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In a 2019 interview, Pearl encourages students to follow questions and test ideas rather than defer automatically to authority.
- 1QuestionsPearl encourages asking freely.
- 2Trial and errorTest ideas and learn when they do not work.
- 3IndependenceThe discussion challenges academic inertia.
À retenir
- Ask questions freely.
- Use trial and error to test ideas.
- Develop an independent way of understanding.
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Ask freely
Lex Fridman asks Judea Pearl what advice he would give students who want to develop new ideas about intelligent systems despite criticism and established conventions.
Lex Fridman asks Judea Pearl what advice he would give students who want to develop new ideas about intelligent systems despite criticism and established conventions.
Pearl encourages students to ask questions freely, pursue their own approaches and not accept rejection without investigation.
Find your own way
He says trial and error will reveal when an idea leads nowhere, but students should follow their questions and try to understand things in their own way.
He says trial and error will reveal when an idea leads nowhere, but students should follow their questions and try to understand things in their own way.
Fridman connects that advice to inertia in science and academia. They discuss independent thinking and a rebellious spirit in students.
Against inertia
Pearl refers to a manifesto encouraging students not to wait for a professor to get everything right. The auto captions do not clearly identify its author, so the reference remains unspecified.
Pearl refers to a manifesto encouraging students not to wait for a professor to get everything right. The auto captions do not clearly identify its author, so the reference remains unspecified.
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