Episodes with Smash Notes
‘Knowledge’ is just our best guess at the time
David Deutsch’s theory is centered around good explanations
A collection of all our episodes on The Beginning of Infinity.
Pessimism is self-fulfilling
But it ignores all the ways we’ve innovated our way out of previous traps
It’s harder to guess how life might improve
The door is always open for new ideas
General relativity vs. Newtonian mechanics is a recent example
Even the best get left behind
The best theories come from your imagination, not extrapolation
The prediction comes after the explanation
It is an error-correcting mechanism