538 – Topics

 

00:03 The Know Ledge: thinking for yourself, gravity and a journey to the center of the earth, force and net force, accumulation of knowledge, politics and science, responsibility to know, differing kinds of knowledge, knowledge expands vision, story of Robin Hood, missing knowledge that is crucial to thinking, cliches dominate, carbon price

16:10 The nature of knowledge: abstract concepts, difficulty in learning science, the necessity of the story, limits of expertise, new ideas vs old ideas, invariant knowledge, ephemeral knowledge, valid knowledge

29:50 Turbulence and chaos: Cavemen Climate and Computers, empirical models, limits of computation, finite representation, difference equations, turbulence and chaos, sub grid scale phenomenon, digital compression, limits of measurement, government funding of science

45:50 Democratic Technicalities: making decisions without knowledge, focus about things and not people, blindly following the experts, eliminating knowledge from the political discussions, due process as a technicality, politics vs science, reaching the basic common sense of people, political confusions and contradictions, university campuses as source of rejecting knowledge, Lord of the Flies, government needs no reasons

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