Physicists
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Brian Keating
Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist

Sean Carroll
Theoretical physicist

Lawrence Krauss
Astrophysicist

David Deutsch
Theoretical physicist

Alex Filippenko
Astrophysicist

Geoffrey West
Theoretical physicist

Peter Woit
Theoretical physicist

Carlo Rovelli
Theoretical physicist

Lee Smolin
Theoretical physicist

Stephen Wolfram
Computer scientist

Michio Kaku
Theoretical physicist
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David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications
David Deutsch argues that Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fundamental ideas. He connects this bias to quantum computing, constructor theory, free will, and the role of creativity in scientific breakthroughs.- 00:00 - Einstein's Gra
Steven Pinker on Cancel Culture, Common Knowledge & AI
Get 3 months off the annual plan and start learning faster at shortform.com/impossible In this episode, Steven Pinker unpacks how common knowledge shapes everything from why rational people can’t agree to disagree to why markets boom and bust. We explore the risks of falsifying expert claims, the power of social norms,
David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI
Get My New Book, Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, for Only $ 0.99! This week only: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U David Deutsch offers his insights into the physics that will impact our future, challenging our new technologies, such as AGI and the development of synthetic humans, as depicted in movies. Join us for this fascina
Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it's not enough that we all know what the rules are, but also that everyone else knows the rules, and that they know that we know the rules, and so on. Philosophers and game theorists refer to this as common knowledge.

Lawrence Krauss | 'The Universe Doesn’t Care About Us... And That’s Beautiful' - The Beginning & End Of The Cosmos + Reflections On Hitchens
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss (A Universe from Nothing, The Known Unknowns) explores the biggest questions we can ask: How did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is consciousness? And what will remain when every star has burned out? Krauss moves seamlessl
David Deutsch: Quantum Theories Are Just MIRACLES! (But not this one)
Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥 David Deutsch just exposed something shocking about modern science. Most quantum theories aren't actually science at all. They're just miracles disguised as explanations. When you ask how quantum entanglement works, most interpretatio