David Deutsch: The Era of Man, Popper, and Western Civilization

I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Deutsch in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation.
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Timestamps:
1:01 - A tragic view of human history
7:04 - Why did it take so long for civilization to arise?
13:31 - Fallibilism
21:32 - Cultural relativism denies improvement
24:03 - Richard Dawkins and indigenous ways of knowing
26:49 - Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
31:38 - The era of man
37:55 - People are unlike any other force of nature
42:51 - The dangers of regulating AI
48:09 - Are we running out of resources?
54:21 - Everything in existing educational theory is wrong
1:11:30 - When David met Richard Feynman
1:17:33 - Everyone is a Popperian
1:20:16 - Only progress is sustainable
1:26:00 - The biggest threat to Western civilization
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