
Episode 13: Objections to Artificial General Intelligence
The Theory of Anything
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The Argument That Science Has Things That It Cannot Explain
Stephen Pinker made the argument that science has things that it cannot explain. So in essence then a universal explainer is an AGI or the word A and AGI is artificial. It's certainly conceivable that you can imagine that human beings are not universal explainers. There's things about the world that we just simply can't explain. And David Deutsch's terminology that would be an easy to vary explanation which is to say there's just not really much detail to it.
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