Naval

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Naval on wealth, investing, startups, tech and life. Founder of AngelList, investor in Uber and hundreds more, author of Venture Hacks and Startupboy.

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Naval episodes:

10.27.2021 More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI Even the most powerful computers can’t answer ‘why?’
10.25.2021 We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species There is no continuum between humans and chimpanzees
10.22.2021 Humans Are Exceptional Humans aren’t just a form of bacteria that overran the planet
10.20.2021 Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution Ideas undergo the same evolutionary process as genes
10.18.2021 There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity All we have is better and better approximations to reality
10.15.2021 No Truth Can Be Justified ‘Knowledge’ is just our best guess at the time
10.08.2021 With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True David Deutsch’s theory is centered around good explanations
07.02.2021 The Beginning of Infinity A collection of all our episodes on The Beginning of Infinity
05.24.2021 Rational Optimism Is the Way Out Pessimism is self-fulfilling
05.17.2021 Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position We’ve innovated our way out of previous traps
05.14.2021 It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse It’s harder to guess how life might improve
05.12.2021 We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance The door is always open for new ideas
05.11.2021 It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories General relativity vs. Newtonian mechanics is a recent example
05.07.2021 Science Advances One Funeral at a Time Even the best get left behind
05.05.2021 Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures The best theories come from your imagination, not extrapolation
05.03.2021 Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions The prediction comes after the explanation
04.30.2021 Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism It does not presume to predict the future from the past
04.28.2021 Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality The multiverse is another step in this expansion
04.26.2021 We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen No one has ever seen the core of the sun
04.21.2021 The Multiverse Experiments force us to acknowledge other universes
04.19.2021 Is Light a Particle or a Wave? God does not play dice with the universe
04.16.2021 Probability Is Subjective All physically possible things occur
04.14.2021 We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics Unprovable theorems vastly outnumber the provable ones
04.12.2021 Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate You’re always bound by the laws of physics
04.09.2021 Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous? Quantum theory and relativity disagree
04.07.2021 All Knowledge Is Conjectural Be skeptical of absolute certainty
04.05.2021 The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible The subject matter is not
04.02.2021 There Is No Settled Mathematics Proofs are not certainties
03.31.2021 There Is No End of Science We can keep on making progress
03.26.2021 Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary They should make risky and narrow predictions
03.24.2021 Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity They’re not derived from looking at the past
03.22.2021 Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things Knowledge is in the observer, not the observed
03.19.2021 It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge The laws of physics can’t predict the future
03.17.2021 People Are a Force of Nature A different vision of the place of people in the universe
03.15.2021 We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge Progress is inevitable as long as we have good explanations
03.12.2021 Happiness A collection of all my episodes on happiness
03.10.2021 Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again Many claim to read, but very few understand
03.08.2021 We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe We can understand anything that can be understood
03.05.2021 Nullius in Verba Take no one’s word for it
03.03.2021 The Beginning of Infinity The rare book that expanded my repertoire of reasoning
03.01.2021 Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward “Believe in science” is an oxymoron
07.15.2020 Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2 Innovation is the parent of prosperity
07.09.2020 Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1 Innovation is the child of freedom
06.12.2020 How to Angel Invest, Part 2 A preview of our other podcast
03.26.2020 The Path to Peace Is Truth Discovering the truth can change you where self-improvement fails
03.24.2020 Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth Even smart people go along with society’s lies
03.10.2020 The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside Wise people are quiet.
03.05.2020 Happiness Is Peace in Motion Peace is happiness at rest. Transcript: http://nav.al/peace-motion
03.03.2020 Finding Peace from Mind The mind should be a servant, not a master
02.26.2020 Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable Addiction holds together artificial relationships and fake activities

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Naval episodes:

More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI

We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species

Humans Are Exceptional

Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic 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

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

Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary

Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity

Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things

It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge

People Are a Force of Nature

We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge

Happiness

Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again

We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe

Nullius in Verba

The Beginning of Infinity

Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward

Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2

Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1

How to Angel Invest, Part 2

The Path to Peace Is Truth

Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth

The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside

Happiness Is Peace in Motion

Finding Peace from Mind

Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable

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