The Yozevitch Show

Scott Young talks about ultra-learning.

Join us on the Roi Yozevitch Show for an extraordinary interview with the world-renowned linguist and thinker, Noam Chomsky. In this exclusive conversation, we delve into the mysteries of language, the essence of human cognition, and the unique perspectives that have made Chomsky a pivotal figure in intellectual discourse. This episode offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a legendary scholar, exploring topics from linguistics to philosophy, making it a must-watch for anyone intrigued by the power of language and thought. Tune in for an enlightening experience!

0:00 Introduction

3:16 The causality behind symptomatic vs. asymptomatic

10:20 What is the Microbiome?

14:50 The immune system, Vaccines and New Variants

21:43 How world interconnectedness effects pandemics

27:03 The vaccine came from Pfizer, what does that tell us about academia?

36:15 Should academia change in any way?

38:09 Writing papers in highfalutin language

48:23 Writing

54:27 How to be a good Principle Investigator

0:00 Introduction

1:50 Publishing "The Bell Curve"

5:17 2 Facts that will sort out social life in Modern America

8:23 Distinguishing between racial differences and individual qualities

14:40 Should racial and IQ differences be in the public discourse

24:00 The Importance of humiliating intelligent people

25:30 Race vs. Ethnicity

32:00 Genetic Engineering vs. Cultural Change

34:43 Terror from looking at the data

38:50 Faith among intellectuals - culture matters.

43:40 Concerning the Jews...

48:00 "There are ways of knowing that are richer than a very strict rationalist post-Enlightenment view"

49:25 The Jewish Genius

57:34 Affirmative Action

58:24 Will "Jews in Israel" make them more successful?

1:03:30 The bioligization of the social sciences

1:07:27 Do nations have their own distinct "vibe"?

1:10:06 Bringing G-d back into the discussion

Great

Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

#gary_marcus

0:00 Introduction

1:42 Are we on the wrong train to AGI?

4:20 Marvin Minsky and AI generalization problem

11:57 Defining intelligence in AI

17:17 Is AI masquerading as a trendy statistical analysis tool?

23:35 AI systems lack our most basic intuitions

27:38 The public not wanting to face Reality

29:36 Equipping AI with Kant's categories of the mind (Time, Space, Causality)

33:40 Neural nets VS traditional tools

34:50 Causality in AI

37:14 Lack of interdisciplinary learning

45:54 How can we achieve human-level of understanding in AI?

49:21 More limitations

59:35 Motivation in inanimate systems

1:01:31 Lack of body and transcendent consciousness

1:05:55 What interdisciplinary learning would you encourage?

1:06:49 Book recommendations

Gary Marcus is CEO and Founder of Robust AI, well-known machine learning scientist and entrepreneur, author, and Professor Emeritus at New York State University.

Dr. Marcus attended Hampshire College, where he designed his own major, cognitive science, working on human reasoning. He continued on to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his advisor was the experimental psychologist Steven Pinker. He received his Ph.D. in 1993.

His books include The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science, The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and Guitar Zero, which appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. He edited The Norton Psychology Reader, and was co-editor with Jeremy Freeman of The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientist, which included Nobel Laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser. Together with Ernie Davis, he authored Rebooting AI and is well known to deconstruct myths of the AI community.

In 2014, he founded Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company. It was acquired by Uber in 2016. In 2019, he founded Robust AI and acts currently as Robust AI’s CEO.

Links:

http://rebooting.ai

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06177

Conversation with the founder of the Adam Smith Global Institute

Great

#IQ #intelligence #Yozevitch #Russell_Warne

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Dr. Russell T. Warne is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Utah Valley University. His new book is In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence.

In this talk, we discuss his new great book. Among the topics we discussed:

The general factor g and IQ; what general intelligence is; if IQ tests only work in the West, and are culture-specific; the evolution of general intelligence; the neuroscience of IQ, and the P-FIT model; if there any multiple intelligences, and we focus on Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences, Daniel Goleman’s emotional intelligence, and Stenberg’s practical intelligence; the behavioral genetics of intelligence; environmental factors that influence IQ;

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