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David Deutsch: Knowledge Cr...

02.11.2023

Introduction 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

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02.11.2023 David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race Introduction 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
04.14.2022 Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2 The 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 ...
04.08.2022 Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1 Introduction 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 ...
12.22.2021 The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2 Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
12.13.2021 To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources Transcript http://nav.al/caveman
12.10.2021 Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources
12.08.2021 Groups Never Admit Failure Transcript: http://nav.al/failure
12.06.2021 Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It Transcript http://nav.al/social
12.03.2021 Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback Transcript http://nav.al/feedback
11.29.2021 The Poverty of Compromise Transcript http://nav.al/compromise
11.24.2021 Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization
11.22.2021 Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps Transcript http://nav.al/credibility
11.19.2021 One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones Transcript http://nav.al/einstein
11.17.2021 Ideas Are the New Oil Transcript http://nav.al/ideas
11.15.2021 Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources Transcript http://nav.al/resources
11.12.2021 Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away Transcript http://nav.al/far-away
11.10.2021 If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It Transcript: http://nav.al/program
11.08.2021 The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small Transcript http://nav.al/existence
11.03.2021 Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent
11.01.2021 Where Are the Aliens? Transcript http://nav.al/aliens
10.30.2021 It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown Transcript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing
10.27.2021 More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI Transcript: http://nav.al/agi
10.25.2021 We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species Transcript http://nav.al/species
10.22.2021 Humans Are Exceptional Transcript http://nav.al/exceptional
10.20.2021 Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution Transcript http://nav.al/evolution
10.18.2021 There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity Transcript http://nav.al/gravity
10.15.2021 No Truth Can Be Justified Transcript http://nav.al/justified
10.08.2021 With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True Transcript http://nav.al/theory
07.02.2021 The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1 Transcript http://nav.al/infinity
05.24.2021 Rational Optimism Is the Way Out Transcript http://nav.al/optimism
05.17.2021 Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position Transcript http://nav.al/pessimism
05.14.2021 It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse Transcript http://nav.al/extrapolate
05.12.2021 We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance Transcript http://nav.al/ignorance
05.11.2021 It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories Transcript http://nav.al/theories
05.07.2021 Science Advances One Funeral at a Time Transcript http://nav.al/advances
05.05.2021 Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures Transcript http://nav.al/failures
05.03.2021 Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions Transcript http://nav.al/predictions
04.30.2021 Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism Transcript http://nav.al/error
04.28.2021 Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality Transcript http://nav.al/broaden
04.26.2021 We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen Transcript http://nav.al/observed
04.21.2021 The Multiverse Transcript http://nav.al/multiverse
04.19.2021 Is Light a Particle or a Wave? Transcript http://nav.al/light
04.16.2021 Probability Is Subjective Transcript http://nav.al/probability
04.14.2021 We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics Transcript http://nav.al/prove
04.12.2021 Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate Transcript http://nav.al/substrate
04.09.2021 Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous? Transcript http://nav.al/discrete
04.07.2021 All Knowledge Is Conjectural Transcript: http://nav.al/conjectural
04.05.2021 The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible Transcript: http://nav.al/methods
04.02.2021 There Is No Settled Mathematics Transcript: http://nav.al/settled
03.31.2021 There Is No End of Science Transcript: http://nav.al/end

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Naval episodes:

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2

To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources

Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite

Groups Never Admit Failure

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It

Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback

The Poverty of Compromise

Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier

Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps

One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones

Ideas Are the New Oil

Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources

Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away

If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It

The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small

Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth

Where Are the Aliens?

It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown

More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI

We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species

Humans Are Exceptional

Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution

There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity

No Truth Can Be Justified

With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1

Rational Optimism Is the Way Out

Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position

It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse

We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance

It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories

Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures

Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions

Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism

Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality

We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen

The Multiverse

Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

Probability Is Subjective

We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics

Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate

Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?

All Knowledge Is Conjectural

The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible

There Is No Settled Mathematics

There Is No End of Science

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