David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1

Naval interviews David Deutsch, aiming to distill Deutsch's counterintuitive learnings for a general audience, focusing on principles of optimism, sustainability, and challenging conventional scientific theories like induction. They discuss human uniqueness, knowledge creation, and the differences between biological evolution and human creative thought, highlighting humans' capacity to transform resources through knowledge. The conversation explores the philosophy of natalism, resource scarcity, and the nature of wealth, emphasizing that humans are net producers. They delve into the definition of good explanations, criticizability, and the nuances of testability in science versus philosophy, and also discuss AI, focusing on the distinction between pattern matching and genuine creativity, and the importance of disobedience as a marker of AGI. Finally, they touch on education, the philosophy of taking children seriously, and quantum physics, particularly non-locality and the Everettian interpretation.