In this, the final episode covering Chapter 9 Optimism, we explore optimism as applied to politics and institutions. A pessimistic view of people, as animals that sometimes cannot be reasoned with, would imply the initiation of force is required. But understanding people as beings of compassion and reason means we should initiate kindness and use force only ever in response to violence. Pessimism about problems - problem avoidance is something we should not only take seriously but personally as David argues in this chapter. Because if optimism was not repeatedly stamped out or required the intellectual energy to constantly defend, we would be immortal already and living among the stars.
Ep 128: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 5 ”Beliefs & Evidence (Bayesian Reasoning” Remarks & Analysis
Ep 127: The End of Global Order (A response).
Ep: 126 Origins
Ep 125: Livestreams 1, 2 & 3
Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”
Ep 123: Ask Me Anything 3
Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
(Episode 121) Energy
(Episode 120) Newsletter 10: The Jubilee, Peace, Progress and Policing
Ep 119: Work and Heat: An introduction to thermodynamics (a prelude to Ch 6 of ”The Science of Can & Can’t).
(Ep 118: The Planetary Health Authority)
(Ep 117: Heat, Work, Universality and Exams)
Ep 116: Objective Knowledge
Ep 115: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 5 “Virtual Reality”
(Ep 114) Newsletter 3: Manners and Misattributions
Ep: 113 Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 4 ”Probability and Randomness” Remarks and Analysis
(Ep 112) The 3Rs: Reality, Reason and Rationality. Newsletter 1
Ep 111: Probability - Reality, Rationality and Risk
Ep 110: A Tradition of Criticism
Ep: 109 ”Objective Morality I: The Principle of Optimism”
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
강유원의 책담화冊談話
The Art of Manliness
Dear Hank & John
Cult of Conspiracy
Conversations With Coleman