Every animal is exceptional in some way, otherwise we wouldn't call different species different species. It's intuitively obvious that we are unique in some way that's more important than all those other ways. To understand humans sufficiently well, you must understand everything sufficiently well. And humans are the only remaining physical systems that we know of in the universe, of which that is true. Everything else is really inconsequential in that sense.
Introduction 0:00
The Human Race 2:11
Knowledge Creation 12:34
AGI 15:50
Taking Children Seriously 23:30
Good Explanations 27:49
Quantum Computers 36:35
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