Episodes
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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Published 02/17/24
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 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
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Transcript...
Published 01/26/24
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 Civilizations 44:03
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Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-i
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Published 01/11/24
Popper’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
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Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2
Published 08/11/23
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
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Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch
Published 02/11/23
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 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
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Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik-2
Published 04/14/22
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 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 get back your...
Published 04/08/22
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
Published 12/22/21
There was a time when coal wasn’t a resource
Published 12/13/21
We’re going to keep creating new knowledge and new resources
Published 12/10/21
What happens is you get a schism instead
Published 12/08/21
Science’s biggest breakthroughs came from unpopular people
Published 12/06/21
The alternative is who has more guns
Published 12/03/21
Compromise tests ideas no one ever thought were correct in the first place
Published 11/29/21
Technology has swung us towards centralization in the last decade
Published 11/24/21
The generation-long shift from institutions to individuals will be messy
Published 11/22/21
Creativity goes from 0 to 1 and bodies aren’t going to solve the problem
Published 11/19/21
New fortunes are created with ideas
Published 11/17/21
The only thing they will lack is the knowledge they don’t have
Published 11/15/21
We may not be alone in the universe, just too far apart
Published 11/12/21
Evolutionary algorithms don’t produce living beings
Published 11/10/21
From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s near impossible
Published 11/08/21
Creative intelligence wasn’t inevitable
Published 11/03/21
The universe should be teeming with aliens
Published 11/01/21