- person - David Deutsch
- scientiest within quantum
- breakthrough price in quantum compuation
- fun-criterion
- podcasts
- The Beginning of Infinity
- youtube channel
- https://thebeginningofinfinity.xyz/ tags.to-read
- books
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Static / Dynamic societies
- Static societies suppress error correction, freeze knowledge
- Dynamic societies allow criticism → knowledge grows indefinitely
- Frame is epistemological: how knowledge survives and grows
Related to infinite-game (Carse) but not same:
- Carse asks why you play (to win vs to keep playing)
- Deutsch asks how knowledge grows (error correction is the mechanism)
- Carse = attitude/orientation. Deutsch = mechanism.
- Dynamic society ≈ infinite game at civilizational scale
Israel / Iran
Applies static/dynamic lens:
- Israel = dynamic (liberal democracy, allows error correction)
- Iran regime = static (suppresses dissent, anti-Enlightenment)
- Frames jihadism as a static meme — self-replicating, resistant to criticism
- Criticizes Western moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas/Iran
- Regimes that execute dissenters are epistemically broken → dangerous at civilizational scale
- Has been vocal in support of Israel post Oct 7 2023