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#-1 - AGI (with David Deutsch)

Reason Is Fun

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The Evolution of DNA

If there's a whole bit of DNA in a different organism and it gets copied into the wrong place, evolution can take place. Most instances of that just kill the organism but every so often it either leaves the functionality unchanged or makes it better. If a dog gets a piece of DNA from a lobster then that creates a similarity between dogs and lobsters that didn't exist before. The point is that human new explanations evolve intentionally. They involve randomness at some level, but the business part of creating the new explanation is what happens to the randomness after it's generated. And it is changed and further changed intentionally to solve a problem. That is what induction can't possibly do, but we

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