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Naval

ByNaval
138 episodes

Podcast Summary

Dive into the world of "Naval," a thought-provoking podcast that explores the intersection of business, philosophy, and personal development through the lens of its insightful host, Naval Ravikant. Known for his unique perspectives, Naval engages with a diverse array of guests, including renowned entrepreneurs, authors, and thinkers, who share their wisdom on topics ranging from artificial intelligence and creativity to wealth creation and mindfulness. Episodes delve deep into concepts like the fundamental nature of emergence, the complexities of artificial general intelligence, and the art of blending creativity with practicality. Each conversation is a treasure trove of ideas, offering listeners actionable insights and fresh perspectives. Whether you're an entrepreneur seeking inspiration or a curious mind eager to explore the intricacies of modern life, "Naval" provides a rich tapestry of knowledge that is both enlightening and engaging, making it a must-listen for those looking to expand their horizons.

#1

The Deutsch Files IV

Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34 Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18 Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30 Innovation Often Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46 Knowledge Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31 Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10 The West Versus the Rest 37:32 Error-correcting Institutions 47:46 The Bucket Theory of the Mind 51:59 Wokeism and the West 1:07:12 — Transcript

2024-10-11•1hr 25mins
#2

The Deutsch Files III

Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00 Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05 The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48 Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36 The problems of cloning people 15:05 Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23 “Do what you like” is bad advice 38:17 Creativity versus nature 41:57 Deutsch’s “fanciful” conjectures 47:52 We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation 53:06 — Transcript

2024-02-17•59mins
#3

The Deutsch Files II

The universality of computation and explanation 0:00 The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56 Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57 Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50 Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46 Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41 Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03 The principle of optimism 53:27 Constructor Theory 57:21 How to make a better world 1:10:05 — Transcript

2024-01-26•1hr 14mins
#4

The Deutsch Files I

Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08 ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36 Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35 The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41 David Deutsch’s Life Philosophy 32:06 The Clash of Civilizations 44:03 — Transcript Discuss on Airchat

2024-01-11•54mins
#5

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2

Popper’s Impact 0:00 Creative Guesses 2:18 Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25 Taking Theories Seriously 10:25 New Paradigms 15:58 Foundations of Science 23:30 The Enlightenment 25:39 Misinformation 29:45 — Transcript

2023-08-11•34mins
#6

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

Introduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23:30 Good Explanations 27:49 Quantum Computers 36:35 — Transcript

2023-02-11•43mins
#7

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00 The Ethereum community 1:22 The DAO hack 2:34 Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18 Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45 Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59 It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38 Goals outside Ethereum 12:17 Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00 Russia 18:06 Vitalik’s lifestyle 19:51 Closing thoughts 22:06 — Transcript

2022-04-14•24mins
#8

Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

Introduction 0:00 Haseeb’s background 0:22 Vitalik’s background 2:43 A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02 Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18 Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41 Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08 Doing away with ‘trusted’ third parties 14:09 Trading performance for security 14:43 ‘Impregnable castles made of math’ 16:23 Ethereum’s limitations are latency and privacy 16:56 There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32 Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39 Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49 Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00 How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11 What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07 Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18 Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52 New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54 People don’t value privacy until somebody goes to jail over it 30:32 Eth is ‘simple at the base’ 31:12 Social recovery wallets make it easier to be your own bank 31:44 Block space is getting expensive 32:41 There’s not a lot of innovation on Bitcoin, by design 33:35 Blockchain’s ‘free-rider effect’ 34:57 Innovation is slowest at Layer 1 35:34 Layer 2 moves faster because it’s permissionless 36:59 What if we froze Layer 1 today? 37:25 Data for computation trade-off 38:57 Benchmarking blockchains apples-to-apples 40:02 Enshrining decentralization 41:43 Tensions between scaling and preserving value 42:27 There will be multiple stores of value 43:54 — Transcript

2022-04-08•46mins

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#9

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2

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2021-12-22•2mins
#10

To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources

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2021-12-13•2mins
#11

Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite

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2021-12-10•2mins
#12

Groups Never Admit Failure

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2021-12-08•2mins
#13

Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It

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2021-12-06•2mins
#14

Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback

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2021-12-03•2mins
#15

The Poverty of Compromise

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2021-11-29•2mins
#16

Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier

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2021-11-24•2mins
#17

Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps

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2021-11-22•1mins
#18

One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones

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2021-11-19•1mins
#19

Ideas Are the New Oil

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2021-11-17•3mins
#20

Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources

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2021-11-15•2mins
#21

Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away

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2021-11-12•2mins
#22

If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It

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2021-11-10•0mins
#23

The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small

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2021-11-08•1mins

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#24

Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth

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2021-11-03•3mins
#25

Where Are the Aliens?

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2021-11-01•1mins
#26

It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown

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2021-10-30•2mins
#27

More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI

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2021-10-27•1mins
#28

We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species

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2021-10-25•1mins
#29

Humans Are Exceptional

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2021-10-22•2mins
#30

Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution

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2021-10-20•2mins
#31

There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity

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2021-10-18•3mins
#32

No Truth Can Be Justified

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2021-10-15•2mins
#33

With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True

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2021-10-08•1mins
#34

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1

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2021-07-02•1hr 6mins
#35

Rational Optimism Is the Way Out

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2021-05-24•2mins
#36

Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position

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2021-05-17•1mins
#37

It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse

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2021-05-14•2mins
#38

We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance

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2021-05-12•1mins
#39

It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories

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2021-05-11•2mins
#40

Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

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2021-05-07•1mins
#41

Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures

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2021-05-05•2mins
#42

Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions

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2021-05-03•2mins
#43

Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism

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2021-04-30•2mins
#44

Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality

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2021-04-28•1mins
#45

We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen

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2021-04-26•1mins
#46

The Multiverse

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2021-04-21•1mins
#47

Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

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2021-04-19•3mins
#48

Probability Is Subjective

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2021-04-16•2mins
#49

We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics

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2021-04-14•1mins
#50

Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate

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2021-04-12•1mins

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