What’s your favorite kind of crackpot?

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Lmao she calls economics a “hard science” when talking about Nate Silver michael-laugh

    Liberal economics is not a hard science.

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        1 year ago

        She can probably be fixed, just need to ask her what would happen if the crackpots were in charge of the sciences, then explain that is what has happened to economics via the chicago school.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s definitely true. She is anticapitalist to some extent though, if you watch her video on AI she basically says the same thing ML’s have been saying for forever, that AI is only an instrument that reduces the amount of specialized labor that goes into each commodity, but firms will still need workers to make their products (but with lower wages and less bargaining power now).

  • TillieNeuen [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The youtube algorithm introduced me to her channel a month ago or so. I really like her–she’s really, really good at explaining things and also she has a great sense of humor. Somebody described her as the Jenny Nicholson of science, and I think that really fits.

  • Llituro [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    as a connoisseur of math and physics crackpots, i have to say that math crackpots are the most fun. they’re just doing whacky wrong shit that doesn’t make sense to any brain but theirs. the best of them all is terryology though. that’s a fucking masterpiece.

  • GenXen [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I can picture it now…

    “Enroll now for the Degree in Physics from the Tim Pool and Eric Weinstein School of Science at Prager U!”

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’m not a crackpot connoisseur, but I enjoyed this video! Can’t say I absorbed 100% of it, but I think I could at least convey some of the basic observations if dark matter came up in casual conversation.

    Also, that page for the dark matter rap contains the first instance I’ve ever seen of rap lyrics typeset in LaTeX…I love it.