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I love your opening statement Sean. I also listen to experts like you when I want to escape from the human ego. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏💗
Are you referring to the Supreme Court ? Or Congressional seats ? The president and vice president can introduce legislation but have no power. The presidential veto is just a big red stamp that doesn't hold any real value..
@@user-yv6xw7ns3o well, I feel it's worth asking how powerful can any single person actually be? How are we defining power? Dr Carroll is a physicist, and there's a specific definition for power in physics. My concern is that regardless of who the public-facing heads of state are, there are groups of people with enormous power and influence on the POTUS--people with financial incentives and powerful weapons who won't necessarily go along with the demands of the president. We saw this last election cycle when former VP Mike Pence wouldn't go along with Trump's demands. A person's power in the case of politics has to be measured partially based on whether people acknowledge them as worthy of their respect. So, POTUS might be a higher than average position of power, but its power is tied up in the cooperation of others, cooperation which is not guaranteed.
In times like these, where collective thought becomes unsynchronized, society faces an intense struggle between competing narratives-truth versus illusion, democracy versus authoritarianism, unity versus division. This schism has the power to shape not only the future of one nation but, the very future of democratic principles worldwide.
@andromeda_B trumps goal is not a democratic way of governance. He has made that very clear. If that is what the people want, then the people don't want democracy. That's a perfectly valid stance.
@@narfwhals7843 That's because US is NOT a democracy but a REPUBLIC! But this is not important now! YOU have been DECEIVED by the MOST EVIL BEINGS on this planet! They know that most people are gullible enough to swallow their lies! This has been going on for centuries and more! I will not open a dişscussion here since TRUMP will prove this to you AND THE WHOLE world ın a very near future! You will be HORRIFIED by the truth! Wait, see and listen to RFK JR and Elon Musk as well!
Thank you for raising the importance of our democracy here in America! And looking forward to reading your recent paper on emergence and your video to come on the topic.
Hello, @sean, I dont know whether you will read this, but first of all thanks for this small politics section in the beginning. Im not a US Citizen myself, however, I would still like to share my views on the 2024 election and the left/right in general, because I think you dont mention some arguments on the conservative side. Im currently a physics undergraduate in germany ( in my 3rd Semester) and I noticed very early at the beginning of my time in College , that universities are incredibly left-wing. In Göttingen there are posters everywhere quoting Marx and the communist manifesto. Everything is full with all sorts of left wing ideology to the extend that you have to hide being a conservative in order not to run into trouble. I even had to change university because radical left-wing students wanted to kick me out. Conservaties are treated very poorly in universites and frankly, I am very worried about freedom of speech both on Campus and under left-wing governements. Just look at all the conservatives in universities that were kicked out and ran into all sorts of trouble. The brother of Eric Weinstein was kicked out by left-wing students, then there's of course Jordan Peterson who received unimaginable backlash for really doing nothing wrong and is about to lose his psychological license and forced to undergo reeducation (!?) training for his political views. Its terrifying to me how much freedom of speech is under attack by the left. Then there's all these comments by the left like "No freedom for hate speech and misinformation" Freedom of speech is probably the single most important right in a democracy because freedom of speech means freedom of thinking. You cant think without freedom of speech; which everyone knows who read 1984 and is familiar with the tools tyrants use to seize control. It always starts with banning and redefining words to prevent people to think critically. You have talked about democracy beeing under attack and that it needs protection and I 100% agree, but at this point I think its necessary to vote conservative/republican in order to save democracy. Another reason for me to vote republican is Israel. I began to notice a lot of antisemitism in universities during protests that are always - somewhat euphemistically - described by our media as pro palestine. However, they are rooted on a hate of our western world and find Israel to be some sort of " colonialiatic Apartheidstate" ( words of Greta Thunberg) they shout slogans like " go Hamas we love you" and crimes that are motivated by antisemitism have increased dramatically sincs Oct 7th. As a german it is sad and heartbreaking to see a rise of antisemitism after less than 80 years since the end of Hitler. This antisemitism is coming from the left, Kamala boycotts speeches by Netanyahu by not showing up and the republican party is the only one to support Israel. Israel is the only democracy in a part of the world where otherwise tiranny and the rule of dictators are the norm. Its a prime example of how far a democracy is willing to go in order to protect itself from the rule of tyrants. And they deserve our admiration and support for having brought democracy to this part of the world, so that Israel can become an even better democracy ( because obviously it has it problems) But the path the left has chosen which is to condemn every one of their actions is not the right way and frankly is a huge dealbreaker for me not to vote democrat any time soon. I would like to add a lot more - because I have thought about my views very thourougly - about gender theory of course and the leftist attack on biology, the compelling of pronouns, the stereotype that republicans in rural areas are low information voters and this contributing to even more division and hate between the parties, which only damages democracy even more but I have have already written too much. To conclude, I think you miss a lot of points about conservatives and the justification for their views. However, I definitely agree in your assessment that Trump is not the right candidate. I would much rather have another republican candidate myself. But still, I prefer Trump over a democrat just because the left has pushed so hard with all this wokeness that I would prefer anyone who's not woke. Trumps success is a consequence of the pushing of the left. People would not endorse the breaking of taboo as trump does, if they didnt have enough of the left and their radical agenda. Thats something many democrats dont understand unfortunately. Thanks for reading!
Universities used to be places of learning where minds were expanded and stretched. Unfortunately, they have become institutions driven by 'student unions' that choose to prevent freedom of speech by forcing speakers to be banned or by demanding that veganism be adopted by the entire campus rather then leaving individuals to choose their own path. The directors of these institutions know their future funds are driven by these people so are prepared to kowtow to this which then becomes a vicious cycle.
@@98danielrayWell it is. I said Sean doesnt consider the conservative viewpoint here. And some of the things he said are just not true. Like Republicans being low information voters. There's plenty of reasons to worry about democracy from a conservative perspective too and reasons not to vote democrat and I just wanted to mention some of these reasons.
It’s the solutions to problems that matter when addressing a problem. Burning down the system is not the answer to the problems when solving the systems problem. Trump and MAGA have not provided logical solutions to American problems. In fact the solution to the problems given by Trump and MAGA only enhances our problems and divide us into groups. Us against them thinking.
@@StarsNstripesBeatHammerNsickle He did not say republicans are particularly low information, so you should pay better attention. Also, all your reasons are vague allusions to "freedom of speech" and "wokeness", things the conservative side on the us are not solving at all, nor genuinely defending the solution of, as seem by their lack of policy, their put down of the immigration bill and their insistence on irrelevant cultural issues instead of addressing said free speech or antisemitism. That is not nearly as compelling as an actual threat that is the republican nominee.
On the question of whether it is okay for lie for a good outcome, I think we would all be uncomfortable saying that a lie is NEVER the best choice (Kant example of whether he is harboring a fugitive), but for the example of a crying little girl, a complete (or "more perfect") ethical system would maximize identification of methods that achieve maximum good without lying. That is, there were probably equally comforting things that could have been said to the little girl that did not involve lying.
2:03:00 I think the question (since it comes from a 6 year old child) is asking what the literal temperature is inside a black hole. Presumably the child has heard about the extreme temperatures deep inside of planets (caused by pressure and fission) and deep inside stars (pressure and fusion) and wondering what it would be like inside a black hole where the thermometer isn't (presumably) surrounded by magma or plasma.
Temperature, as we are familiar with it, applies to solid, liquid, and gaseous forms of matter - in other words, molecular matter. Non-molecular matter can be said to have temperature, but it does not map to our conception or general use of the word. So, plasma, black holes, neutron stars, electron beams, and Bose-Einstein condensates might have a measurable or calculable temperature in some respect, but that temperature is less important than the fact that your thermometer is about to be exploded/imploded/otherwise destroyed/or destroy the phenomenon you are measuring. My layman's 2 cents.
Dear Sean, May I offer you a suggestion for a question/topic -- Shell model for nucleons (protons and neutrons) in atom's nucleus? I was astonished to learn that NMR (or MRI to avoid use of nuclear) is based on excitacion of (mostly odd number of nucleons so that spins are not largely cancelled) where each nucleon has a distinct energy level (conceptually similar to electrons) before excitation. According to a model, nucleon shells can also have subshells -- based on quantum numbers like angular momentum (l), radial quantum number (n), and spin (s). Many thanks in advance, Boris
Is it possible to educate a country on why you shouldn't vote solely on a momentary snapshot of the economy, that no president can fix inflation with a snap of their fingers, and why the dream of lowered inflation is not worth electing someone who doesn't care about Constitutional limits on power?
is there something I am missing? please explain? didn't the majority vote for Trump, so how is that not democracy? i am not from USA so no need to be aggressive
Trump tried to hold on to power when he lost. He lied cheated caused death. He openly stated he deserves a third term. He “joked” about being a dictator. Trump and his followers don’t want democracy. Get it now? And 50% didn’t vote.
@@hmp01 democracy has the feature that a majority can vote to end it. That may have just happened. So yeah electing Trump was democracy. We'll see if that's our last democratic choice.
@@jhall2511 wait wait, that does not make sense, if the majority voted for trump that is still a democracy. we are not talking about the after effects, we are talking about how Trump was chosen, and it was with democracy, so you want democracy, but now you literally don't like the actions of democracy? hard to understand
The Republican Party in the mid 2000s seriously tried to force teaching intelligent design in science classrooms, and now they’re working very hard to eliminate books relating to LGBT and minorities in libraries. Eggs were too expensive so they elected a fascist who won’t lower the price of eggs. I guess democracy is at least better than living under a dictatorship in Russia but it sure feels like a shit box sometimes. Hopefully the republicans are correct that Trump can’t do the things he promised to do and smart people will constrain his insanity, but more likely they were lying and always supported him doing what he wants for revenge and installing Project 2025.
@@nicholaspoulos7694 I don't remember but I think Project 2025 does call for teaching I.D. in public schools as an option. I might not be remembering exactly, though
As long as Corporations are allowed to anonymously contribute to campaigns, and the electoral college exists we will never have a president elected by the people.
Very interesting as always. I particularly like your answer about choosing James the Just as a historical person to speak to, although I think I might choose John the Baptist. He might have a different view on things than comes across in the New Testament.
We have functionally not been a democracy for over 200 years. It hasn't even been 60 years since the voting rights act. We're amateurs at this, and I agree there's no guarantee it will last forever, or even another lifetime
True. We were only a democracy in the barest sense of the word until 1965 and were an imperial conquering genocidal power for at least the first 150 years.
ahhh, I know when I consider listening to the previous midscape I KNOW that a new one is due. NOONE has PURVIEW over good ideas, but some should be given the task of sheparding those ideas... Thanks Mr Carroll your one of the few that CONSISTENTLY, promotes free thinking and welcomes a "might be right, probably wrong" approach to new ideas... the very thing that drives the sceinetific process, knowledge is not just power, its power with responsibility.. THANK YOU!
Saddly, someone just proved your many world theory is wrong I read about and it is to be published soon. My colleagues saw the proofs and I agree :). Things sometimes can look similar when we are incapable to prove it's behavior like it has been done in other areas of physics unfortunately....
a large expanding/contracting sphere would still create frame dragging effects right? so it does actually send out gravitational waves just very weak ones.
@1:03:15 Someone said that managers are there to make particular exceptions to general rules... Yep, have the rules, but also have someone smart enough to see that following the rules in this particular case would do more damage than making an exception.
23:40 I think Sean, like you'd expect for someone outside a field, tunnel-visions on the big high-profile projects obvious to an outsider. Two very different examples of the kind of research he probably doesn't know about are Yann LeCun's 'JEPA' framework for integrating unsupervised learning with planning, and hybrid algorithms like DreamCoder from Josh Tenenbaum's lab. Or you could look at results, like DreamerV3 learning to play atari games from under an hour of play time, and also learning to mine diamonds in minecraft from sparse reward. It might not be obvious why AI getting better at learning how to make good plans from limited data counts as progress towards "being like a human," but I urge you to consider that it's actually what's important for predicting when AI agents will be able to skillfully navigate the real world, and "being like a human" is a useful rough guide for non-experts but is not actually the end-all of AI capabilities.
The term spacetime in Chinese is 宇宙， which first appeared and was explained around 300 BC (the Warrior period) by a philosopher named Shizi 尸子: "The four-direction plane plus up and down is called 宇 Yu. The time that goes to the past and the future is called 宙 Zhou."
What Sean is engaging in is not what is colloquially called “politics.” He’s a physicist / philosopher with some notable regard in the public sphere, which places him well within the general group of individuals commonly referred to as “intellectuals.” As an intellectual, you should expect Sean to provide his views on the very real consequences of an election that can be expected to have effects on all of us in about every area of science and elsewhere. It seems to me you were in the wrong place to begin with. But to believe that, I’d have to believe you were someone who’s genuinely seeking an understanding of the world. But if that were the case, you would have an open mind regarding analysis of the election-which you clearly do not have given your alleged quitting of the channel. So it seems an alternate possibility might be the case, like maybe you’re a Trump fan new to the channel and you hate hearing anyone criticizing your favorite candidate. Whatever the case, I’m happy Sean is providing his criticism here. If you want an escape to fantasy-land, you can find it all over the internet. Sean has rightfully decided that his podcast won’t pander to ignorance by ignoring the very real threat Trump represents. The room is on fire and if people refuse to remove their virtual reality goggles, they need to be given a reality notification before they’re engulfed by the flames.
@nicholaspoulos7694 Pirites had a democracy. Each state by electing representatives each state getsequalsay.. Otherwise, we would invite mob rule. We're a constitutional republic.
@ we are a republic and a democracy. We vote for representatives. That is a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. We are a direct democracy in certain regards such as REFERENDUMS which WE JUST HAD MANY LAST NIGHT. Not a single teacher taught you this apparently not did they teach you grammar you fucking retard. You learned this on the internet from morons who think democracy = democrats and republic = republicans.
It still amuses me when Americans speak about "losing democracy" when they, quite clearly, have not, and almost never have, lived under a democracy. America is a oligarchy ruled by corporate donations. Perhaps the US education system is manufactured to make citizens believe that this is a democracy?
It is flawed, yes. I think every system will have it's flaws, electoral college being one of them, in my opinion. But there are clear differences between the parties, policies and people that we vote for. Money in politics tends to restrict and limit our voting options, but there are still distinct differences in what we're left with. I'm with Bernie and some of the others, money in politics has got to be a thing of the past.
@@frankallen6376 For the most part, yes. What's funny is that Trump is not legally allowed to vote in his home state of Florida because he has felony convictions, but he is legally allowed to be the President if he wins. He may actually be able to pardon himself from those convictions, too, if he becomes President.
Oligarchy is a buzzword. It has no real meaning other than “rich people run the country”. Obviously this isn’t 100% true because we have poor people in government and everyone has an equal vote. Rich people have undue influence such as Leon Musk. This is a problem in society but we do live in a democracy.
Imagine if a bad actor wanted to trick you into checking out of politics, because you checking out of politics would be to the bad actor's benefit. And the way he achieves this is by tricking you into believing you live in an oligarchy, when you actually do live in a functional democracy. That'd make you a mark, wouldn't it?
On the ai piece, we already have many many examples where ai does better than us at specific tasks. And whille it makes mistakes, the record of humans doing that task has a lot of mistakes in it too, let's not pretend that doctors are flawless at diagnostics. What would be new is an ai general enough that we decide to give it rights.
Not a fan of your political assessment, but I do enjoy your program quite a lot. It felt overly biased in favor of the Democrat's. With a overly favorable opinion of the effects of their leadership. Our national debt has been taken to insane levels, and government spending is starting to dominate the economy. A republic is not based on the idea that government should redistribute the wealth of the nation or pick who is successful and who is not in business or life. Both parties have become exteme in their positions and neither represent the best interests of the people.
It's odd to appeal to the national debt when criticizing Democrats when Trump oversaw a 33% raise in the national debt, almost $7 trillion. We're talking about a guy who combines massive tax cuts for the wealthiest with increased deficit spending. More importantly, this national debt argument we've had across all modern presidents ought to pale in significance compared to the unprecedented way Trump violates the Constitution, he tried to overturn the 2020 election. He got 79 random people to pretend to be lawfully selected electors from swing states, then used a riot to pressure his VP and senators to treat those fake electors as real.
"Biased", yes, of course he prefers candidates and parties which believes in science. It's ridiculous to parrot the propaganda of saying both parties are terrible.
@victorhansson3410 to say that it is propaganda that tells us both parties are terrible does not make the idea false. The fact that most college professors lean toward the democratic party does not mean that democrats are more scientific. That is a false supposition. The Democratic Party is all about bureaucracy, to the detriment of all other obligations. You play in the system right and you get the benefits regardless of the results of your efforts. It works because we can just continue to throw more money at any problems until people are happy even if nothing productive was accomplished. Colleges are also bureaucratic by nature. It is more important to be in the system and following the system rules and norms than to teach marketable skills to students. I am not trying to disparage any one caught in the system, it's just the way it is. With the Democratic Party and colleges having a close connection in the principles of bureaucracy it stands to reason that their members have similar beliefs and expectations for how things should be ran. Everything should be ran by bureaucracy of course! That's the scientific way if you want to get funding by a bureaucracy.
There were many things going on November 5th. I think the concept of elections being cyclical is kind of baked into the American psyche. I can explain another factor in this way. I was working in a factory once a few years ago and I was sitting at a table in the breakroom with a couple of other guys from my shift. The conversation was about cars, as usual, and it went like this. ( I made up the names) John: "I don't think I will ever drive anything but a truck." Mike: "Ya, me too, cars are for girls." There are just a lot of guys that are not even going to leave the house to vote for a woman. i hate to say it because there are so many of us who have evolved, but here we are.
Claims to try to understand opposing viewpoint without casting opponents as cartoonish supervillains, but comes up with “they don’t care about democracy as long as they’re in charge.” No mention of the specific issues the other side has been worried about.
The other side should be more worried about the precedent they are setting by backing a wannabe autocrat charlatan before anyone begins to give a crap about listening to what they have to say substantially (spoiler alert: they don't have anything really)
They literally don’t care. They had multiple choices in the primary besides the insurrectionist and they said no let me go again. You aren’t a serious person if you think Nikki Haley would do 96% of what Trump would do with none of the insanity.
I am scared what will happen if there comes up a more strategic and effective post truth politician like Orbán when even bumbling ego maniac bufoon like Trump can get half of country to vote for him. Btw Vlad Vexler would be a great guest if his health would allow him to do an episode of mindscape.
We need laws to obligate our representatives to (represent) the voters in their districts. Term limits and mandatory financial disclosure laws would be a couple large steps towards being a real Democratic country. If a candidate doesn't want you to see how they make money or in Trump's case lose money for decades they shouldn't be allowed to make legislative decisions.
Did anyone else almost pee themselves when Trump said that he would have a man who literally has half a brain in charge of health care initiatives ? Even Trump should know better than that... I know it's frowned upon to call these people stupid, but .........
@@andrewcampbell8938 The Trump administration will start buying 535 BTC per day for the entire 4 years. This will double the BTC market cap. It is potentially a x5 opportunity. BTC might go up and down temporarily. However, it can't be shut down and on a longer time scale it is guaranteed to succeed. I already made 7% in a single day, after Trump won.
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Trump won the second i finished listening this podcast.
Truth, clarity, and freedom. Stop the attack on science by MAGA. Keep Sean Carrol voice alive. Vote red, white and blue for Waltz and Harris 2024 🔥💙🌊🇺🇸
Loved the first 15 minutes! Thank you for taking a stand. I hope the election gives us the result that is best for America.
looks like Trump won
😢 sad day
Woops. How did you get it so wrong
@@andyjervis7663 Sorry, what do you mean? Who got it wrong?
I love your opening statement Sean. I also listen to experts like you when I want to escape from the human ego. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏💗
I think the most powerful job role on the planet should have some applicant requirements.
Are we certain which job role this is? I assume you are speaking about the POTUS, but is this job role actually the most powerful?
Are you referring to the Supreme Court ? Or Congressional seats ? The president and vice president can introduce legislation but have no power. The presidential veto is just a big red stamp that doesn't hold any real value..
@@MusicTheoryTreeDo you have any other suggestions?
@@user-yv6xw7ns3o well, I feel it's worth asking how powerful can any single person actually be? How are we defining power? Dr Carroll is a physicist, and there's a specific definition for power in physics. My concern is that regardless of who the public-facing heads of state are, there are groups of people with enormous power and influence on the POTUS--people with financial incentives and powerful weapons who won't necessarily go along with the demands of the president. We saw this last election cycle when former VP Mike Pence wouldn't go along with Trump's demands. A person's power in the case of politics has to be measured partially based on whether people acknowledge them as worthy of their respect. So, POTUS might be a higher than average position of power, but its power is tied up in the cooperation of others, cooperation which is not guaranteed.
I don't know how there's not a "no felonies" requirement but here we are.
Imagine if FDR or Churchill said, "Nothing lasts forever, even democracy," while Hitler was tearing across Europe.
Re- listening this again after the election outcome was announced. Yours is a voice of calm and reason.
Lovely to hear your views on the election, very refreshing and clear thinking.
I really hope Kamala wins.
In times like these, where collective thought becomes unsynchronized, society faces an intense struggle between competing narratives-truth versus illusion, democracy versus authoritarianism, unity versus division. This schism has the power to shape not only the future of one nation but, the very future of democratic principles worldwide.
Thanks for the intro. Sadly, it’s past the election and the results were not favorable.
They were favorable for some. Not for democracy, though.
@@narfwhals7843 Trump won the POPULAR VOTE too! So please explain "democracy" to the audience here! I'm always curious - scientifically!
@andromeda_B trumps goal is not a democratic way of governance. He has made that very clear.
If that is what the people want, then the people don't want democracy.
That's a perfectly valid stance.
@@narfwhals7843 That's because US is NOT a democracy but a REPUBLIC! But this is not important now! YOU have been DECEIVED by the MOST EVIL BEINGS on this planet! They know that most people are gullible enough to swallow their lies! This has been going on for centuries and more! I will not open a dişscussion here since TRUMP will prove this to you AND THE WHOLE world ın a very near future! You will be HORRIFIED by the truth! Wait, see and listen to RFK JR and Elon Musk as well!
Thank you for raising the importance of our democracy here in America! And looking forward to reading your recent paper on emergence and your video to come on the topic.
Finally, intelligent words to stop my brain from rotting.
I'm glad to hear that
On this election eve I ponder that the universe is accelerating away from us- and who can blame it really?
Always happy to see a new Mindscape AMA popup
I could listen to him talk about baseball or fishing or whatever, he's such a good communicator.
@@twonumber22 Exactly
Hello, @sean,
I dont know whether you will read this,
but first of all thanks for this small politics section in the beginning.
Im not a US Citizen myself, however, I would still like to share my views on the 2024 election and the left/right in general, because I think you dont mention some arguments on the conservative side.
Im currently a physics undergraduate in germany ( in my 3rd Semester) and I noticed very early at the beginning of my time in College , that universities are incredibly left-wing.
In Göttingen there are posters everywhere quoting Marx and the communist manifesto.
Everything is full with all sorts of left wing ideology to the extend that you have to hide being a conservative in order not to run into trouble.
I even had to change university because radical left-wing students wanted to kick me out.
Conservaties are treated very poorly in universites and frankly, I am very worried about freedom of speech both on Campus and under left-wing governements.
Just look at all the conservatives in universities that were kicked out and ran into all sorts of trouble.
The brother of Eric Weinstein was kicked out by left-wing students, then there's of course Jordan Peterson who received unimaginable backlash for really doing nothing wrong and is about to lose his psychological license and forced to undergo reeducation (!?) training for his political views.
Its terrifying to me how much freedom of speech is under attack by the left.
Then there's all these comments by the left like "No freedom for hate speech and misinformation"
Freedom of speech is probably the single most important right in a democracy because freedom of speech means freedom of thinking.
You cant think without freedom of speech; which everyone knows who read 1984 and is familiar with the tools tyrants use to seize control.
It always starts with banning and redefining words to prevent people to think critically.
You have talked about democracy beeing under attack and that it needs protection and I 100% agree, but at this point I think its necessary to vote conservative/republican in order to save democracy.
Another reason for me to vote republican is Israel.
I began to notice a lot of antisemitism in universities during protests that are always - somewhat euphemistically - described by our media as pro palestine.
However, they are rooted on a hate of our western world and find Israel to be some sort of " colonialiatic Apartheidstate" ( words of Greta Thunberg)
they shout slogans like " go Hamas we love you"
and crimes that are motivated by antisemitism have increased dramatically sincs Oct 7th.
As a german it is sad and heartbreaking to see a
rise of antisemitism after less than 80 years since the end of Hitler.
This antisemitism is coming from the left, Kamala boycotts speeches by Netanyahu by not showing up
and the republican party is the only one to support Israel.
Israel is the only democracy in a part of the world where otherwise tiranny and the rule of dictators are the norm.
Its a prime example of how far a democracy is willing to go in order to protect itself from the rule of tyrants.
And they deserve our admiration and support for having brought democracy to this part of the world, so that Israel can become an even better democracy ( because obviously it has it problems)
But the path the left has chosen which is to condemn every one of their actions is not the right way and frankly is a huge dealbreaker for me not to vote democrat any time soon.
I would like to add a lot more - because I have thought about my views very thourougly - about gender theory of course and the leftist attack on biology, the compelling of pronouns, the stereotype that republicans in rural areas are low information voters and this contributing to even more division and hate between the parties, which only damages democracy even more but I have have already written too much.
To conclude, I think you miss a lot of points about conservatives and the justification for their views.
However, I definitely agree in your assessment that Trump is not the right candidate.
I would much rather have another republican candidate myself.
But still, I prefer Trump over a democrat just because the left has pushed so hard with all this wokeness that I would prefer anyone who's not woke.
Trumps success is a consequence of the pushing of the left.
People would not endorse the breaking of taboo as trump does, if they didnt have enough of the left and their radical agenda.
Thats something many democrats dont understand unfortunately.
Thanks for reading!
Universities used to be places of learning where minds were expanded and stretched. Unfortunately, they have become institutions driven by 'student unions' that choose to prevent freedom of speech by forcing speakers to be banned or by demanding that veganism be adopted by the entire campus rather then leaving individuals to choose their own path.
The directors of these institutions know their future funds are driven by these people so are prepared to kowtow to this which then becomes a vicious cycle.
none of this is relevant to what he said
@@98danielrayWell it is.
I said Sean doesnt consider the conservative viewpoint here.
And some of the things he said are just not true. Like Republicans being low information voters.
There's plenty of reasons to worry about democracy from a conservative perspective too and reasons not to vote democrat and I just wanted to mention some of these reasons.
It’s the solutions to problems that matter when addressing a problem. Burning down the system is not the answer to the problems when solving the systems problem. Trump and MAGA have not provided logical solutions to American problems. In fact the solution to the problems given by Trump and MAGA only enhances our problems and divide us into groups. Us against them thinking.
@@StarsNstripesBeatHammerNsickle He did not say republicans are particularly low information, so you should pay better attention. Also, all your reasons are vague allusions to "freedom of speech" and "wokeness", things the conservative side on the us are not solving at all, nor genuinely defending the solution of, as seem by their lack of policy, their put down of the immigration bill and their insistence on irrelevant cultural issues instead of addressing said free speech or antisemitism. That is not nearly as compelling as an actual threat that is the republican nominee.
On the question of whether it is okay for lie for a good outcome, I think we would all be uncomfortable saying that a lie is NEVER the best choice (Kant example of whether he is harboring a fugitive), but for the example of a crying little girl, a complete (or "more perfect") ethical system would maximize identification of methods that achieve maximum good without lying. That is, there were probably equally comforting things that could have been said to the little girl that did not involve lying.
2:03:00 I think the question (since it comes from a 6 year old child) is asking what the literal temperature is inside a black hole.
Presumably the child has heard about the extreme temperatures deep inside of planets (caused by pressure and fission) and deep inside stars (pressure and fusion) and wondering what it would be like inside a black hole where the thermometer isn't (presumably) surrounded by magma or plasma.
Temperature, as we are familiar with it, applies to solid, liquid, and gaseous forms of matter - in other words, molecular matter.
Non-molecular matter can be said to have temperature, but it does not map to our conception or general use of the word.
So, plasma, black holes, neutron stars, electron beams, and Bose-Einstein condensates might have a measurable or calculable temperature in some respect, but that temperature is less important than the fact that your thermometer is about to be exploded/imploded/otherwise destroyed/or destroy the phenomenon you are measuring.
My layman's 2 cents.
4 hours of AMA on this, the day I do my office work.
That’s an offer I can’t refuse 🎉
Babe wake up, Sean Carroll ama dropped and pizza is here
People don't care about truth, or learning, or context, or nuance. Maybe I've been naive this whole time, but no one cares and I'm so tired
They want you to be tired. Try not to give them that.
Dear Sean,
May I offer you a suggestion for a question/topic -- Shell model for nucleons (protons and neutrons) in atom's nucleus?
I was astonished to learn that NMR (or MRI to avoid use of nuclear) is based on excitacion of (mostly odd number of nucleons so that spins are not largely cancelled) where each nucleon has a distinct energy level (conceptually similar to electrons) before excitation. According to a model, nucleon shells can also have subshells -- based on quantum numbers like angular momentum (l), radial quantum number (n), and spin (s).
Many thanks in advance, Boris
Devastating that so many don’t care about democracy.
Is it possible to educate a country on why you shouldn't vote solely on a momentary snapshot of the economy, that no president can fix inflation with a snap of their fingers, and why the dream of lowered inflation is not worth electing someone who doesn't care about Constitutional limits on power?
is there something I am missing? please explain? didn't the majority vote for Trump, so how is that not democracy? i am not from USA so no need to be aggressive
Trump tried to hold on to power when he lost. He lied cheated caused death. He openly stated he deserves a third term. He “joked” about being a dictator. Trump and his followers don’t want democracy. Get it now? And 50% didn’t vote.
@@hmp01 democracy has the feature that a majority can vote to end it. That may have just happened. So yeah electing Trump was democracy. We'll see if that's our last democratic choice.
@@jhall2511 wait wait, that does not make sense, if the majority voted for trump that is still a democracy. we are not talking about the after effects, we are talking about how Trump was chosen, and it was with democracy, so you want democracy, but now you literally don't like the actions of democracy? hard to understand
The Republican Party in the mid 2000s seriously tried to force teaching intelligent design in science classrooms, and now they’re working very hard to eliminate books relating to LGBT and minorities in libraries. Eggs were too expensive so they elected a fascist who won’t lower the price of eggs. I guess democracy is at least better than living under a dictatorship in Russia but it sure feels like a shit box sometimes. Hopefully the republicans are correct that Trump can’t do the things he promised to do and smart people will constrain his insanity, but more likely they were lying and always supported him doing what he wants for revenge and installing Project 2025.
@@nicholaspoulos7694 I don't remember but I think Project 2025 does call for teaching I.D. in public schools as an option. I might not be remembering exactly, though
@ I wouldn’t be surprised. They want all the nonsense from pre-50s. Prayer in school, creationism.
As long as Corporations are allowed to anonymously contribute to campaigns, and the electoral college exists we will never have a president elected by the people.
Very interesting as always. I particularly like your answer about choosing James the Just as a historical person to speak to, although I think I might choose John the Baptist. He might have a different view on things than comes across in the New Testament.
We have functionally not been a democracy for over 200 years. It hasn't even been 60 years since the voting rights act. We're amateurs at this, and I agree there's no guarantee it will last forever, or even another lifetime
Or another day.
True. We were only a democracy in the barest sense of the word until 1965 and were an imperial conquering genocidal power for at least the first 150 years.
ahhh, I know when I consider listening to the previous midscape I KNOW that a new one is due. NOONE has PURVIEW over good ideas, but some should be given the task of sheparding those ideas... Thanks Mr Carroll your one of the few that CONSISTENTLY, promotes free thinking and welcomes a "might be right, probably wrong" approach to new ideas... the very thing that drives the sceinetific process, knowledge is not just power, its power with responsibility.. THANK YOU!
Saddly, someone just proved your many world theory is wrong I read about and it is to be published soon. My colleagues saw the proofs and I agree :). Things sometimes can look similar when we are incapable to prove it's behavior like it has been done in other areas of physics unfortunately....
a large expanding/contracting sphere would still create frame dragging effects right? so it does actually send out gravitational waves just very weak ones.
@1:03:15 Someone said that managers are there to make particular exceptions to general rules... Yep, have the rules, but also have someone smart enough to see that following the rules in this particular case would do more damage than making an exception.
And here we are. For all those religious people out there particularly the ones that funded this, this is our penance, our flagellation.
23:40 I think Sean, like you'd expect for someone outside a field, tunnel-visions on the big high-profile projects obvious to an outsider. Two very different examples of the kind of research he probably doesn't know about are Yann LeCun's 'JEPA' framework for integrating unsupervised learning with planning, and hybrid algorithms like DreamCoder from Josh Tenenbaum's lab.
Or you could look at results, like DreamerV3 learning to play atari games from under an hour of play time, and also learning to mine diamonds in minecraft from sparse reward.
It might not be obvious why AI getting better at learning how to make good plans from limited data counts as progress towards "being like a human," but I urge you to consider that it's actually what's important for predicting when AI agents will be able to skillfully navigate the real world, and "being like a human" is a useful rough guide for non-experts but is not actually the end-all of AI capabilities.
So glad Sean is a Kamala supporter. So relieved.
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Damn, its so to see thr scaffolding before the full thing gets rolled out in natural language - to - app
The term spacetime in Chinese is 宇宙， which first appeared and was explained around 300 BC (the Warrior period) by a philosopher named Shizi 尸子: "The four-direction plane plus up and down is called 宇 Yu. The time that goes to the past and the future is called 宙 Zhou."
Thank you for spreading knowledge as freely as you do
16:50 to skip to the science
a surprise to no one without utterly ungrounded and broken world models
Came here to get away from politics. We're not a democracy. Good bye Sean.
What Sean is engaging in is not what is colloquially called “politics.” He’s a physicist / philosopher with some notable regard in the public sphere, which places him well within the general group of individuals commonly referred to as “intellectuals.” As an intellectual, you should expect Sean to provide his views on the very real consequences of an election that can be expected to have effects on all of us in about every area of science and elsewhere.
It seems to me you were in the wrong place to begin with. But to believe that, I’d have to believe you were someone who’s genuinely seeking an understanding of the world. But if that were the case, you would have an open mind regarding analysis of the election-which you clearly do not have given your alleged quitting of the channel. So it seems an alternate possibility might be the case, like maybe you’re a Trump fan new to the channel and you hate hearing anyone criticizing your favorite candidate.
Whatever the case, I’m happy Sean is providing his criticism here. If you want an escape to fantasy-land, you can find it all over the internet. Sean has rightfully decided that his podcast won’t pander to ignorance by ignoring the very real threat Trump represents. The room is on fire and if people refuse to remove their virtual reality goggles, they need to be given a reality notification before they’re engulfed by the flames.
We are a democracy. We vote on issues and elect representatives. We are not a direct democracy. You sound like you failed high school civics.
@nicholaspoulos7694 Pirites had a democracy.
Each state by electing representatives each state getsequalsay.. Otherwise, we would invite mob rule.
We're a constitutional republic.
@ we are a republic and a democracy. We vote for representatives. That is a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. We are a direct democracy in certain regards such as REFERENDUMS which WE JUST HAD MANY LAST NIGHT. Not a single teacher taught you this apparently not did they teach you grammar you fucking retard. You learned this on the internet from morons who think democracy = democrats and republic = republicans.
That's what they say when they don't want you to have a voice. We are a democratic constitutional Republic@@tropsnesnej
It still amuses me when Americans speak about "losing democracy" when they, quite clearly, have not, and almost never have, lived under a democracy.
America is a oligarchy ruled by corporate donations. Perhaps the US education system is manufactured to make citizens believe that this is a democracy?
It is flawed, yes. I think every system will have it's flaws, electoral college being one of them, in my opinion. But there are clear differences between the parties, policies and people that we vote for. Money in politics tends to restrict and limit our voting options, but there are still distinct differences in what we're left with. I'm with Bernie and some of the others, money in politics has got to be a thing of the past.
Are Americans able to vote?
@@frankallen6376 For the most part, yes. What's funny is that Trump is not legally allowed to vote in his home state of Florida because he has felony convictions, but he is legally allowed to be the President if he wins. He may actually be able to pardon himself from those convictions, too, if he becomes President.
Oligarchy is a buzzword. It has no real meaning other than “rich people run the country”. Obviously this isn’t 100% true because we have poor people in government and everyone has an equal vote. Rich people have undue influence such as Leon Musk. This is a problem in society but we do live in a democracy.
Imagine if a bad actor wanted to trick you into checking out of politics, because you checking out of politics would be to the bad actor's benefit. And the way he achieves this is by tricking you into believing you live in an oligarchy, when you actually do live in a functional democracy. That'd make you a mark, wouldn't it?
On the ai piece, we already have many many examples where ai does better than us at specific tasks. And whille it makes mistakes, the record of humans doing that task has a lot of mistakes in it too, let's not pretend that doctors are flawless at diagnostics.
What would be new is an ai general enough that we decide to give it rights.
What?? Trump does NOT have magic powers???? Mind blown!!!
His ability to say awful things and somehow not sewer his credibility borders on magic
Not a fan of your political assessment, but I do enjoy your program quite a lot.
It felt overly biased in favor of the Democrat's. With a overly favorable opinion of the effects of their leadership.
Our national debt has been taken to insane levels, and government spending is starting to dominate the economy. A republic is not based on the idea that government should redistribute the wealth of the nation or pick who is successful and who is not in business or life.
Both parties have become exteme in their positions and neither represent the best interests of the people.
It's odd to appeal to the national debt when criticizing Democrats when Trump oversaw a 33% raise in the national debt, almost $7 trillion. We're talking about a guy who combines massive tax cuts for the wealthiest with increased deficit spending. More importantly, this national debt argument we've had across all modern presidents ought to pale in significance compared to the unprecedented way Trump violates the Constitution, he tried to overturn the 2020 election. He got 79 random people to pretend to be lawfully selected electors from swing states, then used a riot to pressure his VP and senators to treat those fake electors as real.
"Biased", yes, of course he prefers candidates and parties which believes in science. It's ridiculous to parrot the propaganda of saying both parties are terrible.
@victorhansson3410 to say that it is propaganda that tells us both parties are terrible does not make the idea false.
The fact that most college professors lean toward the democratic party does not mean that democrats are more scientific. That is a false supposition.
The Democratic Party is all about bureaucracy, to the detriment of all other obligations. You play in the system right and you get the benefits regardless of the results of your efforts. It works because we can just continue to throw more money at any problems until people are happy even if nothing productive was accomplished.
Colleges are also bureaucratic by nature. It is more important to be in the system and following the system rules and norms than to teach marketable skills to students. I am not trying to disparage any one caught in the system, it's just the way it is.
With the Democratic Party and colleges having a close connection in the principles of bureaucracy it stands to reason that their members have similar beliefs and expectations for how things should be ran. Everything should be ran by bureaucracy of course! That's the scientific way if you want to get funding by a bureaucracy.
thank you muchly for speaking out against trump!
There were many things going on November 5th. I think the concept of elections being cyclical is kind of baked into the American psyche. I can explain another factor in this way. I was working in a factory once a few years ago and I was sitting at a table in the breakroom with a couple of other guys from my shift.
The conversation was about cars, as usual, and it went like this. ( I made up the names) John: "I don't think I will ever drive anything but a truck." Mike: "Ya, me too, cars are for girls." There are just a lot of guys that are not even going to leave the house to vote for a woman. i hate to say it because there are so many of us who have evolved, but here we are.
Evening of November 5 and it appears the Manchurian Candidate will win.
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Stick with science bro... you're not smarter than the vote
Claims to try to understand opposing viewpoint without casting opponents as cartoonish supervillains, but comes up with “they don’t care about democracy as long as they’re in charge.” No mention of the specific issues the other side has been worried about.
That's not a cartoonish or exaggerated statement though, it's just plain obvious.
have you researched about the fake electoral scheme or are you just vagueposting about being "balanced"?
The other side should be more worried about the precedent they are setting by backing a wannabe autocrat charlatan before anyone begins to give a crap about listening to what they have to say substantially (spoiler alert: they don't have anything really)
They literally don’t care. They had multiple choices in the primary besides the insurrectionist and they said no let me go again. You aren’t a serious person if you think Nikki Haley would do 96% of what Trump would do with none of the insanity.
Presidential candidates should also be required to at least pass a 5th grade American History and a 6th grade US Government test..
@@jayvincent1865 and a criminal background check and a psychological assesment
I am scared what will happen if there comes up a more strategic and effective post truth politician like Orbán when even bumbling ego maniac bufoon like Trump can get half of country to vote for him.
Btw Vlad Vexler would be a great guest if his health would allow him to do an episode of mindscape.
We need laws to obligate our representatives to (represent) the voters in their districts. Term limits and mandatory financial disclosure laws would be a couple large steps towards being a real Democratic country. If a candidate doesn't want you to see how they make money or in Trump's case lose money for decades they shouldn't be allowed to make legislative decisions.
Did anyone else almost pee themselves when Trump said that he would have a man who literally has half a brain in charge of health care initiatives ? Even Trump should know better than that... I know it's frowned upon to call these people stupid, but .........
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I hope Trump wins so my crypto and stocks go up.
Your wish has been granted. Now the question is do you hold or sell when the inevitable collapse comes.
@@andrewcampbell8938 The Trump administration will start buying 535 BTC per day for the entire 4 years. This will double the BTC market cap. It is potentially a x5 opportunity. BTC might go up and down temporarily. However, it can't be shut down and on a longer time scale it is guaranteed to succeed. I already made 7% in a single day, after Trump won.
From outside Trump îs diferent. To think în a box îs specific to physics but not truth always.
thanks for your input, low iq voter
thanks for your input, low iq voter
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