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Feb 2024
59m 18s

The Deutsch Files III

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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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