Brian is a logician pilot with linguistic insights. We will delve into:
- why to keep logicians alive
- what to put on aviation checklists
- where humor influences education
- how to ignore people better thanks to linguistics
Startovač: https://www.startovac.cz/patron/misto-problemu/
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/mistoproblemu
Web: https://www.mistoproblemu.cz/
Timestamps:
(0:00) introduction
(2:56) Russell's Paradox and the Hilbert program
(12:28) the importance of logic
(17:21) engineering versus logic
(30:08) the philosophy of safe flying
(42:15) skillsets for different planes
(55:40) parallels between flying and other fields
(1:05:55) aviation checklists
(1:18:00) humor and education
(1:26:11) everyday linguistic applications
(1:32:51) unusual hobbies
Links:
- Russel's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
- Gödel's incompleteness theorems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
- the collision that ended well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision
- Checklist manifesto: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto
- Czech phonology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_phonology
- trucker's hitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucker's_hitch
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