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The Deutsch Files III
Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00 Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05 The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48 Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36 The problems of...
Feb 17th 2024
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59 min
The Deutsch Files II
The universality of computation and explanation 0:00 The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56 Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57 Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50 Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46 Free will is...
Jan 26th 2024
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1 hr 14 min
The Deutsch Files I
Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08 ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36 Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35 The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41 David Deutsch’s Life Philosophy 32:06 The Clash of...
Jan 11th 2024
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54 min
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 1
Aug 11th 2023
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34 min
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 2.
Feb 11th 2023
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43 min
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
Haseeb and I interview Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum and blockchains
Apr 14th 2022
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25 min
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
Haseeb and I interview Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum and blockchains
Apr 8th 2022
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46 min
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
My interview with Brett Hall about The Beginning of Infinity
Dec 22nd 2021
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52 min
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
There was a time when coal wasn’t a resource
Dec 13th 2021
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2 min
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
We’re going to keep creating new knowledge and new resources
Dec 10th 2021
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2 min
Groups Never Admit Failure
What happens is you get a schism instead
Dec 8th 2021
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2 min
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
Science’s biggest breakthroughs came from unpopular people
Dec 6th 2021
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2 min
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
The alternative is who has more guns
Dec 3rd 2021
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2 min
The Poverty of Compromise
Compromise tests ideas no one ever thought were correct in the first place
Nov 29th 2021
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2 min
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
Technology has swung us towards centralization in the last decade
Nov 24th 2021
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2 min
Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
The generation-long shift from institutions to individuals will be messy
Nov 22nd 2021
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1 min
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
Creativity goes from 0 to 1 and bodies aren’t going to solve the problem
Nov 19th 2021
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1 min
Ideas Are the New Oil
New fortunes are created with ideas
Nov 17th 2021
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3 min
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
The only thing they will lack is the knowledge they don’t have
Nov 15th 2021
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2 min
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
We may not be alone in the universe, just too far apart
Nov 12th 2021
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2 min
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