Imitation Games - Avi Wigderson

[@JoGurk]

It takes a good amount of both, courage and savageness, in order to hold a talk written entirely in comic sans an I respect professor Wigderson for this.

[@Bobbias]

This is not what I expected the first comment to be. I completely agree.

[@sageinit]

tbf, Comic Sans with bright colors tends to have a high cognitive accessibility score, & this is a public lecture. He could have used a color-blindness compatible palette tho.

[@sageinit]

Thank you for enabling comments on this

[@BlueSoulTiger]

Avi finally starts speaking at 5:20 after yet another self-indulgent introduction by a host

[@sageinit]

I suspect it would seem more correct to talk about "Cognitive constructive definitions" than about "subjective behavioral definitions" because that in a sense talks about operationalism & statistics and when one brings cybernetics into that one ends up in a cognitive constructivism[≠radical constructivism] framework /eventually/. We just didn't call it that at the time (Turing's time) due to deficiencies in the philosophical theories of statistics. Many of which persists to this day.

[@sageinit]

This also makes sense in terms of both the words "reasonable" & "logos".

[@sageinit]

Weird audio glitch at around 31:30