RSA Replay: Optimism, Knowledge and the Future of Enlightenment

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• FR

  @freelunch3260 · 10 years ago

  brilliant David Deutsch, damn

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• ST

  @stoyanfurdzhev · 4 years ago

  The best intervention of David Deutsch that I had the partial pleaser to listen to.

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• DI

  @dirtytomflint · 10 years ago

  This was one of the best discussions I've heard in a while. Really on another level. Thank you so much for making this happen.. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF INFORMATION, PEOPLE!!!!!

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• HO

  @Hobbiton567 · 10 years ago

  if anyone's read Deutsch's book, the beginning of infinity, and buys into it's premise, then I'm sure they'll find this discussion as frustrating as i did. David is talking about infinite human progress. many of the others are talking about short term parochial issues, more or often than not, with some tedious lefty political bias.

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• MA

  @manivandmusic · 8 years ago

  Thank you for sharing.

• EL

  @El_Diablo_12 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJQTYc27ME&amp;t=413">6:53</a> why civilizations going the wrong direction led to us not being in the stars<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJQTYc27ME&amp;t=470">7:50</a> why anything is possible with the right knowledge<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJQTYc27ME&amp;t=615">10:15</a> enemies of civilization who resist changes in their ideas<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJQTYc27ME&amp;t=1860">31:00</a> On Deutsch’s optimism principle

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• AN

  @ankitiscracked · 5 years ago

  This interview reminded my that even experts don&apos;t have all the answers.

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• FA

  @fatkat444 · 10 years ago

  Such a wonderful discussion.

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• CH

  @christiandean9547 · 3 years ago

  The clarity of argument from David compared to the others is levels above. <br><br>Most of the guests meandered around the same ‘well the truth is usually somewhere in the middle you know?’, and almost all alluded to more government regulation.<br><br>The only guest speaker with anything interesting to say was Chiara Marletto, who brought the discussion back to the fundamentals of knowledge, and also happens to be a close colleague of David.

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• MA

  @maxcarlsson8334 · 5 years ago

  Martin said he’d conclude his opening statement about 5 times before he did.

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• Z0

  @z0uLess · 6 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJQTYc27ME&amp;t=2250">37:30</a> The pessimist may be the educated optimist, but the enlightened pessimist is a moral pragmatist. «Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise» -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1678. Put yourself in positions where your vices become virtues.

• CH

  @christiandean9547 · 3 years ago

  Don’t understand why they keep bringing on random people to share their opinions. I just want to hear David destroy Martin

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