Brett Hall

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 🔖

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.

Pessimism is a natural consequence of prophecy: the attempt to predict the inherently unpredictable growth of knowledge. “AGI Doomerism” is a particularly egregious but pervasive species on the ascendancy. Nice article here by Tom:

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 analysis: by @lotuseaters_com Seems a fever dream of global anti-democratic tyranny until one checks official sources like: The WHO are not “meeting in secret” btw: they’re being very transparent.