There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott

> Someone who can get pop-culture’s attention needs to do a fucking Ted Talk and explain why this is usually a bad idea. Tom Scott made a good attempt recently: [VIDEO]

Not without a certain amount of irony, everybody's parasocial internet friend Tom Scott did a really good segment on the parasocial relationship as part of his talk to the Royal Institution: [VIDEO] I swear it's also a short video on its own somewhere, but neither Google nor I can find it today.

RIYL: Tom Scott's There Is No Algorithm For Truth [1] delivered to the Royal Society in October 2019. 1. [VIDEO]

Weird seeing this guy talking about Lego's after recently watching him speak at The Royal Institute about "There is No Algorithm for Truth"[0]. [0] [VIDEO]

"Source of truth"? What the heck does that mean? Truth for whom? [VIDEO] Dictionaries aren't for policing language. They describe how people use language, not the best and only way to use language. [LINK]

> they share with a celebrity. That makes those people related [...] That phenomenon exists, whatever you decide to call it. Some call it this: [LINK] A deep link to a Tom Scott video about it: [VIDEO] What gp (Retric) was trying to say is that the terminology of "social relationships" found in the wiki article : [LINK] ... is not talking about parasocial relationships. Yes "parasocial relationships" is a real phenomenon but that's not what Dunbar was referring to when correlating "# of maintained relationships" with the primate neocortex size in his research.

I'm more reminded of Tom Scott's talk at the Royal Institution "There is no Algorithm for Truth"[0]. A lot of what you're talking about is the ability to detect Truth, or even truth! [0] [VIDEO]