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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Traveling Salesman Problem - Hardware Limitations on Us

We're not limited in the programmes we can run, apart from by speed and memory capacity. And both those can be augmented to the level of any other entity that in the universe. So if somebody builds a computer that can think faster than the brain, then we can use that very computer or technology to make our thinking go just as fast as that. That's hardware. As far as er explanations go. Can we, can we reach the same kind of explanations as any other entity, let's say er. Usually this is said not in terms of a g ie, but in terms of e, er, extra terrestrial intelligences.

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