Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988)

Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by gitremote on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:45PM (#43145420)

> Honestly, my problem with the video in question is that its tone unjustly attempts to denigrate Feynman (starting with the clickbaity title itself, a sham legacy? really?) by trying to frame the narrative that his supposed works were not his to begin with.

The video is not about denigrating Feynman. The "sham" legacy refers not to Feynman's legacy as a physicist, which is undisputed. The "sham" legacy refers to Feynman's false legacy written by other people for personal motivations.

> The comments in that video validate this sentiment to the point that people joke about him not existing at all?

Yes, that's the joke, but you're misunderstanding it. The joke is not punching at Feynman, but about how we know so little about him because we have no written primary sources about his views, only secondary sources.

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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by pkoird on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:59PM (#43145988)

I'm sorry but didn't we already establish that most of his famous books are the edited contents of his recordings with some of those audios available to download as well? Does a person have to actually sit down and write it out and dictations don't count?

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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by gitremote on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:48AM (#43146992)

I already addressed the editorializing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138957

Might not reply to this anymore, because a lot of these comments are people criticizing the video content they imagine in their heads based on the title only, not having watched the video.

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