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The Deutsch Files III
February 17, 2024 12:54 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBProving 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 cloning people 15:05 Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23 “Do what you like” is bad advice 38:17 Creativity versus nature 41:57 Deutsch’s “fanciful” conjectures 47:52 We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation...
The Deutsch Files II
January 26, 2024 09:03 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBThe 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 intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41 Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03 The principle of optimism 53:27 Constructor Theory 57:21 How to make a better world 1:10:05 — Transcript http://nav....
The Deutsch Files I
January 11, 2024 07:31 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBGood 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 Civilizations 44:03 — Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-i Discuss on Airchat http://getairchat.com/arjun/deutschfilesdiscussion
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
August 11, 2023 23:37 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBPopper’s Impact 0:00 Creative Guesses 2:18 Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25 Taking Theories Seriously 10:25 New Paradigms 15:58 Foundations of Science 23:30 The Enlightenment 25:39 Misinformation 29:45 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
February 11, 2023 18:32 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBIntroduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23:30 Good Explanations 27:49 Quantum Computers 36:35 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race
February 11, 2023 18:32 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBIntroduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23:30 Good Explanations 27:49 Quantum Computers 36:35 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
April 14, 2022 14:46 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBThe elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00 The Ethereum community 1:22 The DAO hack 2:34 Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18 Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45 Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59 It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38 Goals outside Ethereum 12:17 Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00 Russia 18:06 Vitalik’s lifestyle 19:51 Closing thoughts 22:06 — Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik-2
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
April 08, 2022 18:50 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBIntroduction 0:00 Haseeb’s background 0:22 Vitalik’s background 2:43 A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02 Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18 Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41 Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08 Doing away with ‘trusted’ third parties 14:09 Trading performance for security 14:43 ‘Impregnable castles made of math’ 16:23 Ethereum’s limitations are latency and privacy 16:56 There are ways to g...
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
December 22, 2021 19:53 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBTranscript http://nav.al/infinity-1
New Knowledge Creates New Resources
December 13, 2021 19:59 - 2 minutes - 2.72 MBTranscript http://nav.al/new-resources
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
December 13, 2021 19:59 - 2 minutes - 2.72 MBTranscript http://nav.al/caveman
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
December 10, 2021 21:32 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBTranscript http://nav.al/infinite-resources
Groups Never Admit Failure
December 08, 2021 18:30 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MBTranscript: http://nav.al/failure
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
December 06, 2021 22:39 - 2 minutes - 2.3 MBTranscript http://nav.al/social
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
December 03, 2021 20:36 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBTranscript http://nav.al/feedback
The Poverty of Compromise
November 29, 2021 18:01 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBTranscript http://nav.al/compromise
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
November 24, 2021 19:39 - 2 minutes - 2.68 MBTranscript: http://nav.al/decentralization
Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
November 22, 2021 19:47 - 1 minute - 1.62 MBTranscript http://nav.al/credibility
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
November 19, 2021 22:27 - 1 minute - 1.29 MBTranscript http://nav.al/einstein
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
November 15, 2021 20:16 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MBTranscript http://nav.al/resources
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
November 12, 2021 17:49 - 2 minutes - 2.07 MBTranscript http://nav.al/far-away
If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
November 10, 2021 18:34 - 43 seconds - 712 KBTranscript: http://nav.al/program
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
November 08, 2021 17:51 - 1 minute - 1.31 MBTranscript http://nav.al/existence
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
November 03, 2021 14:00 - 3 minutes - 2.9 MBTranscript http://nav.al/intelligent
It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
October 30, 2021 18:39 - 2 minutes - 2.38 MBTranscript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing
More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
October 27, 2021 19:26 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBTranscript: http://nav.al/agi
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
October 25, 2021 14:34 - 1 minute - 1.45 MBTranscript http://nav.al/species
Humans Are Exceptional
October 22, 2021 16:52 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBTranscript http://nav.al/exceptional
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution
October 20, 2021 16:51 - 2 minutes - 2.25 MBTranscript http://nav.al/evolution
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
October 20, 2021 16:51 - 2 minutes - 2.25 MBTranscript http://nav.al/evolution
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
October 18, 2021 14:55 - 3 minutes - 3 MBTranscript http://nav.al/gravity
No Truth Can Be Justified
October 15, 2021 14:45 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MBTranscript http://nav.al/justified
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
October 08, 2021 18:38 - 1 minute - 1.49 MBTranscript http://nav.al/theory
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
July 02, 2021 21:22 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBTranscript http://nav.al/infinity
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
May 24, 2021 23:03 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MBTranscript http://nav.al/optimism
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
May 17, 2021 19:48 - 1 minute - 1.83 MBTranscript http://nav.al/pessimism
It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
May 14, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.49 MBTranscript http://nav.al/extrapolate
We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
May 12, 2021 21:17 - 1 minute - 1.34 MBTranscript http://nav.al/ignorance
It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
May 11, 2021 18:22 - 2 minutes - 2.76 MBTranscript http://nav.al/theories
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
May 07, 2021 19:19 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBTranscript http://nav.al/advances
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures
May 05, 2021 16:32 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBTranscript http://nav.al/failures
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures
May 05, 2021 16:32 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBTranscript http://nav.al/failures
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
May 03, 2021 20:03 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBTranscript http://nav.al/predictions
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
April 30, 2021 16:34 - 2 minutes - 1.92 MBTranscript http://nav.al/error
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
April 28, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.44 MBTranscript http://nav.al/broaden
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
April 26, 2021 18:16 - 1 minute - 1.35 MBTranscript http://nav.al/observed