That was the first one I’ve seen. I liked it because right off he started with “how do you know what’s true?”

His approach is to treat claims like predictions, then evaluate the degree to which those predictions prove accurate. This is exactly what science is supposed to be about. You have a hypothesis, then see if its predictions come true.

I also liked that he had an appreciation for history, and introduced the geographical factors. All of this was new to me, and I appreciated the engineering take.

Not just the usual “Putin is a bully” framing.

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It's a shame he ran out of time before getting to the actual topic, but the introduction was very interesting as well. Especially the geography angle, it's the same story as in Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, but this talk also incorporated the history aspect.

Hadn’t heard of this, added to queue! 🙏