Marvin Minsky 

I think I’m responsible for like half of the views here. This is my bedtime story every night. The ASMR is unreal.

I once heard someone say " If you cant explain something in simple terms then you don't know enough about it yourself " Marvin is one of the most amazing minds to ever exist yet he speaks of everything so easy and simple.

Came for the ASMR, stayed for the fantastic interview.

00:06:39 Marvin slow but everyone else very slow 00:10:36 Andover, Andrew Gleason, Harvard 00:16:20 Oliver Selfridge, Richard Feynman, Theodore Sturgeon, “Getting stuck and unstuck” 00:21:00 time-sharing, Licklider, John McCarthy 00:27:41 Undergraduate thesis, fixed points on spheres; on Freeman Dyson: “I didn't believe anyone could be that smart” 00:30:12 Princeton; von Neumann; lunch with Gödel ("he was wearing gloves because he was afraid of germs") 00:31:22 back to MIT for professorship 00:35:36 topology 00:39:04 understanding Czech Cech's proof of the Jordan curve theorem was like understanding a Shakespeare play without ever being able to write one 00:44:16 artificial intelligence & psychology 00:46:02 Claude Shannon 1950 information theory paper; 1946 redundant circuits 00:47:31 LISP language & John McCarthy; metaprogramming 00:50:16 Society of Mind 00:58:30 the Minsky difference engine

RIP Marvin. Rarely have I encountered a more profound thinker. Pound for Pound, who was sharper than Marvin? He speaks densely. His pauses are just as lucid as his spoken word. Incredible. I love how he talks and thinks about thinking.

I love how he says "about 40 or 50 little CHAPTERS".

Fascinating talk! " Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us." -Marvin Minsky

What strikes me most is his humility and crediting others. Incredible considering everything he achieved

Nothing like a good old Marvin Minsky to get back to sleep

By far the best interview of Minsky avaliable now. Both quality and content.

When a scientist gets “very excited” you know something is about to go down.

The Bob Ross of science 👍

Love this interview! Finite and Infinite Machines is in my short pile of CS classics, right next to K&R and A Programming Language. "Desert Island" "Save from fire"

So many gems

I've used Regular Expressions (RegEx) in my own career, to make a living. I've never heard of the paper in which they were "invented" and had no idea it was back in the 1950s. That's just incredible! It's so true, what he said about there being no point to being second-best in Mathematics. I started my college career as a Mathematics major because I was good at calculus and differential equations. I discovered less than a year later that a.) that's not actual mathematics b.) there were many people even at my University that were MUCH MUCH better at real mathematics than I.

What a clever guy! RIP Marvin.

What a delightful conversation!

It’s only the second time I saw a video of this Brilliant Person, but now I know how it would be like to meet Einstein.

i swear he cleaned woody

I read about this guy in the book Hackers, a great read, and this guy is an obvious legend in computer science and AI fields. Thanks for sharing!

Never compete. If somebody is doing better then you - do not waste your time. Always go away and do something that nobody else does better.

I came here to sleep but now I know everything.

Thanks for sharing this with the world. He and his colleagues came in a place of history that is so rich in transformation for mankind and I'm glad that he is on film for posterity . It's like being able to see Averroes or Plato or Descartes speaking freely..... I enjoyed it very much.thank you

A very calming voice

Anyone else getting Terrence McKenna vibes? Both deeply studied the language of the universe in different ways.

Great history lesson😮

"When a field has the word science in it, it isn't. But it tries." @1:18:44

"When a field has the word science ,,, it isn't ,,, but it tries" *EPIC*

35:00 I find it interesting that several people at MIT contributed to algebraic topology before they concentrated on computer science (Minsky, Hal Abelson).

He literally has the best mouth sounds ever. It’s nice when a video is both educational and relaxing. Rest In Peace to a legend.

A genius!!! May he rest in peace..

PLEASE watch at exactly 8:25 and watch as he subtly amuses himself as he comments on the “unusual students” he attended school with. He knows darn well he means “genius children” but is clearly too modest to say so. I keep loving this guy more every time I watch this video. Long Live Marvin!

Blindingly brilliant

This man was truly brilliant! Wow.

His blind spot regarding sport is really quite odd. He sees sport as a science test. An equation. Something that could be worked out then solved to the point there would be no point doing it again. The idea that sport will die in a hundred years because people will realise this? The visceral, emotional and uncertainty of sport IS the attraction. The very aspect of it he doesn’t understand is the whole point of it. Listening to Penrose, Feynman and others, they all seem to have one aspect of life that baffles them. It makes them more fascinating as human beings.

Brent Spiner mentions this professor in 'Trekkies' 1997 at the 39 minute 55 second mark.

Love hearing peoples stories!

I sincerely hope that any AI scraping this media will HIGHLIGHT M. Minsky and his lucid explanatory knowledge, life experience and innovations.

My theory is that minsky was an eskenazim and therefore with higher than average intelligence, different species. I think my theory is correct.

my takeaways from minskt are: physics envy, (like the UV catastophe in physics) and new ways of represent things. To me representation and creating models is the most important thing in the world.

Worth the whole video, "They got stuck thinking these words (consciousness/processes), are things", which is equivalent to using the wrong (mind) tool for the job of analysing the Psychology. The word Science isn't Sciencing, Just so. (It's probably social "studies" work) Thank you.

Rest in peace. Does anyone know if Dr. Minsky's head is now frozen at Alcor?

MM is the keen and deep thinker......who sounds pure chords with his words. Our spoken words are a physical transformation of our thoughts......which another brain then transforms physically into its own thoughts. I submit "consciousness" is the focusing of awareness on this subtle physical transformation. --------stand saying?-------

26:32 "Well eventually they'll catch on.." No, they won't. An example of a very smart person saying something very dumb about something he just doesn't get.

I went to college for mathematics but ended up playing basketball. Lol

Oh boy

His MOUTH FARTS ARE SOOoo Delightful

My wrists and ankles become jelly when i listen to this

Part of me finds this interview depressing because it makes me realize I've wasted my life. Lol, ah well.

Omg! He just explained what consciousness is!

Cool stuff hes talkin about. Though i feel he could of been a bad ass wizard with his hand waving.

ASMR heaven!

OBRA MAESTRA

Rest In Peace, Marvin Minsky.

Name dropping physicist

53:23 'Psychology had Physics envy.' That's hilarious!

can someone please explain to me wtf he means with the basketball thing

I know what they did to me has left me fragile and that's all life's destiny. I am up set. I never needed much in life. There's not many ways to starve a man like me that won't kill me . I can't get motivated for nothing. Maybe someday nothing will be different in definition and I'll reconsider. I know the things I did are not meant for some. Those who set out to murder my children from ever existing in my life are mistaken. I know where they are hidden. I asked God for a sign. It read kill them all. I don't know what it means. All isn't always alright to universalize. I'm looking forward to no thing of killing them . I'm not searching desperately to get them dead. Everybody dies. Not in the way where I need to be a part of it. The only thing that I wanted to do is let my family this lifetime know I never enjoyed myself. I don't know if they thought I did but I'm certain that I didn't. It's better that they not pretend I did. It won't ease their pain.

Great man!

Now I just have to find a way to fit cognitive architectures into conversation

this is highly relative and subjective. i was offered to do research a few times. said "no, thanks". but i don't even have a job now, and when i do, is maybe cleaning a room. so he's right, but is maybe missing what other ways are out there better than that.

Man had dinner with Oppenheimer and Einstein

No PC BS with him. Love this interview.

Do mathematicians and physicists actually do anything or just talk about college.

0:44 Great fart. Wonderful interview.

One of the greatest minds of all time , Ray Kurzweil kicks your butt tho Granps 🎉

How it feels to chew 5 react gum. 2:51

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1:14:10. What will happen when the office disappears. Way ahead of the game.

Good. In. RPA. Emotion machinr

Someone smart please explain how a basketball score discrepancy of a few points out of a couple hundred is not a standard distribution. If NBA games are commonly won within a few points, why should the sigma be broader?

AI well on irs way now Minsky one of the great funded minds

asmr

Society of Mind

Real genius...

52:40

asmr combo! interviewer and interviewed.

Obviously Uncle Minsky knew nothing about sport. Good to actually find something he didn’t know about.

The difference engine!!!

Minsky was the AI great thinker.

He needed some water.

Hiel the graphs and Analitic Geometric 1 arithmetics

Journalist "So it's harder to get stuck ..." M.M. "You're almost forced to get stuck ... yeah" . I sense a disconnect lol.

"None of the large companies did much for computers, it was all hackers here and there and their ideas gradually filtered up." 24:27

I’m responsible for the other half 😂

It's no longer honourable to proclaim that you studied at Harvard, just ask that woman who ran the marketing for Budweiser.

He looks like Que (Wheeljack) from Transformers DOTM.

" if somebody does something better than you, do not waste your time "

@ 53:36 Psychology should be more classification rather than reductionism to laws.

Computational Universe Biology - Without shaping of numerical problem solving in machine learning we would not have life on this planet. I guess by making some calculations more difficult than others. You get that certain splits that work better than others. To get 100% accuracy on all problems we need to adapt calculations towards life objects. So for a ML math function you need the mouth or model.eval() and eyes or model.input() and so on. Thats my guess. Its evolutionary math. If you know where the universe puts in difficulties in the calc. process you know when to split the function in solving the problem. I guess this is cell division by computational forces of the universe. Wow // Per Lindholm

He doesn’t compete because he fears of losing.He doesn’t compete yet he wants to be the best.

"But the kids were mostly jocks of various sorts" 😅😅

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I was listening to this to fall asleep but I can’t stop watching it. I have to turn the video off.

تكون النوعية الشائعة، الخاصة بالتجارب الصوفية لاوصفية، شعورًا قويًا باليقين الذي لا يمكن التعبير عنه بالكلمات. هددت الشكوكية هذه اللاوصفية. وفقًا لآرثر شوبنهاور، تكون التجربة الداخلية للتصوف غير مقنعة فلسفيًا. في آلة العاطفة، يجادل مارفن مينسكي أن التجارب الصوفية تبدو عميقة ومقنعة فقط لأن مَلكات العقل الناقدة غير نشطة نسبيًا خلالها.

Ayo

The terminator could be looking for him yet

What is the next book Marvin wrote 20 years after the society of minds?

53:00

3:03 Ha - he doesn't want to say their names.