The people who know the most often sound the least certain
After watching Dwarkesh Patel's conversation with John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill, the author noticed that much of the reaction focused on how often the speakers said 'like.' But that verbal tic reveals something deeper: researchers hedge and correct themselves because they're reasoning at the edge of knowledge, while politicians and commentators deliver polished certainty about things they barely understand. The piece argues that experts must learn to tell better stories without abandoning their honesty.
The people with the least friction from reality often have the least friction in their sentences.
- fasterik
It's revealing that the author thinks that a podcast is the ideal venue to reason through complex technical issues.
The "like" phenomenon is less of a verbal fluency issue and more of a cultural one. You can listen to someone smart like Donald Knuth speak and he will definitely stammer and stutter a lot, but he doesn't use filler words. "Like" is more of a West Coast or California thing and I also find it annoying and distracting.
- InfiniteAscent
Just a little more effort and STEM people will discover the social sciences. Cute.
- Grimeton
>The people who know the most often sound the least certain
As was beautifully demonstrated in this article.