“I wish I could study physics.” “Do it, then.” An average person could say, “I have to earn a living,” or “I have to take care of my aged mother,” but billionaires don’t have those excuses, do they? I’ve got to admit you made me have a grudging respect for Jeff Bezos, because he said “I quit physics because it was really hard,” instead of giving some cock and bull story about why he’s not a physicist.
"But it seemed so easy for those other guys" _is_ a cock and bull story. It's hard for basically everyone. It's just hard. Of course there are genius edge cases, but those don't stop the other 99.9% of students who want to put in the work.
@@narfwhals7843 "Seemed easy for everyone else" I don't think is a deliberate lie because many people come to those conclusions because they don't have contact with other people who struggle with the same issue. Especially if your interest was for physics and most others seem to be measured This is not to make Bezos look like a relatable dude, the dude's still a vicious robber baron who's an absolute idiot in many things he thinks he knows about, but I wanted to point out that this is a very common emotional logic that goes through people that struggle with a particular subject.
@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 Yeah I was going to say the same something similar - those guys he was talking about were like a handful of guys at Princeton who were probably better than Bezos - those guys may have had their struggles but from Bezos' eyes, they probably just had it easier which to him translated to "just got it"
To be fair, I dropped out of college to get a job to take care of my sick mom. I ended up coming back after she got better, but sick mom was more of a deterrent than a motivating factor.
No need to exploit anyone. Just find the right people for your team and enter into voluntary transactions with them to exchange your money for their effort and expertise.
@@brianernzen2509 - Tell that to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Nike, Apple, the oil industry, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and so on and so forth. Or you can continue to lick boots, if that's your thing.
I was a professional musician for 25 years. Now I’m in college for physics. The romantic, overblown notions about music and physics are remarkably similar.
I was thinking about this because I've been really involved in the contemporary poetry world and non-poets are always describing things as "poetry" or maybe even talking about reading poetry but nobody actually reads poetry, nobody buys poetry books outside maybe of like one poet they read in high school or college and decided they liked and they bought one book of that poet's and look at it every once in awhile. It's wildly romanticized but in reality it's just this niche, not-very-popular genre of writing.
Your right, poetry is pretty niche. The only example I know of a contemporary well known poet is Philip Larkin, who wrote, "This Be The Verse", a poem about how parents cause problems to their kids. I also read poetry online by a creative guy who makes drawings and poems about fishing. Well not fishing exactly, I made a typo and wrote an h where there was supposed to be a t. He's pretty good and knows how to enjoy life to the fullest.
Your 3rd sentence is very unclear, ambiguous even. Consider cleaning it up? Like are you literally talking about the notions? What notions? That is pretty content free. Are you talking about the aspects of the two that are similar? Usually its math and music being compared that way. But it could be physics.
Hey i didn't wanna be a tough guy but even i almost joined the military. I wish you could see how close my fingers are right now, thats how close it was
People have weird ideas about physics. Every time I tell a "normal" (i.e. non-nerd) person that I have a post-graduate degree in physics, they immediately go "OH MY GOD, you must be SOOOO SMART, I could NEVER imagine doing something like that!!!" And it's nice to be told you're smart, but people take it to a level that's kinda. . . weird and off-putting. I don't want people to think of me as some kind of brainologist lording over the prole idiots with my massive intellect. But of course billionaires do want that.
Yeah same. I'm in an undergraduate program for just general physics and everyone treats me like I'm some galaxy level genius. Sure, I can be, but I'm not anymore genius than someone studying literature, or even a janitor. Idk. Maybe it's something to do with the whole myth of thr "Great Man" concept where one single person will save the world with their genius intelligence or whatever.
tbh I think a lot of people also say that because they fall back on stereotypical responses when talking about stuff like that with people they don't know well. I've noticed that I always say the same sort of stuff to people doing sciences despite the fact that the people I know who do those things do not appear to be smarter in any way outside of their degree. in fact, they're often pretty bad at other subjects just like most other people. turns out people are just better at different things most of the time! and yet I'll probably never stop doing the 'oooh that sounds hard, I could never do that! you poor soul' routine lol🤷🏻♀️ apologies
@@chickenfoot2423 i study the Chinese language and i don't even know math because I'm lazy... But certain people think i must be SUCH a genius because i make time in my day to memorize Chinese characters Literally just rote memorization and some simple grammar bro, but because most people can't even imagine where to start, they think it's the devils work.
I teach science and some mathematics at a highschool while finishing my masters in physics, and it has given me a new perspective on my degree and relationship with the STEM fields: it is actually and truly difficult for a majority of people. Like a different type of difficult than what I think physics students would experience. Going from a concrete phenomena to an abstraction and mapping that to other applicable systems and problems is actually a major challenge. So embrance it just a little, you are a smartass
To be fair, he earned a BSc in physics (with Honours) decades prior to earning his Phd, he was offered a research position with lead to his doctorate at the time, but decided music was more important. He's one of those enviable people who are both incredibly academically and artistically gifted.
And he'd already done some of the work leading to his dissertation. *_Dr Becky_* has a video reviewing the published book of *_Brian May's_* dissertation. It has pictures from his time doing the _field work_ for it at a research station.
I think the Twitter-posted 1st-year homework is a prime example of exactly how he got rich: pitching to people who can't see through the fact that his knowledge is quite basic. Once you can see it, he's a joke. He is 100% bluff. It's a reflection of these times & the dynamics that drive this era.
@@alastairleith8612 The moron literally said that with a straight face too. How did the interviewer refrain from saying "Do you think the witnesses to the nearly 3000 automated driverless cars that have crashed after being manufactured by you would think that?"
I don’t think its weird at all for these people. It’s about their ego. Physics, in pop culture is shorthand for smart. “It’s rocket science.” I think, because this is your day job, there is no mystique for you. But to the vast majority of people who don’t have a STEM degree, it’s a kind of an appeal to the authority that physics, as an idea, has. I think you could call it the halo effect. That these billionaires want their decisions to be regarded as coming from a great esoteric intellect, that is beyond the questioning of mere mortal man. That, I believe is the point. Physics, for most, in inscrutable, and so there is this acceptance of what a physicist says as being beyond them, but true. Billionaires want their choices to be seen in the same light. I really think that’s the end goal. Don’t question me or my greed. It’s as above you, as physics is.
You guys think so much of your 4 year bachelors. According to you all if you didn't finish a bachelors you cant comment on physics. Even if you read tons of books take lectures and hire 100 s of physicists according to you all the 4 year degree is still king. Silly af.
@@greatestever9616 spoken like someone who doesn't know the academic hierarchy. If you do an undergrad you're still a pissant to postgrad students doing their Masters or PhD. Even when you're a postdoc you're "just" a tutor who couldn't get a real position to the tenured professors. And the professors are closeted losers to the ones out in the private sector flogging VC startups dreaming of being the next billionaire
Remember this : Oprah once asked how Michelle Obama got over feeling intimidated sitting at big tables filled with smart, powerful men and Michelle said, _You realize pretty quickly that a lot of them aren’t that smart._
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How do you know you were too stupid for physics? Was it because the other students kept talking about how smart they are? or was it because the teachers were bad at teaching physics? I found both of those in the same physics class.
@@TheGotoGeek "It's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo, because the status is...not...quo. The world is a mess and I just need to...rule it." -Dr. Horrible
"no physicist would ever think they're smarter than a biologist" at this point in the video, this is the only thing I have to disagree on. A big part of physicists I know, do exactly that. Think their smarter and better than non physicists. There are a few fields they respect, but still think they're the pinnacle of intelligence. And this opinion(?) is being taught in university too. Many professors think that way. Often they don't even notice it. It's internalised.
Biologist here. Many of the physicists-turned-biologists that are now tackling problems in their quantitative biology labs most definitely do think they're smarter than all of the biologists. It is also true that many of them are very good and make excellent collaborators. They often bring with them a different set of experimental and analytical tools.
Yeah especially towards biology I've def encountered some snobbery and it never fails to piss me off. But I'm lucky in that my circles are pretty good at avoiding that. The only universally demeaned subject is non-accounting related business students
Well, that's foolish. A single person can only learn so much and can only spend so much time staying up-to-date in their chosen field(s), so they're simply not going to have all the knowledge people in other fields do. It's what everyone in the sciences needs to learn if they ever want to stop chasing their own tail and get any interesting research done.
I think there is a kernel of truth in that idea, in that biology courses just do not require a high enough level of understanding in maths. This becomes an issue when these students go on to do real research, where they struggle to understand the full implication of the statistical models they use for said research. I did a bioengineering course at a "world's top 10 uni", and my physiology lecturer didn't understand the difference between Σ(1/n) and 1/(Σ(n)) when talking about vascular resistance, even when I specifically pointed that out to him after the lecture.
This happens with every other rich or semi-rich stranger I meet too! The moment I mention I'm a physicist they will casually bring up that they started studying physics when young, then they quickly figured out it's a pointless pursuit, and they then switched to studying x, y, z that made them rich. And then they will be mean to you too
When smart people meet another smart person often they think, "This is great, now I can have an interesting conversation". But when smart people meet an insecure person, the insecure person tries to drag them down, to make themselves look better by comparison. People who do that, are not worth keeping in your life, because they intentionally annoy you, every time they get the chance.
OMG the part when you say that these billionaires could just spend their money in private physics tutors and actually learn physics is absolutely great
@@pacotaco1246 Is it wild or lazy or are we missing the point? What if they just want to be associated with names like Einstein while obscuring the fact that they are actually just a bunch of greedy dicks.
nooo, they work 3 trillions of hours per week those men. they don't have time to learn anything. it's tuesday and they have to go on their seventh podcast of the week!!!
The reason these billionaires don't just (actually) learn physics is that it would require confronting the fact that there are lots of not-rich people way smarter than they are.
Yeah that's the weird flipside of this, like aren't they implying that there are like thousands of people out there who could be much richer than them? Like why aren't all the people with physics degrees billionaires? Did they all just decide they didn't want to be rich?
@@hedgehog3180 It's this ugly idea that the physicists are smart because they're smart but they're also dumb for deciding to use their skills to help humanity instead of getting rich
Me too, I wish she didn't have to, but unfortunately it keeps happening, so talking about it is required. It happens to all ages and genders, and false reports are both terrible and pretty rare. SA unfortunately is not rare, which is why we need good education about it in schools. People often get harassed for talking about it, so I very much appreciate the people, with the integrity and courage, to call it out.
And that's without even mentioning Bill Gates was BFF's with Epstein and continued flying to his island on the Lolita express even after he had been convicted, or that Musk has repeatedly offered his sperm to random women at dinner parties (for real), impregnated and/or has been grape-y with countless subordinates at his companies, and tweeted the worlds creepiest message to Taylor swift, etc
@@davidestabrook5367 False reports are pretty common actually. Don't know if you like, have been paying attention to nearly all of the most famous sexual harassment accusations. Also, most of the most prolific and long lasting cases are old dudes in powerful positions. I actually don't see the value in talking about it other than preaching to the choir. Like this channel. "Hey...unsolicited d1ck pics are...not wanted" I have never and don't know anyone who has done this...I'm sure alot of women have gotten them. But it's like "raising awareness" about murder. How much does this really help? The people who compulsively do these things are just going to do them until they are made to stop. "Teach boys to not r4p3." Is one that has always caused me to scratch my head. I don't think that's how that works.
There's actually a lot more Gates does with his money other than just "throw it at problems" but the point wouldn't be as catchy if she were to include that. Actually go educate yourself on his philanthropic work, come back and tell me he's this big bad monster that's the same as every other billionaire.
The thought of billionaires being just that extremely smart is just comforting. It's comforting to think "yeah, the only reason I'm toiling every day to afford housing and food is that I'm not smart enough to be a billionaire" Once you realize how not that smart they really are, it starts to crawl on you, how much in this society is stacked against you and how few people care...
You think someone who manages to learn how to run an entire business based off of there capabilities without being screwd by investors are not smart people?
@@badyoutuber1986 Being good at a certain thing doesen't necessarily mean you are smart in a general sense. And it doesen't make you immune from cognitive biases. Not to mention there are legitimately some people that fail upwards.
@@badyoutuber1986 And to add insult to injury, it is an honorable propensity of our civil structure that being evilly wise in the ability to earn money is much more fortuitous and rewarded than many other endeavors. I think you extend to much skill to a system that promotes such things.
@@TheArrowedKnee But are the people that she is specifically talking about failed upwards? Did they claim that they are physicists or that they have an interest and or fascination in the subject..? You can down play there cognitive capabilities all you want but their presence is evidence to the contrary.
as someone who used to be an unironic libertarian until i turned about 20 and realized that my magic brain wasn't going to automatically make me fabulously wealthy, as someone who used to see myself as one of those movers, the elite few geniuses who come along once in a genetation to turn the wheel of history forwards, your description of atlas shrugged made me laugh my ass off, because i used to be one of those delusional people. nobody treats me like I'm special, how will they like it when i deprive the world of my special genius brain. (no response) hello? special genius here, threatening to stop contributing my special genius to the world, if people like me all stopped contributing then the world would simply stop progressing and crumble to ruin, don't tempt me!!! these days i realize that I'm just a neurodivergent manchild who happens to be very good at like 4 things and wasn't told "no" enough when i was a kid. i have a lot to contribute to the world, but I'm not made of gold. extraordinary contributions are something that i need to expend conscious effort in order to make. I don't shit rainbows, but i might be able to sweat rainbows if i can find my place and apply myself.
Very relatable, gifted child burnout is real. I used to think im so cool for passing without studying and got absolutely smacked at university where you cant cram 4 months in 4 hours. Learning to learn is important, at the same time you might be too harsh on yourself since being neurodivergent comes with a lot of challenges thay most people never have to face including bullying, crippling loneliness, depression and problems with executive functioning. Be kind to youself especially when the world isnt friend
Dude this made me laugh out loud 😂, pretty relatable. I was told that I'd be the first black president as a kid just because I could do multiplication without a calculator... One Obama later and I'm realizing i don't really have much to offer lmao.
I would set up a workshop, a dedicated place for blacksmithing, steelworking and woodworking, a stocked up electronical and mechanical components storage, a fully geared up car garage, a chemistry + electronics lab with everything you could ever need like fumehoods and spectrum analyzers, a dedicated library (maybe adjacent to a nice place for reads and thoughts like an orangery where all my favourite plants would go?) and a novelty/antique science/technology objects collection... and then I'd have enough to do til the end of my life. For me, it's funny and ridiculous santa checklist, but a billionaire literally would set this up (rather *have* it set up for them) in an afternoon.
@@alsetsolar3450 As enjoyable and rewarding as that is, it's not the same as being directly taught by an expert. The big thing you get out of a tertiary education isn't the lectures, it's the labs/tutorials/other sessions where you are directly interacting with the educators. Like, I got heaps out of all the lectures I attended about biology and environmental science! But I could have accessed the information in those lectures myself if I wanted to. Sure, it's valuable that some very intelligent, very well-informed people *curated* that info for me. It probably would have been a significantly slower process without it. But ultimately, I could have dug all those things up on my own. What I couldn't do outside the university is have the long discussions with various experts. I couldn't have several hours dissecting various organisms with the help of someone with a PhD in biology, every week, for most of a semester. I couldn't submit papers to an expert and get their feedback on how well I understood the subject and on whether the way I'm exploring it is valuable. I'm planning to do my honours by research next year, again under the direct supervision of a highly educated and experienced biologist, and that, too, is something you can't do on your own. Or at least you can, but it won't be the same kind of learning experience as doing it with that type of expert help. Discounting the fancy bit of paper I got at the end, which I'm guessing wouldn't be a major goal of someone using their billion dollars to go back to college forecer:p
I can tell you why billionairs love physics: because they studied physics in high school When we grew up in the 80s, physics was the king of sciences. For our parents generation, it was the science that gave us the atom bomb, satellites, the moon landing. So when we studied physics in high school it made us feel smarter than everyone. "Wow, we understand reality in a different level" . And that feeling stuck. On a side note: anyone knows if she reviewed "the moon is a harsh mistress" ? I think that book influenced the techbro mindset as much as Ayn Rand
There is no difference between the highschool physics thaught today or 40 years ago. This is such an odd comparison, why does that affect billionaires only? You do know that there are billionaires of different ages too right? And that non billionaires have also gone to school, what are you on about
@@bossle6834 The way physics is taught in high school hasn't changed, but the public perception and esteem of it as a discipline has. Nowadays there's a common notion of physics being a "dead" field and that there are no more huge breakthroughs occurring like there were in the 20th century.
I'm less concerned about Elon not having a physics background than I am that he seems to have no engineering qualifications yet can give himself the title of chief engineer at his own business.
I support making all these professional designations protected titles. Unless you have a PEng you can't call yourself an engineer. If you're a DC ("doctor" of chiropractic) you're not supposed to call yourself a Dr. but so many do.
I’m so glad to hear you talk about Stephen Wolfram. I do not have the knowledge to critique what he says 90% of the time but my vibes are never wrong and something just felt off, then finally he did a long conversation with Nassim Nicolas Taleb about medical science and Taleb on that occasion was spot on and Wolfram just heaped scorn on medical scientists asking the most rudimentary questions, shouting at the sky, seemingly unable to compute that datasets in medicine are utterly different to his field. I wanted to make a video talking about that exact chat but figured it was way too niche and frankly I felt nervous
Aww man I'd love to see you talk about it! Steven Wolfram fascinates me. I wonder if anything will eventually come of his physics program or if he's gone irreparably off the rails.
I attended a lecture Wolfram gave when "A New Kind of Science" came out. The professors in the room basically ridiculed him. I didn't think he deserved it, but it would certainly be good to get your take about this chat.
Thanks for referencing Rand, as I think her and her ideological allies are probably why so many of the billionaires and their supporters think every billionaire is a genius. But they also all think they're the so-called "prime movers"
I’m chiming in because I recently mentioned Ayn Rand in a video: she came of age in the early USSR and was kicked out of Leningrad university because her father had owned a small business before the revolution. He wasn’t some big-timer; such people didn’t exist in the Russian Empire outside of government-connected oligarchs. Her entire ideology is just a Soviet strawman of western decadence. Zero irony.
@@SamAronow Hey Sam, great channel! Still waiting for your video on the ongoing genocide being carried out supposedly on our behalf. Seems like kinda a weird thing to leave out for a whole year hah :)
Throw back: Before smartphones and ubiquitous GPS, I worked at OnStar, the telephone-based vehicle concierge service from GM. The people who drove the _most_ expensive cars were invariably the least intelligent. Correlation is not causation, but it is kinda funny sometimes.
@@errorite6653cmon dude dont do this to sam aronow, he's never pushed any political line or agenda and i wouldnt want him to compromise his mission of teaching jewish history by getting caught up in that
I think you're vastly overestimating people's critical thinking skills. Most people absolutely believe that the tech billionaires are geniuses, and the entire apparatus of capitalism has a vested interest in convincing people that it's true. That's the whole "American Dream", that if you're smart and work hard, you too can be a billionaire. If people stopped believing that and started to think that rich people are mostly only rich because their parents were rich, then the whole illusion falls apart.
It is modern prosperity gospel. Instead of "I am rich because God has chosen me and so I deserve this wealth" they say "I am rich because I'm incredibly smart and capable and so I deserve this wealth" when in reality it's mostly a mix of luck, timing, and being from a rich family
Becoming a billionaire Wes never and is still not the “American dream”. The American dream was owning a home and comfortably retiring in your 60s. I mean it’s still dead as fuck but let’s at least be honest about what we’re mourning
This isn't true. Billionaires like Musk, Jobs, and others certainly are/were geniuses, or at least intellectually gifted. You can't run Tesla and SpaceX without having an above average IQ. Elon also has Asperger's. And no, they didn't become wealthy because their parents were wealthy. This is regurgitated garbage that is frequently perpetuated by communists/socialists.
@@Ateesh6782 Explaining the joke, just in case: 'Physic' is an obsolete (14th C) term for medicine and the medical profession, which survives in the term 'physician' to refer to a doctor.
@brycecarr362 My bad, didn’t notice you posted your comment in the 14th century. ;) (Not being malicious, just tongue-in-cheek; I’m a linguist and etymology buff. I also have a good sense of all four homours. ;) )
@@NameRealperson My bad, didn’t notice you posted your comment in the 14th century. ;) (Not being malicious, just tongue-in-cheek; I’m a linguist and etymology buff. I also have a good sense of all four homours. ;) )
Weird VIP billionaires talking about physics without proper a background always reminds me of the former German chancellor Angela Merkel, who had studied physics at the University of Leipzig (iirc) and left with a diploma and she NEVER blabbed about the nature of physics in any TV show or interview.
@ThomasSMuhn i didnt know her doctorate was in quantum chemistry. I dont follow politics in general. But if I recall she basically bailed out the euro a few times too. Its really hard to think of many things more impressive than a doctorate in quantum chemistry, running an entire country, and saving the worlds first centralized multinational currency. What an absolute beast.
It's virtue signaling for investors. That's it. A year ago I wouldn't have a clue, but now it is clear to me they did this as a show off for shareholders. They did so they were perceived as the most intelligent in and trustworthy back when investment was looking for expansion and smart people. Now, it is different however. They have changed because they perceive investors are looking for other traits. They talk about AI, AI, Ai, everywhere. They shamelessly don't present as a smart person but a ruthless one with employees. They say cranky things like you don't need college anymore, and AI will replace us all. Even RTO mandates are part of this ruthless boss imaginery.
I mean, it definitely used to be for shareholders / potential investors, but another term for those people is just "social circle". Those are just the humans who they were around and wanted the approval of, and I don't just mean in order to get investment dollars out of them. They're human beings with egos and very little left that constrains what they do or say. Totally different topic, RTO mandates are not the same. That's mostly the 10s or 100s of millions of dollars in capital investment that is going down the drain if employees aren't using those physical spaces so they can write off those expenditures.
Kurt Vonnegut told the story (I'm paraphrasing) where he went to a swank party and met a neurosurgeon. When the surgeon found out Kurt was a writer, he said, "Oh, when I retire, I plan to write!!" Kurt replied, "Great! When I retire I plan to do brain surgery!"
@ the point here is a comedic one about how the doctor is dismissing a writing career as something anyone can do. Yes, anyone can write, play football, cook, paint, but those who make a successful career out of these things are likely to be substantially better than those who do then part time. Everyone knows who Kurt Vonnegut is but no one has read the possible writings of this neurosurgeon …
Billionaires, like ladies men, have found the important life hack... It does not matter if you are a , it matters to say that you are a . Your 'target group' will not notice the difference, and those who do notice - are not your 'target group' anyway.
Billionaires: Starting on third base and thinking they hit a triple, then scoring after someone else gets a base hit and thinking they did the work to score the run.
Ironically evil as he was Norman was in the lab doing shit and was allegedly actually smart even if he was careless. He was still somehow better at the bullshit he peddles than real actual billionaires
But they are superheroes. Not the flying type, but the giving advances and huge benefits to humanity type. Not the IQ test type, but the persistent, never say no, work in large groups and get things done type.
I think it has to be physics bc physics is generally associated with geniuses. And I think that's for 3 reasons: 1. Einstein. He is the prototypical genius and he was a physicist. The same goes to some degree for Hawking I think, although his genius reputation was influenced by Einstein. 2. It's a very male dominated field. 3. In popular imagination, it includes nuclear anything, space anything, inventing/engineering anything and also where the universe comes from. It seems like it is both very practical and also very phylosophical.
Came to the comments to say Einstein, who is probably the most famous scientist, along with Newton - both known for their discoveries in physics. Hawking too, as you said. Also, mathematics is seen as peak human intelligence in pop culture because it epitomises 'one solvable answer' and doesn't have to deal with any messy 'nuances'. Science is seen as admirable and as the one way to progress humanity, that scientists are an elite higher class of being (rather than teams of people who produce amazing work through collaboration and repetition). So physics, the combination of maths and science, is seen as the ultimate peak of intellect. Quantum physics and rocket science are both thrown around so much that they've basically become shorthand for 'extremely complex topic'. They are, but so is every highly specialised area of ongoing research in the sciences. The other professions with glamourised intellect are medical doctors and detectives, maybe with some tech inventors thrown in there. We assume intelligence of some fields more than others which are just as complex but less popularised.
Please, read my comment. I arrived at the same conclusion you did but i am both a physicist and a marxist so i used a bit of that (mostly the marxist part for the subject is Billionaire. Though if you wish me to conduct an experimental test on the influence of billionaires/millionaires on the laws of motion of an explosive rocket all you need is give me the word and the appropriate sample of rich people, i think i can do with 5000 of them.)
These people remind me of when I was a college freshman. I loved attending colloquiums and looking through graduate textbooks, not understanding a single thing anyone ever said, but still patting myself on the back at how smart it made me feel lmaooo
You can understand a lot of grad books in math (peculiarly if they are well written enough to hold you hand through the concepts and assume no knowledge)
I did something like that as a kid and I think I did kinda get something out of it in that it simply meant that I had seem the words, graphs and so on and didn't have to learn those as well before I started actually learning about a subject. Simply being vaguely familiar with a thing before you start actually learning can be a huge help since it means you have to spend less effort on memorizing stuff. I think I still sorta do this unconsciously today where it's only later that I realize that I didn't actually understand jack shit, I just thought I did because I recognized something.
11:40 "There's like a couple thousand billionaires and most of them understand the importance of silence" Underrated statement of the year right there.
It's the only requirement to be a billionaire, you have to get off on be sadistically cruel (for pleasure AND profit) to the people who actually run society, the poorest among us. The most important caste in any system is the bottom one, whose labour and suffering everything is built by, from, and on top of. The least important caste is the highest, the one that contributes nothing but evil.
@@mightyone3737 Since most of the time they don't directly engage in sadistically cruel acts they can perceive directly and personally, It's probably not required to derive pleasure form that, BUT instead you gotta be very good at compartmentalizing your empathy and/or rationalize it away. Or simply lack it :D. Also the tools they employ to exploit the masses, are so abstract and far removed from their end effects. They look at people mostly in terms of graphs and abstract numbers, sign papers, exchange money around etc. etc. and almost never interact with the consequences of their decisions and the effects of their tools , which inherently allows you to act sociopathically. Like how for example most people are completely fine with , unknowingly or by it rationalizing away , in supporting the needless mass torture and slaughter of factory farmed animals, because they are SO disconnected from the process in modern times . 90+% of people haven't even seen factory farmed processes, and all they see is a nice neatly packaged end product that doesn't even look like the animal it came from, and the package has a drawing of a nice pleasant meadow with flowers and the sun shining over it, with happy smiling chickens on it. And what do they do? They just give some money and receive it, so why would they think they cause anything bad? Basically by the nature of modern society and how money works, everyone has some degree of soft sociopathy, since it reinforces actions with sociopathic results, while hiding the negative effects so most even don't realize that they are sociopathic, or that their thinking and rationalizations are. And the richest people are just on the most extreme end of the spectrum (they are reinforced the most by how society functions , since they benefit the most/become the most invested in it, so naturally they will defend it the most) , but it IS a spectrum and essentially everyone is on it in practice.
@@exekutorexekutor It sounds good but I'll have to risk looking like the "leave the poor bilioners alone" guy for a second. Humanity in general have bottomless capacity for evil. Just as much as we do for good. It is not limited to those on the top, and reducing it to "rich person = evil" won't solve anything and it annoyes me because it distructs us from actually having a chance to change anything
The only thing I disagree with in your video is, when you asked if you were being too harsh on the billionaires. I just disagree with the premise that it's even possible to be too harsh to the billionaires.
We can have billionaires or we can have survival of the human race, but we can't have both. They should be taxed until there aren't any billionaires, and rich people aren't rich enough, to buy governments or newspapers.
Absolutely. You can't accidentally become a billionaire, it takes effort. Greedy, shady, often outright illegal effort. Unless you inherit the billions, in which case if you aren't actively losing it via lobbying to make billionaires impossible to exist, it's also impossible to be too harsh towards you.
my favorite videos are when you talk about social, historia and/or personal stories that are related science. im not a math or hard science person so theres a limit to what i can get from equations or theory’s but I could listen to Angela talk about science communication, water scams, science history, or academic fraud all day i swear.
Oh wow, _Atlas Shrugged_ as a satire is an amazing interpretation. I wish I could experience reading it that way, but there's no way in hell I'm going to re-read it now.
The poorer schools are and the more uneducated people become, the easier it is to literally advertise to them and redefine what intelligence is in the public consciousness. My #1 Blackpill temptation.
@LimeyLassen I don't doubt *some* people will get to earn degrees, but who? The Top 10% who get to take their school choice vouchers to the private charter school, meanwhile everyone else is getting No Child Left Behind-ed into low outcomes. We're about to once again go through an Administration that wants to disembowel the Department of Education, and this is a generation of kids who had 2+ years of learning already disrupted due to COVID. Meanwhile, Gen-Z isn't any less conservative or proactive against this downward spiral than Millenials. The attacks against public schools in previous decades already won; convincing the public that people like Musk are geniuses is just icing.
@@LimeyLassen I am confident there are plenty of Billionaires who would be fine with an agrarian society as long as they get to live in wherever the 'singapore' bit of it is. These people want a corporate dictatorship
A lot of the clips after 6:00 were taken out of context. For example Thiel mentoining that rocket scientists work in wall street just refers to the fact that a lot of people with phyiscs and math degrees end up working in finance. Just mentioning a scientific term doesn't mean that you want to suggest that you have any proficiency.
A mocking question goes, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" Angela turned it upside down: "if you're so rich, why aren't you smart?" As for the billionaires talking about their old interest in physics. . .well, it's kind of like the modern day version of, "If I were not Alexander*, I'd be Diogenes." Preferring to be Alexander, conquering nations, building libraries, and understanding that Diogenes was more vulnerable to his king than vice versa.
To mind: alexander built no city, and founded even fewer libraries (the mousaion was reputedly built by ptolomey but neither did he, the mousaion & serapeum were the scribes & translators & other scholars; thats why the library was so tiny in fact but so much larger in memory. The helenizing project was this vainglory, a pitiance of what the library could have been. The true library at alexandria was the network of thought that it was surrounded by
@@GilTheDragon "WeLL Ack-TuaLLy. . ." My point being that while knowledge is an important pursuit -- perhaps the second greatest pursuit after providing for family and being a good member of the community, etc. -- it can taken to the point of vanity, in both senses of the word. It can render one impotent or servile to their tyrant. Alexander didn't personally build the Library, and Caesar (or the Huns, or Omar, or whoever the you want to blame) didn't personally burn it. Rather, they created the environment or policy, or fostered the mentality that would lead to one or the other outcome. . .or simply gave the command. (The Ptolemy legacy wasn't one of complete intellectual tolerance; my boy Sotades was killed by Ptolemy II for satirizing P's incestuous marriage.) But all that aside, maybe this will help you out a little more: ua-cam.com/video/OyytdYzy3eA/v-deo.html
@ i believe we made the same point. The much vaunted library was burned in neglect not flame. Not the work of an individual but of the many who raised it in the first place
There's an old Bob the Angry Flower comic titled "Atlas Shrugged One Hour Later" where all the billionaires that removed themselves from 'corrupt' society end up having to till the soil because now THEY have to do all the physical labour. It kinda perfectly condenses your criticism about the books plot into a single comic.
Here's my pitch for an alternate version of Atlas Shrugged: All the rich people leave to build a colony on Mars or something. After several generations the colony completely falls apart and the survivors are forced to return to Earth. When they get there, they find that disease, poverty, war, and all other major societal problems were solved almost immediately after all the rich people left.
After several generations?! They'll all die of cholera a week after the first toilet gets clogged. Because you just *know* nobody wants to get their hands dirty.
Atlas Shrugged really makes more sense as a satire. It has always bothered me that of all of the industries in the world, she picked a railroad heiress as the protagonist. Is there any industry that was more dependent on government handouts? Between 1850 and 1871 the government (fed plus states) granted over 281k square miles of land to railroad companies. That is more than the size of Texas. John Galt's backstory was also nonsense. He was an engineer working at a privately owned company when he invented the static motor. But he was mad that the private company decided to pay its employees more, and he thought his coworkers were lazy idiots so he stole the companies IP and left. The government had nothing to do with what happened to him. Hank Rearden is the only character that made sense if it wasn't satire. I have no idea why he wasn't the protagonist.
That's a good point about the railroad industry. It's probably one of the most government-dependent industries of all time (right up there with agribusiness). I doubt Ayn Rand knew much of anything about railroads--or anything else. She claimed to be a philosopher, but also claimed that all philosophy since Aristotle was useless. This reminds me of Angela's science cranks who dismiss all of modern physics.
Atlas Shrugged emphatically was NOT intended as satire. Rand and her groupies thought it her crowning literary achievement. Others, not so much; Dorothy Parker famously said "“Atlas Shrugged is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be THROWN, with great force.”
The ultimate problem IMO with conservatives and libertarians and the right is that their whole scheme is to play on your emotions and your sense of "duty". The right likes to put all the responsibility on the individual which sounds smart and it sounds correct, but it really is just a way to absolve corporations and bad guys for being bad. "Oh you got scammed by a company, well it's YOUR FAULT for being born stupid." "Oh you are poor and will never escape wage slavery? Sorry for being born poor." Ayn Rand always has these characters that are supposed to be perfect and things just work for them when they shouldn't in real life.
Isn't there a saying "if my grannie had wheels she'd been a bicycle"? Sure they could've studied physics, or linguistics or whatever - they chose to do something else. Once upon a time I might have had the opportunity to become a decent chess player - but I directed my efforts elsewhere and that possibility is no longer there.
No that's not the point. These billionaires are already not deserving of the credit or reward they get for their companies. Assuming the mantle of smartest person across all fields is required to justify their ridiculous position in the pseudo-meritocracy.
I think you give them too much credit. The vast majority of these people were born with the best education money can buy. That does NOT look the same as being an actual genius, a la Terence Tau or someone else. They just want you to think theyre the latter, and not that their parents paid for them to attend an Ivy League feeder boarding school like Philips Exeter.
Elon saying Quantum Mechanics was his hardest class in college only tells you he knows next to nothing about physics. Because subjects which ARE ACTUALLY HARD (Like Graduate Electromagnetic theory) are not ‘new science’. Every one is Particle Physicist nowadays smh.
Elon is the perfect example of being born wealthy distorting his perception of reality. He actually believes he deserves his wealth because of his "ahhh...big ahhh... brains..."
@@tomb613 Does NASA engineer Kevin Watson and rocket science expert Tom Mueller call Elon musk smart just for fun? Or do you think they might be basing this on their interactions with him? Have many times have you interacted with Elon musk?
Good god. Is it the new hot thing to claim quantum mechanics is "AcTuaLLy nOt HaRd". I guess Bohr, Feymann, Lamb and so on were just kidding when they said understanding quantum mechanics is hard.
Science, science communication, and most importantly, science literacy can be fortified by a good philosophy background. It's sad that phl is not taught in public schools, is hardly taught at uni, and most popular contemporary phl is glorified bellybutton gazing. For many Americans, "money" is shorthand for "good," "physics," is shorthand for "smart," and "belief" is shorthand for "truth." This fundamental misunderstanding cannot be solved strictly scientifically. Even a basic understanding of logic and epistemology would greatly enhance the general public's ability to see through this stuff. Great video as always. EDIT: Dang, wrote this before the Rand bit.
Where I'm from, many (most?) graduation courses in the sciences don't have a single required credit in anything related to epistemology, so the disregard for philosophy seems very transversal
Yeah, all that stuff about Aristotle's metaphysics and Kantian ethics I learned is mostly trivia for me now, or at best helps me get in the mindset of a pre-modern person. But the ability to sniff out bullshit is still invaluable.
People would benefit so much, from understanding the difference between, believing something and knowing something. Also, that everyone has wrong beliefs, which comes from the capacity for abstract thinking. And how testing your beliefs, and changing your beliefs, when your eyes and ears show you, that your belief is wrong, doing that makes you a better person, and is less painful, than ignoring your eyes and ears, and sticking with your wrong beliefs.
Thanks god I picked up a bunch of philosophy texts and shit when I was really younger, because studying a science degree with no epistemology is down bad. How can one do _science_ if they haven't taught you what science is in the first place?
Sure, but it also gets in her judging Bezos fairly. When she gets to Bezos, she's unable to give credit where credit is due. She says that Bezos responds "like someone is supposed to respond" when someone compares him to Einstein, as if he would have claimed himself as smart as Einstein if it weren't for the fact that people that would mock him for it. She also states that she doesn't want to cast Bezos in too positive of a light. He presumably received good grades in all his physics courses at PRINCETON since he graduated with a 4.2 GPA with a BSE in electrical engineering as summa cum laude. Bezos compared himself to his classmate (Yasantha Rajakarunanayake), who grasped the material better than with less effort, and voluntarily bowed out because he knew he was not going to be as talented of a physicist as his classmate. That classmate, btw, would later on obtain a PhD in Applied Physics at CALTECH. Intro Quantum Mechanics is upper level undergraduate physics. Take your average physics major of middling talent at a middling university in their junior year. How many would compare themselves to the students in the top of their class and say to themselves "well even though I got an A in this class I had to put in way more effort than this other guy who barely studied at all so I don't think I'm cut out for this"? Very few would. It takes a lack of and ego and a lot of self-awareness to admit that your A at a top university isn't equal to a smarter person's A, and to change majors based on that. Give Bezos MORE credit, because I'm sure most of you with sub 4.0 GPA from lesser schools would not have done that. Moreover, I view her stating her social views as stepping outside her lane. No one likes when Neil deGrasse Tyson does it, that is, thinking because he's a physicist he's as qualified as anyone else to speak about any quantitative subject outside of physics. She's a physicist, not a philosopher who studied the ethics of being richer than others.
@@evan3617 Bezos is the oddball in this because he seems to understand what physics is and where his abilities begin and end. Most of those billionaires seem to struggle in knowing where is the edge what what they "can" do is. But Bezos is still like his peers in that he has a very different idea of where the edge of what he "should" do is than those of us who see that creating billions in wealth requires employing systems of exploitation against people more vulnerable to systematic exploitation and oppression. That doesn't make him better really. The fact that he seems more self aware and to have a more clear-eyed perspective on reality might make him morally culpable in some ways than someone wildly out of touch like Musk. Bezos probably knows what he's doing.
@@mgmchenryyeah, I agree with what you and the previous commenter said about him knowing his abilities, but that said competence obviously =/= morality. The guy might have respect for science and skill, but he’s still a monster.
For the Newbie if you are actually trading in the crypto space and you don't have a sound mentor. Then you are certainly going to get liquidated in 90% of your trades. Yeah that's sad truth. I remember when i just got into crypto back in 2019 but later in 2020 i ended up selling it because i have lost alot trading all by myself without a guide. Got back into crypto early in 2024 with $20k and I'm up with $232k in a short period of time
Yes true, I have been in touch with a brokerage Advisor. With an initial starting reserve of $75k, my advisor chooses the entry and exit commands for my portfolio, which has grown to approximately $550k.
My main concern is how to survive all of these financial and political crisis, especially in light of the US political power scuffle. The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance.
I think investors should always put their cash to work, especially In 2025, we'll start to see more market diversification. I'm hoping to invest about $350k of my savings in stocks against next year. Hope to make millions in 2025.
I suggest that hiring a portfolio coach is a smart move and that in this case, patience is your best friend. I make a lot of investments and cannot afford to take the risk of doing it alone. Instead, since the rona outbreak began in late 2019, my portfolio has been maintained by a qualified advisor. I only need about $86k more to reach my one million dollar ROI goal
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Same. She is the only creator who hates the last season as much as me. Everybody else's bar seemed to have been lowered by so much by that time, that they actually liked that garbage.
Much as I sympathize with wanting new, good Trek. I'm still kinda amazed that anybody bothered to watch that show. I sat down to watch the first episode after the 1st season aired just to see if it was really as bad as people were making it out to be and I couldn't even make it through the whole episode.
That video was excellent. I did actually really enjoy Star Trek: Picard season 2, but I enjoy Angela's videos, and was happy to listen to her hating the show Picard for almost 4 hours.
Please note that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was studying chemistry before going big with the band in the 90s, after he accumulated his wealth he went back and finished his PhD in Chem/molecular biology, same goes for Brian May of the band Queen, PhD in physics
at this point I feel like I have to thank him for helping me realize how many of my childhood dreams would have had me working for a MIC contractor one way or another
They haven't made them cringe, but they have made a lot of places that talk about such things cringe. I can hardly go to any space tech forum without being bombarded by insanely ignorant SpaceX fans telling me about how Starship (a vehicle that is heavily behind schedule and still in preliminary testing for basic functions and barely making progress) has changed everything and made NASA and others obsolete. And not even "is likely to make", not even "I am sure will make", they are talking about it in the present tense, "Has made", "Can do X and Y and Z", even as it kept exploding on the launchpad. These people are not just cringe, they are lunatics.
Bloody hell. They released the flight logs and Bill Gates was never on any of the "Lolita Express" aeroplanes. There's one plane log with Bill Gates's name on it and the log shows ‘Bill Gates’ noted as a passenger on March 1, 2013, from Teterboro airport in New Jersey (TEB) to Palm Beach International airport, Florida (PBI) not to anywhere Epstein was up to his disgusting crimes. It's been proven beyond doubt that Gates never went to any of Trump's best friends' sex crime sites. But I guess you already know the facts and have decided your Facebook posts and memes on Twitter are real evidence and not the actual flight logs!
Good luck to you. But maybe understanding that having an advanced education in physics isn't a guarantee against going broke could be behind why people decided to devote their time, labors, and intellectual prowess somewhere else. But, again, I sincerely wish you well.
@@steffenbendel6031 he's convinced enough people that don't know better and now they have a literal vested interest in keeping the ruse going . He also does have a product at the end of the day even if it falls short of expectations he set up for it (this is where Elizabeth Holmes went wrong)
@@steffenbendel6031 Elon is the son of a South African diamond mining gazillionaire. He is one of those fortunate few who was born on third base and tells everyone they hit a triple. Starting out with unlimited funds is a swell way to make money.
Elon wants to be Iron Man so bad it makes him look stupid. It also makes Tony Stark look like a saint by comparison, and the further we go into this timeline, the funnier it is that Elon has a half-second cameo in the second Iron Man movie and that's as close as he'll ever get.
I’ve read maybe a dozen popular physics books this year, and after about ten deep, I thought I could be a particle physicist. Then I started working through an old high school text book, and I was reminded real quick why I’m a general contractor. But surely it’s okay to be interesting in physics and have a working conceptual framework of the basic set of facts.
That's about as honest comment I've read in this thread. . ..myself speaking as someone who 'knows enough' about both physics and general contracting to understand I have a LOT to learn if were to call myself either a physicist or contractor. . .or at least a general contractor whose projects don't fall apart mid-construction or soonafter.
Evidence of our intellect is that we let the scientists do all the annoying math-y stuff while we delight in the speculative scientific storytelling that comes out of it. 😉
That's not Musk, Jobs, Zuck et al are doing though. They're not just indulging an interest, they're using their interest in physics (sincere or not) as a rhetorical device to make themselves appear to have the qualities people assume physicists to have, such as rationality, objectivity, rigour, inquisitiveness, dedication, a certain lack of self-interest, etc. This then serves to cast their self-indulgent and/or profit-seeking actions in a more positive light.
@@NameRealperson ". . . the qualities people assume physicists to have, such as rationality, objectivity, rigour, inquisitiveness, dedication, a certain lack of self-interest, etc. " You really got to lose the 'righteousness'. As the Manhattan Project, the later development of the hydrogen bomb, or even just the thousands of geophysicists who ply their knowledge to oil exploration show, there are more than enough physicists out there who will do anything for a pay check, even if they know the result will be the murder of thousands, or further contaminating the world. Studying physics is hard, and one can't manage to even get an undergrad if they're dumb; it's also interesting and inspiring AF. . . that might be why some of these guys who have higher-than-average IQs had an early interest in it. But the application of physics is not always strictly moral. . . and, again, even 'well-meaning' physicists (or chemists, geologists, etc.) have little qualm with bending their college-level ethics if it means that the only way they can make a living.
ANGELA I ALSO READ AND ENJOYED ATLAS SHRUGGED AND THE FOUNTAIN HEAD. when i was like 14 i read those books and loved them. later i reflected on them while talking to a friend, and it all clicked. even then i thought of myself as leaning left but somehow i just didnt recognize rand's writing as the libertarian pornography that it is. this section of the vid was so unexpected i honestly wish i could call you and talk about this, because nobody understands.
exact same experience here - I read them at 16, and I had zero understanding of the concept. I took the entire premise at face value as a FANTASY book premise almost and didn’t consider the implications of all of that applied to real life. Worse yet, I retained my fondness for the book for years without ever really thinking about in, and had to have some awkward conversations with people where I basically asked “But why tho,” was the book considered such garbage propaganda. I probably sounded bad faith as fuck asking that. And now that I am an adult, of course, it’s clear as day.
I imagine it's because physics, has an air of intelligence over some other subjects deserved or not, has a broad scope and is often about the fundamentals. Therefore when they are trying to sell their snake oil or whatever. It sounds like it's coming from an expert, in the intelligent subject and all they need to know is a couple of fundamental principles and that's it because they want to talk about physics. Not the intricacy of C mutiple decades after Bill Gates has ever typed a line of code, yet is tens of billion of dollars richer, for example.
@@whataboutthis10 You missed the point.....and that's not surprising. The biggest problem for many physicists is that they lack "big picture" introspection and morph in to elitist cultists.
So many people unironically say "We're building a house" .. when they are having a house built. Like some people do actually build their own house, but not many.
My Dad built the home we lived in near Cannon Beach, OR. And he built my aunt's home in Astoria, I got to help him with that. He did most of the work himself, due to not having the money to hire other people. But he did pay for the plans, and he paid for the premixed cement to be delivered, for the foundation. That was back around 1983 he started work on ours, and 1989 he built his sister's. He did carpentry and building work in the 70's and 80's.
People say it because it sounds cool. Or at least, they think so. And I think some people actually believe they're doing the hard work, when they hire someone to build them a house. They have no idea how much actual work goes into building a house.
Angela I just gotta say thank you for keeping it real. I’m your average armchair physics enthusiast NPC and I adore your unfiltered opinion. it really helps keep me honest and hopefully respecting the profession.
On a side note, in a day and age where so many have so little to live on, it really should be highly illegal for any single person to have more than a billion in the bank.
As a Serb, I thought that the American people viewed their billionaires as little gods. I had no idea that there was criticism in your society of their promotions in public. Thanks for this video.
Americans want to string up billionaires just like everyone else in the class war. But the billionaires control the media so you mainly hear what they want you to hear. (Amazon's Jeff Bezos owns a major news paper, Elon Musk owns X, ...)
Many of us feel that way, it's just that most of the media is subservient to, if not outright owned by said billionaires so they're usually shone in favorable light in most things you might watch or read.
Go look up what happened to united healthcare's former ceo, Brian Thompson (if I say what happened my comment might get deleted). Many Americans not only sympathize with the man who did it, but wish they could do a similar thing themselves.
Not sure about the others, but Musk is a genius. Denying that is childish at best. You dont have to like the guy and/or his followers but he is right there with any scientist of recent times and will be remembered as such...
Economists were the first to have "Physics Envy", then it was esoterists (quantum this, quantum that,..), then most Billionaires smart enough to notice the aura of credibility emanating from displaying appreciation of physics, have adopted the "intelligence perfume" !
As a layperson I had to stop at 17:01 -- as I agreed with every criticism of yours against these Billionaire-bumble heads. But, they do hire physicists and engineers with physics backgrounds and pay them millions, and some with equity, tens of millions. SpaceX, Tesla, Neural Link, Microsoft, Google -- all of them had to hire physicists for many of their product development...all of them have current or ex staff and consultants with a physics background. Curt Jaimungal, host of Theories of Everything, has a Masters in Physics (I believe, def not a Phd.) and goes TOE to TOE with the world's leading physicists. So, a Phd is not necessary when you are hiring them. I do not want to defend Gates nor Bezos and definitely not Musk -- when you're building rocket-ships or pouring billions in investment across several near or Free-Energy solutions for mankind -- you hire physicists.
As a physicist, I want you to know that I could have been a billionaire.
The uno reverse card move, I like it.
Same man. Same. But I’m not a physicist…
Being a billionaire doesn’t take smarts, it takes luck, so you’re not wrong.
@@polygondeath2361 and a lot of greed
i was about to comment exactly this 😂
As a chemist I want everyone to know I could have been Pablo Escobar.
Instead I pump liquid sugar into holes 😢
I feel like there was a chemist dude who was a bit like Pablo Escobar. Walter something....
Walter dick @@R_S747
@@R_S747 Waltuh. Why're you referencing the show under a physics video, Waltuh.
@@littlecousin5630 Put your pipette away, Waltuh.
I can’t stop chuckling at “Bro, you have a billion dollars…just go to college “
Or build your own lab and go crazy. All these guys get mad science money and do boring things with their dosh.
Gotta keep going to those investor meetings at high end restaurants and golf courses bro. It's hard work to stay a billionaire.
The inclusion of google map directions was funny and when she said DO IT all i could think of was Shia Labeouf
Yeah, but that's actual work.
In billionaire defense, learning hard science post 40 is a lot harder than being 18-30.
“I wish I could study physics.”
“Do it, then.”
An average person could say, “I have to earn a living,” or “I have to take care of my aged mother,” but billionaires don’t have those excuses, do they?
I’ve got to admit you made me have a grudging respect for Jeff Bezos, because he said “I quit physics because it was really hard,” instead of giving some cock and bull story about why he’s not a physicist.
"But it seemed so easy for those other guys" _is_ a cock and bull story. It's hard for basically everyone. It's just hard. Of course there are genius edge cases, but those don't stop the other 99.9% of students who want to put in the work.
@@narfwhals7843 "Seemed easy for everyone else" I don't think is a deliberate lie because many people come to those conclusions because they don't have contact with other people who struggle with the same issue. Especially if your interest was for physics and most others seem to be measured
This is not to make Bezos look like a relatable dude, the dude's still a vicious robber baron who's an absolute idiot in many things he thinks he knows about, but I wanted to point out that this is a very common emotional logic that goes through people that struggle with a particular subject.
@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 Yeah I was going to say the same something similar - those guys he was talking about were like a handful of guys at Princeton who were probably better than Bezos - those guys may have had their struggles but from Bezos' eyes, they probably just had it easier which to him translated to "just got it"
@@narfwhals7843Pretty sure Bezos was talking about a very specific handful of people though.
To be fair, I dropped out of college to get a job to take care of my sick mom. I ended up coming back after she got better, but sick mom was more of a deterrent than a motivating factor.
I've always wanted to do physics, but life had a different plan for me; so now I exploit people and systems for money.
But even that you did not study it, you still follow the rules of physics, even to the degree of quantum gravity. Real protege.
No need to exploit anyone. Just find the right people for your team and enter into voluntary transactions with them to exchange your money for their effort and expertise.
@@brianernzen2509 - Tell that to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Nike, Apple, the oil industry, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and so on and so forth.
Or you can continue to lick boots, if that's your thing.
@@brianernzen2509
You're not exploiting the system, it is exactly how the system is supposed to work.
I was a professional musician for 25 years. Now I’m in college for physics. The romantic, overblown notions about music and physics are remarkably similar.
I was thinking about this because I've been really involved in the contemporary poetry world and non-poets are always describing things as "poetry" or maybe even talking about reading poetry but nobody actually reads poetry, nobody buys poetry books outside maybe of like one poet they read in high school or college and decided they liked and they bought one book of that poet's and look at it every once in awhile. It's wildly romanticized but in reality it's just this niche, not-very-popular genre of writing.
Your right, poetry is pretty niche. The only example I know of a contemporary well known poet is Philip Larkin, who wrote, "This Be The Verse", a poem about how parents cause problems to their kids.
I also read poetry online by a creative guy who makes drawings and poems about fishing. Well not fishing exactly, I made a typo and wrote an h where there was supposed to be a t. He's pretty good and knows how to enjoy life to the fullest.
What do they say about music?
so true
Your 3rd sentence is very unclear, ambiguous even. Consider cleaning it up? Like are you literally talking about the notions? What notions? That is pretty content free. Are you talking about the aspects of the two that are similar? Usually its math and music being compared that way. But it could be physics.
It's the intellectual equivalent of the wannabe tough guy staple: "I almost joined the military."
Almost went pro in football at college until I took an arrow to the knee.
“I played college ball you know, could’ve gone pro if I hadn’t joined the Navy.”
“At some cushy Ivy League school”
“Try university of Texas!”
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Bingo !
Hey i didn't wanna be a tough guy but even i almost joined the military.
I wish you could see how close my fingers are right now, thats how close it was
People have weird ideas about physics. Every time I tell a "normal" (i.e. non-nerd) person that I have a post-graduate degree in physics, they immediately go "OH MY GOD, you must be SOOOO SMART, I could NEVER imagine doing something like that!!!" And it's nice to be told you're smart, but people take it to a level that's kinda. . . weird and off-putting. I don't want people to think of me as some kind of brainologist lording over the prole idiots with my massive intellect. But of course billionaires do want that.
Yeah same. I'm in an undergraduate program for just general physics and everyone treats me like I'm some galaxy level genius. Sure, I can be, but I'm not anymore genius than someone studying literature, or even a janitor.
Idk. Maybe it's something to do with the whole myth of thr "Great Man" concept where one single person will save the world with their genius intelligence or whatever.
tbh I think a lot of people also say that because they fall back on stereotypical responses when talking about stuff like that with people they don't know well. I've noticed that I always say the same sort of stuff to people doing sciences despite the fact that the people I know who do those things do not appear to be smarter in any way outside of their degree. in fact, they're often pretty bad at other subjects just like most other people. turns out people are just better at different things most of the time! and yet I'll probably never stop doing the 'oooh that sounds hard, I could never do that! you poor soul' routine lol🤷🏻♀️ apologies
@@chickenfoot2423 i study the Chinese language and i don't even know math because I'm lazy...
But certain people think i must be SUCH a genius because i make time in my day to memorize Chinese characters
Literally just rote memorization and some simple grammar bro, but because most people can't even imagine where to start, they think it's the devils work.
You live in an anti-intellectual country
I teach science and some mathematics at a highschool while finishing my masters in physics, and it has given me a new perspective on my degree and relationship with the STEM fields: it is actually and truly difficult for a majority of people. Like a different type of difficult than what I think physics students would experience. Going from a concrete phenomena to an abstraction and mapping that to other applicable systems and problems is actually a major challenge. So embrance it just a little, you are a smartass
I like the "just do the thing" advice. That's what Queen's guitar player, Brian May, did. He got his phd in astrophysics in 2007.
That's awesome
@@reikoshea Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the guy but I respect that about him.
To be fair, he earned a BSc in physics (with Honours) decades prior to earning his Phd, he was offered a research position with lead to his doctorate at the time, but decided music was more important. He's one of those enviable people who are both incredibly academically and artistically gifted.
And he'd already done some of the work leading to his dissertation.
*_Dr Becky_* has a video reviewing the published book of *_Brian May's_* dissertation.
It has pictures from his time doing the _field work_ for it at a research station.
And he wasn't even a billionaire! I feel like these billionaires are maybe just full of shit.
Doing a single integral and saying you have a physics background is extremely on-brand for Elon Musk.
You can find people online who treat the fact that they can do calculus as a mark of genius. I am embarrassed for these people.
I think the Twitter-posted 1st-year homework is a prime example of exactly how he got rich: pitching to people who can't see through the fact that his knowledge is quite basic. Once you can see it, he's a joke. He is 100% bluff. It's a reflection of these times & the dynamics that drive this era.
muskrat was too busy learning ‘more about manufacturing than anybody else in the world at this time’
@@alastairleith8612 The moron literally said that with a straight face too.
How did the interviewer refrain from saying "Do you think the witnesses to the nearly 3000 automated driverless cars that have crashed after being manufactured by you would think that?"
@@alastairleith8612 He does seem to manufacture a lot of stuff
I don’t think its weird at all for these people. It’s about their ego. Physics, in pop culture is shorthand for smart. “It’s rocket science.”
I think, because this is your day job, there is no mystique for you. But to the vast majority of people who don’t have a STEM degree, it’s a kind of an appeal to the authority that physics, as an idea, has.
I think you could call it the halo effect. That these billionaires want their decisions to be regarded as coming from a great esoteric intellect, that is beyond the questioning of mere mortal man. That, I believe is the point. Physics, for most, in inscrutable, and so there is this acceptance of what a physicist says as being beyond them, but true. Billionaires want their choices to be seen in the same light. I really think that’s the end goal. Don’t question me or my greed. It’s as above you, as physics is.
Very well put. 👏 👏
wow this is insightful, thank you
just commenting to say, this is a very good comment
That's really a great way to present this argument.
Do you write? You should if you don't. You have a great voice.
I wonder if Albert Einstein was a botanist every billionaire would be like “I smelled a flower once. It smelled nice”
You guys think so much of your 4 year bachelors. According to you all if you didn't finish a bachelors you cant comment on physics. Even if you read tons of books take lectures and hire 100 s of physicists according to you all the 4 year degree is still king. Silly af.
@@greatestever9616strawman
@@greatestever9616 spoken like someone who doesn't know the academic hierarchy. If you do an undergrad you're still a pissant to postgrad students doing their Masters or PhD. Even when you're a postdoc you're "just" a tutor who couldn't get a real position to the tenured professors. And the professors are closeted losers to the ones out in the private sector flogging VC startups dreaming of being the next billionaire
@@greatestever9616Please go to school and fix ur damn gramma.
@@greatestever9616 If its so easy to get the degree, why didn't they get it? They can afford it, right? Silly af
Remember this :
Oprah once asked how Michelle Obama got over feeling intimidated sitting at big tables filled with smart, powerful men and Michelle said, _You realize pretty quickly that a lot of them aren’t that smart._
yup. try my commentariat. " We agree, largely. My brother , who was booted from MIT because of pol activity 'Rosa Luxembourg group he formed 1968. Friend of Noam Chomsky at time, feminist fam, Mom internationally, dad director research Western Electric, 58 to 64, mom held national org presidencies, taught history women in science, Princeton grad seminar, much more. A scientist uses the scientific method, even in the humanities...technicians and technologists are, if scientific, only in VERY narrow specializations. Those called scientists are sometimes competent in one area, but a joke elsewhere, Michio Kaku at the bottom, Tyson, who waffles endlessly and who said first trillionaire would 'solve asteroid mining.' !!! Knowing what does not understand is hardest...and the developmentally infantile tend to be narcissistically and SCIENTISTICALLY delusional. Trump only chooses such lowest lifes. Here are related commentaries, written to other channels.
Science tech fantasy is fun, but virtually all high tech seen there is impossible...force fields, space vessels capable of going interstellar distances... Locating even single-celled life within hundreds of lightyears...life that survives 4 billion years, taking most of that time just to get to eukaryotes, complex single celled life...'transporting' teleporting, is impossible in EVERY sense, starting with accurate measurement at the quantum...and to the macroscopic...range
There are also endless reasons why no life form can travel from star to star. Even if we had 2 earth-mass planets in our orbit at the Trojan Points, one with life...different evolution, so even if DNA based, different proteins and the rest...one lifeless...we could not live on either....terraforming is laughable....a billion years?
When coal is gone~~oil and gas, recoverable, gone in a century, more or less....machine age ends forever, assuming humans survive Anthropocene, as unknowable NOW, as life elsewhere will be.....forever. Hand and hoof, stone and wood...just like 300 years ago...some charcoal and even coke, artificial coal...from cellulose. But we use a million years deposits of life YEARLY...to have enough wood to supply billions....in a thousand years, if we survive Anthropocene...unknowable that, now.... THEN, no computers...hell, no bicycles. Medical laboratories, vaccines, antibiotics, chemotherapy, air conditioners...and the poisons mined and made will take a short geologic age to be reburied below the only biosphere we can ever even KNOW of. Anti-science theocracies, far worse than magagagers, would likely rule... think bronze and iron age, and not much of either. When it takes more in fuel to mine fuel...think, how deep and dirty MACHINES dig down to until the Collapse... "
Within a week at Princeton I found my polymath parents were right...most successful people are only competent in a narrow area, esp. if in hard science...cookbook scientists open a book and it tells them what to think and do. Generalist here...fantasy rules, with money, almost in all...racism, nationalism, Social Darwinism...idea rich are intelligent, adult, responsible, educated, rational, consistent and empathic !!!!!!!!...sexism, literal theisms, mysticisms...and worst now...fantasy of future high tech 'cures' for....high tech. Infants and speculative, untethered adolescents run the world. We evolved as scavenger, forager/gatherer, hunter/predator, fishers. Competence and survival does not require understanding, largely. Competition trumps cooperation. More later. I grew up with the rich and influential. Sigh. It doesn't look good, when the roosters come home to rousts, after the boasts. Drill baby drill makes the few richest a little richest, VERY NEAR FUTURE...after old white men die, they care not...no mirror neurons. Tramp would sell Ivantkaka for a farthing, since she stopped giving him lap-dances as a tween. see the clip...and Junior recently, near dad, finger in left jacket pocket, then rubbing on right side teeth....the nervously glancing stage right at daddums dearest. see the clip...can't unsee any of them. DANKE.
Michelle Obama is not smart
Under-appreciated comment.
Coming from her, that is pretty funny.
Michelle calmly replies to (billionaire) Oprah: "Uhhhh.... the same way you did."
I too went to college to pursue physics and realized I was too stupid and in way over my head and dropped out. Where is my billion dollars?
Same here 😞
You gotta be ruthless instead.
How do you know you were too stupid for physics? Was it because the other students kept talking about how smart they are? or was it because the teachers were bad at teaching physics? I found both of those in the same physics class.
@@javiernajar1457Likely the math.
@@javiernajar1457Do you have any idea the math?
There is a comment by Dan Olsen from Folding ideas - tech bros understand one complicated thing, so they think all other things are less complicated.
That was true before ~2000. Nowadays they’re all MBAs, and understand one thing: making money.
@@TheGotoGeek I was about to answer exactly that 🙂
@@TheGotoGeek "It's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo, because the status is...not...quo. The world is a mess and I just need to...rule it." -Dr. Horrible
So your counter to the point that they know one complicated thing is to say they only know one thing?
This has always been a thing with technical people- have you ever met an engineer?
"no physicist would ever think they're smarter than a biologist" at this point in the video, this is the only thing I have to disagree on. A big part of physicists I know, do exactly that. Think their smarter and better than non physicists. There are a few fields they respect, but still think they're the pinnacle of intelligence. And this opinion(?) is being taught in university too. Many professors think that way. Often they don't even notice it. It's internalised.
Biologist here. Many of the physicists-turned-biologists that are now tackling problems in their quantitative biology labs most definitely do think they're smarter than all of the biologists. It is also true that many of them are very good and make excellent collaborators. They often bring with them a different set of experimental and analytical tools.
Yeah especially towards biology I've def encountered some snobbery and it never fails to piss me off. But I'm lucky in that my circles are pretty good at avoiding that. The only universally demeaned subject is non-accounting related business students
Well, that's foolish. A single person can only learn so much and can only spend so much time staying up-to-date in their chosen field(s), so they're simply not going to have all the knowledge people in other fields do. It's what everyone in the sciences needs to learn if they ever want to stop chasing their own tail and get any interesting research done.
I think there is a kernel of truth in that idea, in that biology courses just do not require a high enough level of understanding in maths. This becomes an issue when these students go on to do real research, where they struggle to understand the full implication of the statistical models they use for said research.
I did a bioengineering course at a "world's top 10 uni", and my physiology lecturer didn't understand the difference between Σ(1/n) and 1/(Σ(n)) when talking about vascular resistance, even when I specifically pointed that out to him after the lecture.
This happens with every other rich or semi-rich stranger I meet too! The moment I mention I'm a physicist they will casually bring up that they started studying physics when young, then they quickly figured out it's a pointless pursuit, and they then switched to studying x, y, z that made them rich. And then they will be mean to you too
That sounds like negging, lol.
It sounds like they are jealous of you.
When smart people meet another smart person often they think, "This is great, now I can have an interesting conversation".
But when smart people meet an insecure person, the insecure person tries to drag them down, to make themselves look better by comparison. People who do that, are not worth keeping in your life, because they intentionally annoy you, every time they get the chance.
@@davidestabrook5367 ding ding ding. They’re insecure about their intellect surely.
If the only point of life is money then everyone will be a wh0re.
this video is actually a pitch for Bill Gates to pay Angela millions of dollars to teach him physics
😂😂😂 send it to him
Anything to distract him from actively making Windows worse with every update.
ah that explains the winter cleavage.
i volunteer for bill gates's physics harem
@@Ballosopheraptor he's paying people to do that for him now
These billionaires are so smart. Did you know they have read ALL the books by Richard Feynman?
Wow that's incredible. There must be a lot of those... right... right...
I can thumb through pages and pretend to be smart too!😅
I met a child today, no joke 5 years old. She has read all, and I mean all, of the books written by Feynman. Genius
Bill Gates actually had PERSONAL bongo lessons from Feynman
I understood that reference.
lmao "I thought it was a joke" is possibly the most savage burn to Objectivism possible and I love it
OMG the part when you say that these billionaires could just spend their money in private physics tutors and actually learn physics is absolutely great
They can afford private time with the best professors and tutors and they just dont. its wild
@@pacotaco1246 Is it wild or lazy or are we missing the point? What if they just want to be associated with names like Einstein while obscuring the fact that they are actually just a bunch of greedy dicks.
They already graduated from Billionaire U
nooo, they work 3 trillions of hours per week those men. they don't have time to learn anything. it's tuesday and they have to go on their seventh podcast of the week!!!
It's funny to hear billionaires complain that people don't like billionaires because they could literally choose to not be a billionaire at any time.
The reason these billionaires don't just (actually) learn physics is that it would require confronting the fact that there are lots of not-rich people way smarter than they are.
The corollary to that is that a lot of normal people don't want to believe that there are lots of dumb people way richer than they are.
Yeah that's the weird flipside of this, like aren't they implying that there are like thousands of people out there who could be much richer than them? Like why aren't all the people with physics degrees billionaires? Did they all just decide they didn't want to be rich?
@@hedgehog3180 It's this ugly idea that the physicists are smart because they're smart but they're also dumb for deciding to use their skills to help humanity instead of getting rich
And they wouldn't always get to be right, and fawned over
If physicist are so smart, why don't they just solve our global problems?
Guess what physicists are not actually smart, they are just good a physics.
We are all Physicists, we have read all the books written by Feynman
Angela cinematic universe is coming together
The many many books written by Feynmann and Jesus and Socrates
We are all made of stars, I hear.
I understood that reference...because of this channel.
I was born having read every book written by Feynman. I am that good.
"Am I being too hard on billionaires?" Hell to the naw. You didn't even once bring up guillotines and their nutritious fatty acid content.
nutritious fatty acid?
Let's not be too harsh. Tar and feathers would be a good place to start.
They are probably carcinogenic at this point and you could catch prion diseases eating them!
I appreciate that you call out sexual harassment.
Me too, I wish she didn't have to, but unfortunately it keeps happening, so talking about it is required. It happens to all ages and genders, and false reports are both terrible and pretty rare. SA unfortunately is not rare, which is why we need good education about it in schools.
People often get harassed for talking about it, so I very much appreciate the people, with the integrity and courage, to call it out.
And that's without even mentioning Bill Gates was BFF's with Epstein and continued flying to his island on the Lolita express even after he had been convicted, or that Musk has repeatedly offered his sperm to random women at dinner parties (for real), impregnated and/or has been grape-y with countless subordinates at his companies, and tweeted the worlds creepiest message to Taylor swift, etc
@@davidestabrook5367 False reports are pretty common actually. Don't know if you like, have been paying attention to nearly all of the most famous sexual harassment accusations.
Also, most of the most prolific and long lasting cases are old dudes in powerful positions. I actually don't see the value in talking about it other than preaching to the choir.
Like this channel.
"Hey...unsolicited d1ck pics are...not wanted"
I have never and don't know anyone who has done this...I'm sure alot of women have gotten them. But it's like "raising awareness" about murder.
How much does this really help? The people who compulsively do these things are just going to do them until they are made to stop.
"Teach boys to not r4p3." Is one that has always caused me to scratch my head.
I don't think that's how that works.
Is it a Physics academia problem or a
It's a reflection of general cultural problem?
@@manucsharmaboth. She did make a whole video about how it manifests in Astronomy and Physics, you should check it out.
"Does it count as philanthropy if you just horde your wealth like a little tiny dragon, and then sometimes throw some pennies at malaria?" lolololol
Yes it is, just ask Warren Buffet!
If he didn’t have billions, he wouldn’t be able to donate billions to help solve malaria. She’s idiotic.
There's actually a lot more Gates does with his money other than just "throw it at problems" but the point wouldn't be as catchy if she were to include that. Actually go educate yourself on his philanthropic work, come back and tell me he's this big bad monster that's the same as every other billionaire.
@@BUSeixas11if he truly was a philanthropist, he’d donate all the fucking billions and stop being a billionaire altogether
@@timbelcijan9858lol stop bootlicking
The thought of billionaires being just that extremely smart is just comforting. It's comforting to think "yeah, the only reason I'm toiling every day to afford housing and food is that I'm not smart enough to be a billionaire"
Once you realize how not that smart they really are, it starts to crawl on you, how much in this society is stacked against you and how few people care...
You think someone who manages to learn how to run an entire business based off of there capabilities without being screwd by investors are not smart people?
@@badyoutuber1986 Being good at a certain thing doesen't necessarily mean you are smart in a general sense. And it doesen't make you immune from cognitive biases.
Not to mention there are legitimately some people that fail upwards.
@@badyoutuber1986 And to add insult to injury, it is an honorable propensity of our civil structure that being evilly wise in the ability to earn money is much more fortuitous and rewarded than many other endeavors. I think you extend to much skill to a system that promotes such things.
@@TheArrowedKnee But are the people that she is specifically talking about failed upwards? Did they claim that they are physicists or that they have an interest and or fascination in the subject..? You can down play there cognitive capabilities all you want but their presence is evidence to the contrary.
@@RobertTempleton64 if I'm extending to much skill to these people then why aren't the majority of us in there position right now?
as someone who used to be an unironic libertarian until i turned about 20 and realized that my magic brain wasn't going to automatically make me fabulously wealthy, as someone who used to see myself as one of those movers, the elite few geniuses who come along once in a genetation to turn the wheel of history forwards, your description of atlas shrugged made me laugh my ass off, because i used to be one of those delusional people. nobody treats me like I'm special, how will they like it when i deprive the world of my special genius brain. (no response) hello? special genius here, threatening to stop contributing my special genius to the world, if people like me all stopped contributing then the world would simply stop progressing and crumble to ruin, don't tempt me!!!
these days i realize that I'm just a neurodivergent manchild who happens to be very good at like 4 things and wasn't told "no" enough when i was a kid.
i have a lot to contribute to the world, but I'm not made of gold. extraordinary contributions are something that i need to expend conscious effort in order to make.
I don't shit rainbows, but i might be able to sweat rainbows if i can find my place and apply myself.
gifted kid pathology meets real world (GRAPHIC)
This a stunning amount of self awareness and even though I don't know you, I'm proud of you for being able to grow past this.
Very relatable, gifted child burnout is real. I used to think im so cool for passing without studying and got absolutely smacked at university where you cant cram 4 months in 4 hours.
Learning to learn is important, at the same time you might be too harsh on yourself since being neurodivergent comes with a lot of challenges thay most people never have to face including bullying, crippling loneliness, depression and problems with executive functioning. Be kind to youself especially when the world isnt friend
Dude this made me laugh out loud 😂, pretty relatable. I was told that I'd be the first black president as a kid just because I could do multiplication without a calculator... One Obama later and I'm realizing i don't really have much to offer lmao.
That must have been a hell of a realization. Props for powering through
I tell my students this all the time: If you gave me a billion dollars, I'd go to college for the rest of my life!
Same. I wish I could afford to just keep going to formal school, or hiring tutors. 😅
Learning is so fun❤
You can't teach yourself?
I would set up a workshop, a dedicated place for blacksmithing, steelworking and woodworking, a stocked up electronical and mechanical components storage, a fully geared up car garage, a chemistry + electronics lab with everything you could ever need like fumehoods and spectrum analyzers, a dedicated library (maybe adjacent to a nice place for reads and thoughts like an orangery where all my favourite plants would go?) and a novelty/antique science/technology objects collection... and then I'd have enough to do til the end of my life.
For me, it's funny and ridiculous santa checklist, but a billionaire literally would set this up (rather *have* it set up for them) in an afternoon.
@@alsetsolar3450 As enjoyable and rewarding as that is, it's not the same as being directly taught by an expert. The big thing you get out of a tertiary education isn't the lectures, it's the labs/tutorials/other sessions where you are directly interacting with the educators. Like, I got heaps out of all the lectures I attended about biology and environmental science! But I could have accessed the information in those lectures myself if I wanted to. Sure, it's valuable that some very intelligent, very well-informed people *curated* that info for me. It probably would have been a significantly slower process without it. But ultimately, I could have dug all those things up on my own.
What I couldn't do outside the university is have the long discussions with various experts. I couldn't have several hours dissecting various organisms with the help of someone with a PhD in biology, every week, for most of a semester. I couldn't submit papers to an expert and get their feedback on how well I understood the subject and on whether the way I'm exploring it is valuable. I'm planning to do my honours by research next year, again under the direct supervision of a highly educated and experienced biologist, and that, too, is something you can't do on your own. Or at least you can, but it won't be the same kind of learning experience as doing it with that type of expert help.
Discounting the fancy bit of paper I got at the end, which I'm guessing wouldn't be a major goal of someone using their billion dollars to go back to college forecer:p
@alsetsolar3450 Teaching yourself is extremely time inefficient if money is no object.
I can tell you why billionairs love physics: because they studied physics in high school
When we grew up in the 80s, physics was the king of sciences. For our parents generation, it was the science that gave us the atom bomb, satellites, the moon landing. So when we studied physics in high school it made us feel smarter than everyone. "Wow, we understand reality in a different level" . And that feeling stuck.
On a side note: anyone knows if she reviewed "the moon is a harsh mistress" ? I think that book influenced the techbro mindset as much as Ayn Rand
TANSTAAFL
Definitely formative for a budding techbro
There is no difference between the highschool physics thaught today or 40 years ago.
This is such an odd comparison, why does that affect billionaires only? You do know that there are billionaires of different ages too right? And that non billionaires have also gone to school, what are you on about
Right about the time that physics was starting to run out of steam. At least that's what Lee Smolin has argued, but Angela I don't think agrees.
Hits home.
@@bossle6834 The way physics is taught in high school hasn't changed, but the public perception and esteem of it as a discipline has. Nowadays there's a common notion of physics being a "dead" field and that there are no more huge breakthroughs occurring like there were in the 20th century.
As a sonographer with a degree in Ancient Roman History, I'd like to tell you all about quantum quantum quantum
Hey, I'm a biochemist, so I know even more quantums than just quantum quantum quantum.
@@rot5200Quadruple Quantum? The Ultimate Quantum
Quantum quantum? Quantum quantum. 😢Quantum quantum quantum!🤣Quantum quantum
quando, quando, quando. Richard Englebert Feyman.
You have to Quan tuah entangle on that thang
I'm less concerned about Elon not having a physics background than I am that he seems to have no engineering qualifications yet can give himself the title of chief engineer at his own business.
I support making all these professional designations protected titles. Unless you have a PEng you can't call yourself an engineer. If you're a DC ("doctor" of chiropractic) you're not supposed to call yourself a Dr. but so many do.
I don't know how that makes sense 😐
I’m so glad to hear you talk about Stephen Wolfram. I do not have the knowledge to critique what he says 90% of the time but my vibes are never wrong and something just felt off, then finally he did a long conversation with Nassim Nicolas Taleb about medical science and Taleb on that occasion was spot on and Wolfram just heaped scorn on medical scientists asking the most rudimentary questions, shouting at the sky, seemingly unable to compute that datasets in medicine are utterly different to his field. I wanted to make a video talking about that exact chat but figured it was way too niche and frankly I felt nervous
Aww man I'd love to see you talk about it! Steven Wolfram fascinates me. I wonder if anything will eventually come of his physics program or if he's gone irreparably off the rails.
Please make a video on Wolfram!
Omg pls
I attended a lecture Wolfram gave when "A New Kind of Science" came out. The professors in the room basically ridiculed him. I didn't think he deserved it, but it would certainly be good to get your take about this chat.
Seconding a vid on this
your video drops are EVENTS in this household
Same in this house! My dad actually calls me from another state to go over them with me.
THIS
do people actually watch youtube videos with other people?
@ I watch these videos with the voices in my head
@@badabing3391 yes 🙌
Thanks for referencing Rand, as I think her and her ideological allies are probably why so many of the billionaires and their supporters think every billionaire is a genius. But they also all think they're the so-called "prime movers"
I’m chiming in because I recently mentioned Ayn Rand in a video: she came of age in the early USSR and was kicked out of Leningrad university because her father had owned a small business before the revolution. He wasn’t some big-timer; such people didn’t exist in the Russian Empire outside of government-connected oligarchs. Her entire ideology is just a Soviet strawman of western decadence. Zero irony.
@@SamAronow Hey Sam, great channel! Still waiting for your video on the ongoing genocide being carried out supposedly on our behalf. Seems like kinda a weird thing to leave out for a whole year hah :)
Throw back: Before smartphones and ubiquitous GPS, I worked at OnStar, the telephone-based vehicle concierge service from GM. The people who drove the _most_ expensive cars were invariably the least intelligent. Correlation is not causation, but it is kinda funny sometimes.
wa... sam aronow commenting here.. small world @@SamAronow
@@errorite6653cmon dude dont do this to sam aronow, he's never pushed any political line or agenda and i wouldnt want him to compromise his mission of teaching jewish history by getting caught up in that
It reminds me of the Duchess in Pride and Prejudice saying something to the effect of “I don’t play but if I did, I’d be brilliant.”
Lady Catherine de Burgh
The video where that woman was doing hard arithmetic in her head and Bill Gates was just like "that's right!" felt so patronizing and cringe
I KNOW RIGHT what even was that?
I think it's meant to be an attempt at humor.
@@hedgehog3180 how so
Not saying he isn't a douche, but that was self-deprecating humour
I'm pretty sure Bill was masking that he didn't know the answers lol
I think you're vastly overestimating people's critical thinking skills. Most people absolutely believe that the tech billionaires are geniuses, and the entire apparatus of capitalism has a vested interest in convincing people that it's true. That's the whole "American Dream", that if you're smart and work hard, you too can be a billionaire. If people stopped believing that and started to think that rich people are mostly only rich because their parents were rich, then the whole illusion falls apart.
It is modern prosperity gospel. Instead of "I am rich because God has chosen me and so I deserve this wealth" they say "I am rich because I'm incredibly smart and capable and so I deserve this wealth" when in reality it's mostly a mix of luck, timing, and being from a rich family
Becoming a billionaire Wes never and is still not the “American dream”. The American dream was owning a home and comfortably retiring in your 60s.
I mean it’s still dead as fuck but let’s at least be honest about what we’re mourning
I still think most tech billionaires are smart. I don't think they would all be good at physics but maybe some of them would.
This isn't true. Billionaires like Musk, Jobs, and others certainly are/were geniuses, or at least intellectually gifted. You can't run Tesla and SpaceX without having an above average IQ. Elon also has Asperger's.
And no, they didn't become wealthy because their parents were wealthy. This is regurgitated garbage that is frequently perpetuated by communists/socialists.
@@kingcuckoo sure some might be smart. That means not all of them are smart so intelligence is not a requirement.
I'm into physics. I like injecting myself with random substances and seeing what it does to my humours
I bet your bile levels are off the charts
That sounds more like chemistry or biochemistry to me ;)
@@Ateesh6782 Explaining the joke, just in case: 'Physic' is an obsolete (14th C) term for medicine and the medical profession, which survives in the term 'physician' to refer to a doctor.
@brycecarr362 My bad, didn’t notice you posted your comment in the 14th century. ;) (Not being malicious, just tongue-in-cheek; I’m a linguist and etymology buff. I also have a good sense of all four homours. ;) )
@@NameRealperson My bad, didn’t notice you posted your comment in the 14th century. ;) (Not being malicious, just tongue-in-cheek; I’m a linguist and etymology buff. I also have a good sense of all four homours. ;) )
As an engineer, I want you to know I could have been Taylor Swift.
Weird VIP billionaires talking about physics without proper a background always reminds me of the former German chancellor Angela Merkel, who had studied physics at the University of Leipzig (iirc) and left with a diploma and she NEVER blabbed about the nature of physics in any TV show or interview.
To be fair, her doctor rerum natura was _only_ in Quantum Chemistry, not Physics ...
@ThomasSMuhn i didnt know her doctorate was in quantum chemistry. I dont follow politics in general. But if I recall she basically bailed out the euro a few times too.
Its really hard to think of many things more impressive than a doctorate in quantum chemistry, running an entire country, and saving the worlds first centralized multinational currency.
What an absolute beast.
Wikipedia says she studied physics. Don't know how accurate that is.
@@Fitz0furythat is some approaching Isaac Newton level, who also was at one point head of the English mint.
Her PhD is publicly available
The billionaires have a credibility problem and they're looking for solution.
Hilarious that they are trying to be physicists then!
Just got to halfway thru the video, and yeah, you're right
I hear Luigi might know of something that might work...
The solution is Pb
What credibility problem? Americans love their billionaires rulers and believe in them so much that they have just handed them the WH.
It's virtue signaling for investors. That's it.
A year ago I wouldn't have a clue, but now it is clear to me they did this as a show off for shareholders. They did so they were perceived as the most intelligent in and trustworthy back when investment was looking for expansion and smart people.
Now, it is different however. They have changed because they perceive investors are looking for other traits. They talk about AI, AI, Ai, everywhere. They shamelessly don't present as a smart person but a ruthless one with employees. They say cranky things like you don't need college anymore, and AI will replace us all. Even RTO mandates are part of this ruthless boss imaginery.
Underappreciated comment.
At that point, the only thing they cannot buy is book smart
@@errrzarrr But what about ✨️quantum AI✨️?
@@Ricocossa1 😂😂😂😂
I mean, it definitely used to be for shareholders / potential investors, but another term for those people is just "social circle". Those are just the humans who they were around and wanted the approval of, and I don't just mean in order to get investment dollars out of them. They're human beings with egos and very little left that constrains what they do or say.
Totally different topic, RTO mandates are not the same. That's mostly the 10s or 100s of millions of dollars in capital investment that is going down the drain if employees aren't using those physical spaces so they can write off those expenditures.
Finding out you enjoyed Atlas Shrugged because you thought it was satire is so funny to me
Kurt Vonnegut told the story (I'm paraphrasing) where he went to a swank party and met a neurosurgeon. When the surgeon found out Kurt was a writer, he said, "Oh, when I retire, I plan to write!!" Kurt replied, "Great! When I retire I plan to do brain surgery!"
I think Stephen King wrote about a similar anecdote from his life. I could be misattributing this.
Writing is something you can do in your free time as a creative exercise, brain surgery is not.
@@freddiejones9713 Yeah, but he'd probably be a shitty writer. Just like Kurt Vonnegut would be a shitty brain surgeon.
@@freddiejones9713
You'd be surprised how easy it used to be.
@ the point here is a comedic one about how the doctor is dismissing a writing career as something anyone can do. Yes, anyone can write, play football, cook, paint, but those who make a successful career out of these things are likely to be substantially better than those who do then part time. Everyone knows who Kurt Vonnegut is but no one has read the possible writings of this neurosurgeon …
Billionaires, like ladies men, have found the important life hack... It does not matter if you are a , it matters to say that you are a . Your 'target group' will not notice the difference, and those who do notice - are not your 'target group' anyway.
Ah, like the constant misspellings in scam emails!
"You know, I'm something of a [fraud wannabe physicist] myself."
Billionaires: Starting on third base and thinking they hit a triple, then scoring after someone else gets a base hit and thinking they did the work to score the run.
Ironically evil as he was Norman was in the lab doing shit and was allegedly actually smart even if he was careless. He was still somehow better at the bullshit he peddles than real actual billionaires
Eric Weinstein be like
@@SilortheBladethis is a great analogy, too bad Baseball isn't real
Every billionaire wants to be Ironman.
But they are superheroes. Not the flying type, but the giving advances and huge benefits to humanity type. Not the IQ test type, but the persistent, never say no, work in large groups and get things done type.
@@jeffwillis2592 no.
@@jeffwillis2592 mom said its my turn to lick the boot
I think it has to be physics bc physics is generally associated with geniuses. And I think that's for 3 reasons:
1. Einstein. He is the prototypical genius and he was a physicist. The same goes to some degree for Hawking I think, although his genius reputation was influenced by Einstein.
2. It's a very male dominated field.
3. In popular imagination, it includes nuclear anything, space anything, inventing/engineering anything and also where the universe comes from. It seems like it is both very practical and also very phylosophical.
Came to the comments to say Einstein, who is probably the most famous scientist, along with Newton - both known for their discoveries in physics. Hawking too, as you said.
Also, mathematics is seen as peak human intelligence in pop culture because it epitomises 'one solvable answer' and doesn't have to deal with any messy 'nuances'. Science is seen as admirable and as the one way to progress humanity, that scientists are an elite higher class of being (rather than teams of people who produce amazing work through collaboration and repetition). So physics, the combination of maths and science, is seen as the ultimate peak of intellect. Quantum physics and rocket science are both thrown around so much that they've basically become shorthand for 'extremely complex topic'. They are, but so is every highly specialised area of ongoing research in the sciences.
The other professions with glamourised intellect are medical doctors and detectives, maybe with some tech inventors thrown in there. We assume intelligence of some fields more than others which are just as complex but less popularised.
Please, read my comment. I arrived at the same conclusion you did but i am both a physicist and a marxist so i used a bit of that (mostly the marxist part for the subject is Billionaire. Though if you wish me to conduct an experimental test on the influence of billionaires/millionaires on the laws of motion of an explosive rocket all you need is give me the word and the appropriate sample of rich people, i think i can do with 5000 of them.)
"You don' understand... I coulda had class... I coulda been a physicist..."
Nice reference - Brando would be proud.
Stelllllaaaa...Stellllllaaar Physics
Brando was a brilliant guy. He had two ham radio licenses, one in CA and one in Tahiti. He could have easily been a physicist.
I could have been an MMA fighter but I was too powerful to spar with my peers in my youth... 😢
These people remind me of when I was a college freshman. I loved attending colloquiums and looking through graduate textbooks, not understanding a single thing anyone ever said, but still patting myself on the back at how smart it made me feel lmaooo
You can understand a lot of grad books in math (peculiarly if they are well written enough to hold you hand through the concepts and assume no knowledge)
That's missing the point @@camcorl7921
A physicist is most confident during the first term of their sophomore year of undergrad. That's when we reach the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve.
@@camcorl7921 oh I’m sure, but at that stage in my education I looked through textbooks for vibes, not information
I did something like that as a kid and I think I did kinda get something out of it in that it simply meant that I had seem the words, graphs and so on and didn't have to learn those as well before I started actually learning about a subject. Simply being vaguely familiar with a thing before you start actually learning can be a huge help since it means you have to spend less effort on memorizing stuff. I think I still sorta do this unconsciously today where it's only later that I realize that I didn't actually understand jack shit, I just thought I did because I recognized something.
11:40 "There's like a couple thousand billionaires and most of them understand the importance of silence"
Underrated statement of the year right there.
Physics is when big brain intelligence manifests into physical money 😩😩
Money is a representation of how smart and cool you are so of course
oh cute, two of my favorite deranged brainrot anti-AI channels
It could, if there is no corruption in the system.
Usually from the bank of mummy and daddy or the dumb luck happenstance
So is Angela content the reason I now have a lot of your videos in my feed? That is yet another advantage of following Angela's channel
"You have a capacity for evil that most human beings can't even fathom"
Holy shit
It's the only requirement to be a billionaire, you have to get off on be sadistically cruel (for pleasure AND profit) to the people who actually run society, the poorest among us. The most important caste in any system is the bottom one, whose labour and suffering everything is built by, from, and on top of. The least important caste is the highest, the one that contributes nothing but evil.
@@mightyone3737 Since most of the time they don't directly engage in sadistically cruel acts they can perceive directly and personally, It's probably not required to derive pleasure form that, BUT instead you gotta be very good at compartmentalizing your empathy and/or rationalize it away. Or simply lack it :D. Also the tools they employ to exploit the masses, are so abstract and far removed from their end effects. They look at people mostly in terms of graphs and abstract numbers, sign papers, exchange money around etc. etc. and almost never interact with the consequences of their decisions and the effects of their tools , which inherently allows you to act sociopathically.
Like how for example most people are completely fine with , unknowingly or by it rationalizing away , in supporting the needless mass torture and slaughter of factory farmed animals, because they are SO disconnected from the process in modern times . 90+% of people haven't even seen factory farmed processes, and all they see is a nice neatly packaged end product that doesn't even look like the animal it came from, and the package has a drawing of a nice pleasant meadow with flowers and the sun shining over it, with happy smiling chickens on it. And what do they do? They just give some money and receive it, so why would they think they cause anything bad?
Basically by the nature of modern society and how money works, everyone has some degree of soft sociopathy, since it reinforces actions with sociopathic results, while hiding the negative effects so most even don't realize that they are sociopathic, or that their thinking and rationalizations are. And the richest people are just on the most extreme end of the spectrum (they are reinforced the most by how society functions , since they benefit the most/become the most invested in it, so naturally they will defend it the most) , but it IS a spectrum and essentially everyone is on it in practice.
It is a long minute but she comes up with some quotable zingers.
@@exekutorexekutor It sounds good but I'll have to risk looking like the "leave the poor bilioners alone" guy for a second.
Humanity in general have bottomless capacity for evil. Just as much as we do for good.
It is not limited to those on the top, and reducing it to "rich person = evil" won't solve anything and it annoyes me because it distructs us from actually having a chance to change anything
@@mightyone3737literally trillions of dollars given away to the lower caste lol
The only thing I disagree with in your video is, when you asked if you were being too harsh on the billionaires. I just disagree with the premise that it's even possible to be too harsh to the billionaires.
Based answer.
Based engineer be like:
We can have billionaires or we can have survival of the human race, but we can't have both.
They should be taxed until there aren't any billionaires, and rich people aren't rich enough, to buy governments or newspapers.
Preach
Absolutely. You can't accidentally become a billionaire, it takes effort. Greedy, shady, often outright illegal effort.
Unless you inherit the billions, in which case if you aren't actively losing it via lobbying to make billionaires impossible to exist, it's also impossible to be too harsh towards you.
46:42 The Medieval music during the credits is because we're all peasants. 🌈 #TheMoreYouKnow
my favorite videos are when you talk about social, historia and/or personal stories that are related science. im not a math or hard science person so theres a limit to what i can get from equations or theory’s but I could listen to Angela talk about science communication, water scams, science history, or academic fraud all day i swear.
Her video about Fluoride made me start using Fluoride toothpaste. So she's helpful as well as entertaining.
the more she becomes like a jenny nicholson physicist the more i think she'll have massive appeal.
I'm here because she has a great video about STEM /STEAM education and I'm a teacher.
Oh wow, _Atlas Shrugged_ as a satire is an amazing interpretation. I wish I could experience reading it that way, but there's no way in hell I'm going to re-read it now.
Maybe someone should do a Verhoeven and make it into a movie...
The poorer schools are and the more uneducated people become, the easier it is to literally advertise to them and redefine what intelligence is in the public consciousness.
My #1 Blackpill temptation.
Fortunately, our economy depends on people to go to college. We aren't an agrarian society, we can't be one.
Don't be tempted, dude.
@LimeyLassen I don't doubt *some* people will get to earn degrees, but who? The Top 10% who get to take their school choice vouchers to the private charter school, meanwhile everyone else is getting No Child Left Behind-ed into low outcomes. We're about to once again go through an Administration that wants to disembowel the Department of Education, and this is a generation of kids who had 2+ years of learning already disrupted due to COVID.
Meanwhile, Gen-Z isn't any less conservative or proactive against this downward spiral than Millenials. The attacks against public schools in previous decades already won; convincing the public that people like Musk are geniuses is just icing.
@@LimeyLassen I am confident there are plenty of Billionaires who would be fine with an agrarian society as long as they get to live in wherever the 'singapore' bit of it is. These people want a corporate dictatorship
Here's another blackpill: Mother Nature DGAF about intelligence.
A lot of the clips after 6:00 were taken out of context. For example Thiel mentoining that rocket scientists work in wall street just refers to the fact that a lot of people with phyiscs and math degrees end up working in finance. Just mentioning a scientific term doesn't mean that you want to suggest that you have any proficiency.
A mocking question goes, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
Angela turned it upside down: "if you're so rich, why aren't you smart?"
As for the billionaires talking about their old interest in physics. . .well, it's kind of like the modern day version of, "If I were not Alexander*, I'd be Diogenes." Preferring to be Alexander, conquering nations, building libraries, and understanding that Diogenes was more vulnerable to his king than vice versa.
*for those of you who don't know, Aristotle was one of Alexander's tutors.
To mind: alexander built no city, and founded even fewer libraries (the mousaion was reputedly built by ptolomey but neither did he, the mousaion & serapeum were the scribes & translators & other scholars; thats why the library was so tiny in fact but so much larger in memory. The helenizing project was this vainglory, a pitiance of what the library could have been. The true library at alexandria was the network of thought that it was surrounded by
@@GilTheDragonthank you!
@@GilTheDragon "WeLL Ack-TuaLLy. . ."
My point being that while knowledge is an important pursuit -- perhaps the second greatest pursuit after providing for family and being a good member of the community, etc. -- it can taken to the point of vanity, in both senses of the word.
It can render one impotent or servile to their tyrant.
Alexander didn't personally build the Library, and Caesar (or the Huns, or Omar, or whoever the you want to blame) didn't personally burn it. Rather, they created the environment or policy, or fostered the mentality that would lead to one or the other outcome. . .or simply gave the command.
(The Ptolemy legacy wasn't one of complete intellectual tolerance; my boy Sotades was killed by Ptolemy II for satirizing P's incestuous marriage.)
But all that aside, maybe this will help you out a little more:
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@ i believe we made the same point.
The much vaunted library was burned in neglect not flame.
Not the work of an individual but of the many who raised it in the first place
There's an old Bob the Angry Flower comic titled "Atlas Shrugged One Hour Later" where all the billionaires that removed themselves from 'corrupt' society end up having to till the soil because now THEY have to do all the physical labour. It kinda perfectly condenses your criticism about the books plot into a single comic.
A classic.
Oh, good times. Didn't expect to see a fellow Bob fan in the comments.
Here's my pitch for an alternate version of Atlas Shrugged: All the rich people leave to build a colony on Mars or something. After several generations the colony completely falls apart and the survivors are forced to return to Earth. When they get there, they find that disease, poverty, war, and all other major societal problems were solved almost immediately after all the rich people left.
based
After several generations?! They'll all die of cholera a week after the first toilet gets clogged. Because you just *know* nobody wants to get their hands dirty.
@@JaccovanSchaik Or even knows how to DO anything.
Isn't Bioshock the game about Ayn Rand libertarian utopia gone horribly wrong lol?
This!!! 😂
I love this format. Please never get a mic, never add a BGM and never over-edit it. This is perfect the way it's raw
Atlas Shrugged really makes more sense as a satire. It has always bothered me that of all of the industries in the world, she picked a railroad heiress as the protagonist. Is there any industry that was more dependent on government handouts? Between 1850 and 1871 the government (fed plus states) granted over 281k square miles of land to railroad companies. That is more than the size of Texas.
John Galt's backstory was also nonsense. He was an engineer working at a privately owned company when he invented the static motor. But he was mad that the private company decided to pay its employees more, and he thought his coworkers were lazy idiots so he stole the companies IP and left. The government had nothing to do with what happened to him.
Hank Rearden is the only character that made sense if it wasn't satire. I have no idea why he wasn't the protagonist.
That's a good point about the railroad industry. It's probably one of the most government-dependent industries of all time (right up there with agribusiness).
I doubt Ayn Rand knew much of anything about railroads--or anything else. She claimed to be a philosopher, but also claimed that all philosophy since Aristotle was useless. This reminds me of Angela's science cranks who dismiss all of modern physics.
@@Unknown-jt1jo well Aristotle was the last big name to defend slavery, so there you go. Bunch of softies only during last millenia
Atlas Shrugged emphatically was NOT intended as satire. Rand and her groupies thought it her crowning literary achievement. Others, not so much; Dorothy Parker famously said "“Atlas Shrugged is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be THROWN, with great force.”
The ultimate problem IMO with conservatives and libertarians and the right is that their whole scheme is to play on your emotions and your sense of "duty".
The right likes to put all the responsibility on the individual which sounds smart and it sounds correct, but it really is just a way to absolve corporations and bad guys for being bad.
"Oh you got scammed by a company, well it's YOUR FAULT for being born stupid."
"Oh you are poor and will never escape wage slavery? Sorry for being born poor."
Ayn Rand always has these characters that are supposed to be perfect and things just work for them when they shouldn't in real life.
"satire"
Isn't there a saying "if my grannie had wheels she'd been a bicycle"? Sure they could've studied physics, or linguistics or whatever - they chose to do something else. Once upon a time I might have had the opportunity to become a decent chess player - but I directed my efforts elsewhere and that possibility is no longer there.
I mean, the option's still there - just isn't what they chose to do some years ago.
So you can't start play chess anymore at some point?
No that's not the point. These billionaires are already not deserving of the credit or reward they get for their companies. Assuming the mantle of smartest person across all fields is required to justify their ridiculous position in the pseudo-meritocracy.
they couldve chosen to contribute to society
I think you give them too much credit. The vast majority of these people were born with the best education money can buy. That does NOT look the same as being an actual genius, a la Terence Tau or someone else.
They just want you to think theyre the latter, and not that their parents paid for them to attend an Ivy League feeder boarding school like Philips Exeter.
Elon saying Quantum Mechanics was his hardest class in college only tells you he knows next to nothing about physics. Because subjects which ARE ACTUALLY HARD (Like Graduate Electromagnetic theory) are not ‘new science’. Every one is Particle Physicist nowadays smh.
that was Bezos sayng that.
@@manumaster1990musk also said that 7:51
Elon is the perfect example of being born wealthy distorting his perception of reality. He actually believes he deserves his wealth because of his "ahhh...big ahhh... brains..."
@@tomb613 Does NASA engineer Kevin Watson and rocket science expert Tom Mueller call Elon musk smart just for fun? Or do you think they might be basing this on their interactions with him? Have many times have you interacted with Elon musk?
Good god. Is it the new hot thing to claim quantum mechanics is "AcTuaLLy nOt HaRd". I guess Bohr, Feymann, Lamb and so on were just kidding when they said understanding quantum mechanics is hard.
I agree it is weird. Especially weird is to see them then tell people college is not worthwhile. 🤷♂️
The gulf between the billionaire physics LARPers and real underpaid and stressed physicists is as large as the billionaires' egos.
Science, science communication, and most importantly, science literacy can be fortified by a good philosophy background. It's sad that phl is not taught in public schools, is hardly taught at uni, and most popular contemporary phl is glorified bellybutton gazing. For many Americans, "money" is shorthand for "good," "physics," is shorthand for "smart," and "belief" is shorthand for "truth." This fundamental misunderstanding cannot be solved strictly scientifically. Even a basic understanding of logic and epistemology would greatly enhance the general public's ability to see through this stuff. Great video as always. EDIT: Dang, wrote this before the Rand bit.
Where I'm from, many (most?) graduation courses in the sciences don't have a single required credit in anything related to epistemology, so the disregard for philosophy seems very transversal
Yeah, all that stuff about Aristotle's metaphysics and Kantian ethics I learned is mostly trivia for me now, or at best helps me get in the mindset of a pre-modern person. But the ability to sniff out bullshit is still invaluable.
People would benefit so much, from understanding the difference between, believing something and knowing something.
Also, that everyone has wrong beliefs, which comes from the capacity for abstract thinking. And how testing your beliefs, and changing your beliefs, when your eyes and ears show you, that your belief is wrong, doing that makes you a better person, and is less painful, than ignoring your eyes and ears, and sticking with your wrong beliefs.
I mean, I had to take 3 philosophy courses for my engineering degree.
Thanks god I picked up a bunch of philosophy texts and shit when I was really younger, because studying a science degree with no epistemology is down bad. How can one do _science_ if they haven't taught you what science is in the first place?
I love that Dr. Collier just flatly states her social views without explaining or apologizing.
Sure, but it also gets in her judging Bezos fairly. When she gets to Bezos, she's unable to give credit where credit is due. She says that Bezos responds "like someone is supposed to respond" when someone compares him to Einstein, as if he would have claimed himself as smart as Einstein if it weren't for the fact that people that would mock him for it. She also states that she doesn't want to cast Bezos in too positive of a light.
He presumably received good grades in all his physics courses at PRINCETON since he graduated with a 4.2 GPA with a BSE in electrical engineering as summa cum laude. Bezos compared himself to his classmate (Yasantha Rajakarunanayake), who grasped the material better than with less effort, and voluntarily bowed out because he knew he was not going to be as talented of a physicist as his classmate. That classmate, btw, would later on obtain a PhD in Applied Physics at CALTECH.
Intro Quantum Mechanics is upper level undergraduate physics. Take your average physics major of middling talent at a middling university in their junior year. How many would compare themselves to the students in the top of their class and say to themselves "well even though I got an A in this class I had to put in way more effort than this other guy who barely studied at all so I don't think I'm cut out for this"? Very few would.
It takes a lack of and ego and a lot of self-awareness to admit that your A at a top university isn't equal to a smarter person's A, and to change majors based on that. Give Bezos MORE credit, because I'm sure most of you with sub 4.0 GPA from lesser schools would not have done that.
Moreover, I view her stating her social views as stepping outside her lane. No one likes when Neil deGrasse Tyson does it, that is, thinking because he's a physicist he's as qualified as anyone else to speak about any quantitative subject outside of physics. She's a physicist, not a philosopher who studied the ethics of being richer than others.
@@evan3617 Nobody needs to be fair to billionaires. They're not fair to the rest of us.
@@evan3617 he's not gonna fuck you bro
@@evan3617 Bezos is the oddball in this because he seems to understand what physics is and where his abilities begin and end. Most of those billionaires seem to struggle in knowing where is the edge what what they "can" do is. But Bezos is still like his peers in that he has a very different idea of where the edge of what he "should" do is than those of us who see that creating billions in wealth requires employing systems of exploitation against people more vulnerable to systematic exploitation and oppression.
That doesn't make him better really. The fact that he seems more self aware and to have a more clear-eyed perspective on reality might make him morally culpable in some ways than someone wildly out of touch like Musk. Bezos probably knows what he's doing.
@@mgmchenryyeah, I agree with what you and the previous commenter said about him knowing his abilities, but that said competence obviously =/= morality. The guy might have respect for science and skill, but he’s still a monster.
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My main concern is how to survive all of these financial and political crisis, especially in light of the US political power scuffle. The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance.
I think investors should always put their cash to work, especially In 2025, we'll start to see more market diversification. I'm hoping to invest about $350k of my savings in stocks against next year. Hope to make millions in 2025.
I suggest that hiring a portfolio coach is a smart move and that in this case, patience is your best friend. I make a lot of investments and cannot afford to take the risk of doing it alone. Instead, since the rona outbreak began in late 2019, my portfolio has been maintained by a qualified advisor. I only need about $86k more to reach my one million dollar ROI goal
Yes true, I have been in touch with a brokerage Advisor. With an initial starting reserve of $75k, my advisor chooses the entry and exit commands for my portfolio, which has grown to approximately $550k.
Please can you leave the info of your Investment advisor here? I'm in dire need for one
Tracy Britt Cool Consulting... has always been at the top of my list.. She is regarded as a genius in her area and well knowledgeable about financial markets. I highly recommend you look her up if you want excellent collaboration.
I'm so pleased my hatred of Star Trek: Picard brought me to this channel.
Thanks, Alex Kurtzman.
Same. She is the only creator who hates the last season as much as me. Everybody else's bar seemed to have been lowered by so much by that time, that they actually liked that garbage.
Ha, same
Much as I sympathize with wanting new, good Trek. I'm still kinda amazed that anybody bothered to watch that show.
I sat down to watch the first episode after the 1st season aired just to see if it was really as bad as people were making it out to be and I couldn't even make it through the whole episode.
That video was excellent. I did actually really enjoy Star Trek: Picard season 2, but I enjoy Angela's videos, and was happy to listen to her hating the show Picard for almost 4 hours.
Please note that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was studying chemistry before going big with the band in the 90s, after he accumulated his wealth he went back and finished his PhD in Chem/molecular biology, same goes for Brian May of the band Queen, PhD in physics
those are not billionaires.
@@manumaster1990 Yet another demonstration that it's never billionaires doing any real work.
i feel bad for the one person who learned right now that atlas shrugged isnt satire
Ill never forgive elon musk & the techno-fascist class for making enthusiasm towards space and technology kinda cringe
they ruined space! it used to be so cool, now it's bazinga cringe memes
Damn, that's true.
at this point I feel like I have to thank him for helping me realize how many of my childhood dreams would have had me working for a MIC contractor one way or another
You're about to be even more disappointed and turned off in space issues.
They haven't made them cringe, but they have made a lot of places that talk about such things cringe. I can hardly go to any space tech forum without being bombarded by insanely ignorant SpaceX fans telling me about how Starship (a vehicle that is heavily behind schedule and still in preliminary testing for basic functions and barely making progress) has changed everything and made NASA and others obsolete. And not even "is likely to make", not even "I am sure will make", they are talking about it in the present tense, "Has made", "Can do X and Y and Z", even as it kept exploding on the launchpad. These people are not just cringe, they are lunatics.
Bill Gates: famous physicist that never went to a specific island on a specific plane.
Schrödinger's flight log. Until you actually check the sealed flight logs, he could have been there or never been there.
Bloody hell. They released the flight logs and Bill Gates was never on any of the "Lolita Express" aeroplanes.
There's one plane log with Bill Gates's name on it and the log shows ‘Bill Gates’ noted as a passenger on March 1, 2013, from Teterboro airport in New Jersey (TEB) to Palm Beach International airport, Florida (PBI) not to anywhere Epstein was up to his disgusting crimes.
It's been proven beyond doubt that Gates never went to any of Trump's best friends' sex crime sites.
But I guess you already know the facts and have decided your Facebook posts and memes on Twitter are real evidence and not the actual flight logs!
@@tomrutter1637 But there are videos
@@RobertTempleton64 shit...
Guilt by association
15:35 Plot Twist: This video is just Angela trying to land her and some of her physicist buddies a million dollar contract to teach Bezos physics
Envy having been able to sincerely read Atlas Shrugged as satire, that's so wonderful.
I have a PhD in particle physics. Also I have been unemployed for 8 months. Going to lose my house soon.
So physics != wealthy
Unemployment and homelessness are relative and depend on the observer.
Well, in case I am the only observer that matters
Good luck to you.
But maybe understanding that having an advanced education in physics isn't a guarantee against going broke could be behind why people decided to devote their time, labors, and intellectual prowess somewhere else.
But, again, I sincerely wish you well.
@@chrisglosser7318 jokes aside. I wish you well. I hope you overcome your troubles. Stay strong, bro.
@@chrisglosser7318 But do not observe to strongly, otherwise it will not change.
I have encountered people who believe that Elon Musk invented the electric car AND designed rockets. This explains so much of recent history.
I am grateful that I've lived my life so as not know (many) people who believe Musk invented both the rocket and EV.
And there are people who believe he is stupid and that his trolling hypocrisy is unintentional. Both views are manufactured. Both views are dangerous.
But strangely I can not find a theory that explains how a person playing a nerd like Elon got so successful. There is something missing.
@@steffenbendel6031 he's convinced enough people that don't know better and now they have a literal vested interest in keeping the ruse going . He also does have a product at the end of the day even if it falls short of expectations he set up for it (this is where Elizabeth Holmes went wrong)
@@steffenbendel6031 Elon is the son of a South African diamond mining gazillionaire. He is one of those fortunate few who was born on third base and tells everyone they hit a triple. Starting out with unlimited funds is a swell way to make money.
Elon wants to be Iron Man so bad it makes him look stupid. It also makes Tony Stark look like a saint by comparison, and the further we go into this timeline, the funnier it is that Elon has a half-second cameo in the second Iron Man movie and that's as close as he'll ever get.
Imagine giving a 10 year old boy about 400 billion dollars.
Dude, the Iron Man it's inspired by Elon Musk, not the other way around
@@nicolasceron3222 The first Iron Man comics are from the sixties. Elon Musk wasn't even born then.
@@AV-we6wo | mean the movies
@@boriscat1999who gave a 10y old 400 billions?
My favourite part was when Angela said "If I were Jeff Bezos, I would simply choose not to be."
24:50
I’ve read maybe a dozen popular physics books this year, and after about ten deep, I thought I could be a particle physicist. Then I started working through an old high school text book, and I was reminded real quick why I’m a general contractor. But surely it’s okay to be interesting in physics and have a working conceptual framework of the basic set of facts.
That's about as honest comment I've read in this thread. . ..myself speaking as someone who 'knows enough' about both physics and general contracting to understand I have a LOT to learn if were to call myself either a physicist or contractor. . .or at least a general contractor whose projects don't fall apart mid-construction or soonafter.
Evidence of our intellect is that we let the scientists do all the annoying math-y stuff while we delight in the speculative scientific storytelling that comes out of it. 😉
That's not Musk, Jobs, Zuck et al are doing though. They're not just indulging an interest, they're using their interest in physics (sincere or not) as a rhetorical device to make themselves appear to have the qualities people assume physicists to have, such as rationality, objectivity, rigour, inquisitiveness, dedication, a certain lack of self-interest, etc. This then serves to cast their self-indulgent and/or profit-seeking actions in a more positive light.
@@NameRealperson ". . . the qualities people assume physicists to have, such as rationality, objectivity, rigour, inquisitiveness, dedication, a certain lack of self-interest, etc. "
You really got to lose the 'righteousness'.
As the Manhattan Project, the later development of the hydrogen bomb, or even just the thousands of geophysicists who ply their knowledge to oil exploration show, there are more than enough physicists out there who will do anything for a pay check, even if they know the result will be the murder of thousands, or further contaminating the world.
Studying physics is hard, and one can't manage to even get an undergrad if they're dumb; it's also interesting and inspiring AF. . . that might be why some of these guys who have higher-than-average IQs had an early interest in it.
But the application of physics is not always strictly moral. . . and, again, even 'well-meaning' physicists (or chemists, geologists, etc.) have little qualm with bending their college-level ethics if it means that the only way they can make a living.
ANGELA I ALSO READ AND ENJOYED ATLAS SHRUGGED AND THE FOUNTAIN HEAD. when i was like 14 i read those books and loved them. later i reflected on them while talking to a friend, and it all clicked. even then i thought of myself as leaning left but somehow i just didnt recognize rand's writing as the libertarian pornography that it is.
this section of the vid was so unexpected i honestly wish i could call you and talk about this, because nobody understands.
exact same experience here - I read them at 16, and I had zero understanding of the concept. I took the entire premise at face value as a FANTASY book premise almost and didn’t consider the implications of all of that applied to real life.
Worse yet, I retained my fondness for the book for years without ever really thinking about in, and had to have some awkward conversations with people where I basically asked “But why tho,” was the book considered such garbage propaganda.
I probably sounded bad faith as fuck asking that. And now that I am an adult, of course, it’s clear as day.
I imagine it's because physics, has an air of intelligence over some other subjects deserved or not, has a broad scope and is often about the fundamentals. Therefore when they are trying to sell their snake oil or whatever. It sounds like it's coming from an expert, in the intelligent subject and all they need to know is a couple of fundamental principles and that's it because they want to talk about physics. Not the intricacy of C mutiple decades after Bill Gates has ever typed a line of code, yet is tens of billion of dollars richer, for example.
Theoretical physics is the biggest bottle of "snake oil" on the shelf!
@@Andy-o2f what? Is this on attempt at discrediting an important discipline of science or ?
@@whataboutthis10 You missed the point.....and that's not surprising. The biggest problem for many physicists is that they lack "big picture" introspection and morph in to elitist cultists.
Chemistry and Biology used to have a similar prestige, I don't know how Billionaires don't claim them.
@@DavidSmith-vr1nb The difference is that anyone can be a philosopher, but it takes training to be a chemist or biologist.
"Am I being too harsh on the billionaires here." Nah, probly NOT harsh enough.
So many people unironically say "We're building a house" .. when they are having a house built. Like some people do actually build their own house, but not many.
"I'm paying other people to build a house." doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
My Dad built the home we lived in near Cannon Beach, OR. And he built my aunt's home in Astoria, I got to help him with that.
He did most of the work himself, due to not having the money to hire other people. But he did pay for the plans, and he paid for the premixed cement to be delivered, for the foundation. That was back around 1983 he started work on ours, and 1989 he built his sister's. He did carpentry and building work in the 70's and 80's.
@@davidestabrook5367 Congratulations, the hell does that have to do with the point of the OP?
People say it because it sounds cool. Or at least, they think so. And I think some people actually believe they're doing the hard work, when they hire someone to build them a house. They have no idea how much actual work goes into building a house.
and its not even hard or awkward to say "I'm getting a house built" either, people just like the ego lift ig?
Walter Lewin being a creep is something that I did not expect to learn from this video
Incredibly disappointing news. I was a fan of him.
Ahh man, so THAT'S why I'm not a billionaire, I was too interested in biology and not physics 😭
Ah, the Elisabeth Holmes syndrome.
Peter Weller, the actor from Robocop did go back to school and earn a PhD in History. You have to give him credit there.
Angela I just gotta say thank you for keeping it real. I’m your average armchair physics enthusiast NPC and I adore your unfiltered opinion. it really helps keep me honest and hopefully respecting the profession.
I love that: “average armchair physics enthusiast NPC.” That describes me perfectly. I’m gunna use that, thanks.
On a side note, in a day and age where so many have so little to live on, it really should be highly illegal for any single person to have more than a billion in the bank.
They don’t have it cash in the bank but still yes
The reason so many have so little is precisely because these few have SO MUCH.
Yep. It's almost as if billionaires have complete control of our lawmaking institutions.
Can't say I ever noticed it before, thankfully because for my own sanity I try to avoid watching billionaires being interviewed.
33:40 isn't it telling that a torture device could only be made with the guidance of an oligarch?
As a Serb, I thought that the American people viewed their billionaires as little gods. I had no idea that there was criticism in your society of their promotions in public. Thanks for this video.
We hate them
Americans want to string up billionaires just like everyone else in the class war. But the billionaires control the media so you mainly hear what they want you to hear. (Amazon's Jeff Bezos owns a major news paper, Elon Musk owns X, ...)
Many of us feel that way, it's just that most of the media is subservient to, if not outright owned by said billionaires so they're usually shone in favorable light in most things you might watch or read.
Go look up what happened to united healthcare's former ceo, Brian Thompson (if I say what happened my comment might get deleted). Many Americans not only sympathize with the man who did it, but wish they could do a similar thing themselves.
I worship them, and think about them all day. What do they smell like? Only one way to find out! (Its to smell them!)
(this is not true)
There are two kinds of people. People who actually understand physics, and people who think that Elon Musk is a science genius
I know nothing about physics and I don't regard elon musk as a science genius.
That statement doesen't really make sense, but i'll roll with it
Not sure about the others, but Musk is a genius. Denying that is childish at best. You dont have to like the guy and/or his followers but he is right there with any scientist of recent times and will be remembered as such...
@@denizersoz7012 Your grammar proves the original comment correct. Congrats.
Being born into wealth isn't really genius is it?
Economists were the first to have "Physics Envy", then it was esoterists (quantum this, quantum that,..), then most Billionaires smart enough to notice the aura of credibility emanating from displaying appreciation of physics, have adopted the "intelligence perfume" !
chef kiss description of the phenomenon. intelligence perfume, I'm gonna steal that.
@@grandsome1 Yup! That's a great phrase. And like perfume, it's mostly vaporware.
As a layperson I had to stop at 17:01 -- as I agreed with every criticism of yours against these Billionaire-bumble heads. But, they do hire physicists and engineers with physics backgrounds and pay them millions, and some with equity, tens of millions. SpaceX, Tesla, Neural Link, Microsoft, Google -- all of them had to hire physicists for many of their product development...all of them have current or ex staff and consultants with a physics background. Curt Jaimungal, host of Theories of Everything, has a Masters in Physics (I believe, def not a Phd.) and goes TOE to TOE with the world's leading physicists. So, a Phd is not necessary when you are hiring them. I do not want to defend Gates nor Bezos and definitely not Musk -- when you're building rocket-ships or pouring billions in investment across several near or Free-Energy solutions for mankind -- you hire physicists.