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Sam Harris was in conversation with @lexfridman and they had a great conversation covering a wide range of topics. In this version for @X I react to just one part of their discussion on the nature of possibility & actuality and conclude they needed the work of @DavidDeutschOxf đź”–
David Deutsch provides a more comprehensible and less complex explanation on the topics of the fundamentals of quantum theory, computation, epistemology, philosophy, democracy, morality, memetics, psychology, and personhood compared to standart texts university lectures and popular YouTubers.
Nice piece. Deutsch got fundamentally "what sets humans apart from animals" and Hofstadter's notions (like those of others) while true, emerge from something deeper: a capacity to create explanatory knowledge. This is Deutsch's criterion (perhaps worth referring to as such).
Great episode Quibble with @jockowillink at 19 min mark: not all “learning” is like “brainwashing”. Broadly, the former requires a human to deploy their critical faculties to construct knowledge. The latter requires those same faculties to be *disabled*.
Beautiful video. “The boundary between knowing and not knowing is so clear in mathematics…If you think about something long enough you cross that line of understanding.” June Huh is a person where with every sentence they speak one is left wanting to hear more.
The entire post, linked below, is astonishing. Regulators slowing down vaccine production. And why? Well there are no good reasons. A highlight among them, for me, is that one of the expert immunologists advising the FDA on producing new vaccines for new COVID strains has said:
