Explanatory innovation can leap over gaps in knowledge space, allowing for creative guesses and forming interconnections between any two ideas. In contrast, biological evolution is inherently different as it can only make small conjectures through incremental mutations, limited by physical world constraints and the current capability of the organism.
Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00
Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05
The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48
Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36
The problems of cloning people 15:05
Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23
“Do what you like” is bad advice 38:17
Creativity versus nature 41:57
Deutsch’s “fanciful” conjectures 47:52
We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation 53:06
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