Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
The Theory of Anything
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The Paradox of Interest
Bruce Deutsch: Is it true to say that if something is intrinsically unsolvable, then people will just lose interest because I kind of view the fascination with paradoxes a bit of a counter-examble to that? Daniel Treisman: How could we know with certainty going into a problem whether it's solvable or not? It occurs to me that the problem is not just the word interesting but the word problem.
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