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Physicist David Deutsch builds a picture of reality from four theories that he weaves into a single explanation. They are Hugh Everett's many-worlds reading of quantum physics, which Deutsch ranks first; Karl Popper's theory of knowledge, with its rejection of induction and its realist reading of science; Alan Turing's theory of computation, recast around a universal quantum computer; and Darwinian evolution as refined by Richard Dawkins, including replicators and memes. Rather than reducing everything to particle physics, his theory of everything has the four strands support one another. The 1997 book was followed in 2011 by The Beginning of Infinity.
Demis Hassabis named it first among his picks, saying it raises the big questions in physics he hopes to take on one day with AI. Naval Ravikant has said he keeps rereading it, with The Beginning of Infinity, until he understands both fully.
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Naval Ravikant (CEO & Co-Founder/AngelList)
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
So I would say, first of all, “The Fabric of Reality” by David Deutsch. I think that poses all the big questions in physics that I would love one day to tackle with our A.I. tools.
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