Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman

[rx327prime]

Susskind, he promotes black holes wich doesn't exist, runs for evolution, and he's invited by tedtalks wich it's supported by goldman sachs and other companies.

[mdwarrior27]

@rx327prime

surely your joking...

[troglodite]

Rewatching this 3 months later saddens me. What a shame that people like Leonard give arguments to the masses of religious physicist zealots.

[mattysimsoficial]

5:10 loved this part

[jc333jc]

Even if Feynman had been been my professor, I would still have been mediocre. But in the higher echelon of mediocre, merely by being taught by him. He was, and still is, a wonderful tutor who taught people to think in a different , get logical, way. He is sadly missed.

[troglodite]

Susskind's attitude towards philosophical concepts is typical of pretensious people who thinks their own jargon has primacy.

[Mycha31]

@troglodite I think his point was you don't need fancy jargon of any type.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@troglodite

"who thinks their own jargon has primacy"

He surely has much better reasons to think so than any other "jargon" user.

[troglodite]

@Wrath0fKhan Has better reasons or thinks he has better reasons? To each problem his own vocabulary, i believe. Physics can only explain consciousness 'away'. The presumption of physicists is to think that matrices and probabilities plus photosensors is going to explain consciousness.

Enter Hessians, Hermitians, Abelians. Complex names for simple ideas. Jargon. Not better.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@troglodite "has better or thinks has better" Better... Why? Because "his" models ultimately have much better predictive powers than "yours". "to each problem ... i believe" You can believe whatever you want to believe. I agree with that. "explain consciousness "away"" "Away" with consciousness, indeed. watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA "The presumption of physicists" And thats a "good" presumption because in its consequences, it is the most "operative" one. "jargon" Yet you still dont get it.

[troglodite]

@Wrath0fKhan you also believe what you want to believe. BTW, i have published papers in particle physics. Models don't 'work', models 'fit'. The same with words.

[Wrath0fKhan]

@troglodite

"you also believe what you want to believe"

Of course, of course...

"i have published papers in particle physics"

Niiiiiiice.

"Models dont work, models fit"

Pffffffffft.

"the same with words"

You are starting to discredit yourself. But thats OK with me.

[troglodite]

@Wrath0fKhan discrediting meself? It's to get to your level!

[Wrath0fKhan]

@troglodite

"discrediting meself"

Yea... You even cant properly quote me for whatever reason that is (i.e. Ive never said that models would actually work).

"Its to get to your level"

Wouldnt that be something! We wouldnt have to be discussing obvious crackpottery. Holy sh*t... What am I still doing here? Lowering myself to your level. Time to jet! Bye bye!

[troglodite]

Susskind has no idea about consciousness.

[foketesz]

greatness

[DeepAbsentia]

Damn.. if only i had a teacher like that.. maybe it would have been me there.... (?)

[human2011able]

@DeepAbsentia Damn.. It is so True

[jacksawild]

When I was taught OO programming I was told it was a "paradigm shift" in software engineering.. so I slapped him.

[mahatmaBit]

yes. there is also a lot of baloney in ted talks and people trying to sell something. Susskind got it right! lol

[archaedemos]

You sound like him(Feynman) Leonard (:

[xkoenigseggx]

@archaedemos I thought that...probably the consequence of knowing him/living in the same area. I wish i sounded like him, even if i didnt say thing 1/100th as clever.

[archaedemos]

@xkoenigseggx nice (: me too

[JeanKM1]

I love the videos where authentically notable people are talking, or authentically notable people are being talked about, or, as is the case here, both.

[sakokosa]

very interesting talk.... btw is the dude carrying a whiskey flask with him :)

[TimmacTR]

Richard Feynman....ma man...

[axelasdf]

WHY WOULD THEY GIVE ANYTHING INVOLVING RICHARD FEYNMAN A TIME LIMIT!

[eonblue32]

Nobody's brought up that Susskind speaks like Christopher Walken? Lots of examples but 7:24 is the first one I found...hyPOTenuse!

[ChasinTranes]

Well what was the "simple" thing he wrote down?

[vardana]

keith jardine in 40 years? anyone?

[alvincay100]

Philosophy is bologna

[FFSray]

@alvincay100 i am sorry but no :/

[alvincay100]

@FFSray Any set of notions not based on evidence from the scientific method are inherently religious in nature and therefore bologna. Perhaps you are a religious believer after all.

[FFSray]

@alvincay100 well then you have truly no idea of philosophy and i won't even bother arguing with you... come back when you've read hegel or something... comparing philosophy with religion is just outrages. your comment just shows that you have no idea what philosophy represents

[FFSray]

@alvincay100 now that i thought of it, your thought of comparing philosophy to religion gets even more ridiculous because the first atheist were philosophers (epikur for example) who engaged the question wether or not there is a god through pure logic, reason and in their days without ANY nature-science. sure, the philosophical-"scientificmetho­d" differs from the naturescientific one, but even hegel said about metaphysical problems that they can not be established as science...

[FFSray]

@alvincay100 ...because you can not test them. hegel was a real strict philosopher in that case.

[iFarsight]

with no pre-content about this guy Richard Faynman i felt it could have been a story about anyone. other content on Ted feels more appealing because there is no need for pre-content to enjoy. still was good story but it was not appealing to me :(

[Phelan666]

@iFarsight Start reading up on Feynman. You'd be doing yourself a huge favor.

[SuperiorApostate]

Richard Feynman sounds like the Dr. House.

[OpakeArawra2]

oh wow. i busted out laughing at "the shortcut distance". :3 i don't laugh very often.

[MrHotpantsImComin]

Another reason I love Feynman: he frequented strip clubs and always ordered a Sprite while enjoying the girls.

[AtomicSushi92130]

I didn't understand the last sentence... Anyone can write it please ?

[Aaberg123]

@AtomicSushi92130

Bologna is meat in a sandwich. It's also another word for bullshit.

What he means is this: You need to get read of all the BS (religion, woo, etc.) in you life (sandwich).

[AtomicSushi92130]

@Aaberg123 Thks a lot ! These kind of metaphor is a bit hard to understand for a foreigner

[leparditas]

dick wtf?

[roidroid]

@leparditas Dick is short for Richard. Serious

[AlanKey86]

I've got to see some of these puzzles and games that Feynman liked.

[akylae101]

A completely SFW talk about one of the greatest minds in the world, and every other word is Dick.

[mafbbb]

911 vids :O

[xilliah]

The trashcan of history xD

[SkepticalBastard]

Glad I didn't unsubscribe now

[DaSurge26]

damn it screw the time limit I wanna hear more stories about Feynman

[iurak6868]

@DaSurge26 lol me too! XP

[knobcheese69]

incidentally, this guy sounds like the dude from 'the big lebowsky'

[t3tsuyaguy1]

I think that last statement was beautiful. It was a simple solution to a complex set of problems. :)

[PrometheanRunGood]

I don't think I've ever met anyone that love science but didn't love Richard Feynman.

[yp06407012]

@PrometheanRunGood People who don't love science also tend to love Feynmann...!!

[natedejuggla]

anybody catch the flask laying on the ground next to Susskind? lol

[GoatNoodle]

I have read two of Sussikind's books and have seen several of his lectures, all of which were excellent. Though I must say that this video comes of as quite narcissistic to me with his constant comparisons to Feynman. Perhaps the comparisons are fair, but they nonetheless come off as narcissistic to me.

Plz, no hate.

[RichardFeynmanRules]

One of the great, GREAT ones of physics, and a regular guy, too. If you read any pop physics book this year, read his great:

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

It's just fascinating.  (Yes, he's an outstanding writer, too)

[millamulisha]

Leonard Susskind is such a genuine speaker, thinker, person etc. Ah, watching some of the free stuff he puts out from stanford is so wonderful... Just so real, him and feynman both... great ted talk, wish it were longer =[

[TubeFreakification]

Might just be me, but Susskind sounds kind of like Feynman did when he talks.

[AtheistAntitheist]

He's dead wrong about the idea of conscious machines being purely a scientific question, it's clearly both a scientific and philosophical question.

[Kojak7snap]

@AtheistAntitheist Well that was easy.

[595o]

@AtheistAntitheist uhhhhhhm, sure… :->

[Athena1129]

I've heard this guy talk a few times. I always think he sounds like Jeff Bridges.

[justkarmatoo]

He really was one of a kind. I feel lucky just to have watched him on you tube.

[Wormtail81]

If you cannot explain something in simple terms then you do not really understand it. That is incredibly profound.

[Slashtap3]

Really entertaining talk, could listen to this guy for hours

[Sternertime]

reminds me of cave johnson

[stenchinator]

911 videos :O

[thatcoulhavebeenfun]

great talk.... although i have absolutely zero in-depth knowledge of physics i could really understand and thought the way in which he explained and told his stories were fantastic.

[rpm297]

This was more of a eulogy than a TEDTalk, but was Feynman was a fascinating man. And of course anything fascinating is worth talking is worth a TEDTalk.

[VonKraut]

Awesome talk, I'm a huge Feynman fan, also Susskind has a bunch of free lecture series here on youtube anyone can watch and learn about quantum mechanics. Awesome!

[DrInfidel]

Wow

[mrtp]

LOL @ the whisky tin beside his foot...hes definitly under the influence

[NewWorldOrderRED]

"shortcut distance"

I will from today on call the hypotenuse the "shortcut distance.'

[dookiecheez]

Meh.

[gaiagale]

...and the idea worth spreading is !?!

[valken666]

it was not coincidence that Feynman was an actor, acting is connected to being a good communicator and communication is key to thought

[DurexDurpaneu2]

Keep it simple ;) love it! New material for me to read. I feel like I've been living under a rock after watching this video. Lol

[valken666]

great talk

[twistedbass15]

pure genius

[WilliamEGD]

Did anyone else think that it said 'Leonard Skynyrd' at first glance?

[IceJT15]

Richard Feynman is my idol.

[MarkArandjus]

"What Feynman hated more than anything else was fonyness, false sophistication, jargon"

Richard Feynman - no bullshit.

[javamanV3]

I never knew Richard Feynman, but I felt he was a friend from the first time i heard of him...

Thank you!

[hapkinger]

It seems like Richard Feynman was actually a very interesting person not only in science but in everyday life. Good to know there are some people interested in his works.

[chixulub]

Well.. Feynman is my personal hero and I'm a big fan of Susskind, so this is one of the gratest TED talks ever in my opinion. Sure, it doesn't touch on very much of what makes me a Feynman and Sussnid fan, but my fanboyness shines through I guess :D

[lulufullana]

@futureboy00... first, first....so there ;)

[MrTerryKay]

I have the book 'Surely you're kidding Mr. Feynman'. Fascinating guy!

[derman077]

That part about the particle in motion having less time when it interacts with another particle blew my mind.

[Monk3ySee]

When I saw the name Richard Feynman it only took me 0.15 seconds to decide to click on this video.

[deedubya286]

@Monk3ySee It only took me the Planck time. So there.

[HamOnCan]

what? eat bologna full of bologna? seriously, Love the if you can't say it simply you aint got it. ought be song, and maybe I wasn't meant to get it till it put in simple terms. . like genius being our give the insights for riding the crest of our cosmic potential. we are indeed, evolution in progress with all we consciously move through

[qncsc]

I have heard so many talk about Feynman that knew him, such as this video. From it all, it seems like Feynman was an extraordinary human being (and scientist of course) who enjoyed having fun. I think one can say he truly enjoyed his life.

[Odinshi]

I have no idea who the guy who is talking is, or who he talks of, but he sounds a lot like me, just 60 years older and more... geniusish :p

[skorpen2]

he actually sounds a bit like feynman.

[adrenacrumb]

@skorpen2 Yea I noticed that too, wonder what is going on there.

[Silhouette93]

YES LEO!

YES!

[Angusliketheburger]

thx for posting these!!!!!!!

[razer11]

All this man needs to do to look like Yoda is wake up in the morning.

[jaylias]

Excellent talk! I really enjoyed listening to him talk about Feynman, he was such a great man. If only Richard and Carl Sagan were alive today, what a dream world that would be. These scientsts are the REAL celebrity's, not famous actors or come-and-go popstar. These guys figured out how the universe works, and then found the words to explain it in layman's terms. We will struggle to ever repay the debt we owe these great scientists.

[valken666]

@jaylias you're right I did understand a lot about the world reading Feynman, and those were simple words, not complex jargon, he is great, and still lives in our minds and textbooks

[CognosSquare]

1 Feynman > 1000 Philiosophers

[heiki1234]

Richard feynman

[Grundalizer]

he even talks like feynmann

[Darvinisti]

The more I hear about Feynman the more I like him.

[TheSpankymonkey]

@Darvinisti - I am the same way with "animal" from Sesame Street.

[Brascofarian]

very good :)

[Mrmoc7]

I always knew the philosophers were full of sh*t. Thanks Feynman.

[Darvinisti]

@Mrmoc7 Feynman was also a philosopher you moron. What ever a genius does there will be morons trying to do the same and failing.

[Mrmoc7]

@Darvinisti

I imagine that his philosophy was more grounded and contained less intellectual posturing and verbiage garbage compared to mainstream philosophy.

[TheSpankymonkey]

@Mrmoc7 - And what exactly is mainstream philosophy? I think you just set yourself up for a fail there big guy, Especially when philosophy only means the think about a subject in depth.

[Mrmoc7]

@TheSpankymonkey

"when philosophy only means the think about a subject in depth."

I'm not the one setting my self up for "fail," and no, I'm not talking about the typo.

[defect530]

is this a re-upload?

[ChalleFoV3]

@defect530 it was uploaded on tedxtalks the 15 of February

[SoulProvider88]

Ease up there neylon-warrior... i'm a physicist myself... thus i see the absurdity of writing senseful comments in the youtube comment section.

Think of it this way: if Feynman could comment this video... he would write "1rd!".

[majestic93]

It's very disappointing that he only had 15 minutes. You cannot have just 15 minutes to talk about Richard Feynman. Susskind should have had at least half an hour.

[kryptoknightmare]

I've re-read my copy of Classic Feynman about 3 times, and I've listened to the audio cd it came with, "Los Alamos From Below" at least 9 or 10 times. What a curious character he was!

[frebel93]

Whoever is directing did a great job. Great work on the cameras to keep it interesting despite his non mobility during the presentation.

[Neylonx]

this is a talk about one of the smartest people of the last century and the comment section is filled with a bunch of idiots trying to be first to reply :/

[defaultuser88]

@Neylonx why so serious? I don't think feynman would be

[Neylonx]

@defaultuser88 id like to think someone that intelligent would have a sense of humour above that of trying to get first on a youtube video.

[futureboy00]

@Neylonx first

[princeofexcess]

@Neylonx this is good. means even the idiots are listening. Soon our civilization will transform at one point idiots didnt read and could remain ignorant. Now you have to try really hard not to learn anything. Soon it shall be impossible.

[Miloglu]

99th who gives a fuck