0:00 Intro
1:10 Naval calls “The Beginning of Infinity”(BOI) by physicist David Deutsch one of the best books he’s ever read
2:10 How Naval found Brett and his podcast
8:50 Naval explains the range of topics covered in BOI
12:30 Brett talks about mental models, misconceptions about how science is done, and how Nassim Taleb’s “black swan” example fits into the Popper-Deutsch worldview
16:30 Naval and Brett talk about a core idea – error correction and how it applies to science, economics, and society (free speech)
19:30 The point of democracy is NOT to find the best ruler (and why Plato was wrong) but to REMOVE bad rulers (error correction)
22:30 We don’t have access to the final truth, just progressively better ideas
23:25 Importance of “hard to vary” explanations
26:00 Good explanations (not as generic as you think)
30:00 Occam’s razor being improperly applied and why the multiverse is the ONLY way to understand quantum theory
34:00 Aliens, where are they, Naval’s “Dark Forest” hypothesis and an optimistic view of alien civilizations
40:00 Why “we will run out of resource x” is a Malthusian view, and how knowledge determines resource use, not the other way around
45:00 For humans to be successful we need optimism (our knowledge will solve problems) and how pessimists become public …
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