Stephen Wolfram visits RWRI 20 (The Real World Risk Summer School, 2025) Automata, computational irreducibility, ruliad, self-proving theorems, etc.
Category: MOOCs
[YouTube] The Base Rate Fallacy in Cardiology with respect to LDL
People with normal Lp(a) have much lower risk factors. We tend to overmedicate them. The normal levels of LDL should be revised upwards for them.
[YouTube] Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Finding Signal in a Small Sample
Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Doctors find it hard to do a trial, so many make you believe that it does not work rather than simply claiming “it is just untested” (conflating the absence of evidence for evidence of absence).
[YouTube] The IQ debate, a conclusion
Just to show, in conclusion to my article “IQ is a pseudoscientific swindle”, that psychologists arguing with it proved that IQ doesn’t explain up to 99.5% of things it is supposed to explain. It’s not my data, but theirs that they did not interpret correctly.
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 4
Topics Covered:
- Geoengineering
- Mao’s Four Pest Problem
- Brexit
- How antagonism between bad politicians can turn into good government
- The “LongTermism” nonsense of SBF
- The Final Chapter
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 3
- Why Ilmanen-style “simulations” of tail performance are both theoretically and empirically flawed because of:
- The need to extrapolate extremes.
- The Niederhoffer problem.
- The birth of the Non-Naive Precautionary Principle in East Anglia, in a pub discussion with Rupert Read.
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 2
+The Turkey Problem
+ Meeting Mandelbrot & discovering a wealth of processes generating grey swans
+ Meeting Kahneman
+ The 3-day meeting with the Harvard geneticist George Church, involving Elon Musk, Anne Wojcicki, Larry Page, Richard Thaler, & others that triggered the non-naive version of the precautionary principle.
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 1
Scott Patterson discusses with Nassim N Taleb his book Chaos Kings, chapter by chapter. This is Part 1.
[YouTube] STEPHEN WOLFRAM VISITS RWRI 19, SUMMER SCHOOL 2024
TOPICS: 2nd law, generative AI, computational Irreducibility, climate modeling. Stephen Wolfram’s discussion with participants at the Real World Risk Institute Summer School 2024, with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert Frey, Raphael Douady, and others.
[YouTube] MINI LECTURE 18 (MORE TECHNICAL): How to build a positive definite correlation matrix for Monte Carlo Simulations for a set dimensionality
How to build by tinkering with a positive definite correlation matrix for Monte Carlo simulations for a given dimensionality.