Father Of Quantum Computing: How To Think Like A Genius - David Deutsch - #1164

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In Your worldview from uh Personal perspective, from a person's perspective, you know, we can talk about how important it is for a society or for civilization or for humanity as a whole to think about the importance of optimism and our capacity to solve problems and stuff like that. I'm kind of interested in the How an individual takes that as well. I think that might be an interesting tension. Uh obviously we've had all of this most recent stuff about anthropic researchers leaving

and and a bit over fears of AI and and and superintelligence and recursive stuff. I don't know if you're interested in that or if you're kind of a little bit bored of it. I I've been talking about it a lot. Um I'm also interested in w how your worldview's changed over the last fifteen years since the last book. Human potential and stuff like that. So we can we can start off and then scurry down whatever rabbit holes sound interesting if that seems good to you. Sure. No, by the way, I I think I agree with that, Maxim. So uh you know, w whenever someone doesn't understand you

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