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Episodes
Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34
Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18
Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30
Innovation Often Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46
Knowledge Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31
Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10
The West Versus the Rest 37:32
Error-correcting Institutions 47:46
The Bucket Theory of the Mind 51:59
Wokeism a...
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 clon...
The universality of computation and explanation 0:00
The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56
Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57
Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50
Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46
Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41
Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03
The principle of optimism 53:27
Constructor Theory 57:21
How to make a better...
Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08
ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36
Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35
The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41
David Deutsch’s Life Philosophy 32:06
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Popper’s Impact 0:00
Creative Guesses 2:18
Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25
Taking Theories Seriously 10:25
New Paradigms 15:58
Foundations of Science 23:30
The Enlightenment 25:39
Misinformation 29:45
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Introduction 0:00
The Human Race 2:11
Knowledge Creation 12:34
AGI 15:50
Taking Children Seriously 23:30
Good Explanations 27:49
Quantum Computers 36:35
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The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00
The Ethereum community 1:22
The DAO hack 2:34
Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18
Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45
Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59
It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38
Goals outside Ethereum 12:17
Introduction 0:00
Haseeb’s background 0:22
Vitalik’s background 2:43
A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02
Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18
Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41
Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08
Doing away with ‘trusted’ third parties 14:09
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