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#2I'm a particular fan of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming". [1] It's a great look at the amazing number of ideas that the CS world has come up with and how we might be able to improve the act of building programs, even from "old" ideas.
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks?
#3Mark Fisher's talk about how capitalism makes it seem like the only game in town [0]
David Pearce on abolishing suffering [1]
Jurgen Schmidhuber "Universal AI and a formal theory of fun" [2]
Slavoj Žižek on "signs from the future" - also ties into [0] a bit because at one point he mentions how excess capital was found to actually reduce the efficiency of certain creative tasks [3]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deZgzw0YHQI
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCb9sk6CTc
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#4Rich Hickey's talk on simplicity is a must watch.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
And one of the most useful talks of all time for building organizations is by Ed Catmull (of Pixar)
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#5Sir Ken Robinson's talk on Do schools kill creativity? Its worth watching.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks?
#6Mark Fisher's talk about how capitalism makes it seem like the only game in town [0] David Pearce on abolishing suffering [1] Jurgen Schmidhuber "Universal AI and a formal theory of fun" [2] Slavoj Žižek on "signs from the future" - also ties into [0] a bit because at one point he mentions how excess capital was found to actually reduce the efficiency of certain creative tasks [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
Žižek on green consumerism is quite good as well, I find myself constantly thinking of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g.
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks?
#7Mark Fisher's talk about how capitalism makes it seem like the only game in town [0] David Pearce on abolishing suffering [1] Jurgen Schmidhuber "Universal AI and a formal theory of fun" [2] Slavoj Žižek on "signs from the future" - also ties into [0] a bit because at one point he mentions how excess capital was found to actually reduce the efficiency of certain creative tasks [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
Žižek on green consumerism is quite good as well, I find myself constantly thinking of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g .
Yes! I agree with him a lot that environmentalists today are too conservative - in the insistence that preternatural human effects on the environment can only be disturbing or jeopardize ecosystems. But, like Žižek likes to say: what if the opposite were true? What if we should instead aim for more radical reinterpretations of our relationship with nature, and to instead make ourselves more artificial, while also better stewards of nature - like Elon Musk's vision of humans as being a multiplanetary civilization, or getting people to realize that junk is not a disease, but a symptom of a system that enables mass rearranging of junk-substrate.
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#9The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks?
#10I'm a particular fan of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming". [1] It's a great look at the amazing number of ideas that the CS world has come up with and how we might be able to improve the act of building programs, even from "old" ideas. [1] https://vimeo.com/71278954
That was an absolute gem of a talk. Thank you so much for posting this.