a benefit for members I'm gonna cry if your case has your dude. I was gonna cry too. I'm glad we didn't get that There's a website selling cases for 680 ship. That's really cheap. Yeah Imagine pokemon comes out with ghost shares. You always got to be careful with those people. Make sure you note. They're a good reputation though All right fallen sanctuary How many boxes in a case Uh, 10 10 10 boxes five mini boxes per display Seems like all the good reprints are the third card in. Yeah, that's how it is No, I got all I got all my boxes from sassy auto the first person in the description. Ivan Pokemon literally already had ghost rays. We had them since gen 7 Gen 7 that was I mean, no, wasn't that recently? That was pretty recent Even though they had the tops lucia, which is a basically a ghost char. I have that card. All right Kluger. All right, there's no, uh set highly disappointing Uh, I mean, I'm sure there will be a value especially when it comes to grading because so far I have not pulled a gradeable ghost char yet out of the 14. So I definitely don't agree with that Uh, this is the luckiest stream besides the ip ip was luckier. I think I think the ip was luckier This has been a great one though. That looks like a ghost char Case from sassy's arriving congrats, man. Hopefully you pull something good any ghost. Yeah, we pulled 14 ghosts adam 14 none from this case yet two displays for 70. Good luck, dude All right, let's go How the pull's been uh, we pulled 14 ghosts, uh 14 ghosts john out of three cases so the Actually not out of three cases. So yeah, so I've opened four total. I opened some for two videos. I pulled I opened the rest of that case in this stream. We ended up pulling five total out of that one then a nut the second one I pulled Three so that's eight and then I pulled six from the next one. So we had 14 and then I pulled three from the next one So we have 17 total out of my four cases. This is the fifth So 17 we pulled 14 in this live stream So yeah, it's been a lot of ghosts There's a lot of ghosts and they're completely random off the wall like two have been three one was five one was six The three been three So this is the fifth one. Yeah, two two have been three one was five on six and zero so far in this one One doesn't release a starlight blue eyes or summon skull that'd be cool But it seems like they're aiming for a ghost race for that kind of thing Running a diamond. I doubt it. I don't know. I've been playing master do a lot I got a prep for the ycs. So I'll probably be playing like Uh current meta at some point Hop off for dinner. All right. See you Florian. Thanks for being here dude So do you like how do you know which cards are wearing these sets? Uh ghost shirt That's how you know also you can look up the price guide You can always do uh for this ghost from the past two price guide. It'll give you all the prices you can know Every time you pull six ghosts in one case another case cries Hey, I pulled two Collector rare list cases from grand creators. So I I can have a decent one every once in a while man You gotta let me on the other side at some point skull night But yeah, I've heard about the zero zero ones. It's been rough, dude One of my guys in discord got zero. So that's pretty pretty tough 1k for ghost mg. Well, they shouldn't you should never buy a card that early like people should know this at that point Don't buy the pre-sales Like the for the big card, it's gonna be too expensive. It's gonna go down immediately Ghost rare exodia would be awesome. You're getting pop of johns. That sounds really good, man That sounds really good Best card you can get from this pack. Uh ghost rare dark magician girl, I believe I don't know how much it's going for now. I don't know if it's more than the blue eyes or not Blue eyes was around 400 borland. Very cool What time is it out there right now? It's 225 for me That aren't ghost chairs. Yep. Yeah, you can check the price guy to lubers like 30 bucks right now There's a few other good cards open 800 a pack snow blue eyes That's like four cases. That's what we open. Thank you, john. D. Appreciate it All right, here we go last stretch guys. Can we get more ghost rares any ghost pulled uh 14 of them in fact Vision hero increase ghost draw. I think is around like 225. I think Uh, is he reading this from this chat? I'm reading from this chat. Yeah, it's not discord right now Hope to get a few alubra on my own from displays. Would you rate? No, he's not short printed. I would say I pulled a ton of them A display box is five individual boxes and 10 displays exactly All right very nice Dark magician girl is very hype. It's very hype Red-eyed spike dragon is in the set. We have not pulled that one yet. We have not gotten lucky enough to pull it Think you should sell your case instead of opening them. Why is that? Next ghost is rda calling it. Thanks for the tent junk in love You are just in time to be wrong If you if I had read that right like before after I opened this cyber dragon, you would have been right Okay, so are we gonna get two cyber dragons? That's the question. Will we get a double? I'm down to double up a little bit of scuffing on the back sinnering's a little bit off Yeah, all these are not really ps8 and worthy which is very interesting. That's our fifth ghost We finally got the cyber dragon. Who said cyber dragon in this one somebody said that Ghost art magician is probably harder to pull. Yeah, I would say It's hard to say what the real ratios are this though The weird thing is you pull doubles in the same case like you pull one. You're probably gonna pull it again, which is very strange Cyber dragon, baby. There you go. Josh. There's your cyber dragon, man Josh, do you like the original art like that one or do you like the old art like the old see better? Which one do you like better? Than you're the big cyber dragon guy Would it be pieces of exotic that we get ghosts or just the head? I think they would do all right to me I mean, I think they would do like maybe next ghost from the past you do all five pieces of exodias five of the nine I think that'd be cool Yeah, ghosts from the past one was pretty bad. Uh-oh I'm getting called Okay. All right. We're good. I need to why did that? I don't know why that made my app not work Can you show us what ghosts you've pulled? Uh, we've pulled all of them except sphere mode and red eyes Did we skim over in a luber? Sorry. I got called and got distracted I'll check it No, why do you keep saying I feel like you guys think another card is a luber. Maybe it's like the agent or something like that Cyber dragon 200 bucks. That's honestly pretty cheap because I think the old team is like 200 bucks All right Oh, there it is speaking of a luber. Maybe you were predicting the future when you said I skimmed over in a luber I skimmed over the one to come the real ratio seems to be close to three per click So you're okay. So the real ratio if there weren't all the issues it would be three That's what it seems like to me because I've pulled two cases with three and then two seemed like that an issue where I was getting doubles And I was pulling like two of the same thing plunder Where did I get these cases? I got them from sassiato link in the description You guys can use ruxin gftp if you want to get five percent off those cases and get them from the same places I did very good seller very reliable. He ships them out really quick I think he's already shipped everyone's orders from pre-orders already Steve with us Uh mixed in us mixed in all right Well, it's insane right now, but the prices if they're all like this the prices are gonna drop like everyone's pulling six Skillshare's per thing or whatever, which I don't think they are but if they are Uh, it will the value will average out and you won't actually get a crazy return The thing about the collector wares is they were getting so many that it was and it was so few times that it was a crazy return Uh All right, we're down to Probably it was still over half the case left. This is the last one Love the content. Thank you mochi I appreciate it. I appreciated a lot Packs are falling over which deck better blue eyes of dark magician dark magician is better than blue eyes right now Uh, and I have gotten everyone's pre-orders out. Yeah, you guys uh, you guys were crushing it, man He showed me what you had after day one and I was like, man, they they put in some work getting all that out For ghost rares in this case so far just one in this case You've gotten a ghost uh every canadian dollar don't know Ghost chars are coming next. All right. All right. All right Crystal beast rainbow very nice How many aluber have you pulled a lot? We've pulled a ton of aluber Like a lot we've probably pulled Red dragon arch fiend Another ghost rares. This is our third one of our four cases pretty nice. So so far cyber dragon red dragon arch fiend We're still looking for those wait. We got to check out the quality. What are we doing? Okay sintering off back It's it's always these streaks. It's got streaks. So yeah, I mean they're not like in bad bad shape But they're not in great shape I am not in canada. Oh for some reason people think that I have no idea why but I have not in canada any ghost rares uh 16 of them in fact 16 ghosts it seems to be Riza very nice Red eye. Yeah, who called the rda someone said uh the next one. Oh wait. No, he said it right before the cyber dragon So he actually did not call it. He was two. He was one off When they called it I pulled cyber dragon. So he was very close to calling it, but he did I got the ghost jarzard. It looks sun faded and completely white. I don't remember if I've seen that ghost jarzard before Because I'm so nice from canada Agent debt core for around 45 dollars bro. I don't have an agent debt core Are they like in this set or something? How is the sintering so consistently off? Well, it makes sense that it's consistent because they're you know cutting them the same way over and over I'll I think one of my stks were actually centered. So maybe we'll try that To grade but the rest of them man. It's been pretty rough Can I see the ghost Can you see ghost? Well, uh, if you can see ghosts, you're probably pretty special. They're usually invisible. I'm just saying All right I should have waited 30 seconds. You were literally 30 seconds from being just nailing it. Thanks for the 10, dude Close enough though and you got it I'm calling you get another eye to my eyes. Why would you say that aluber very nice Concerning the bad sintering scratches ps8 10 prices. Uh, I mean it seems like they're going to be difficult to grade So the pot might be kind of low. I don't know if they're as bad as wing dragon a raw Which was the worst I've ever seen but pretty cool all right That core with a mount of packs. So it's all in this set. I haven't paid attention to the agents though all right fossil warriors skull Night very cool ghost or ash blossom. I think that's going to be a starlight based on how they're doing it They just made ogre a starlight. It's probably going to be a starlight not a ghost They could do both though and cash out twice Did ghosts invent invisible ink? I think so. I think so Agent wife Thank you chris. Thanks for being here, man If you guys have not subscribed yet to the channel, I appreciate if you guys do that be fun. All right, it's all dmg How much did I miss uh, how many of the 16 ghost stories did you see? How many ghosts so far? uh 16 16 ghosts 16 ghosts you guys believe that that's insane. That's a lot of ghosts Hey, I just got here. Did you pull the blue eyes? We did we pulled three of them But we have not pulled red eyes and we have not pulled the sphere mode. So that's our goal right now is to pull those I'm back. What did I miss you missed? I don't know. How long have you been gone? You've probably missed something though Ghost girls at least one per year. So you start like one a year or two. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking I'm thinking one starlight a year Ash they're gonna wait for forever to freaking do it They're taking so long All right 126,500 nice. Let's go Ghosts from the past has been very good for subs for sure a lot of new people hopping in because of that because they're super high Doubles the doubles are crazy. Do we get another crazy case? A double that could be a good sign That could be a good sign the sintering is not as bad on that one Back's not too bad, but there's definitely something going on right there double cyber dragon. That's number 17, baby Number 17 leviathan dragon. I'm just kidding. Okay Let's go. Does that mean we got another big case? Eight year old son loves watching you. I love that. I love that sam I'm glad that's helping you, uh, babysit. Shout out to your eight year old son Oh Messed it up 20 second ghost. All right, man. Maybe not that many but oh, there's heat soul. Okay Bruh, this is crazy Favorite ghost very nice third ghost in this case right now. Yes. Just got here. What's been pulled? Uh, rise up very nice Uh, everything except red eyes and sphere mode Red eyes and sphere mode. You've seen two two ghost stories in five minutes. Yeah, that's how it's been going today, man It's been How long we've been streaming 150 minutes and we've pulled 17 ghost rare. So more than a ghost rare every 10 minutes That's pretty crazy Triple cyber dragon.  That's gonna be really cool Okay, time thief Time thief, man. I've got so many extra cards over here. Will you be selling at deck cores? No, I won't I won't Uh ddd Think it's worth buying sealed or well singles or you almost always better Yeah, you're gonna have to get lucky to actually make money on opening sealed So yeah, definitely singles if you're going for best for your money All right lost your voice. How did I lost my how did I lose my voice? What are you talking about? What you're talking about All right, very nice 17 in this stream. Yeah in a total of 20 if you include the other uh other openings from ghosts in the past Do we've done Did you see ultimates returning in course? That's wait, what? When do they say that? Is that real? How many ghosts so far? Uh 17. How many aluber a lot? Now I'm ghost rare ruxen How many cases you open in tomorrow? Well, we don't have red eyes and we don't have spear mode So 57 allure. Yeah, those are just random numbers Anything pulled yet? Uh, yes. Yes indeed. We have pulled a lot A lot a lot a luber very good We have pulled 17 ghostries and a lot of good cards The regular good cards You got vision hero cool What's up, man draw ghost card So far three ghostries in this case. We'll be getting four. That's the question. Do you guys think we'll get more than three in here? What do you do with all these extra cards? That's a great question. What do I do with them? How do the pull rates compare to ghosts from the past one? I mean Ghosts from the past one we'd have like three to four ghosts right now. We have 17 so Yeah Does that mean you got the ghost or blue eyes? Uh, we've gotten everything but red eyes and spear mode. So yeah We've got three ghost or blue eyes actually We're almost done. We've got four total cases plus Three displays from another case that I had started opening Alien ammonite risa very cool Very cool. Hey, man. Hope you're doing good. Best of luck. Thank you. Taylor. I appreciate it Chronicle. All right Is there a price guide for ghosts in the past two? Yeah, just a tcg player and uh, it's a little bit weird at the beginning but wait till actually all the uh I wait till friday, then it'll be good when everyone's posting him You have ps8 10 lo b ps, uh blue eyes are dragon. No, I do not I have a ps9 unlimited. That's the best I have I'm grading a ps8 or a first edition one right now 3am in the Philippines. You finally saw it. Nice Berlin dragon Headed home to open your displays. Good. Good luck. Good. Good luck. I can't talk Hopefully pull some ghostries Number 97 cool. All right. We are getting close Hand cam looks sped up or are you just good at opening packs? I think I'm good at opening packs Yeah, I think I'm just opening them quickly Is ultimate rare first edition uh air neos worth sending in to get graded or not Uh It depends on how good the condition is Anyone know if you're required to use sleaze determinants, uh, I don't think you're required But they they your cards need to be like pretty nice condition though Because if they have any sort of like crease or anything you'll be able to like mark them basically You might have to use sleeves though. I'm not sure You can double sleep now though. I know that Going back to basketball talk from earlier my sixers are gonna get balanced if you miss as much more time Yeah, they definitely need him for sure. I think they can win if he comes back in game three Is this a good set? I think it's a pretty good set. Yeah, really good set When you got dmg you almost had a stroke. Well, I'm glad you didn't have a stroke. That would have been that would have been bad Not worth it He's got my six-year-old brother into the anime. He loves it said it's better than pokemon. I love it taylor I love it. I'm just good to hear that Did you think of sending foreign cards to ps a spanish first ed bluist? Well, I have a portuguese first ed bluist ps a 10 so I've sent some in but I sent those at $10 so a little bit different No, you can't you can't really pick the ratios are a little bit weird to decide With all these errors going on Any idea what ps a first edition booster box is worth now? Um I'm not totally sure. I'd guess maybe around 3000, but I'm not really sure Don't take my word for it. Go check eBay sold listing Okay, monju and beat is key Memphis did look good, but they still barely won and clay and staff both played awful. So Not that great Air neos and mint condition maybe some white. Yeah, I'd probably great at them heat soul I should say do you think they're gonna return? Yeah, but I think that they will return to be honest I think there's a good chance because they're bringing ghosts back. So why not bring ultimate back to be honest Where's sphere mode? Where's red eyes guys? We pulled seven out of the nine ghostry as we pulled 17 total but Let's see if we can do that now Most I spent on a booster box 16 or set no 17,800. I think was what I spent on the L. O. B. Boxer was 600 17,600 I can't remember that second one we opened That was expensive. Yeah, that was very expensive Rise up very cool. Yeah, he's talking about main sets ultimates and main sets What is the ranking for rarities? Uh, that that's a whole there's a lot of different rarities. You should probably just look up a video on that one Will you ever open another L. O. B. first box? I would love to I don't know if I will or not Two cases you ordered from tcg, but hopefully they'll get him soon. Yeah, hopefully so man. Hopefully you pull some good stuff Three blue eyes and zero dart magician girls. I've already pulled dart magician girl set to we pulled two of them and three blue eyes Alrighty Aloha from hawaii. What's up, man? Any duplicate ghost tons of duplicate ghosts? I think we have everyone we pulled we have a duplicate of I don't think we have a single of any of them or maybe dad. We only pulled one in this We might have only pulled one dad, but we pulled two yesterday or two this week All right, all right rise up the mega monarch. They were nice When is the next L. O. B. Video? No idea Saturday blue eyes is worth getting graded depends on uh, do you say first edition depends on what the condition is How much did you sell at L. O. B. case for it? That wasn't mine I mean if you if you saw the video you saw that it was between a bunch of different people who bought it I just bought one box Best place to buy speed duel stuff TCG player probably it's probably gonna be pretty cheap Where do you buy your cases sassy auto if you guys want to buy some from him as well Check out the link in the description use code ruction gftp to get five percent off The link is at the very top of the description Ghosts per case ratio. There isn't really one definable right now. It's very crazy So far so good. I would say so. Yeah, we've been pretty good quick drink of water for the final stretch Why would this make you lose hope of pulling a ghost? We've pulled 17 ghost rares What you're talking about? What's up, Cory? You've missed 17 ghost rares No, the bronze not leaving Unless they trade him which is not gonna happen No, go red eyes is not short printed It's definitely not the reason we have not pulled red eyes and the other one is because There's clumping and we're pulling doubles of everything So it's making it harder to pull multiples of different things or pull the same or unique ghost rares I should say Cory Yugi. Oh, and hello. Thanks for the 15 months. Cory. I appreciate you being a member for that long It's a long time dude.  We have pulled three blue eyes so far. We have not pulled red eyes We have not pulled sphere mode. We have pulled every other card in the set 17 ghosts. That's right. Lebron is your retire. Are you kidding me? He averaged 30 this year Why would he retire? If you're averaging 30 points, would you retire especially when people are paying you 40 million a year? No way, especially if you love the game Would the solemn judgment goes through a cost a lot in the near future? Uh, I mean, I think it's like 40 bucks or something So it's not too crazy If it's a good trade, I would Say no Well, I mean if they can get somebody good, but I mean, what are you gonna get that's gonna be better than Lebron? I don't know I'm going back to gordon ramsey videos have fun, dude Where the solemn judgment goes for a cost a lot you already asked that can you show me one of the blue eyes? Uh, I can show the blue eyes in just a minute. I actually pulled this fourth ghost rare It's gonna happen. What sleeves are you putting your ghosts in exactly? Uh, pity sleeves I collect drawing of all super tcg, but the set makes me to buy some boxes. Yeah, it's pretty fun, man It's pretty fun Ghostry is everywhere 17 ghosts for how many cases in ghostry. Did I say we didn't have a double of dark armed? Well, I was wrong Dark up man. That's a clean balcony. Never mind. There's a little bit of scuffing right there, but boom number 18 This is a four four ghost case. So so far we've had three four five and six Four ghost case. That's 18 ghost shares today Can we get to 20 ghosts? We just need two more here real quick That would be insane This is case four. We also open three displays both those three displays had two All right deco talker heat soul good Good good good good We're getting down to the end guys This has been a crazy live. Absolutely insane.  We're pulling some really good stuff All right The LeBron of yukitu. Thanks, man. I appreciate it Uh ratio seem actually fire. Yeah, I don't know how consistent this is because some people are getting zero So keep that in mind This don't don't take this as uh as law from what you've seen All right. Yeah, LeBron is definitely in a past cream. He's definitely going to unless something crazy like crazy unfortunate happens He's pretty close right now They're way well the ones I'm pulling are way better than ghosts for the past.  Thanks for the 199, but the answer is no. I need it. I need it All right, a looper pull rate is good. Yeah, you can get them pretty easily. We're down to the last few packs Do I have a tournament deck? I do and I played in the last tournament You can go check out my other channel rucks and live you guys want to see me talk about it When I entered my first tournament go check out the second channel its link is in the description All right, last few packs mystical sand. What are we four packs left? We pulled 18 ghosts today Let's go let's go Borland dragon very nice three more packs Send the luck in the chat guys. Send the luck in the chat. Let's get the ghost sure sacred waters. All right. All right How much were all those packs best you youtuber out there? Thank you very much, Henry. I appreciate it We have nothing in that one. Okay, it's gonna come down to the final pack Good without thanks for getting me back into collecting good going to start putting pulling on my tiktok Ruckson is the go. Thank you very much, dude. Thanks for the 499. I appreciate it final pack Send the luck in the chat guys. Here we go. Can we pull a fifth ghost around this out of this case? Here we go Let's go next part next card is it Will this end the stream on a hot note? Galaxy soldier not a bad card.  Let's just show you guys Yeah, this was an insane live stream four cases three displays. That's what we pulled all these out of Oh my goodness What a live hope you guys enjoyed it If you did make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this and I will see you guys next time Let's hit the outro button


Hello, I'm Michael Hanneman. I'm a professor of economics here at ASU in the business school and in the school of sustainability Water is full of paradoxes Water is essential for life Cable TV as far as I know is not essential for life Yet many Americans spend more money each month for their cable TV than for water in their homes a Gallon of gas costs a bit over two dollars Gallon of milk costs about three dollars Gallon of orange juice May be four dollars and you have to make a trip from your home to get these items The water comes directly into your home and you pay only two or three cents a gallon in Phoenix We live in a desert city. We rely on the Colorado River for a significant part of our water for the last 16 years There's been a major drought in the Colorado River Yet water bills in Phoenix are among the lowest bills in any city nationwide Now other commodities food clothing shelter are also essential for life Yet water arouses passions That are not found with other essential commodities around the world Water is seen as something that should not be treated as a commodity People see water as a human right as something you shouldn't have to pay for The pricing of water has been a political flashpoint in Chesson 40 years ago the city council learned this the hard way Water revenues were not keeping up with costs and the water system was running out of capacity to meet peak summer demand Water rates were raised to finance the improvements Overnight water bills skyrocketed a recall election was promptly held and the city council majority That had voted for the rate increase was booted out the economics ought to be simple Water is not a man-made commodity. It falls from the sky But in fact the economics is surprisingly complex Water is a difficult commodity. It is free and yet costly. It is simultaneously a private good And a public good it helps it is flourished financially But now it is their financial burden almost nobody pays for the water per se The cost of water is the cost of making it available at the right time in the right place And with the right quality it is the cost of collecting Storing transporting and treating the water. That's why the cost of water in Phoenix is so low The water is cheap the infrastructure is new and doesn't yet need much repair in Boston or Chicago or Detroit The water is abundant But the water infrastructure is old and expensive to maintain and therefore the water is expensive The cost of water is overwhelmingly a capital cost the entire supply chain from Source to tap has to be in place before a single drop can be delivered. It's not modular and There are powerful economies of scale You would not set out to build a dam or an aqueduct now and then expand it Ten years from now when demand grows the way you might do with the factory that would turn out to be way too expensive So you must overbuild often decades ahead of demand in 1800 Water supply was highly decentralized people took water from a nearby well or a pond or a stream or from a water pump in town There may have been a vendor going around selling water But as urban populations mushroomed in the 19th century the need for a network scale water Supplied became very pressing with the growth in urban population Local streams became polluted so more distant sources of water were needed to keep up with the growth of cities as methods of water Treatment became available drinking water had to be financed. This network was massively expensive Today the situation is different. The water and wastewater networks are aging and crumbling And the cities are short of money in many cities There is intense political pressure to keep water rates low the result is that while water rates cover Operating costs. They don't fully cover the cost of maintaining and replacing the water infrastructure This cannot continue many of the current pipes Were put in soon after World War two and they are reaching the end of their working life Over the next 20 years the cost to replace urban pipe networks may reach a trillion dollars nationwide It does not include the cost to meet new drinking water standards That will be required for the ever more exotic contaminants that show up in our water Then there's climate change with climate change droughts will be more likely in many areas including the Southwest If there's a drought and the utility delivers less water the cost per gallon goes up For water supply. There's a schizoid aspect to climate change The warmer air puts more moisture into the atmosphere Which translates into more intense precipitation But that can be combined with greater dryness at other times of the year The result is a less reliable water supply a solution is to have more storage But storage is extremely expensive We will end up having to spend more money to get the same Reliability that we used to have in the past and this is the larger reality that we will all face Maintaining the water supply that we have now and that we take for granted is going to become far more expensive So viewing water as a commodity that one pays hardly anything for is just not going to work for the future. Thank you


I hear from lots of people every day who are concerned about how their diet is affecting their health. They need answers based on facts, in other words, from the peer-reviewed medical literature, and that is what I'm here for. Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today, we explore the possibilities of how we might have control over our own death, retaining dignity, privacy, and pain relief, and we start with a close look at hospice. We have all sorts of detailed stats about dying, but little about the experience of death. For the minority who die under the care of palliative care teams, one's death could probably be described as good, but there's a suspicion that for the majority who die in hospitals or nursing homes, the experience is bad. And that's where most people die. In spite of widespread preference to die at home, in almost all populations, most deaths occur in institutions. And this doesn't just have consequences for the patient, but for the bereaved caregivers as well. Patients with cancer who died in an intensive care unit or hospital experience more physical and emotional distress and worse quality of life at the end of life, and their caregivers suffer five times the odds of suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and nearly nine times the odds of severe prolonged disabling grief. When researchers have looked into the care of dying patients in hospitals, it hasn't been pretty. Basic interventions to maintain patients' comfort were often not provided. Contact with dying patients was minimal, and the distancing and isolation worsened as death approached. For example, a 52-year-old woman with metastatic cancer spread to her liver she had gross abdominal distention, was jaundiced and very breathless. But alert, her eyes were swollen, and she shed yellow tear. The patient received no care from the nurses delegated to give care. Yet in the nursing record, it was recorded that attention had been given to her personal hygiene and pressure areas to prevent bed sores or hygiene in eyes, but it was all a lie. The only attention she got was to receive a commode from a nursing assistant. Contact time totaled at six minutes over the four and a half hours the researchers kept track. In contrast, what would a good death look like? Retaining control, dignity, privacy, pain relief. You choose where, you choose how. Emotional support, respecting your wishes, saying goodbye and being able to leave when it's time to go and not have life prolonged pointlessly. One's best bet for all that is access to hospice care. Palliative care is comfort measures to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life, utilized at any stage of serious illness, whereas hospice is just comfort measures when focus shifts from curing the disease to improving the quality of one's last days. Hospice is often framed as giving up, but ironically, when you compare hospice versus non-hospice, patient survival, the patients in hospice actually live longer. Patients who choose hospice care live on average about a month longer than similar patients who do not choose hospice. Randomize those with advanced lung cancer to early palliative care, and they don't live a month longer. They live two and a half months longer.  And in fact, that's one of the ways hospice could extend survival by avoiding the risk of over-treatment with chemo and its related toxicity. There are, however, limits to palliative care. Even under hospice, where one would assume excellent palliative care, there are those who appear to unavoidably spend their last months in uncontrollable pain and this unbearable suffering, despite our best efforts, leads to requests for ending a patient's life prematurely. Although physician-assisted suicide is gaining acceptance, it's only legal in eight states plus DC. In contrast, V-S-E-D is legal throughout the U.S. Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, V-S-E-D can be defined as a conscious decision to voluntarily and deliberately choose to stop eating and drinking with a primary intention of hastening death because of the persistence of unacceptable suffering. I've talked about fasting to extend one's life. What about fasting to shorten it? We hear a lot about physician-assisted suicide, but V-S-E-D has not gained nearly as much attention. This is presented as perplexing, since supposedly it's relatively peaceful, a comfortable way to die. But is it really? Like, how long does it take? How would you do it? I'll talk about the pros and cons and practical implications next. Perhaps in an ideal world, every patient with a life-limiting illness would receive optimal hospice and palliative care, such that no one would ever wish to hasten their own death. Unfortunately, the reality is that despite our best efforts, some with terminal illness continue to suffer, a leading increasing number of patients across the country. To explore V-S-E-D to escape intolerable suffering, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Some of the pros include dying at home, which is what most people's preference is. You don't have to spend your fleeting hours dealing with doctors and lawyers. There's no waiting period in Oregon. For example, their death with Lignity Act requires a 15-day waiting period before you can get physician-assisted, whereas choosing to stop eating and drinking would seem to afford more control. I mean, even just knowing it's an option can be a comfort. Those who learn about V-S-E-D may feel empowered by the knowledge that they can choose this option without seeking anyone's permission, because it's legal, it can be openly discussed. Just knowing that there's a way out can provide relief from feelings of desperation and entrapment, and the feeling of control may itself be therapeutic. It can also prevent people from contemplating a more violent way out, and patients don't have to feel pressured to end their life prematurely while they still can. Physicians since the death with Dignity Laws require patients to take the lethal drug cocktail themselves.  In fact, Dr. Kvorkin's first was a woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's who wanted to end it before it got too late, potentially depriving her and her family of years she might have still been able to enjoy. While physician-assisted suicide entails a single instantaneous and irrevocable act, death from V-S-E-D occurs over several days, allowing time for a patient to change their mind and for healing goodbyes. But what is it actually like? There's lots of anecdotes floating around describing death from V-S-E-D as peaceful, painless, and dignified. Fortunately, the evidence is more than just anecdotal. There have been several independent studies, so let's look at the data. Average time of death after stopping eating and drinking was about seven days, though 8% lasted more than two weeks. And how was it? Ask 100 hospice nurses, and on a scale of zero, from a very bad death to nine, a very good death, they have to score the quality of these deaths as rated by the nurses was 8. The researchers concluded that people usually die of good death. Within two weeks, after stopping food and fluids, according to the nurses, rating those last days of life as peaceful, with low levels of pain and suffering.  This was in Oregon, so patients could have chosen that instead, but nearly twice as many patients decided instead to take matters into their own hand by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Interestingly, loved ones seemed to agree with voluntary refusal of food and fluids perceived as carrying less emotional baggage for the family, more letting go than taking more active approach. A study in the Netherlands that interviewed confidants like friends and family that witnessed it found that most considered it quote-unquote, dignified death. Hospice physicians seemed to agree with nearly 90% surveyed reporting that their VSED patients experienced peaceful and comfortable deaths. The state of terminal dehydration may even have some analgesic effects and pain-killing effects presumed to be due to the release of endorphins, which act as natural pain blockers. So, concluded this review, VSED may reflect all 12 principles of a good death, retaining control and dignity. One of the most famous accounts was Dr. David Eddy's description of his own mother's VSED. My mother was elated. The next day happened to be her 85th birthday, which we celebrated with a party, balloons and all. She was beaming from ear to ear. She had done it. She had found the way.  Over the last four days, my mother greeted her visitors. First smile she had shown for months. She energetically reminisced about the great time she had had, about all the things she was proud of. She especially hoped I would tell you about her traveling alone across Africa at the age of 70 and surviving a capsized raft on Wyoming Snake River at 82. She also found a calming self-acceptance in describing things in which she was not proud. She slept between visits, but woke up brightly whenever she was touched to share more of her memories and to say a few more things she wanted us to know. On the fifth day, it was more difficult to wake her when we would take her hand. She would open her eyes and smile, but she was too drowsy and weak to talk very much. On the sixth day, we could not wake her. Her face was relaxed and her natural smile. She was breathing unevenly but peacefully. We held her hands for another two hours until she died without hoarding pills, without making me into a criminal, without putting a bag over her head and without huddling in a van with a carbon monoxide machine. She had found a way to bring her life gracefully to a close. Write about this, David, tell others how well this worked for me. I'd like this to be my gift, whether they are terminally ill, in intractable pain or like me, just knowing that the right time has come for them. More people might want to know that this way exists, and maybe more physicians will help them find it. We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials. We may be able to share it on social media to help inspire others. If you see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, or studies mentioned here, please go to the Nutrition Facts podcast landing page. 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