The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 2]

Nov 23, 2021

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The Base Problem Is, Medicine Wants to Have the Authority of Science

03:01

Is There a Newtonian Science of Human Behaviour?

02:06

Medicine Is a Bad Offender

02:35

Introduction

2min

Medicine Is a Bad Offender

3min

Is There a Difference Between Groups and Individuals?

2min

Taking an Average, Let's Add Them Together

3min

The Alternative View of Medicine

5min

Is It Worth Doctors Learning Calculus?

4min

The Base Problem Is, Medicine Wants to Have the Authority of Science

3min

Using Statistics to Tease Out a Result

3min

Is There Any Statistical Way to Deal With That?

3min

10.

Is There a Newtonian Science of Human Behaviour?

2min

11.

Is There a Newton Theory of Psychology?

3min

12.

Tecne Epistome, Knowledge of the Art

5min

13.

Galen, a Syrian Dialect of Assyria.

2min

14.

How Much Knowledge Have We Lost?

3min

15.

What's the Story of the Jet Engine?

2min

16.

What Is Science and What Do People Think Science Can Do?

5min

17.

The Pandemic of Cellular Atomata

2min

18.

Is It the Other One?

1min

19.

The Problem in Medicine Is, You Know, It Is Not Repeatable

4min

20.

How to Rule Out a Gaussian Distribution

3min

21.

Do Doctors Overestimate the Probility of Common Diseases?

2min

22.

The Parallel Study of Economics and Physiics

5min

23.

How to Survive in a Casino

3min

24.

Is the Ginni Index a Function of Time?

2min

25.

Is the Genedivi Genis of the Population Equal in Size?

2min

26.

How Do You Measure Social Mobility?

2min

27.

How to Quantify Social Mobility?

2min

28.

What's Nuber Two Out in Italy?

2min

29.

Playing Slot Machines on Outof Money?

2min

30.

- Is It a Time Average?

2min

31.

A Mengodicity Is Not as Convenient as It Used to Be

5min

32.

How to Protect Medicine's Current Status as Know How Instead of Know What

2min

33.

Hedge Funds Have Skinnin a Game

3min

34.

Is the Peer Review System of Academia Really Good?

4min

35.

Arbitrage

5min

36.

The Easiest Decision You Can Make

4min

37.

The Law of One Price

2min

38.

Buying and Selling Options on the Amercan Stock Exchange

2min

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Part 2 (of two podcasts).

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