Curt Jaimungal's Presentation at Polymath
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was asked to give a presentation for an event called Polymath by a new incubator, Ecolapto. |
| 0:05.6 | This wasn't a recorded event, but someone in the audience did film it with their cell phone, |
| 0:09.7 | and I have permission to release this here. Forgive the audio as there were over 100 people at this event, |
| 0:14.9 | and there was a large buffet section on this side of people unrelated to the event. |
| 0:20.5 | I want to talk about what's fundamental. |
| 0:22.6 | But first, I want to talk about a problem that I've been thinking about for some time |
| 0:28.6 | and it's relevant to this crowd. |
| 0:30.6 | We have this event here called polymath, but then where are all the polymaths? |
| 0:36.6 | Where are the Da Vinci's and the Benjamin Franklin's and the wide-nesses of our time? |
| 0:42.9 | What is preventing this syncretic integration of previously dissimilar fields? |
| 0:52.6 | Who am I? My name is Kurt Jaiongo, and I have this podcast here called |
| 0:57.2 | Theories of Everything. It's a channel where I interview some of the brightest minds, |
| 1:03.8 | some of the most well-researched people, top of their field, and I speak to them for four |
| 1:08.0 | hours long, and I go into these in-depth podcasts. You can search it on your phone. |
| 1:13.6 | And I've noticed a few problems. So number one, the state of current scientific research. |
| 1:19.6 | It's one of incremental progress where as a student, you're disincentivized from large ideas. |
| 1:26.6 | So there's this lack of paradigm shifts. |
| 1:30.3 | Another issue is that even when you're no longer this bright eye to bushy-tailed students |
| 1:36.3 | and now you're a tenured professor, you have this reliance on this big daddy grant agency |
| 1:40.3 | and you better want what the grant agency wants or convince yourself that you want what |
| 1:45.1 | they want. |
| 1:48.3 | Another issue is that we have this fragmentation and siloings of over-specialization and people |
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