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The Deutsch Files II

The Deutsch Files I

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1

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 the 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?