The Beginning of Infinity
Categories: Science & Math
Physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe, and that improving them is the engine of all successful human endeavor. Ranging across the sciences, the history of civilization, art, morality, and political institutions, he shows how we create good explanations and discard bad ones, and the conditions under which progress, which he believes is potentially boundless, can happen. It's an ambitious, original book about knowledge and its limitless possibilities.
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- Patrick Collison
- Naval Ravikant
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Sam Altman: “If I had to pick one favorite book, I would pick that. Even if you don't read the whole thing, the first like 40-50 pages are, I think, the most wonderfully optimistic take on why, even in a world with AI, we're never going to run out of things to do.”
- Sam Harris: “We talk about much of the other material in his most recent book, The Beginning of Infinity”
- Seth Godin: “After you read Randall, this book will take those ideas and expand them. A lot.”