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Schrodinger is both rolling and not rolling in his grave right now after hearing that

Telling a scientist they're not allowed to correct you has got to be the most painful things you can have them do. Neil flipped an invisible table a few times

The "no corrections allowed Quiz" is pure genious! Evil genious.

I’m not afraid of ai, I’m afraid of what corporations and the government can and will do with it and the information it scrapes.

as someone who was born in 94. i went from n64 and dial up internet to worrying about the AI overlords in 31 years. im pretty sure its exponential.

Being a former physicist the attack on academia hurts deeply, had to leave my research position because of budget cuts and pivoted into finance. I went fron doing research for cancer detection, superconductors, and much more. Now I create financial models to maximize shareholder value, oh the things humanity values.

I'm a grown ass man and I genuinely got a little choked up when Niel said he felt a responsibility to fill the spaces he feels comfortable where he knows his colleagues do not. I can only dream of living in a world where my colleagues understand me in that way and show me that kind of empathy and respect.

I had a physics professor in college who said that everything comes down to physics. As a communications major, I wondered out loud if I was pursuing the right profession. I was never a physicist, but "physics" was the one science subject I loved. It blows my mind. Physics shows us that the possibilities are endless.

This opening bit is so real. I used to work on sailing ships, and I've heard so many people "explaining" things they know nothing about, with insane confidence. Usually parents to children. Once, when working in the gift shop below decks, I saw a mom point to the navigational equipment and say "that's the radar. It's for when they go underwater." It was a nineteenth century merchant vessel replica...

The takeaway here is that we need to massively increase public education funding.

lol, “um actually” was replaced with “just to clarify “

The "blind spot" playback was too funny

The ability to recognize where someone’s level of understanding is, and scale down an explanation of difficult scientific concepts to someone at a “dumbed down” level without making someone feel like you’re looking down on them or insulting their intelligence is a skill that a lot of scientists never build. NDT has mastered it.

Intro gave me an aneurysm, but I suspect that was the point. Well done.

Dr. Tyson struggling to stay silent during the intro and just quietly ripping up the papers was such a mood.... that it uplifted my mood. Too funny. Thanks Hasan and Dr. Tyson

As a creative professional, his response to people worried about losing their jobs to the greedy decisions of their employers who have worked diligently to remove ANY sort of guardrails for it’s development & implementation seriously lacks compassion & is out of touch w/regular people. His answer of “get off your ass & reinvent yourself, ideally as someone who can do something never done before” is easy to say as a celebrity science spokesperson. While in essence he’s not wrong that people have to learn to live & work with it, he seems really out of touch with the reality of how many people are going to be very negatively impacted when there aren’t enough new jobs to replace the ones lost because the tasks are now automated. And lastly, he can shove his condescending attitude for the legitimate question of making AI & robotics work to improve lives by doing those menial tasks like housework so that we can be free to create. He seems perfectly fine to let AI do the creating- all the things that bring joy to humanity- while humanity is still doing menial tasks like domestic housework. People want their Rosie the Robot that will clean the house because they would rather spend their time doing things they enjoy, like creating.

To prove Dr. Tyson’s point about the R&D department, the Japanese man who discovered blue LED light was fired from his company because the CEO had told him to stop wasting company time. That company has made hundreds of millions of dollars off the blue LED light, that inventor made nothing.

I LOVE Neil's description of half empty vs half full. I've always said the same. If you're filling the glass, it's half full. If you're drinking from it, or pouring it out, it's half empty.

As someone in a IT company. Those of us with any fucking forsight hate genAI. Vibe Programming is an active erosion of a compreshensive skillset and is going to become a real fucking problem soon.