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Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution
Sell the Truth
‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over
A Return to Code
A Motorcycle for the Mind
Curate People
In the Arena
Find the Simplest Thing That Works
Good Products Are Hard to Vary
Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured
The Best Authors Respect the Reader’s Time
It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval’s Chief of Staff
You Have to Enjoy It a Lot
Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action
When You Truly Work for Yourself
In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
If You Want to Learn, Do
Life is Lived in the Arena
Inspiration all the way down
The Deutsch Files IV
The Deutsch Files III
The Deutsch Files II
The Deutsch Files I
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
Groups Never Admit Failure
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
The Poverty of Compromise
Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
Ideas Are the New Oil
Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
Where Are the Aliens?
It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
Humans Are Exceptional
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
No Truth Can Be Justified
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
The Multiverse
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Probability Is Subjective
We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
All Knowledge Is Conjectural
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
There Is No Settled Mathematics
There Is No End of Science
Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
People Are a Force of Nature
We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
Happiness
Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe
Nullius in Verba
This Book Changed the Way I Think
Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1
How to Angel Invest, Part 2
The Path to Peace Is Truth
Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
Happiness Is Peace in Motion
Finding Peace from Mind
Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable
The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction
Work the Least for It