[extropy-chat] Feynman's 1963 Lecture - The Uncertainty of Science

[Robin Hanson]

I just wrote:
>Feynman was a great physicist, as well as a great salesman and entertainer.
>He sold many on an idealized vision of himself and his social institution.
>As a graduate student at Caltech, where Feynman talk for many years, I learned
>that many quite unflattering tales of him are told there.

I had meant to add:  While I enjoyed the Feynman Lectures along with everyone
else, those people I have known who have tried to use it as their primary text
had found themselves stumped when they actually try to solve concrete problems.
There's a reason the standard textbooks are structured the way they are.



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