When There Isn’t a Simple Answer with Prof. Dennis McLaughlin (S3:E4)

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If you actually understand complex systems, people tend to get less polarized.

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if everyone is forced to read the same books and only they are considered an expert how are we going to find new and exciting discoveries when we are just downloading the same old shit into the new students?

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but exactly though, this video discusses that topic directly: there is scientific controversy and discussing that scientific controversy means you are outside the realm of established facts and need to actually do science. so in other words you are dead on and prestablished opinions are likely to eventually turn out to be wrong, even those of scientists. we can't be sure which ones yet.

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Before you can discover something new you need to know where we are right now, the opinion of someone who knows nothing is pretty worthless.

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@@neshirst-ashuach1881 may be to you, but that is how big/great discoveries are made.

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@@PosiPMost (all?) big discoveries are made by experts in their fields after years or decades of study. The higgs boson wasnt the random opinion of someone who had never studied physics. Fermats Last Theorem wasnt solved by a plucky kid. CRISPR wasnt invented by a lucky amateur, ect, ect. If you dont understand everything there is to know about a topic and how it is we got here you almost certainly have nothing meaningful to contribute to the advancement of that field.

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​@@neshirst-ashuach1881 it depends on the maturity of the field, but even then there's a factor of luck and out-of-the-box thinking and sheer determination that advance a field rather than simply knowing a lot about the field. Certainly there are experts that make strides of progress in a field, but it's not just the experts that can make progress happen. Look up Pablo Bonilla and Lisa Piccirillo, for example. They're in their twenties now but they've respectively vastly simplified an existing calculation in quantum computing and solved a problem that had gone unsolved for half a century already in knot theory. Historical examples include Leonhard Euler (obviously), but also Evariste Galois (who died at age 20), both of who have made HUGE contributions to mathematics even in their early lives. What a condescending attitude you have.

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It’s January. Cold. Charles River maybe frozen. Sit on the bench closest to the Academic Quad, count Boston’s working HVAC systems, and don’t bother to report back. Nobody ever has. But soon we will. It was on the bench there 15 years ago, in front of Norbert Wiener’s former office, before Memorial Drive was remodeled to pretend better that Boston looks populated beyond the Smoot markers, that a Grand Inquisitor dictated the meaning of science. “We give you the questions to ask and the answers.” In response to the question of why the heat looked off in the Back Bay. Thanks for putting your observations, and omissions, onto the record.

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