David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 211 August 2023Popper’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 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-200:34:01
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 111 February 2023Introduction 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 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch00:43:50
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 214 April 2022The 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 Eth...00:25:00
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 108 April 2022Introduction 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...00:46:07
Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite10 December 2021Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources00:02:31
Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It06 December 2021Transcript http://nav.al/social00:02:28
