David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race
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Podcast Summary
David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant discuss key questions about evolution and the human race, the importance of knowledge and creativity, artificial intelligence and much more.
Key Takeaways
To understand humans sufficiently well, you must understand everything sufficiently well.
Things that create knowledge are uniquely influential in the universe
Virtually all humans, apart from mass murderers, create more wealth than they destroy.
Good explanations are hard to find, hard to vary, and falsifiable