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We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge

We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge

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Naval Ravikant, Brett Hall
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Mar 15, 2021
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The difference with the beginning of infinity you're getting a worldview. You're not being given the standard take from physicists about how to understand quantum theory. You're not being given the standard take of how to understand Knowledge from philosophers and you're certainly not being given the standard take of how to understand mathematics from mathematicians a deutsche's qualified in all these areas is expert in all these areas. So the world view itself. What's at the core of it deutsche's worldview is that reality is comprehensible problems are soluble.
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It's deeply rationally optimistic world view. It believes in good explanations good scientific explanations and progress progress has inevitable as long as we have these good explanations good explanations have tremendous reach there are acts of creativity humans are problem solvers and can solve all problems all sins and evil are due to a lack of knowledge one can be optimistic about constant progress. That's what the title the beginning of infinity refers to that.
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At the
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beginning of an infinite series of progress It's very optimistic take it believes that we are at home in the universe. The universe is ours as a resource to learn about an exploit that material wealth is a set of physical Transformations that we can affect that everything that is not forbidden by the laws of physics has eventually possible through knowledge and knowledge creation. He also talks about how humans are Universal explainers that anything that can be known and understood can be known and understood by human beings in the computation.
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Russian power of a human system, it's all Noble. It's all Noble by humans with the beginning evident Infinity of knowledge. And as we understand things using good explanations and we create new theories that are constantly being destroyed and replaced by a better ones. There's no end point in sight. There's no Perfection. Every Theory can be falsified and improved that we are on our way to being able to do everything that is not forbidden by the laws of physics. Thank you to Aid sleep for supporting the navall podcast.
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