So David Deutsch argues in The Beginning of Infinity, his breathtakingly profound and impossibly affecting new book. He continues:
Optimism is, in the first instance, a way of explaining failure, not of prophesying success. It says that there is no fundamental barrier, no law of nature or…
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Really interesting idea…
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mandatory reading.
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winandtonic said:
My longstanding singular definition for evil has been “willful ignorance”, so this jives pretty well with me. Added to the book queue.
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superfluidity said:
I watched a few lectures by Deutsch recently and have wanted to read this.
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