Published On Jul 2, 2021
Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward 0:00
This Book Changed the Way I Think 2:13
Nullius in Verba 4:11
Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe 6:25
Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again 8:19
We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge 10:21
People Are a Force of Nature 12:18
It’s Impossible to Predict the Growth of Knowledge 14:36
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things 16:30
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity 17:36
Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary 19:15
There Is No End of Science 21:41
There Is No Settled Mathematics 23:48
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible 26:43
All Knowledge Is Conjectural 29:27
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous? 32:36
Every Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate 34:44
We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics 36:27
Probability Is Subjective 38:03
Is Light a Particle or a Wave? 40:09
The Multiverse 43:28
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen 45:10
Science Expands Our Vision of Reality 46:36
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism 48:08
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions 50:12
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures 52:44
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time 54:56
It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories 56:13
We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance 59:13
It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse 1:00:38
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position 1:02:14
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out 1:04:11
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Transcript http://nav.al/infinity
This is Part 1 of my interview with @bretthall9080 about The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 2: • The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2