Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00

Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05

The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48

Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36

The problems of cloning people 15:05

Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23

“Do what you like” is bad advice 38:17

Creativity versus nature 41:57

Deutsch’s “fanciful” conjectures 47:52

We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation 53:06

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The universality of computation and explanation 0:00

The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56

Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57

Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50

Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46

Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41

Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03

The principle of optimism 53:27

Constructor Theory 57:21

How to make a better world 1:10:05

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Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08

ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36

Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35

The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41

David Deutsch’s Life Philosophy 32:06

The Clash of Civilizations 44:03

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