I am inundated with the world's voices - podcasts, YouTube videos, Instagram messages, cable TV. If we suppose that the intelligence of these commentators is normally distributed then it's likely that many of their comments are a waste of our time (this is apparent even if we don't suppose this). So, it is such a pleasure to hear what a smart person has to say.

Dr. Hossenfelder discusses various basic questions of a type usually addressed by philosophers, theologians, or your freshman-year roommate, from her viewpoint as a theoretical physicist. I won't list them here, but my only tiny complaint is that some of them are so fanciful that I didn't find them very interesting.

A good summary of SH's comments is the famous, and probably apocryphal, story that Napolean Bonaparte after reading Pierre-Simon Laplace's Celestial Mechanics commented to him that it was very nice, but there was no mention of God. Laplace replied je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse, "I had no need of that hypothesis".