Roger's Bacon - Using Cults to Power Science

Roger's Bacon is a pseudonymous blogger and the creator of the new Seeds of Science journal.

Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Seeds of Science: https://www.theseedsofscience.org/ Roger's Bacon blog: https://rogersbacon.substack.com/ Follow Roger's Bacon Twitter. Follow me on Twitter for more updates. Timestamps (0:00:05) - Who is Roger's Bacon? (0:05:03) - The need for scientific diversity (0:10:50) - Why are our institutions so homogenous? (0:19:35) - In defense of cults (0:24:05) - Does innovation require isolation? (0:32:16) - Diversity of institutions vs individuals (0:36:05) - Can we create weird secret societies? (0:42:40) - Secret longtermists and pseudonymous thinkers (0:46:50) - Science needs religion (0:54:50) - How contingent is science (0:59:05) - Seeds of Science (1:09:50) - Randomness in science (1:14:55) - Why committees suck (1:21:05) - Resetting institutions and reinventing ideas (1:32:30) - Teaching at a STEM high school (1:53:01) - Big picture thinking vs technical skills (1:58:55) - Finding blindspots (2:01:57) - Being realistic about the far future

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