🔑 KEY CONCEPTS: DAVID DEUTSCH 🔑 ✨Table of Contents✨ 1. Explanation 2. Hard-to-vary (Good Explanations) 3-4. Universality 5. Optimism 6. Creativity 7. Prophecy 8. Truth 9. Memes 10. Hangups 11. Inexplicit Knowledge 12. Institutions 13. Morality 14. Common Preferences 15. Fun

Vibrational control of mechanical systems or: How I learned to stop worrying and love open-loop control. 1/

20 ideas I can’t stop thinking about:

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book everyone should read. But, only 7% of people who’ve started it ever made it to the end. 21 insights from the best book you never finished:

You have no obligation to the past and are free to choose who you are at any moment anew (which means you have no reason to expect your future self to remain loyal to your identity if it comes up with a better one). Minds don’t want you to know this!

“For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it”

NEW podcast episode is up! "David Deutsch (David Deutsch) and Naval Ravikant (Naval) — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations tim.blog/2023/03/23/dav…

Political legitimacy is bestowed by the people and should be spent for the people, not on oneself.

You Can Just Learn Things The old economy was run by those who knew the right facts. The new economy will be run by those who know how to ask the right questions. AI is devastating if your professional reason to exist was just regurgitating facts, or reviewing facts and

Individualism & Egalitarianism: It is the individual—not the tribe, not the family, not the society—who has the capacity to explain the world, to understand it, to suffer, to be happy, to make choices, to create explanatory knowledge. This kind of individualism is a devastating

We trained a graph-native AI, then let it reason for days, forming a dynamic relational world model on its own - no pre-programming. Emergent hubs, small-world properties, modularity, & scale-free structures arose naturally. The model then exploited compositional reasoning &

Foreign-policy 'realists' don't realise that living in a world in which international treaties (such as the UN and NATO charters) are worthless is far more expensive?

Feynman summing up David Deutsch’s “fun criterion” and Popper’s “fall in love with a problem”.

Moral relativism – including trying not to 'take sides' – has a dark logic that reliably leads to siding with evil x.com/DavidDeutschOx…

Yann is just plain incorrect here, he’s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence. Brains are the most exquis​ite and complex phenomena we know of in the universe (so far), and they are in fact extremely general. Obviously one can’t circumvent the no free lunch

which way chemical scum?

All abstractions are leaky.

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is

You can outsource your thinking to an AI but you can outsource your understanding.