Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly

Dec 19, 2022

47:51

Highlights

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Episode notes

Foundations of Physics Bootcamp

02:35

The Nobel Prize and the Bell Inequalities

04:23

A Different Story About David Boehm in the Early 1950s

04:13

Introduction

2min

Two Things That I Keep Thinking About This Year

3min

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

1min

Mindscape Holidays 2022

4min

I'm Not Abandoning Twitter Yet

3min

Free Speech Is a Tribal Identifier

4min

Is There a Better Way to Modify Social Media?

4min

Evolutionary Biology and the Fitness Landscape

6min

Will McCaskill's Pitch to Investors

5min

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Foundations of Physics Bootcamp

3min

11.

The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

6min

12.

A Different Story About David Boehm in the Early 1950s

4min

13.

The Nobel Prize and the Bell Inequalities

4min

Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to round off another year. Ironically, this year the theme is the importance of slowing down and thinking things out really well! Illustrated by two things that have been on my mind: a couple of internet/tech kerfuffles (Elon Musk buying Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX), and the distinction between foundations of physics and “regular” physics. See if you can dimly perceive the thread that ties them together.

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