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Hovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145

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Thanks for pointing this out. It should be said, however, that Kuhn did cite Polanyi pretty extensively.

Related: Destin, at the Smarter Every Day YouTube channel, has been kind of sliding into the same distinction Polanyi outlined, between "tacit knowledge" and explicit knowledge. Destin would label those "understanding" and "knowledge", respectively, but he has a lot of neat demonstrations of this distinction, e.g. riding a backwards bicycle[0], or hovering a helicopter[1].

[0] https://youtu.be/MFzDaBzBlL0

[1] https://youtu.be/eXR1olg_I0w

kashyapc
Well, if Kuhn cited Polanyi "pretty extensively" this wouldn't happen; citing from the Wikipedia (I know; there's a reference) entry:

"Supporters of Polanyi charged Kuhn with plagiarism, as it was known that Kuhn attended several of Polanyi's lectures, and that the two men had debated endlessly over epistemology before either had achieved fame. After the charge of plagiarism, Kuhn acknowledged Polanyi in the Second edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.[7] Despite this intellectual alliance, Polanyi's work was constantly interpreted by others within the framework of Kuhn's paradigm shifts, much to Polanyi's (and Kuhn's) dismay"

routerl
Yeah, you're right. I misremembered. Thanks for the correction.
I really enjoyed Smarter Every Day's video about learning to hover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXR1olg_I0w
> Those helicopter pilots must have a very steady hand.

Piloting a helicopter in general requires an incredibly steady hand on unintuitive controls that interact with each other in ways that are difficult to predict[1]. Being able to do that with high precision, a disturbingly small margin of error, and fatal consequences for almost any error is basically a superpower.

[1] SmarterEveryDay has an interesting video[2] about learning to hover a helicopter, which apparently requires trying to hover (badly) until the brain learns how to abstract away all of the complexity.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXR1olg_I0w

https://youtu.be/eXR1olg_I0w

Here's a pretty good one. It appears to be constant 3-axis compensation, although he alludes to newer helicopters that have made it much easier.

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