Tag: David Deutsch
6 posts tagged "David Deutsch".
British physicist (b. 1953), a pioneer of quantum computation and a leading exponent of Karl Popper's epistemology. His books The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity argue that good explanations drive open-ended progress and that human knowledge has no inherent limits. A vigorous optimist, he extends Karl Popper's fallibilism into a sweeping worldview that resonates with the blog's interest in creativity, rationality, and the conjecture-and-criticism engine behind all knowledge.
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Highlights From the Comments on AI Doom
My coming-out post on why I'm no longer an AI doomer seems to have struck a nerve.
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Why I am No Longer an AI Doomer
At the exact same time we're seeing a real-life explosion in AI capabilities, I've become much less worried about the prospect of doom. Here's why.
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Weaponised Autism as the Font of Human Creativity
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum?
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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Pound-for-pound The Beginning of Infinity has to be the densest collection of batshit-crazy ideas I've ever come across.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2023-2024
IT'S BEEN A COUPLE YEARS since I did one of these roundups, during which time book club has really lifted my reading game, and so the pool of contenders has a lot of depth this year.
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The ‘Bias’ Bias: No, Your Brain is Not Made of Swiss Cheese
Most apparent biases are, in fact, perfectly good heuristics, and people are far more rational than we have been led to believe.
