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[Funny] Steak-umm vs Neil deGrasse Tyson (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by Galean 5 years ago by Galean +31 / -0
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– Galean [S] 21 points 5 years ago +21 / -0

For some reason I've never heard anything specifically mind blowing from Neil deGrasse Tyson, even when I considered myself of the left I never understood why he was so famous.

So I'm happy someone called him out on being a very shallow scientist.

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 20 points 5 years ago +20 / -0

He's no Richard Feynman, and it's unfortunate he was chosen to fill the role vacated by Feynman when he died.

That is, if we investigate further, we find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known to different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true;" or "such and such is almost certain but there is still a little bit of doubt;" or – at the other extreme – "well, we really don't know." Every one of the concepts of science is on a scale graduated somewhere between, but at neither end of, absolute falsity or absolute truth.

  • The Relation of Science and Religion
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– exilde 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

If there's an influencing god, he likely resides somewhere in the heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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– Steampunk_Moustache 19 points 5 years ago +19 / -0

Like Carl Sagan before him, he is a populariser. He is not at the cutting edge of his field, and his work is primarily in communicating scientific jargon to the layman.

It's actually really, really rare that top scientific and mathematical minds are good communicators themselves. They're generally turboautists who're literally incapable of thinking like the layman thinks - hardly surprising when you consider that the layman's IQ is closer to that of someone with downs syndrome than it is to that of these actual, unironic galaxy brains.

Are you good at explaining complex things to people with Downs Syndrome? No, you probably aren't.

That's what it's like a CERN physicist trying to explain their latest quantum particle discoveries to the world.

They have to go through an intermediary; someone 25 iq points dumber than them, but 25 iq points smarter than you.

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– current_horror 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

I disagree with this. IQ thresholds exist.

On average, blacks have lower IQs than whites, and whites have lower IQs than Asians. But the difference between black societies and white societies is far greater than the difference between white societies and Asian societies. Because whatever IQ threshold is required for prosperous and functional society, whites obviously meet that threshold.

It's the same thing with understanding difficult and complex information. For example, a median IQ person crosses the threshold of literacy. That's a gigantic hurdle for a lower IQ person, functionally limiting their understanding in ways that are almost immeasurable.

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– current_horror 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

He's black.

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– AntonioOfVenice 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

He's charismatic, has a good voice, and he's fun to listen to. Basically that.

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– current_horror 17 points 5 years ago +17 / -0

He's black.

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– Raziel 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Welcome to the light side. We have cookies, puppies, AND kittens!... and also free thought!

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– ProfessorCrackPipe 15 points 5 years ago +15 / -0

I think it’s likely that all these “popularizer of science” guys are tied in with the intelligence agencies to some degree. They’re useful tools for shaping public opinion.

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– exilde 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

bretty gud bantz

Black Science Man says a lot of stupid stuff, though.

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– ArtemisFoul 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

SILENCE, BRAND

SILENCE, BLACK SCIENCE TURBOAUTIST WITH A SEVERE CASE OF UNWARRANTED SELF IMPORTANCE

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– Norenia 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

People don't think the universe be what it is, but it do.

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