Here is the video. Since my friend Jordan did the event as a colloquium, and he didn’t anticipate the back-and-forth, most of the 2 hours was him criticizing Scott’s classic post I Myself Am A Scientismist, launching off into a discussion of philosophy of science from there. In spite of Scott being tired of criticisms of his post on the Dark Ages, my friend Jordan is still convinced it’s at a level of sufficient historical inaccuracy/imprecision there should be a record for SSC readers of how in fact misleading Scott can be when he is out of his depth. So, he may in the next few months do a follow-up on the Dark Ages, with a bit on other posts of Scott’s he took issue with.
He is disinterested in writing this stuff up for the rationality community, but similar events in the future will be filmed and transcribed so they’re more accessible.
They aren’t available yet. I’m sorry it’s taken us a while to move on this. I have the SD card with the video file on it. But I just realized my laptop doesn’t have a port to take it. I can probably find another computer to upload it with in a matter of days. The transcript should be up a few days after that. So at least the video if not the transcript should be up within a week.
It’s been over a week since this event was scheduled to take place, are any of the promised videos or transcripts available?
Here is the video. Since my friend Jordan did the event as a colloquium, and he didn’t anticipate the back-and-forth, most of the 2 hours was him criticizing Scott’s classic post I Myself Am A Scientismist, launching off into a discussion of philosophy of science from there. In spite of Scott being tired of criticisms of his post on the Dark Ages, my friend Jordan is still convinced it’s at a level of sufficient historical inaccuracy/imprecision there should be a record for SSC readers of how in fact misleading Scott can be when he is out of his depth. So, he may in the next few months do a follow-up on the Dark Ages, with a bit on other posts of Scott’s he took issue with.
He is disinterested in writing this stuff up for the rationality community, but similar events in the future will be filmed and transcribed so they’re more accessible.
Note that the video you linked is over 20 gigabytes in file size. (It’s in 1080p resolution, and strangely inefficiently encoded.)
I’ve taken the liberty of re-encoding the video at a somewhat lower resolution (resulting in a 55x reduction in file size), and re-hosting it:
https://wiki.obormot.net/Archive/JordanSSCTalk
Thanks!
Thanks!
They aren’t available yet. I’m sorry it’s taken us a while to move on this. I have the SD card with the video file on it. But I just realized my laptop doesn’t have a port to take it. I can probably find another computer to upload it with in a matter of days. The transcript should be up a few days after that. So at least the video if not the transcript should be up within a week.