we should blow up pluto. if there's no pluto, then there can't be any argument over if it's a planet.

I believe the jokes about men usually creates the illusion that this is a space for women, and that they're the intended audience. Your mean girl boss attitude certainly pushes in that direction. That being said, clearly 80% audience being men breaks all that. I do have to mention that I watch a lot of left-leaning youtubers (breadtube or whatever its called) and have never experienced jokes about men alienating. Contrapoints seems like a good example, she covers a lot of topics that men could be triggered by, but I rarely feel alienated by her. She seems to be the one that pulls in everyone, to have a constructive dialog. I understand everyone has a different style, and this comment is more of an observation than a criticism. P.S. I believe there's a discussion to be had over how such feminist "girl-boss" attitudes pushes men into the far-right territory, that has been the trend in the US in recent years.

I *really* resonated with what you said about not liking how attached people are to the stuff they happened to be taught when they were younger. For a long time I've been suspicious of nostalgia as a general emotion. When I was younger, I didn't feel it at all, and really disliked it. As I get older, I find myself feeling nostalgic more, and I try to remember my younger stance on the emotion.

I just heard that Sokal deliberately published bullshit and that this supposedly "debunked postmodernism". The only ppl who believed it was successful were ppl who already disliked "postmodernism", which they simply conflated with any criticism of cishet white ppl, tbph.

44:17 this is a unique kind of ableism that I see way too much. There are hearing people that think the term deaf is offensive and allistic people that think autistic is. They try to encourage/force people to say hearing impaired or person with autism while both communities largely prefer deaf and autistic. There are individuals that may prefer the “correct” terms, but neither are widespread enough to really warrant these “corrections”. This is the exact same mindset that started the “differently abled” bs. I believe this falls under benevolent ableism where abled people try to help disabled people but with micro aggressions of ableism everywhere. The thing is they almost always come from a good place, but they are actually hurting more than they are helping. People react a variety of ways. From trying to learn better, to defensiveness, to being overcame by guilt (I’m thinking kind of like white guilt where they are centering themselves and idk if there is a more proper term here).

42:00 oh the fallacy fallacy. The fallacy that seeing a fallacy in an argument somehow means the entire argument and its conclusion must be wrong. I can say that the Earth is round and give plenty of basic facts that prove so. Me adding somewhere in there that “people who believe otherwise are stupid and unable to comprehend the most basic of facts” would be an ad hominem, but that doesn’t negate things like the Earth’s curvature or that other planets are round or the final conclusion that the earth is round

And mercury got a weird orbit why is he around!?

1:53:24 I was too excited when the telescope genuinely came back into conversation and not just you reminding us why we clicked on the video

...but is it all about to bring to all humanity a common good, in future we can colonize other planets. Then Hawaiians should claim some planets territory in recognition for their suffering. And yes, of course a name of the planet in indigenous language. Not bad I think.

My favorite scifi trope is alien communism

Came to rewatch this. Update, we're not so sure life happened once here on earth anymore. New stuff is coming up.

I think I was told that there was “a paper that proved scientifically that the author was a carrot”?

You make me cry every time with your conclusions 🥲

This might just be my new favourite KZbin channel.

I heard of the Sokal paper in the KZbin ad of a far right streaming platform. EDIT: An adbreak that played again in this very video!

What a incredible work you do

Happy World Science Day for Peace and Development @Dr. Fatima 🤓

Okay, having finished the full video, I think all I've got to say is *MAN* if it was me making it I would have found it agonising. I do my best to keep my ego in a healthy place, but specifically telling everyone "Hey come criticise me and I'm on the hook to respond to some of you" would be like dragging my psyche through broken glass. Heckin' good work getting through the process and fronting up to it.

49:59 Fatima, let me just say that you are correctly estimating my willingness of my openness to equations and numbers. I am very down with the current policy.

21:19 i will watch the pluto video next

Behold the postmodernist(wether social/humanities variety or not)scientist!! ...we got Alexander Avila for social scientist posmodernist and we got Dr.Fatima for the not social science.

Man, a data visualisation vid sounds *dope*

I hear ya, I hear ya. You most definitely have an extremely sailient point. And as a human, any human ought to be affected/impacted deeply by the mistreatment/oppression/marginalizaiton/disenfranchisment of their fellow human beings. And righty so, our hearts ought to bleed for those human beings and their plight. Compassion and understanding are heuristics that make us human. You cant ever go wrong by approaching every situation (outside of war) with compassion, consideration and understanding for your fellow human being. That’s the heuristic. However, as a Scientist, expanding and advancing human knowledge is paramount, synthesizing that knowledge into wisdom that one can use to inform their behavior and actions is paramount. You can’t ever go wrong by approaching every situation (outside of war) with compassion, understanding and consideration for your fellow human being. This is a heuristic that ought to be adhered to. One ought to be a good steward to the environment, regardless of how sacred that environment may be. What does it mean for a mountain to be sacred? What does it mean for anything to be sacred? Wisdom, the highest of human ideals, is or ought to be sacred. Prof Sagan, the very best of us all, himself wrote about the demon haunted mind, and its pitfalls. You look for somewhere else, some other, less “sacred” mountain to place our (humanity’s) telescope. But if there is no place better, we build that telescope as respectfully and considerately as possibe, taking into account the profound meaning that mountain has to the locals; trying to preserve its sanctity as much as possible sparing no expense to do so. Science, knowledge, wisdom dont have borders, its a human endevor. Something every human can be proud of, regardless of nationality or ethnicity. A presicion instrument which represents humanity at its best which will be used to expand and push human understanding and an oil pipeline which only rapes mother earth are not analogous AT ALL. If theres a more convienent location, then by all means let us build it there. Science is humanity at its best. Science is true and pure and good. Science leads us to wisdom. Science rides high above nationality, race, ethnicity, boarders, religions, culture. It is not an instrument of colonialism. It ought not be used as such. And any lover of Science should rush in to defend the her. Science does not operate at that level of colonialism and imperialism; it ride far above, it makes us self aware and informs us of the evil, perversion and detriment of such things. Conflating the endevour of Science with the inherent evils of colonialism and imperialism is incredibly misinformed and misguided. No body is building condos up there on that mountain, No body wants to “settle” that mountain. No body wants to live up there. Everyone on that mountain is there to do work to advance human knowledge and understanding which is paramount, it is the greater good; a good that those locals can be proud of. Nobody is building strip clubs and brothels on that mountain, everyone on that mountain is there to do good work, to work hard for all of humanity, not for any one nation or group of ppl. No one cares about that mountain outside of its scientific value. And when the science is complete or the instument is obsolete, the locals will surely get their mountain back, and in the mean time their hearts can fill with pride that their sacred mountain was integral in making discoveries and expanding human understanding, which is paramount and the most sacred thing that mountain could do. This fact ought to be enough to make any local rejoice. And if it is not, then youre just being a nimby.

I adore the song you picked for interstices in this video!

haha you said seminal

Please don't tone it down. Your energy, aesthetic, and knowledge is refreshing.

Very interesting. Thank you.

rapid frowth is important, but succession is very important and we need successors

I'm pretty sure it's more likely we are alone

I really have to commend you for your comment sections, this one especially. Encouraging people to write down their own experiences gives me a lot of interesting things to read and ponder about. I don't really have a "pluto" of my own, other than maybe the monitary value on expensive art pieces is highly subjective, and the purchase of said art is often used for money laundering. I honestly just feel like the core values of capitalism are antithetical to mine and many other artists' creativity. I am an artist, but making that my career ruins the art. Art for me is about expressing myself, but consumer art is about making stuff people will buy. True authenticity is not very lucrative. (Ok maybe I did have more to say than I thought I did)

It's truly hilarious to me that you clock nerds for being pretentious when you can't even look at yourself in the mirror. Most nerds do not act like that if they want to actually get laid and I can only imagine the amount of code switching you have to do in order to get laid😂

bro no

Too often, it's about the world chasing money. Someone might be a top stock broker because he sells more than any other broker. He's good at convincing people. It has nothing to do with him knowing more about the market to greatly profit his clients. It's only to his firms and his own profitability that puts him on top. A shitty way to do business.

You're right. If humans were not allowed to speak before learning all the rules of their language and using them precisely from the beginning, it would really screw things up.

I went to Ukraine. I had read that if they get a really big tip they were ashamed because they made so little money it was a rich westerner throwing some real money at them. It was taught to the country people, it said. I wanted to help someone, so I gave the gal cutting my hair a 40.00 tip. She sank to the floor and started crying. I'm not rich and I only wanted to help her. I just left. An oil guy here gave me 200.00 for changing his alternator, and I was very happy with that. That's a cultural difference.

I think I found an example of a choice being made in another field - using Fourier analysis as a tool for sound synthesis. Many digital effects processing tools use Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) to analyze sound. The "frequency domain" data can be manipulated and then the processed data goes through an inverse FFT to create the output. This approach treats all sounds as big stacks of sine waves that theoretically go on forever, and then we use a "window" function to break the sound into chunks. I think the combination of FFT/inverse FFT is called a phase vocoder (PV). Vocoder (voice encoder) technology was originally developed for telephone systems, I think. "Phase" refers to the fact that a Fourier transform provides two pieces of data about each sine wave: the frequency (cycles per second) and the phase (when the cycle starts). Some pitch shifters and specialized filters use FFT/PVs. I think compression algorithms like mp3 use it too. I'm sure there are lots of other examples in sound processing, please add to the list if you know of some! When I read about this stuff, I heard about Bell Labs a lot. When I was a kid I dreamed of working at a place like that. Now I wonder if my experience would have been more like Dr. Fatima's experience with telescopes. I'd love to hear different perspectives on the culture of Bell Labs or of audio processing in general! So, Fourier analysis has some downsides. FFTs are only "fast" when the number of samples in one chunk is a power of two. So that confines a lot of processing to use chunks of a certain size, regardless of the tempo or key of the music. The size of the chunks also determines which frequencies will be represented more clearly - any sound that repeats exactly within the window will show up as a single frequency. But in-between sounds will show up as a smear. If the window is big enough, it will sound fine, but shorter windows - with more rhythmic precision - will have less frequency precision, especially for low frequencies. An FFT can't encode a sine wave if the wavelength is longer than the window length. One alternative that's been slowly gaining popularity for, like, 40 years, is granular synthesis. I just watched a great video about it on the "Sounds Good" KZbin channel. If you have Nebula, you can also watch the full interview with Barry Truax about it, which I really enjoyed. Granular synthesis also breaks sound into chunks, but that's viewed as the _primary_ element of sound, rather than a limitation of something that's infinite in the "ideal case." Small short events that don't necessarily have a clear pitch but can have very precise timing. There's no "power of two" limit on grain size, and grains can be made of sine waves, sweeps, FM synthesis, or chunks of sampled sound. Randomness usually plays a big role to make stochastic "clouds" of grains that can sound very natural, like wind, water, or crunching gravel. Because of the randomness, granular synthesis doesn't usually synchronize phase in the same way that PVs do. This makes a difference because the effect of mixing two sounds together can depend on their phase - just like light waves, they can have constructive interference (making the sound louder) or destructive interference (canceling each other out). Granular synthesis can reproduce certain aspects of music better when massively slowing it down, compared to Fourier analysis, which can create glitchy-sounding repetitive artifacts. It's definitely a case of each approach being useful for different purposes. People often correct me when I talk about sound synthesis, so... please correct me! There are a lot of subtleties that can be very illuminating to understand and can also add unnecessary confusion and encourage gatekeeping. I get excited about this stuff and I want to share it with people even though I don't understand it perfectly. I hope others will do the same!

I've already stopped watching Sabine. Should I or should I not start watching acollier?

The story of Robert Pirsig reminds me of Charles Darwin. Wasn't Darwin, like, super religious, and had a crisis of faith when he found evidence for evolution? My head canon is that the reason fundamentalist Christians treat him like a threat isn't anything about evolution itself, but that they see him as a traitor to Christianity and are afraid he won't be the last. I'd love to hear more from people who are familiar with the subject!

Interesting presentation. I was happy about seeing contrast and similarity to my own experiences dealing with rational critique as well as irrational responses. Perhaps a human experience most people share, but manage so differently in specific individuals and contexts. Yep, a sharp mind in an attractive package. Soft talk, with a big stick? 🙂

Fantastic video! On first click of the video, I didn't know what the argument might be, but as I got deeper and deeper into the timeline, I never really saw a crack in your logic. Like you said, gravity is a fact in the sense we can feel it. We can see it. We can measure it. But the models that we use to describe it are in a lot of senses social constructs that only appear in the way that they do because of our humanity. They are not necessarily pure truths no matter how well they can describe our observations at the end of the day we, the squishy meatbags that we are, made these models. The scientific process like any other process in human culture is complex. Once you take the time of the day to ask critical questions about it anything, it quickly becomes obvious that nothing is really straightforward and that's okay! Thank you once again for the video!!

Is your mic just a prop or do you just dont knownhow to use it?

31:13 RIP the ATL Solidarity Fund. It felt like no one talked about the law that passed that banned any kind of bail funds just to directly target the solidarity fund.

Slow clap. This was a deeply inspiring video. Thank you for modelling genuine good faith engagement with critique as an educator and public thinker, something that is all too rare in the worlds of public thought. I hope others follow this example. Just brilliant 👏🏽

i don't care, humanity needs to advance beyond religion, sorry, i don't care.

It tells us nothing. It's fiction.

If aliens existed, someone like you would just complain they were engaging in colonialism oppression.

This was quite an undertaking and very impressive!

Thanks for such an amazing work in every video, and for the hope you bring to this table of people trying (and trying people). I'll be honored to consider myself in your side. You are a beast, keep going. Hugs from Argentina

Thanks for doing this video.

Dear Dr F, Thank you for this exemplary and amusing feminist-democratic exercise in invited criticism, and cogent engagement with it. Your remark is very well made at 6:38 , as to how prevalent it is for defenders of "Normal Science" (a wickedly satirical term from Thomas Kuhn) to be inclined to gloss over manifest philosophical contradictions and lively debates, and instead to exhort one to "shut up and calculate". Thus these bourgeois mouthpieces of the mainstream, and of the box-ticking hypocrisy necessary for fat grants, how perfectly they encapsulate that nasty patriarchal hierarchical attitude to truth. The first things to calculate, one suspects with wry female Voltairean mockery, are, from the patriarchal gorilla resource-grabbing piratical point of view, "the total project grant", and "how much in the first year to spend on boyish gadgets and decorous research asssitants". Here I cannot resist the "que Erich Korngold's 'The Sea Hawks'' " directorial pronouncement. Proving that the appeal of this vaunting, sensous-erotic, shakti, athletic, bucannering spirit is vibrantly also within our female psyches; and that fact is no mere boyish projection into the psyches of our matriarchal perspective. Women really do like hunting. We are quite a piratical mostly dimorphic species, if Homo sapiens is indeed a valid unitary species at all (a moot point): kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV61ga13l7xqhNE See the Tomboyish and Brunhild "Morgan Adams" figure played by Gina Davies in "Cutthroat Island": kzbin.info/www/bejne/baubenSId8ejsLc kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnycpJSIjJmll80 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGecY2SAhZ2Aprc There's a kick-arse woman one wants on our sisterhood research team! Nonetheless (returning to our central theme), say our subjects of study, the patriarchal hierarchs, the concept of "Truth" requires recognition of, and genuflection before, the dominant gorilla-hierarchy. Which totalitarian poltical and epistemological fallacy, I courteously submit, is the very core of the masculinist model of truth; one that is generated, mostly collectively and subconsciously, by the minds of patriarchal blokies, even the brightest. Put three men together, and they will all, at the very least, hypocritically pretend to subscribe to a single model, because the "erection of their hierarchies" is the overriding collective psychodynamic impulse. Behold the core psychopathology and paranoia of Blokies, or Vir sapiens as I admittedly parody them, but only using forgivable rhetorical tricks. "If we don't know and acknowledge and defend the one truth, then their is only female chaos, and no truth at all." See Wilhelm Reich's spot-on comments in the preface to his latter editions of "The Mass Psychology of Fascism": ".... ‘fascism’ is only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man’s character, a structure that is confined neither to certain races or nations nor to certain parties, but is general and international. Viewed with respect to man’s character, ‘fascism’ is the basic emotional attitude of the suppressed man of our authoritarian machine civilisation and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life. It is the mechanistic-mystical character of modern man that produces fascist parties, and not vice versa." ia800303.us.archive.org/27/items/MassPsychologyOfFascism-WilhelmReich/mass-psychology-reich.pdf Vir sapiens (colloquially men) are that mainly narcissistic and paranoid and emotionally-infantile hominid species, whose 250,000 or so years of adaptation within their EEA (environment of evolutionary adaptation) has inclined them to hieratic and hierarchical frameworks for everything. "Where is the truth, where is our blokie one, true, patriarchal Abrahamic monotheistic god-thing? We need to look upwards, to the skies, away from messy sensuous-erotic, female reality. So we can perceive the top-gorilla, at the top of the power hierarchy of dominance and submission. So we can listen only to His Golden Words. Polytheism is only for women, who wear too much make-up, like Cleopatra, that slippery high-priestess of mighty Isis." 🤣😇🤭Yuk, yuk, yuk. There is a splendid passage in Volume I of Bertrand Russell's autobiography, where the exceedingly clever co-author of Principia Mathematica (whom I admire buckets) says, with great psychoanalytical insight, that it was precisely this vision of an utterly impersonal truth that gave him comfort in the midst of his early adulthood despair. But in fact truth is always messy, pragmatic, polyphonic, polychromatic, falsifiable, provisional, partial, riotous, sensuous-erotic, conversational, co-operative and female. Truth is redolent of ceaseless evolutionary shift, of life-creativity, and life-protectivity, and of our chat chat chat in milk-kinship groups, of our amniotic and bloody gushings at birth, and our moon-locked monthly crimson tides. Our radical feminist reality, and our ability to describe it, are both clearly prior to the concept of consistency; and hence our ability to describe truth is prior to whatever n-valued models we have, and indeed to our ability to tolerate and even celebrate both local and radical inconsistency. "What is the cardinality of the set of truth values, and what are the permissible permutations and combinations of truth values?" - those questions are always secondary to our female sensuous-apprehension of dynamical Shakti-infused reality. Of which our female psycho-social, romantic and sensuous-erotic, polyamorous, anti-heteronormative, and quasi-pacific, and democratic, life-creative WHLW (women who love women) conversational reality, is but a small yet captivating and indeed exemplary component! That's what I feel, for what's its worth, with considerable womanly allegiance. Love andrea