(Part 2) Best products from r/IntellectualDarkWeb

This podcast is inspired by the twice guest of Sam Harris's podcast, David Deutsch. I find David Deutsch to be the most interesting guest that Sam has ever had. He also the author of the best Book I ever read. The Beginning of Infinity.

• Making Sense with Sam Harris #22 — Surviving the Cosmos (with David Deutsch) - In this episode, Sam Harris talks to physicist David Deutsch about the reach and power of human knowledge, the future of artificial intelligence, and the survival of civilization.
  
• Making Sense with Sam Harris #52 - Finding Our Way in the Cosmos (with David Deutsch) - In this episode, Sam Harris speaks with physicist David Deutsch about the foundations of knowledge, the moral landscape, possible futures for conscious beings, and other topics.
  
• Sam Harris and David Deutsch by Brett Hall - If you did not quite catch the disagreement between David and Sam about his book, don't worry you're not alone. I posed this very question to Brett and he was kind enough to make a whole video explaining the differences.
  
  From this particular Podcast linked (11:00 mins):
  
  
  
  >References:
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  >- Pessimist's Archive on Twitter: twitter.com/PessimistsArc
  - David Deutsch, "Creative Blocks: How Close are We to Creating Artificial Intelligence?": aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-…tificial-intelligence
  - David Deutsch, CBC interview from 2018 about AGI: www.cbc.ca/player/play/1251489859794
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  >Further reading:
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  >- “The Bucket and the Searchlight” by Karl Popper
  - “The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch, chapter 1 “The Reach of Explanations”, and chapter 6 “The Jump to Universality”
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  >If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or tweet at me: twitter.com/dchackethal

If he was honest he would have advocated for the working solutions regardless of left or right. Here's a great source for what works and how we can move forward.

Shapiro is too political to see a path forward.

I took a semester of an introductory course of Game Theory. We followed the textbook An Introduction to Game Theory by Osborne. The book is great for a first dive into the subject, has ample examples, easy explanations, and is not too mathematically involved. Don't trust the online ratings; this is a very clear-cut book that covers a lot of material.

We also had Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by Neumann and Morgenstern, the founders of Game Theory, as a reference. It covers the motivations for game theory, explains basic concepts (like utility) which are taken for granted, and also explains economic behavior using Game Theory. It's a 600-page monster.

Submission statement:

Adam Carolla interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is promoting, Letters from an Astrophysicist, but they still make time for race cars.

P.S.: This is a great interview too.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Strategy-Theorists-Success-Business/dp/0393337170

I read this. Haven't read much into Game Theory besides this book, but it's probably a more general overview of Game Theory with real life examples.

No.

I am challenging the idea that our "religious" behavior is genetic. It is not. Humans possess the ability to create explanatory knowledge which affects how we behave. Unlike animals who only run based on the knowledge contained within their genes.

So the idea that religious behavior is genetic and inevitable is mistaken. Religious behavior happens at the level of memes, not genes. Religious behavior is an anti-rational meme, in that it requires the suppression of criticism to replicate.

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359


The explanation of artificial creativity is contained in this book chapter 7. And the explanation about memes and the difference between rational memes and anti-rational memes is contained in chapter 15.

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My argument has nothing to do with the human genome project.