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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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The Principle of Mediocrity

It is common these days for intellectuals to embrace the so called principle of mediocrity. We are just an incremental increase on what went before, says Sam Harris. The cosmological principle ays that the earth, planet earth, is nothing particularly special. But all of this is wrong - we humans are special, and earth is only special because we are here.

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