Decision-making paradoxes

Paradox of tolerance

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance. (Wikipedia).

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Even More Paradoxical: The Twin Paradox in Curved Spacetime

The Twin Paradox gets a stranger, even more mind-bending upgrade in General Relativity's world of curved spacetime. We explore the surprising and relatively unknown results to these new scenarios, while getting our toes wet in some of GR's conceptual frameworks. And finally, after several

From playlist Summer of Math Exposition Youtube Videos

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Relativity: how people get time dilation wrong

Einstein’s special theory of relativity is notorious for being easy to misuse, with the result that sometimes result in claims of paradoxes. When one digs more carefully into the theory, you find that no such paradoxes actually exist. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln describes a

From playlist Relativity

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Limits & Continuity (2 of 3: Limits that exists when functions don't)

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From playlist Introduction to Differentiation

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The Problem With Perfectionism

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From playlist SELF

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The weirdest paradox in statistics (and machine learning)

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From playlist Novel topics (not in usual math curricula)

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Twins Paradox: The Complete Explanation

The twins paradox is easily the most famous paradoxes of all time. Using spacetime diagrams and the rules of relativity, we can show the paradox only happens because people are being lazy with special relativity. http://brilliant.org/ScienceAsylum ________________________________ VIDEO ANN

From playlist Einstein's Relativity

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Physics - Relativity: Understanding Space, Time & Relativity (11 of 55) What is the Twin Paradox?

Visit http://ilectureonline.com for more math and science lectures! In this video I will explain the twin paradox. Time paradox is the time experienced by observer B (on space ship at v=0.99c) is different compare to the time experienced by observer A (on Earth). If the voyage takes 70 ye

From playlist PHYSICS 62.1 UNDERSTANDING RELATIVITY & SPACE

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The Paradox Denied: Marxist Perspectives

Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers and public intellectuals, gave a series of four lectures at Yale's MacMillan Center on "What Happened to National Liberation?" The series, the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs, took place over four days spanning two wee

From playlist The MacMillan Center

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The Future of National Liberation

The first lecture, "The Paradox of National Liberation: India, Israel, and Algeria," will take place on Wednesday, April 3. The second lecture, "The Paradox Illustrated: Zionism against Judaism," will take place on Thursday, April 4. On Wednesday and Thursday, April 10 and 11, Walzer will

From playlist The MacMillan Center

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The Archer's Paradox in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 136

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From playlist Smarter Every Day in Order

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15. Islamic Conquests and Civil War

The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210) In this lecture, Professor Freedman discusses the Islamic conquests. Although they were in some sense religiously motivated, Arab did not attempt to forcibly convert or eradicate Jews, Christians, or other non-Muslims. The conquests began as r

From playlist The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 with Paul Freedman

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How does physics disrupt our intuitive understanding of time?

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From playlist Science Unplugged: Time

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Scalable Privacy-Friendly Client Cloud Computing

Carl Hewitt, Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT, talks about Organizations of Restricted Generality (ORGs). ORGs is an architecture providing foundations for the development of privacy-friendly Internet applications by incorporating cloud computin

From playlist Engineering

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Karl Popper on Tolerance & Intellectual Responsibility (1981 Clips)

A few clips of Karl Popper discussing, among other things, tolerance (including the famous paradox of tolerance), relativism and how it differs from Popper's own view which he refers to here as critical pluralism. He also touches on skepticism, scientific knowledge, and some of the ethical

From playlist Karl Popper

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Slavoj Žižek: Democracy and Capitalism Are Destined to Split Up | Big Think

Slavoj Žižek: Democracy and Capitalism Are Destined to Split Up Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosopher

From playlist Capitalism in the 21st century | Big Think

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Why you should tolerate intolerable ideas | Nadine Strossen | Big Think

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From playlist Nadine Strossen | Big Think

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Head Lines – Lew Goldklang

Dr. Lew explains important cultural trends with self-referential symmetric rhyme. Enjoy word sequences you may not have thought of, and won't hear anywhere else.

From playlist G4G12 Videos

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What Was Liberalism? #4 Three Problems with Liberalism | Philosophy Tube

A 4-part series about liberalism. In this episode, 3 big problems with liberalism: it slides to the right; it's wrong about how humans make decisions; and it supports capitalism. Subscribe! http://tinyurl.com/pr99a46 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube Paypal.me/PhilosophyTub

From playlist What Was Liberalism?

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How to Solve the Liar Paradox

Most paradoxes either stem from the misunderstanding of a topic, or aren't really paradoxes. However, here is a paradox that seems to contradict logic itself. What's going on here? And what does the liar paradox have to do with computer science? #some2

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