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The Deutsch Files III
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
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The Deutsch Files II
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
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The Deutsch Files I
Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08
ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36
Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35
The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41
David Deutsch?s Life Philosophy 32:06
The Clash of Civilizations 44:03
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
Popper?s Impact 0:00
Creative Guesses 2:18
Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25
Taking Theories Seriously 10:25
New Paradigms 15:58
Foundations of Science 23:30
The Enlightenment 25:39
Misinformation 29:45
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
Introduction 0:00
The Human Race 2:11
Knowledge Creation 12:34
AGI 15:50
Taking Children Seriously 23:30
Good Explanations 27:49
Quantum Computers 36:35
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00
The Ethereum community 1:22
The DAO hack 2:34
Vitalik?s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18
Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45
Vitalik?s influence on Eth today 8:59
It?s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38
Goals outside Ethereum 12:17
Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00
Russia 18:06
Vitalik?s lifestyle 19:51
Closing thoughts 22:06
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
Introduction 0:00
Haseeb?s background 0:22
Vitalik?s background 2:43
A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02
Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18
Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41
Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08
Doing away with ?trusted? third parties 14:09
Trading performance for security 14:43
?Impregnable castles made of math? 16:23
Ethereum?s limitations are latency and privacy 16:56
There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32
Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39
Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49
Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00
How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11
What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07
Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18
Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52
New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54
People don?t value privacy until somebody goes to jail over it 30:32
Eth is ?simple at the base? 31:12
Social recovery wallets make it easier to be your own bank 31:44
Block space is getting expensive 32:41
There?s not a lot of innovation on Bitcoin, by design 33:35
Blockchain?s ?free-rider effect? 34:57
Innovation is slowest at Layer 1 35:34
Layer 2 moves faster because it?s permissionless 36:59
What if we froze Layer 1 today? 37:25
Data for computation trade-off 38:57
Benchmarking blockchains apples-to-apples 40:02
Enshrining decentralization 41:43
Tensions between scaling and preserving value 42:27
There will be multiple stores of value 43:54
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