This latest episode of The Tim Ferriss Show with @DavidDeutschOxf and @naval was a treat. 💯
It was very insightful and fun. Thank you @tferriss
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It was very insightful and fun. Thank you @tferriss
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The four strands of the fabric of reality:
- quantum physics,
- the theory of evolution,
- the theory of computation, and
- the theory of knowledge.
- quantum physics,
- the theory of evolution,
- the theory of computation, and
- the theory of knowledge.
Things that create knowledge are uniquely influential in the universe. Explanatory creativity makes humans unique. (David Deutsch)
Nature has no boundaries. Nature doesn’t divide things up into sub-disciplines. By connecting these things together, you get much deeper explanations. (Richard Feynman)
What a good explanation looks like:
Good explanations begin with bad explanations. And you get there—between the bad explanation and the good explanation—by criticism, by conjecturing variance of the story, and then criticizing both them and the original story, and then choosing…
Good explanations begin with bad explanations. And you get there—between the bad explanation and the good explanation—by criticism, by conjecturing variance of the story, and then criticizing both them and the original story, and then choosing…
Even the most careful scientific observation is all theory-laden, and theories are inherently fallible.
(David Deutsch)
(David Deutsch)
The art of making a good AI is to limit its possibilities tremendously.
You limit them a trillion-fold compared with what it could be. There are a trillion ways of being wrong for every way of being right.
(David Deutsch)
You limit them a trillion-fold compared with what it could be. There are a trillion ways of being wrong for every way of being right.
(David Deutsch)
Wealth is not a number. I don’t think it can be characterized very well by a number. It is the set of all transformations that you are capable of bringing about. That is your wealth. And if optimism is true, then there’s no limit to wealth.
(David Deutsch)
(David Deutsch)
Something that interests you is going to be the way to find out what you should be learning.
(David Deutsch)
(David Deutsch)
There’s no substitute for reading the books. (Naval)
He has always highly recommended The Beginning of Infinity if you want to understand the world around you and make better decisions. I highly recommend it too.
He has always highly recommended The Beginning of Infinity if you want to understand the world around you and make better decisions. I highly recommend it too.
Listening to "The Theory of Knowledge" podcast by Brett Hall also helped me very much to understand the concepts while I was reading The Beginning of Infinity and I highly recommend.
@ToKTeacher
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