How Has the Research Environment Changed Since You Begun Your Career?

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Since I'm a theorist, I don't have to equip my own laboratory or anything like that. So it's a relatively easy for me to work at home and to just use the facilities of university,. pick and choose and not be paid and that kind of thing. It seems to me that the funding system and the career structure for fundamental science has been in rather drastic because of the time it has been in a rather drastic decline during his lifetime.

I speak with physicist David Deutsch about the universal constructor, a machine that can be programmed to cause any physically possible transformation.

Note-this interview was recorded in early 2022.

In the time since this interview was recorded, David has stated that disobedience is by far the primary reason that humans and human societies aren't universal constructors.

David Deutsch's website - https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/.

Constructor theory website - https://www.constructortheory.org/.

Logan Chipkin's website - www.loganchipkin.com/.

David Deutsch Twitter - https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf.

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