Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
The Theory of Anything
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The Limits of Knowledge
Sam Dayton: Is it possible we could discover some supermassive black hole that we are within the event horizon of. It's just far enough away that we haven't noticed it? And if that's the case, then there is no escaping that fact,. He asks whether we might be able to cleave off this question ofwhether knowledge can grow indefinitely or it has some very large but finite limit. Sam Dayton: I'm wondering if we could separate those two things and think of the principle of optimism in a strong form and a weak form.
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