Tab Clearing Video Roundup

As usual, open video tabs start to accumulate on things that aren’t quite worth a separate post, but a bit too interesting to throw into a LinkSwarm. So here’s a tab-clearing roundup.

  • Inside Apple’s push for domestic semiconductor production:

    Includes a look at TSMC’s Arizona fab complex, an ASML EUV stepper (which we covered here), and a Foxconn assembly line.

  • The title of this Jordan Petersen lecture is “Why South Park Works,” but it’s actually about how human perception works.

    As a bonus, here’s a version of the basketball-gorilla test he talks about.

  • Critical Drinker on Paramount winning Warner Brothers:

    New boss David Ellison is a fan of male action heroes, and not a fan of “The Message.” “I think it’s fair to say this guy sees middle America for what it is, a potentially huge market that’s been badly neglected in recent years, mostly by people who absolutely hate them.”

    “If ever there was a definitive signal that the age of identity politics and the message has come to an end in Hollywood, I think this just might be it. The great experiment that’s decimated pop culture for the past decade is well and truly over. Good fucking riddance.”

  • Testing Ukrainian anti-drone shotgun slugs:

    Basically metal petals attached with string.

  • Why Teddy Roosevelt didn’t fight in World War I:

    To grossly boil down: because Woodrow Wilson didn’t want a no-win situation of either an ex-president ending up dead in a trench or making Roosevelt so popular again that he could beat him in the 1920 presidential election.

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    2 Responses to “Tab Clearing Video Roundup”

    1. Steve Richter says:

      If Peterson had his health it would be interesting to hear his thoughts on the current day. Watching the clip I have to say events have really passed him by. The person I would like to hear from is Camile Paglia. For figures from the past, Christopher Hitchens and Milton Friedman.

    2. Malthus says:

      Dan Simon’s basketball/gorilla test is an excellent demonstrationof as to how we don’t know what we don’t know because we can only focus on one task at a time. To erect a science having universal validity, based only on what you, as an autonomous man, are able to perceive is beyond your capabilities.

      We get a glimpse of our shortcomings when the tape is rewound, forcing us to reevaluate what we thought was true. [I]ts a differnt command. You have a different aim now: you’re pursuing a different value structure.”

      As the teleology (goal) is altered, so too is the behavioral science upon which the the empirical foundation is laid. Psychology demonstrates that man is a problem for himself and cannot produce a universal from within himself.

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