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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
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Replicating a Mem Takes Creativity
Our defining feature is that we can create explanatory knowledge. Any other people in the universe, be they aliens or artificial general intelligence, will be able to explain their environment. For most of human history, most humans living primitive societies failed to do much good explaining hence, why did they fail to make much progress? The enlightenment began around 17 hundred or maybe a little bit before, and the industrial revolution began to happen just a little bit later than that. But why did neither of these things happen a thousand or even ten thousand years earlier? If people had the same capacity for thinking and creativity as the people then did and the people to day have? It was being used to keep things static, the
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