David Deutsch

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David Deutsch is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 10, 2022 and August 18, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Constructor theory is a framework developed by the physicist David Deutsch”; “In an interview with Tyler Cowen, David Deutsch once discussed”. It most often appears alongside 2018, @BendiniUK, @benyeohben.

Metadata

• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: February 10, 2022
• Last seen: August 18, 2023

Appears In

• ACX Grants ++: The Second Half
• Your Book Review: The Mind Of A Bee

Related Pages

• • 2018 (1 shared issues)
• • @BendiniUK (1 shared issues)
• • @benyeohben (1 shared issues)
• • @utotranslucence (1 shared issues)
• • ACX (1 shared issues)
• • ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
• • AGI (1 shared issues)
• • AI (1 shared issues)
• • Ajah (1 shared issues)
• • Alex Olshonsky (1 shared issues)
• • AlfredSPH (1 shared issues)
• • AlfredSPH@protonmail.com (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

ACX Grants ++: The Second Half

February 10, 2022 · Original source

#74: Apply Constructor Theory To AI Constructor theory is a framework developed by the physicist David Deutsch which seeks to express scientific theories as claims about which physical transformations are possible and which are impossible. This is in contrast to the standard framework which describes physical systems in terms of their initial conditions and laws of evolution. It is hoped that this framework will solve fundamental problems in physics and other fields. I believe that there is an analogy between the problems in the natural sciences which constructor theory was developed to solve and the AI alignment problem. I would like to spend a couple of months thinking about this and fleshing out my ideas as posts on LessWrong/The Alignment Forum and opening them up for discussion. I am currently in the final few months of a PhD in theoretical physics during which I have published two papers. After my PhD finishes, I would like to spend some time (two or three months) researching this problem and will need some funding to do this full time during this period. If you would like to fund this work or discuss the idea further, please send an email to AlfredSPH@protonmail.com .

Your Book Review: The Mind Of A Bee

August 18, 2023 · Original source

In an interview with Tyler Cowen, David Deutsch once discussed the idea of understanding, or of having explanatory power for the actions you take. For Deutsch, this distinguishes us from almost everything else that is alive. Deutsch:

Inline links: interview with Tyler Cowen

Backlinks

• ACX Grants ++: The Second Half
• People: D
• Your Book Review: The Mind Of A Bee