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Sabine is known for that kind of sense of humour. She is actually critical of the scientific elites.

by human 6y ago

avalys 6y ago
Oh, is this a parody? It is a little too close to the source material, hah.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y ago
  "Today I will tell you how to be just as annoying as a real physicist. And the easiest way to do that is to insist correcting people when it really doesn't matter" The video is pretty nice in that it teaches interesting facts and at the same time criticizing the behaviour you mentioned (I agree with you). The video itself is named "How to talk like a physicist", so the blog post linked here could be a bit misleading in that regard if one does not know Sabine Hossenfelder already.
  - wruza 6y ago
    I don’t think that “annoying” is not figurative here and I do not agree. Instead of being fed with eli5 explanations as I was in my childhood, these people and articles uncovered an entire world of hard, real physics to my layman curiosity that I still try to grasp. It was not what turned me off physics, it was what drove me into it. If someone cannot stand pedantry, chances are they’ll be fine with explanations that are simply wrong and nobody will point that out. See a root comment on light speed in medium itt, for example.
    - 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y ago
      I think that the problem described by the OP of this comment chain and the beauty in science you describe are two separate things. I personally enjoy in-depth explanations, that does not contradict the fact that there are situations in which pedantry is simply misplaced or even used for the sole purpose of "one upping" each other and not for actual precision, and that is something that can be done just as well on higher levels and among practicioners even. Or it is used in situations where the pedantic correction is not related to the actual subject of the conversation. It is my interpretation that these are the situations the video actually parodies. NOT situations in which a related oversimplification is corrected. To be more precise myself I'd update my agreement with the OP comment to "I agree that the general sentiment of being pedantic in inappropriate situations is bad, I still enjoyed the facts presented in the video". Which is what I wanted to convey with my comment. This would also mean that I only partially agree with the OP comment, because I enjoy the facts themselves.
colpabar 6y ago
She recently complained about the particle physicists' love of hyper expensive colliders that seemingly only produce the need for even more expensive colliders, which I found pretty interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866927

Sabine is known for that kind of sense of humour. She is actually critical of the scientific elites.

by human 6y ago

Sabine is known for that kind of sense of humour. She is actually critical of the scientific elites.

avalys 6y ago

Oh, is this a parody? It is a little too close to the source material, hah.

2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y ago
"Today I will tell you how to be just as annoying as a real physicist. And the easiest way to do that is to insist correcting people when it really doesn't matter" The video is pretty nice in that it teaches interesting facts and at the same time criticizing the behaviour you mentioned (I agree with you). The video itself is named "How to talk like a physicist", so the blog post linked here could be a bit misleading in that regard if one does not know Sabine Hossenfelder already.
- wruza 6y ago
  I don’t think that “annoying” is not figurative here and I do not agree. Instead of being fed with eli5 explanations as I was in my childhood, these people and articles uncovered an entire world of hard, real physics to my layman curiosity that I still try to grasp. It was not what turned me off physics, it was what drove me into it. If someone cannot stand pedantry, chances are they’ll be fine with explanations that are simply wrong and nobody will point that out. See a root comment on light speed in medium itt, for example.
  - 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y ago
    I think that the problem described by the OP of this comment chain and the beauty in science you describe are two separate things. I personally enjoy in-depth explanations, that does not contradict the fact that there are situations in which pedantry is simply misplaced or even used for the sole purpose of "one upping" each other and not for actual precision, and that is something that can be done just as well on higher levels and among practicioners even. Or it is used in situations where the pedantic correction is not related to the actual subject of the conversation. It is my interpretation that these are the situations the video actually parodies. NOT situations in which a related oversimplification is corrected. To be more precise myself I'd update my agreement with the OP comment to "I agree that the general sentiment of being pedantic in inappropriate situations is bad, I still enjoyed the facts presented in the video". Which is what I wanted to convey with my comment. This would also mean that I only partially agree with the OP comment, because I enjoy the facts themselves.

colpabar 6y ago

She recently complained about the particle physicists' love of hyper expensive colliders that seemingly only produce the need for even more expensive colliders, which I found pretty interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866927