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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
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Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
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Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
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Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
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One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
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Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
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If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
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The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
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Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
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It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
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We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
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Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
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With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
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Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
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It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
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It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
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We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
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Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
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