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#-1 - AGI (with David Deutsch)

Reason Is Fun

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The Difference Between an Explanation and the Thing That It Does Produce

An explanation accounts for a known thing that is trying to explain in terms of the unseen, unknown reasons behind it. Brett Hall's favourite example is that we can never see the centre of the sun. We could never go there. Any instrument that we send would get destroyed long before it got to the centre Of The Sun. GPT derive things about the sun based on other theories that we have.

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