Thank you I’ve been looking for this. His method of delivery is so clear I find it immensely relaxing.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
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#82"the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc
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#83There is a whole genre of youtube videos with AI generated Feynmann voice based on those lectures. They are of surprisingly high quality.
Do you have a link to a good one? I presume the original videos of Feynman are lost, or never existed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83EB1jGJwqE
I found this channel to be ok-ish.
Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
#84Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
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Feynman is indeed often quoted among the first people to propose the idea of a quantum computer! This talk he gave in ‘81 is among the earliest discussion of why a quantum universe requires a quantum computer to be simulated [1]: > Can a quantum system be probabilisticaUy simulated by a classical (probabilistic, I'd assume) universal computer? In other words, a computer which will give the same probabilities as the q…
Are there Feynmans today making predictions which we scoff at.
“There’s plenty of space at the bottom” only really took off in popularity decades later. Feynman’s accomplishments are undeniable, Nobel prize and all, but his celebrity status is given by other aspects of his personality. No Feynman equivalent I can think of is alive today. Perhaps Geoffrey Hinton and his views on the risk of AGI? He’s far from the only one of course.
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I understand not watching a 3 hour video before leaving a comment, but this is a disrespectful reaction to a very well thought out video by a professional physicist giving a nuanced opinion about Feynman's legacy. She acknowledges many times in the video that Feynman was a great physicist who deserved his Nobel prize. The central topic of the video is dissecting his public image and the many books published under his…
I've watched large sections of this video before, because it gets posted often. It's a 2-year-old video. Based on that viewing, I think the author has a chip on her shoulder about Feynman, and is dismissive about his teaching and books, and is set on convicting him of being a very naughty boy. One of the things that stand out from the video: The speaker says that Feynman didn't write the Feynman lectures. Wrong. He w…
> The speaker says that Feynman didn't write the Feynman lectures. Wrong.
No, she's right, just talking about a different thing.
"The Feynman Lectures on Physics" is a physics textbook. [0] He did prepare his own lecture material, but he did not write the book.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physic...
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I've watched large sections of this video before, because it gets posted often. It's a 2-year-old video. Based on that viewing, I think the author has a chip on her shoulder about Feynman, and is dismissive about his teaching and books, and is set on convicting him of being a very naughty boy. One of the things that stand out from the video: The speaker says that Feynman didn't write the Feynman lectures. Wrong. He w…
> The speaker says that Feynman didn't write the Feynman lectures. Wrong. No, she's right, just talking about a different thing. "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" is a physics textbook. [0] He did prepare his own lecture material, but he did not write the book. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physic...
No, she's absolutely wrong about this. The book is based very closely on Feynman's lectures. He wrote the material and gave the lectures. Other people edited that material into book form, but Feynman did the lion's share of the work.
Saying that Feynman didn't write the book is just dishonest, unless you immediately clarify afterwards that Feynman did indeed write almost all of the material in the book, in something very close to its final form.
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misogynistic behaviors were cultural at the time, I agree they're abhorrent but people are embedded in their culture. The same is said of Hitchcock, (as an example) and his behaviour was unacceptable by todays standards. We've come some way from that but still a way to go. From the about the authors in the OP's link "Feynman was a remarkably effective educator. Of all his numerous awards, he was especially proud of t…
> misogynistic behaviors were cultural at the time, I agree they're abhorrent but people are embedded in their culture. Moral relativism is a thing, but I think a more useful way to think of it rather than just saying "misogyny was a thing back then, should we care he was a misogynist then?" is to ask "if he were to have lived and worked in the 2000s, would he associate with Epstein?" And to be honest… Feynman does s…
> That's the real strong vibe I get from Surely You're Joking. He's the kind of person who wants to be seen as someone who gets up to wacky hijinks, to be seen as "cool," and he specifically interprets "cool" in a way that's misogynistic even at a time (when he was dictating the stories that led to Surely You're Joking) when misogyny was starting to become a professional hindrance.
In my experience, everyone who says this is talking about exactly one chapter in Surely You're Joking, but they don't appear to actually have paid close attention to the story. It's a story that Feynman recounts about trying to pick up girls when he was younger. He was advised by an older, "cooler" man to be mean. Feynman tries it and it works, but he feels bad about it and says that he never did it again. People calling Feynman a misogynist for this story seem to have just skipped the end of the chapter.
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#90On the topic of lecture notes, I can really recommend Scott Aaron's Quantum Information lecture notes: https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec.pdf