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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Live Streaming
02:16 • 2min
Writing Notes in the Kindle App Is a Lot of Work
04:18 • 2min
I've Been Having a LOT of Ideas Lately and I'm a Little Bit Tired
06:38 • 2min
The University System Has Taken a Pessimistic Turn
08:57 • 2min
What's the Benefit of Pessimism?
11:21 • 3min
What Is the Benefit of Pessimism?
14:38 • 2min
Identifying Problems in Astronomy
16:57 • 3min
Hubble Space Telescope
19:52 • 2min
Is There a Careerism in Academics?
22:16 • 3min
World Trade Center Number Seven Coming Down?
24:50 • 3min
Is the Knowledge of Counterfactuals Critical for Understanding Artificial General Intelligence?
27:48 • 3min
The Program for a Person, What Is the Code for a Person
30:29 • 3min
The Super Intelligence Is Not Creative
33:26 • 2min
What Should I Study in University?
35:52 • 2min
Is There a System for Teaching Science?
37:41 • 4min
Can't Hear the Cat, Is That a Cat, Cats Hear the Cat?
41:14 • 3min
Artificial General Intelligence Doesn't Have Emotions
43:49 • 2min
Is There a Fear of Something?
46:15 • 2min
You Have Inborn Ideas and You Can Change Your Behavior
48:28 • 3min
The Measure of Conscience and Creativity Isn't Creating Knowledge
51:00 • 4min
The Great Mystery of Consciousness
55:06 • 2min
The Mystery of Consciousness
56:57 • 3min
AlphaGo
59:32 • 2min
What's the Difference Between a Prediction and a Prophecy?
01:02:00 • 3min
Using Newtonian Mechanics to Predict
01:05:10 • 3min
What Is the Future of the World?
01:07:57 • 3min
Laws Inhibit Creativity
01:11:18 • 2min
Vaccine Updates in the United States
01:13:46 • 3min
Is the FDA Slowing Down Vaccine Production?
01:16:21 • 3min
Vaccines Cost Money to Produce
01:18:53 • 3min
COVID Vaccine
01:21:29 • 4min
I Don't Think There's Too Much Freedom
01:25:14 • 2min
Democracy Is Better Than Monarchy
01:27:23 • 3min
The Utilitarian Theory of Morality Is Wrong
01:30:53 • 2min
Morality Is About Solving Problems at a Particular Time
01:32:50 • 3min
Getting People to Engage in Discussions
01:35:44 • 3min
What Is Brett Hall's Principle for Decision-Making?
01:38:23 • 3min
Is There a Good Explanation?
01:41:24 • 2min
The Three Kinds of Decision Making
01:43:43 • 3min
Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
01:46:34 • 2min
Do You Think Bayesian Reasoning Is Impractical?
01:49:00 • 2min
What Is Going on in Science?
01:51:27 • 3min
The Point of Morality Is, Don't Coerce
01:54:28 • 3min
Do You Have a Non-Agression Policy?
01:57:00 • 3min
Why Should I Treat a Person With Coercive Preferences the Way He Wants to Be Transcribed?
02:00:20 • 2min
Treat People the Way You Want to Be Transcribed
02:02:19 • 2min
What Do We Do About Crucial Experiments?
02:04:15 • 3min
Is It Acceptable to Punch Nazis?
02:07:44 • 4min
Do Not Destroy the Means of Error Correction Means Allow Maximal Free Speech
02:11:20 • 2min
Justified True Belief
02:13:14 • 3min
What Is Justified True Belief?
02:16:15 • 3min
The Dogmatist and the Relativist
02:18:57 • 3min
Is Problem Finding More Important Than Solutions?
02:21:41 • 2min
Problem Finding Is More Important Than Any Given Solution
02:23:46 • 2min
Is Interestingness a Better Criterion for Action Than Importance?
02:26:03 • 4min
How Do You Become Better at Criticizing Your Own Ideas?
02:29:35 • 2min
Is the Government Enabled to Intervene and Stop Such Ideas?
02:31:38 • 3min
Working Hard Can Be Coercive
02:34:59 • 3min
Lambda Chatbot
02:37:50 • 2min
We Can't Derive Is From Is
02:39:54 • 3min
Live Stream Technical Difficulties
02:42:41 • 3min
Is There a Way to Create Consciousness Without Promising Suffering?
02:45:13 • 3min
Is Suffering Solely Sold?
02:47:56 • 3min
Is It Morally Wrong to Have a Child?
02:51:17 • 2min
Bringing Together Special Relativity and Quantum Field Theory
02:53:10 • 3min
Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Chromodynamics
02:55:47 • 2min
The Many Worlds Interpretation
02:58:08 • 3min
The Difference Between Computational Universality and Explanatory Universality
03:00:46 • 3min
What Is Explanatory Universality?
03:03:16 • 3min
Is the Number of Harry Potter Universes Finite?
03:06:00 • 3min
What Are Harry Potter Universes?
03:08:45 • 2min
Is There More Multiples of a Billion?
03:11:07 • 2min
Cryogenically Freeze a Body and a Brain?
03:13:26 • 4min
When to Act on a Theory of AI?
03:17:07 • 2min
Is There a Difference Between Reason and Rationality?
03:19:10 • 3min
Is Rationality a Tool of Reason?
03:21:59 • 3min
Is There a Tradition of Critique in Quantum Mechanics?
03:24:34 • 4min
What Does It Mean to Survive Critique?
03:28:30 • 4min
The Meme Solves Problems for People
03:32:12 • 3min
Is There a Simulator?
03:35:27 • 3min
Are We Born With Blank Slights?
03:38:03 • 3min
Are You Born Incapable of Doing Mathematics?
03:40:41 • 2min
How to Get a D on U12 Mathematics?
03:43:00 • 2min
Is Space Repetition Software to Enhance Creativity?
03:45:29 • 5min
I Don't Buy Into IQ Tests
03:50:35 • 2min
Are You Going to Employ Someone Based on That?
03:52:43 • 3min
Do Mental Gifted Challenge Children Owe Their Proclivities to Differences in Hardware Processing Speed?
03:55:49 • 2min
Children Are Faster Learners
03:58:10 • 3min
How to Use Math Effectively on Day-to-Day Scenarios
04:01:40 • 2min
I'd Pick Up a School, High School Textbooks
04:03:25 • 3min
Cryptocurrency Is Here to Stay
04:06:05 • 3min
The Philosophy of Progress, Incremental Progress, Problem Solving
04:09:06 • 2min
What's the Importance of Probability in Physics and Real Life?
04:11:33 • 3min
What's the Most Mind-Boggling Concept?
04:14:56 • 3min
You Can't Doubt Everything
04:17:27 • 3min
Is the World Less Dangerous When Everyone Has a Universal Constructor Under Their Mattress?
04:20:34 • 3min
Optimism and Dark Goat by Matt Ridley
04:23:49 • 2min
The Deepest Reason Why Things Are Getting Better
04:25:57 • 2min
The Monopoly in the Markets
04:28:24 • 4min
Is Google Going to Be Around Forever?
04:32:01 • 2min
The Multiverse Theory - What Are Your Contours?
04:34:16 • 3min