TEDxBrussels - David Deutsch - The Unknowable & how to prepare for it

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

In the range of Ted speakers, David is an anomaly in the very highest tier. He’s genuinely a living genius.

[@sedalia9356]

How grateful i would be to have DD as my tutor or mentor. Been a fan since he published he published "Fabric" amd spoke about Popper His epistemology and tutelage appies to every reasonable person. Forever grateful to you, David.

[@Jamusictv]

He has a seriously talented skill at describing very complex issues into simple thought inspiring topics.

[@learnerlearns]

Agreed! David's quantum work is truly ground breaking! To answer your question though: "How is his stuff not more widely known?" School, TV, Sports, kids, self-medication, celebrity, slavery, fear, fatigue, mental lethargy & other distractions... in others words, "boobs beer babes and baseball" combine with overwork and bad education to dumb people down. Even if they want to learn, they're too tired from working or raising kids to read, research or experiment. This medium is changing that!

[@stefanklisarov4053]

Deutsch is right on the money regarding epistemology. Brilliant mind

[@eleezaaa]

Just wonderful. Every time I listen to David Deutsche, I feel as if my mind starts to expand and the ideas and thoughts are still trickling through a few days later..

[@fireballfitness170]

11:18...we face a paradox, the more we create knowledge the less we KNOW about our future....as ideas change our lives, it becomes ever more necessary to plan for that effect. 12:47...the exponential growth of knowledge involves an exponentially increasing rate of unforeseen mistakes... we need to prepare with contingencies, for these mistakes will be dominated with knowledge we don't yet have or ignorance we don't yet know about... 13:22....the power of explanatory knowledge...because some explanations do reach beyond the planning horizon... 15:55...the power of explanatory knowledge and the desire to create it.

[@manimusicka2]

A speech fitting for a galactic gathering.

[@BANKO007]

Good to hear TED talks as they used to be, before it was overrun by political activism and ideology.

[@fushey]

David Deutsch is a brilliant thinker. How is his stuff not more widely known!

[@subramanyam2699]

This guy comes on tedx as a live video feed! Look at this power..

[@udaypsaroj]

Later he comes on ted as a live video feed on a robot :)

[@mcsquared4319]

The more you know, the more you know about what you don't know. To know everything, you must be everywhere at all time...

[@AltumNovo]

The future has always been unknowable. Technologically things were stable but socially/economically things evolved fast and depended almost as much as today on knowledge creation. The evolution of social, political, economic systems has immense impact on people's lives as well as technological innovation. Human creativity was always the dominant factor in people's lives from the dawn of civilisation

[@Doomsday_Life]

explanatory knowledge.

[@Philosophie21]

Un penseur précieux pour notre avenir

[@El_Diablo_12]

5:00 8:00 14:00 15:00

[@gazsibb]

Superb 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Barbalooful]

do we have feedback ? Yes

[@aminkanji8501]

Prophet Amin was here

[@LahnAlhyat]

Love is Unknowable. :)

[@bonyclyde]

👏👏👏

[@dorinvaden6946]

brilliance, but this man and the inventor. of Dwave have some.dangerous ideas about parallel universe "harvesting"

[@Hmmmook]

Want to download his brain

[@schwestaheruga]

you are good my homie! take your clothes off!

[@supahacka]

supersonic travel is morally unacceptable?

[@Atanu]

supahacks, I too did a double-take on that bit. I tried to explain it by saying that people have an ethical opposition to the destruction of the ozone layer (SST exhaust did a bit of that) and their assessment of the benefits of getting there a bit faster relative to the cost led them to reject SST. As DD said, what happens depends on what people want, what the laws of nature allows, and what knowledge we have.

[@Lance_Lough]

@@Atanu. It was also the damage and disruption caused by continual sonic 'booms'.. (A moral choice in this sense is any which is based on the best way to act or live)

[@perceivingacting]

Interesting how the physicists always end up doing psychology.

[@HitomiAyumu]

perceivingacting Philosophy, not Psychology.

[@Hyporama]

funnier than it sounds