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The Beginning of Infinity is coming to Germany

The German translation of David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity is now available at: http://anfa.ng/kaufen In this follow-up interview, author David Deutsch and translator Dennis Hackethal continue talking about the German translation of Deutsch’s bestselling book The Beginning of Infinity. It’s about progress, our place in the cosmos, epistemology, sustainability, the multiverse, and much more. You can find the previous interview (in German) here: https://youtu.be/UHm88w_BnMU Production: Dennis Hackethal

Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit mit David Deutsch

Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit ist ab sofort erhältlich: http://anfa.ng/kaufen Autor David Deutsch und Übersetzer Dennis Hackethal sprechen über das Buch Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit. Dieses Buch ist die Übersetzung von Deutschs Bestseller The Beginning of Infinity. Es handelt von der Möglichkeit schrankenlosen Fortschritts, unserer Stellung im Kosmos, der Wissensphilosophie, Nachhaltigkeit, dem Multiversum und vielem mehr. Das Folgeinterview (auf Englisch) finden Sie hier: https://youtu.be/zoem4rRDms0 Verweise: - Harald Lesch über den Gödel’schen Unvollständigkeitssatz: https://www.youtube.c

Popper's problem-oriented epistemology (with David Deutsch and Eli Tyre)

David Deutsch and Eli Tyre have a conversation about Karl Popper's epistemology, Critical Rationalism. They go into detail about how knowledge grows via creative problem-solving, and discuss evolutionary creativity, AI, and more. TWITTER ● David Deutsch: https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf ● Eli Tyre: https://twitter.com/EpistemicHope David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity: https://www.thebeginningofinfinity.com/

"Knowledge Creation and its Risks" - David Deutsch on AGI - Centre for the Future of Intelligence

David Deutsch gives a remote talk + Q&A to the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) in Trinity College, Cambridge. Follow CFI for more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy44rZhDURNL4ihicP-YFmA 00:00:10 - Introduction by Clifford Siskin 00:05:25 - David Deutsch, "Knowledge Creation and its Risks" 00:27:37 - Q&A discussion "David Deutsch will join us by Skype from Oxford University. Starting with the 1985 paper that first proposed the idea of a universal quantum computer, David's work has “set the agenda for subsequent international research efforts in quantum computation”

What is the 'Fun Criterion'? (David Deutsch – behind the scenes)

David Deutsch proposed a criterion for deciding what to do: fun. In this video, Lulie Tanett (@ReasonIsFun on Twitter) asks what that means and why fun is important. TWITTER ● David Deutsch: https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf ● Lulie Tanett: https://twitter.com/ReasonIsFun

Why has AGI not been created yet?

How close are we to creating artificial intelligence? Why has AGI not been created yet? In this piece – originally appearing as an article in Aeon, 'Creative Blocks' – David Deutsch answers these questions. Starting with a history of computation, he goes on to criticise the existing philosophical approaches to AI and AGI, and how these have been confused. This article can be read here: https://aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-we-to-creating-artificial-intelligence Citation for Richard Byrne's paper 'Imitation as behaviour parsing': https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6524/3c28d6caf34f764b8e02e5a7

Possible Minds - Beyond Reward and Punishment (narrated by David Deutsch)

David Deutsch reads his essay 'Beyond Reward and Punishment', from the book ‘Possible Minds’, a collection of essays about AI/AGI. This essay can be read in full here, including footnote citations: http://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/PossibleMinds_Deutsch.pdf Longer essay by David Deutsch about why AGI hasn't been created yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeY8QaMsYqY Possible Minds book: ▸ Amazon US - https://amzn.to/2pwANUv ▸ Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/2oNbhua Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf

David Deutsch Live Stream

Why Are Flowers Beautiful?

This is a lecture that I gave, via video link, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on January 27, 2007.

David Deutsch on the AV Referendum (UK)

*The Beginning of Infinity* includes, in the chapter on Choices, a discussion of electoral systems, their paradoxes, and the criterion by which they ought to be judged. But it does not specifically mention the AV (Alternative-Vote) system. Since a referendum on changing the British electoral system to AV is imminent, I thought I'd summarise here what I think is the decisive argument for voting 'No'.