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Episodes
  • The Deutsch Files IV
    Oct 11 2024

    Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34

    Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18

    Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30

    Innovation Often Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46

    Knowledge Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31

    Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10

    The West Versus the Rest 37:32

    Error-correcting Institutions 47:46

    The Bucket Theory of the Mind 51:59

    Wokeism and the West 1:07:12

    Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-iv

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • The Deutsch Files III
    Feb 17 2024

    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

    Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-iii

     

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    59 mins
  • The Deutsch Files II
    Jan 26 2024

    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

    Transcript http://nav.al/deutsch-files-ii

     

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    1 hr and 14 mins

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