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Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)

The Theory of Anything

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The Power of Optimism

I went into those books, those readings, starting with Roger Penrose, Douglas of Statter, Dawkins. And I, all of it was a bit of a letdown eventually. There was kind of a low power optimism in all of this. It was even a bit pessimistic, I found. Then randomly I heard Sam Harris interview Deutsch. That was the first time actually that hearing Sam Harris being lost or unable to come back from what Deutsch was saying. So I started looking into it, started reading his books, and discovered a new form for me, a new form of optimism. One with a very big engine, I would say, something really powerful, a lot of a

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