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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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The Jump to Explanatory Universality

Human brains are universal in their capacity to explain the world. This gives us a special relationship with the laws of physics. What is called artificial intelligence is really just an incremental improvement on the kinds of tasks computers have always done. Creativity requires disobedience to go against what was known or acceptable before. A computer that beats a chess grand master is impressive because of raw power and clever programming. It is not creating new knowledge, but calculating among known possibilities.

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