I mean, the food industry has even gone so far as to help us not even pay attention to the social and political and environmental realities that go along with food production.We can eat guilt free, if we want.
to be necessary, uh, to start sort of answering some of the very big questions in physics. And I'll briefly mention some of the big questions in physic as we go along . So let me just move on then. Uh, the first chapter -- the slides are -- that I'm presenting now, they're organized in a narrative that is,uh, as it is in the book. These are -- these were -- this is not the sequence in which I made the actual travels but, uh, I think they work better if I stick
psychologist Solomon Ash in the 50s he was actually trying to understand the Holocaust and how so many people would go along with it and he did a very famous social psychology experiment called The Ash experiment nowand what he did you've probably heard of this what he did was he would he brought in a group of students undergraduates
a lot and I'll get into it later. I kind of came linked into being a science writer but it is extraordinarily cool and I am very glad I was able to do it. All right, so here we go. This is, I put together some slides here and we'll just kind of talk about them as we go along . And feel free to ask questions along the time, along the discussion. As when you think about it, there has really been since the beginning of humankind as far as we know a desire, an instinct, to see life or to feel that there is life in the skies.
And I think that each of these-- as I'll just briefly touch on-- these different sections and types of conversations we have have different strategies that go along with them. And so one of the starting sections that I talk about in the book is how we set up that relationship with our children, really listening to them
Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, Bezos-- however you pronounce it-- is obsessed with it, absolutely obsessed with it. You go along life, and different people enter your life for different reasons.
physics was incomplete or that there was something going faster than light somehow. to go along with it, one that involved waves and particles and was entirely deterministic.
was going out quite a few times a week to eat uh because we had to uh have foreign uh visitors in Taipei. And um we would go along uh to introduce them to the different foods of China. And uh I would interpret over the the meals. And the more I ate, the more I became fascinated because it was much more than anything I had ever dreamed that it
So you're trying to organize the world's information, and that is largely a technical enterprise, but there are important social and moral questions that go along with that-- questions about oughts and questions about whys. And this is really where my own thinking comes in, which is to say I'm trying to organize our thinking about social problems
You see, here's the deal -- Managers write the manuals, like the HR manual. You go along , and you say, "I'd like to take vacation to go to the Bahamas and then visit my cousin over here. It's like going to look like a 6-weeks ." "Paragraph 43, Subsection 2, you know, says, 'You can't do that until you've been at Google for nine years.'" And you didn't even know there was such a
see and then they'd get to the actual subject the only real subject and then he would measure how often that person would go along with the group even though the group was obviously wrong well he measured and this was actually done at an IV leue College and so there was some kind of um disbelief
most often. In the context of politics, you self-identify as a Republican or a Democrat. In terms of gender, there are labels to go along with that. But those are just the labels. Those do not fully capture, I think, what we're
I'd like to remind everybody that we'll take questions from our viewers towards the end, and you may be posting those in the chat as we go along our conversation today. And please visit the link in the description to buy the book "The Perennials." So Mauro, can you tell us a little bit
You write a little sketch or two. And you go along and choose the afternoon, perform it in front of the grown-ups, who, in this case, were Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. And they said, that's good.
is a plasma, is a quark-gluon plasma. As I go along , I will explain further about these terms. So what's a plasma?
They weren't really fully realized. And then as you go along , I think they just become more-- used to-- I wouldn't let a poem go. I had a rule that I had to finish it before I would get up.
And that can go along with-- you can that for any other sports, too.
Is this something you go along with?
But then you go along with it.
And I couldn't go along with the lies anymore.
I couldn't go along with the stories that were not true, or the alternate reality of the word we learned recently.
And then as I go along , I'm like, oh, I'm actually falling further behind.
Change it as we go along .
And we go along with it, because we're in the corporate world.
and then go along the lake.
as I go along .
They were happy to go along with his stuff for ages, all the hateful rhetoric that he was espousing.
So you could go along to the Club.
And you want to go along for the ride.
But you go along to a Robbins event-- and if you can go, it's on every year in London.
the different emotions that go along with it.
But could we go along with how our brain works?
Could we go along with a confirmation bias by first trying to find common grounds?
But then to go along with that, they have songs.
If you want to go along , go along .
They tend to go along , but-- I actually have a theory about the Moravec's paradox in explanation for that.
So they didn't go along very well.
I'll go along with you.
And as I go along and see more and more and more movies, I will have opinions already about work,
Not anybody can just go along and cover a David Bowie song.
So to go along with my autonomy in this role, I have some responsibilities and captures them and tells everyone else what they can expect.
As we go along , we'll dig into this subject of juggling a little bit.
And either you go along for the ride or you don't.
as you go along .
We should go along with what they're doing.
I can go along , of course.
And he helps you go along .
If we go along the x-axis-- so I really understand how my solution will solve the problem, but I don't have the faintest idea of what the
And they go along with six word memoirs that I've written for the book.
but you go along that and you get on University Avenue, and there's like that little cloverleaf there and like right on top of the cloverleaf