In order to do that I would have to re-read it again so I can document his claims with accuracy then write a report that would take 3000 words minimum. A single debunk would take at least 500 words for some value of effective example. Honestly, it's not interesting work. Read some of my posts from the last two days, I just provided theoretical explanation for why humans believe what they believe and an interesting take on the type of species we actually are. Both frames, in my opinion obviously, have past explanatory power and some marginal future predictive power. The predictive power is at the resolution of the species and not the individual. If I were to have written something like what he did, I would have spoken about some of the following: * The end goal of all of our tool building is only one thing: the creation of a slave race of machines that will free us from the drudgery of daily labour. THAT explains EVERYTHING about why we are building everything. That is the end goal. McLuhan called us the reproductive organs of machines. Perhaps. Perhaps our slaves will enslave us. Perhaps the reason our galaxy isn't teaming with intelligent life talking to each other is because the great wall is ai that ultimately destroys ever intelligence that tries it. Who knows. But, everything that we do, the reason for all of our tool making is to birth a race of machine slaves. * The four technological pillars of this slave race are as follows: Cheap solid state energy storage. Superconductive power transmission (zero energy loss over distance). Fusion energy generation. General artificial intelligence. Each of those technological pillars won't be one technology but a constellation of technologies that over time will coalesce into a single technology if this works how everything else seems to work, but those are the key technological challenges our species is busy working on. * I would spend a lot of time teasing apart human behavior from an evolutionary perspective and decompose it in a way that allows for past explanatory power and some marginal future predictive power. Prediction is not something thats really possible to any degree but if you understand the general nature of the species you can start to reason about how human civilzation is organized vs how it ought to be organized. I would speak to how insights from our evolutionary biology interact with each of the development stages of our future race of machine slaves. Honestly, sci fi has mostly covered most of this so the only ground left untouched would be grounded in trying to speak to this in real terms and use that to help our people re-orient them selves from the place of utter confusion to a place where everyone sees our bright future and starts the work necessary to clean out our civilizations. However, to write this new technologies are required and it has to be created in the open, fully critiqued all along the way and then freed to it's own lifecycle. You can't write anything like that using pen and a pad of paper. But it is far more interesting and useful than anything Ted wrote in my opinion.