Ep 184: ToKCast Digest - An Overview of Optimism
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The Optimism of David Deutscher
The scope and scale of opportunity that you see before you and before humanity is utterly unrivaled in any other picture of the universe. Now David Deutscher's extremely modest about these things. In the sense that, he thinks that his contribution is footnotes to Popper. But as a person who has been doing this for a while and studying both of them for quite some time, I must say that Popper doesn't really invoke the cosmic significance of physics,. For example, in the same way that Deut scher does, and really lays it out explicitly for you.
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