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This comes up every now and then on social websites and every time I completely disagree that it reads like Feynman or that Feynman would react that way.
by 27182818284 16y ago
This comes up every now and then on social websites and every time I completely disagree that it reads like Feynman or that Feynman would react that way.
- eru 16y agoHis name has become a kind of strawman.
- mynameishere 16y agoA ficitonal interloculor to whom one attributes poor arguments in order to easily refute them?
- eru 16y agoNo. My usage is perhaps a new use of the word, but it fits with the metaphor of a man of straw. Is there another word already in existence, that describes what I wanted to say? "A ficitonal interloculor to whom one attributes one's own's arguments in order to make them sound more profound."
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago"Oscar Wilde".
- Retric 16y agoHe basically said those things in an interview once. So while he might not react that way when looking for a job it really just depends on how much he wanted the job.
- crocowhile 16y agoWhat things? The manhole stuff? Do you have a link?
- Retric 16y agoYea the manhole stuff was on google video, I think it may have been: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119# http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119# Or something linked from there. PS: "Tuva or Bust" Edit: Sorry, I am having trouble finding it. There are several interviews that video is based on but they don't show the whole video.
- jonhendry 16y ago"The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out"? From the BBC Horizon program in 1981. http://atheistmovies.blogspot.com/2009/07/pleasure-of-finding-things-out.html http://atheistmovies.blogspot.com/2009/07/pleasure-of-findin...
- rmc 16y agoOh? Do you have a source?
- cperciva 16y agoit really just depends on how much he wanted the job I disagree. Feynman was famous for speaking his mind regardless of the context (Bohr insisted on Feynman's presence at critical points during the Manhattan project for exactly this reason, in fact -- everybody else was too inhibited around Bohr to speak up). Feynman might have kicked himself afterwards, but wanting a job wouldn't have prevented him from pointing out an interviewer's errors.
- Retric 16y agoThere is a huge gap between speaking truth to power and being snippy to make yourself feel better. As a ridiculously intelligent and anti authoritarian friend put it. "You don't walk around barefoot on the first day of a new job, you need to break people in." PS: And yes, he would eventually walk around the office / data centers without footwear.
- danhak 16y agoReally? Have you read the piece (I believe it's in Surely You're Joking...) where Feynman gets evaluated by an Army psychologist? It reads very similarly to this.