There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott

34 thoughts on “There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott”

1. Thank you so much to all the team at the RI for inviting me! The memory of lecturing in the Faraday Theatre is going to stay with me for a long time.

2. This was in my recommendations, fancy that

3. Biases exist for a reason. Stereotypes also exist for a reason.

4. Fascinating.

5. 14:56 I don't really believe that any more.
   Great talk as always Tom, but I think you're starting to take one too many things for granted.

6. "Google etc. are essentially advertising companies" After he said that I immediately got hit with an ad for audible…

7. Hello Tom, while there is no "truth" algorithm, there is an NP-complete method for arriving at and checking ALL useful truths; it is up to the users to determine truth>usefulness, or vice versa. Shor's algorithm on a quantum machine with the sufficient # of qbits (or more) * in the correct entanglement configuration*. Look in on my yt comments for "Spoof of Concept."

8. It'd be a huge problem if you had computers analyze spiritual concepts with tools that cant measure spirituality which deduced that all spiritual concepts are false. The computer would have no choice but to label us all crazy liars. And we're not. That would actually start a war between people who have experienced life and people who obey the machine. You'd just keep insisting its not real because you haven't seen it, and we'd just keep insisting it is real because we have seen it. nah .. computers will find out what to do with ghosts for us. IT said they already invented ways to talk to the dead decades ago.

9. Just when you started citing the book at 30:31I immediately got bored and didn't paid attention. The best demonstration of what you told just before

10. For the record, I watch video game streams to check out gameplay and see if the game's worth getting, or in the case of e-sports, to watch technique.

11. An algorithm for truth, sensibly speaking and within reason, is ABSOLUTELY possible.

12. 60 minutes of very inspiring guy talking about very critic subjects and me cant stop watching him

13. Idk who Tom Scot is but he looks like both of his parents are young Kathy Bates

14. Love this content we need more!!!

15. I am a genius. Here is my algorithm for truth:

    if (booleanValue == true) {
    // do something when true
    }
    else {
    // do something when false
    }

16. AUC is NOT accuracy.

17. Tom Scott's critique of watch time legit just dissed the whole Gamer community. Even his Top 10 being all males disses the Gamer community. Mans does not like games.

18. ~21:18 The most efficient and fair policy for reducing carbon emissions would be to charge substantial fees to the fossil fuels industry proportional to how much carbon is extracted, then share fee proceeds to all people.

    Fees are high enough when random polls show that we are not emitting more fossil carbon than what most people think is acceptable.

    We can promote sustainability AND end poverty by charging fees proportional to harmful impacts on the environment, then sharing proceeds to all.

    Making prices honest (ensuring that they reflect environmental impacts) would promote sustainability. Sharing (a monetary representation of) natural wealth would end poverty. The two seemingly intractable problems of sustainability and poverty/disparity are related. One policy addresses both.

    gaiabrain.blogspot.com/2018/08/do-we-have-moral-duty.html

19. Even if Google had invented a system to seperate truth from lies, they would manipulate it for their politics and money.

20. Oh, look! A Communist echo chamber! Who would gave thought?

21. Brexit. Elitist, disgusting contempt of people's will and voting.

22. 40:05 to 42:15 – This was easily one of Tom Scott's finest moments right here. He played EVERYONE.

23. "At which point the Nazi's moved in" I know it's wrong but that was a class statement.

24. Great topic.

25. I hope there is a red shirt under there

26. This guy should have a youtube channel on intellectual topics or something!

27. This is the algorithm trying to repair itself by recommending this

28. Dr. Simon Clark? I hear he has a PhD. Not that good at games tho, be he's a doctor. Did I mention he has a doctorate?

29. I’m so glad someone was able to put into words how pathetic it is to be a “regular” on a big streamer’s Twitch channel. How can people spend all day chatting or donating or subbing just to get some attention from the streamer?

30. all of the recommendations of this video are from Tom Scott/Thoughty2/Vsauce and of course The Royale Institution

31. Tom not wearing the red shirt is wierd but i chose to believe he might have one under the suit

32. I sometimes think blaming YouTube for sending you bad content is kinda…irresponsible. My homepage is full of science videos, gameplay videos, sometimes cat videos here and there. You get what you're looking for. YouTube just make it easier. And of course, you won't admit that you did anything wrong.

33. Somehow I am not surprised to learn that Tom Scott is friends with Dr Simon. Small world.

34. I want him to do speech in my college :"

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