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Apr 2020
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Ep 26: Problems, Knowledge and Wealth

Brett Hall
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This is a non-Beginning of Infinity Podcast. While it makes some references, as always, to the work of David Deutsch, it is primarily some thoughts about finding ourselves in a given problem situation and what we need to find our way out in time. Of course there is some reference made to the present COVID-19 situation. A rather different episode to the usual ... Show More
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