Prof. Brian Keating
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Every great scientist is a storyteller. I interview Nobel winners on @Into_Impossible🎙️ Chancellor's Prof. @UCSanDiego | Pilot | Wrote: Losing the Nobel Prize
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95% of Professor's Research is Pointless | Aswath Damodaran Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 01:37 Why Nobel Economists Aren't Billionaires 06:08 Universities Have Completely Lost the Plot 07:43 95% of Academic Research Is Worthless 13:05 The University Is a Sticky Business — But Cracks Are Forming 40:00 ChatGPT Already Does What Bankers Charge Millions For 46:43 The Most Dangerous Number in Finance 52:35 There Is No Safe Place Left to Put Your Money 55:48 When Every Asset Is Overpriced, Buy What You Love 1:00:22 We Are Losing Our Ability to Think 1:01:30 Markets Are Smarter Than Experts — Every Single Time
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The Physics Law That Guarantees Everything Will Go Wrong Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein TIMESTAMPS : 00:00 Why every human being needs to matter — and what happens when they can't 04:25 The second law of thermodynamics and what it has to do with your life 08:00 The 4 types of people: Transcenders, Socializers, Heroic Strivers, and Competitors 17:30 Why fame-seeking millennials will give up everything — including relationships 22:00 Zero-sum mattering: the competitor who was happy for 15 minutes after winning a Nobel Prize 24:15 Ludwig Boltzmann solved one of physics' greatest paradoxes — then despaired 34:50 All tragedies are thermodynamic — and so is depression 40:00 Life as resistance to entropy: what flourishing actually means 54:00 Can AI have a mattering instinct? What that would mean for human rights 57:50 If AI becomes a heroic striver, what's left for us?
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What if alien probes were orbiting Earth before humans ever launched one? 🛰️ Fascinating new paper by Beatriz Villarroel et al. analyzing 1950s Palomar plates finds aligned transient flashes — possibly reflections, or something stranger. Here’s my quick reaction to this bold piece of astronomical archaeology.
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The Quantum Theory No One Dares Explain! David Deutsch Timestamp: 02:15 – David Deutsch introduces the idea that infinity is not just a mathematical abstraction but a physical reality. 06:42 – He emphasizes that understanding infinity is central to progress in both science and philosophy. 11:03 – Discussion on how infinity challenges human intuition and traditional explanations. 18:29 – Deutsch argues that good explanations must account for infinity, not avoid it. 23:51 – He contrasts finite vs. infinite models of the universe. 30:14 – Infinity as an unavoidable aspect of quantum mechanics and the multiverse. 37:40 – Practical implications: infinity changes how we view knowledge, discovery, and human progress. 45:22 – He warns against simplistic or “bad” explanations that ignore infinite possibilities. 53:09 – Closing: infinity should be embraced as part of reality, not feared or reduced.
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My response to Kim Kardashian's Moon landing denial claims. In 2 minutes, I answer all her questions: ⇨ Why did the flag move with no wind? ⇨ Is there really no gravity on the moon? ⇨ How did the astronauts survive the radiation? ⇨ Why the boot prints dont match & more!
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Terry Tao’s Warning About AI Terence Tao says humans will continue pushing the mathematical frontier, while AI tackles millions of medium-difficulty problems that no one has time to solve. That’s invaluable. This kind of assistance will undoubtedly accelerate progress. But is it the same as AGI? I don’t think so. “As long as you only use AIs to the extent that you can verify their outputs, and no further, then they can be a great tool.”
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Our Brains Have Reached the Limit of Understanding Sabine Hossenfelder (Sabine Hossenfelder)
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The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life with Chris Hadfield (Chris Hadfield)
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Is Lenny Susskind Harming Physics? Eric Weinstein & Avi Loeb Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 00:29 The rise of anti-science in the US government 24:38 Is AI training us? 28:13 Is Oumuamua an object from another civilization? 32:20 Fighting against the big 10 in physics 42:32 The future of academia 48:13 Immigrants in academia 59:12 Lack of curiosity 1:09:14 Geometric unity and grand unification 1:14:44 Shelter Island III 1:24:00 Outro
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Don’t pretend the Multiverse is science! With Sabine Hossenfelder Sabine Hossenfelder
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What is Time? Stephen Wolfram 's Groundbreaking New Theory Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 00:51 The true nature of time 24:42 The role of computational irreducibility in thermodynamics 29:52 The Ruliad and the nature of observers 53:28 The role of gravity in the computational universe 1:06:14 Dark matter and the discreteness of space 1:12:54 Paradigm shifts in science and technology 1:20:18 Exploring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) 1:31:32 Outro
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