Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (1/4)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned as a fun and impressive Feynman documentary, though the mentions are brief.
What it is
Part one of a four-part upload of a BBC Horizon documentary featuring Richard Feynman, in which he talks about physics and looking at the world from another point of view.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2009 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec Bjoern · 2009-06 · on “Gates buys Feynman's "Messenger" lectures (to make available to the public)”
Some videos from Feynman which make a great impression on me were these.. "Take the world from another point of view" 1.) [this video] 2.) [LINK] 3.) [LINK] 4.) [LINK]
Recommends jerometinkton · 2011-11 · on “Oppenheimer's recommendation letter for Richard Feynman”
Really fun reads. Great to give to people who think anything 'sciency' is stuffy:) I love this old Horizon as well: [this video]
Cites zck · 2011-03 · on “Gell-Mann on Feynman”
I think this is the video Gell-Mann is talking about where Feynman "advocated on national television that people not brush their teeth": [this video] . He doesn't actually advocate it, but uses it as an example of how to look at the world.
Cites mistermann · 2019-09 · on “A Prison Lifer Comes Home”
I sometimes think when we're all bitching about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket (which it is, on many dimensions - maybe not in the aggregate as people like Steven Pinker argue, depending on how you "measure" that, but I think it's fair to say we could do much better), typically because of the foolish behavior of one "stupid" group or another, do we maybe underestimate the significance of how differently each of us perceive and conceptualize the world? >> Being 17 or acting as part of a group don’t make you less culpable. > Yes it does. Boys do strange things, boys in groups do stranger things, like not testifying against each other, especially if they feel society has abando
Cites EGreg · 2023-05 · on “AI Is Just Someone Else's Intelligence”
It actually goes a lot deeper than that. Companies like this helped organize cheap workers around the world to just put all that information once and for all, to train the AI and interpolate / remix the answers for people: [LINK] OpenAI this year hired a bunch of people to just manually do the work of basic coding once and for all: [LINK] This is a story of using cheap labor to train machines at scale. OpenAI's content moderators have just unionized: [LINK] Moreover, this is a story of taking labor of artists all over the world, remixing it at scale and selling it, destroying any sort of scarcity: [LINK] More artist issues: [LINK] There's GitHub, which had tons of people contribute code, and