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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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Medicine Is a Bad Offender
02:10 • 3min
3
Is There a Difference Between Groups and Individuals?
04:45 • 2min
4
Taking an Average, Let's Add Them Together
06:25 • 3min
5
The Alternative View of Medicine
09:15 • 5min
6
Is It Worth Doctors Learning Calculus?
14:02 • 4min
7
The Base Problem Is, Medicine Wants to Have the Authority of Science
18:19 • 3min
8
Using Statistics to Tease Out a Result
21:20 • 3min
9
Is There Any Statistical Way to Deal With That?
24:23 • 3min
10
Is There a Newtonian Science of Human Behaviour?
27:09 • 2min
11
Is There a Newton Theory of Psychology?
29:15 • 3min
12
Tecne Epistome, Knowledge of the Art
32:13 • 5min
13
Galen, a Syrian Dialect of Assyria.
36:46 • 2min
14
How Much Knowledge Have We Lost?
38:19 • 3min
15
What's the Story of the Jet Engine?
41:41 • 2min
16
What Is Science and What Do People Think Science Can Do?
43:20 • 5min
17
The Pandemic of Cellular Atomata
48:18 • 2min
18
Is It the Other One?
49:59 • 1min
19
The Problem in Medicine Is, You Know, It Is Not Repeatable
51:28 • 4min
20
How to Rule Out a Gaussian Distribution
55:43 • 3min
21
Do Doctors Overestimate the Probility of Common Diseases?
58:25 • 2min
22
The Parallel Study of Economics and Physiics
01:00:55 • 5min
23
How to Survive in a Casino
01:05:53 • 3min
24
Is the Ginni Index a Function of Time?
01:08:31 • 2min
25
Is the Genedivi Genis of the Population Equal in Size?
01:10:06 • 2min
26
How Do You Measure Social Mobility?
01:11:46 • 2min
27
How to Quantify Social Mobility?
01:13:27 • 2min
28
What's Nuber Two Out in Italy?
01:15:20 • 2min
29
Playing Slot Machines on Outof Money?
01:16:52 • 2min
30
- Is It a Time Average?
01:19:18 • 2min
31
A Mengodicity Is Not as Convenient as It Used to Be
01:20:57 • 5min
32
How to Protect Medicine's Current Status as Know How Instead of Know What
01:25:51 • 2min
33
Hedge Funds Have Skinnin a Game
01:28:17 • 3min
34
Is the Peer Review System of Academia Really Good?
01:31:19 • 4min
35
Arbitrage
01:35:00 • 5min
36
The Easiest Decision You Can Make
01:39:37 • 4min
37
The Law of One Price
01:43:51 • 2min
38
Buying and Selling Options on the Amercan Stock Exchange
01:45:57 • 2min