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David Deutsch on Optimism

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David Deutsch on Optimism

An excerpt from an RSA event in which physicist David Deutsch makes the case for optimism as a driver of progress in the 21st century. It is a short highlight of a longer discussion.

Pointed to as an antidote to pessimism about the future, tied to Deutsch's ideas in The Beginning of Infinity.

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