My goal would be not to do yet another podcast with David Deutsch, there are plenty of those.

I would love to tease out some of the very counterintuitive learnings, put them down

canonically in such a way that future generations can benefit from them, and make sure that

none of this is lost.

Your work has been incredibly influential for me.

I am always carrying a copy of Begin Me Winfrey, your fabric or reality with me wherever

I go.

I'm still reading these same books after two years, trying to absorb them into my world

view and I learn something new from them every day.

There's a lot of counterintuitive things in there.

There are a lot of sacred dogmas and shibbolets that you're skewering.

Sometimes you do it in passing with a single sentence that takes me weeks to unpack properly.

This recording is not for the philosophers, it's not for the physicists.

This is for the layman, the average person, and we want to introduce them to the principles

of optimism, the beginning of infinity, what sustainability really means about anthropomorphic

delusions.

As an example, you overturn induction as a way of forming new scientific theories.

That's this idea that repeated observation is what leads you to the creation of new knowledge,

and that's not the case at all.

This obviously came from popper, but you built upon it.

You talk about how humans are very different and very exceptional, and knowledge creation

is a very exceptional thing that only happens in evolution and the human brain as far as we

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