00:00 Introduction
08:03 Interview Begins
09:42 How Chiara found herself at the foundations of physics
15:30 How Chiara found Everett
19:13 No Special Physics is required for Observers
21:02 What is a counterfactual? How is it linked to a constructor?
29:05 What is (classical) information? How is it different to quantum information?
32:30 Quantum Information is more constrained. This makes it more powerful.
34:08 Is the universe made of information?
38:04 The Simulation Hypothesis
40:33 The second law of thermodynamics
53:16 The AI Apocalypse?
58:02 How do we help a human become passionate about knowledge?
59:39 The Fine Tuning Problem
01:07:48 The Constructor Theoretic Notion of Knowledge
01:10:52 Constructor Theoretic Knowledge as a window on the origins of life.
01:12:16 The links between physics, epistemology and biology
01:14:15 Experimentally testing the quantum nature of gravity
01:26:05 Where to find out more
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Ep 206: Sam Kuypers (Time: The First Quantum Concept Part 3 - and more).
Ep 205: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” *Part 2*
Ep 204: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” Part 1
Ep 203: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 4
Ep 202: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 3
Ep 201: Progress: Conserving the means of Error Correction. Free Speech, Free Trade and Democracy.
Ep 199: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 2
Ep 198: Bayesianism
Ep 197: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 1: Introduction
Ep 196: The Mother Military
Ep 195: Knowledge, Wealth and Constructors
Ep 194: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 4: Shor’s Algorithm
Ep 193: Effortless Stoicism
Ep 192: Where do ideas come from?
Ep 191: Science News 2: Dark Matter, Fusion, JWST Latest
Ep 190: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part3
Ep 189: Epiphenomena
Ep 188: Nick Bostrom on AI on ”Talk TV” - analysis
Ep 187: Red Pens and Fallibilism
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