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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 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 53:06
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Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-iii
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144 - The Deutsch Files III Sat, 17 Feb 2024 - 0h
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143 - The Deutsch Files II Fri, 26 Jan 2024
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142 - The Deutsch Files I Thu, 11 Jan 2024 - 0h
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141 - David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 0h
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140 - David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 - 0h
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139 - Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2 Thu, 14 Apr 2022 - 0h
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138 - Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 - 0h
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137 - The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 - 0h
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136 - To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources Mon, 13 Dec 2021 - 0h
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135 - Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite Fri, 10 Dec 2021 - 0h
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134 - Groups Never Admit Failure Wed, 08 Dec 2021 - 0h
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133 - Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It Mon, 06 Dec 2021 - 0h
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132 - Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback Fri, 03 Dec 2021 - 0h
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131 - The Poverty of Compromise Mon, 29 Nov 2021 - 0h
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130 - Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier Wed, 24 Nov 2021 - 0h
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129 - Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps Mon, 22 Nov 2021 - 0h
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128 - One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones Fri, 19 Nov 2021 - 0h
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127 - Ideas Are the New Oil Wed, 17 Nov 2021 - 0h
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126 - Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources Mon, 15 Nov 2021 - 0h
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125 - Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away Fri, 12 Nov 2021 - 0h
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124 - If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It Wed, 10 Nov 2021
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123 - The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small Mon, 08 Nov 2021 - 0h
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122 - Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth Wed, 03 Nov 2021 - 0h
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121 - Where Are the Aliens? Mon, 01 Nov 2021 - 0h
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120 - It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown Sat, 30 Oct 2021 - 0h
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119 - More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI Wed, 27 Oct 2021 - 0h
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118 - We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species Mon, 25 Oct 2021 - 0h
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117 - Humans Are Exceptional Fri, 22 Oct 2021 - 0h
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116 - Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution Wed, 20 Oct 2021 - 0h
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115 - There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity Mon, 18 Oct 2021 - 0h
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114 - No Truth Can Be Justified Fri, 15 Oct 2021 - 0h
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113 - With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True Fri, 08 Oct 2021 - 0h
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112 - Make Luck Your Destiny Thu, 07 Mar 2019 - 0h
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111 - Making Money Isn't About Luck Wed, 06 Mar 2019 - 0h
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110 - Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans Wed, 06 Mar 2019 - 0h
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109 - Make Abundance for the World Tue, 05 Mar 2019 - 0h
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108 - Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Tue, 05 Mar 2019 - 0h
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107 - The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1 Fri, 02 Jul 2021
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106 - Rational Optimism Is the Way Out Mon, 24 May 2021 - 0h
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105 - Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position Mon, 17 May 2021 - 0h
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104 - It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse Fri, 14 May 2021 - 0h
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103 - We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance Wed, 12 May 2021 - 0h
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102 - It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories Tue, 11 May 2021 - 0h
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101 - Science Advances One Funeral at a Time Fri, 07 May 2021 - 0h
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100 - Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures Wed, 05 May 2021 - 0h
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99 - Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions Mon, 03 May 2021 - 0h
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98 - Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism Fri, 30 Apr 2021 - 0h
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97 - Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality Wed, 28 Apr 2021 - 0h
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96 - We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen Mon, 26 Apr 2021 - 0h
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95 - The Multiverse Wed, 21 Apr 2021 - 0h
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