The biggest ideas of 2023 | Slavoj Žižek, Fiona Hill, Roger Penrose and more!

It’s been a year full of confrontation, deconstruction, big ideas and lively debates! Watch some of our best content from 2023, including Slavoj Žižek, Fiona Hill, Roger Penrose, Daniel Markovits, John Vervaeke, Martin Wolf, Billy Bragg, Anna Lembke, Esther Freud, Tasneem Zehra Husain, Iain McGilchrist, Brian Greene and Eric Weinstein.
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Is everything interconnected? | Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke, Slavoj Žižek
11:52 How does work shape our lives? | Daniel Markovits, Martin Wolf, Fiona Hill
22:20 How do our lifestyles affect us? | Anna Lembke, Billy Bragg
30:25 Does every question need an answer? | Brian Green, Tasneem Zehra Husain, Eric Weinstein, Roger Penrose, Esther Freud, Iain McGilchrist
#YearInReview #TheBiggestIdeasOf2023 #TheBestOf2023
Debates and talks featured:
The end of good and evil (2023)
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On the nature of reality (2023)
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The shadow of spirituality (2023)
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The economics of almost everything (2023)
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The life and philosophy of Fiona Hill (2023)
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The pleasure paradox (2023)
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Manners maketh man (2023)
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The trouble with string theory (2023)
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Imagining the universe (2023)
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[@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas]

What was your favourite new idea from 2023? Let us know in the comments below! To watch more of our content, visit iai.tv/subscribe?KZbin&

[@merlepatterson]

27:40 "...When people use terms like Political Correctness, when really what they're talking about is politeness" - Unfortunately in the modern era, "Political Correctness" when applied as a political and social "Weapon" to silence and disparage those who don't align with novel progressive narratives, isn't intended to be "Polite".

[@martycrow]

Watch it all and watch it again for a most insightful, thought provoking and refreshing orientation (or reorientation) exercise for your own year ahead. The challenges are much too large, complex and uncertain for either individual or collective action. The only way forward, it seems to me, is to develop alternative pathways and to find fellow travellers to walk as far as we can together. Peace!

[@vladimirrogozhin7797]

And who will collect these ALTERNATIVE IDEAS? We need an Open World Bank of Ideas.

[@zackharris1156]

i think thats called the internet @@vladimirrogozhin7797

[@appidydafoo]

y'all did not just flub the literal title card @ 1:10 lmao

[@brendawilliams8062]

35:0- Sir Penrose🎉

[@vladimirrogozhin7797]

Sir Penrose: The term "artificial intelligence" is misleading. This is not artificial intelligence. Agree. This term is a marketing concept. That's right, "artificial quasi intelligence". Our friend or enemy - "QUASI"?

[@TheLenyon]

Perhaps it is the political and social component of being a frequent guest at these events, but they don't really seem to bring out the best ideas. Almost everything here leaves a lot to be desired. Conversation starters more than anything we can really learn from.

[@MikeFuller-ok6ok]

I don't even understand how levers work.

[@alecfraher7122]

@22min the grievance in the NE was against the Blairites repeatedly chanting a Thatcherite message of compulsory competitive tendering within the public sector undermining the major employer ...

[@danielberkowitz3524]

Get Zizek and Lisa Randall together please!!!

[@j3kfd9j]

Large language models pose language generation as an optimization problem, predicting the next word given the preceding words with unprecedented accuracy. It turns out that this process alone captures a great deal of the knowledge and syntax and semantics that underly human language. But it is only one facet of human experience, and is being modeled (as far as I'm aware) without regard to the individuals generating the texts upon which the models are trained. Perhaps the next step is to model the next word uttered by various individuals. With enough changes of modeling paradigm, eventually (it seems likely) the machine learning or "AI" process will arrive at something convincingly human-like or superhuman in intelligence. By that point, the models will be as rich of things as humans are; as complex and interesting.

[@r_se]

predicting the next token requires having a world model, a model of human cognition and the ability to dynamically model a multitude of agents to begin with. gpt can roleplay.

[@j3kfd9j]

But when I tell it to write a poem in the style of Walt Whitman or whoever, it comes out like an average of Walt Whitman's poetry, whereas a human doing the same thing would generate a poem in some space near-ish to Walt Whitman, but inescapably influenced by the human's own identity. Maybe this could be overcome with a different sampling strategy or better prompt, but so far I've been unsuccessful - though the poems were nonetheless novel and interesting in GPT's own way. This was something I worked on recently using a local GPT2 instance @@r_se

[@alecfraher7122]

Kitaro Nishado ~ on the nature of the good, surely?

[@deedeequast9148]

Please correct the spelling of "Institute" at 1:11.

[@damianclifford9693]

Iain McGilchrist

[@aditya.sedhai]

You forgot me.

[@Thomas-gk42]

Biggest ideas? I'm missing Sabine here.

[@zackharris1156]

had to sign in to lmao at this

[@maddywilcox9012]

Where is Bernardo, where is Ogi...

[@Thomas-gk42]

...Kastrup? A preacher is not needed for debating.

[@eternisedDragon7]

Imagine the hubris despite such provable lack of interest in finding out about or searching for candidates for the biggest ideas of 2023 of these people to think they could have any authority or good judgement on the matter of what the biggest ideas of especially the year 2023 of all years were. For what it's worth, I know for certain that their takes on this matter are wrong, far off.

[@adamboots1]

Imagine the hubris of your comment… oh wait! I don’t need to! 🤦‍♂️

[@honeyj8256]

Fiona Hill ? Really ? A war monger ? Wtf !

[@j.obrien4990]

Really did she start this war? Did her actions cause it? Or is recognizing Putin for who he is a bad thing?

[@adhardino9781]

Well, Putin invaded and started the war....

[@amreshyadav2758]

I don't think Roser Penrose deserve Nobel prize. for me his most of ideas seems to be not true.

[@CharlieBrown-zr9wk]

Intellectual diarrhea bla bla bla