Synopsis
Naval on wealth, investing, startups, tech and life. Founder of AngelList, investor in Uber and hundreds more, author of Venture Hacks and StartupBoy.
Episodes
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
11/08/2023 Duration: 34minPopper’s Impact 0:00 Creative Guesses 2:18 Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25 Taking Theories Seriously 10:25 New Paradigms 15:58 Foundations of Science 23:30 The Enlightenment 25:39 Misinformation 29:45 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2
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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race
11/02/2023 Duration: 43minIntroduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23:30 Good Explanations 27:49 Quantum Computers 36:35 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
14/04/2022 Duration: 25minThe elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00 The Ethereum community 1:22 The DAO hack 2:34 Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18 Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45 Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59 It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38 Goals outside Ethereum 12:17 Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00 Russia 18:06 Vitalik’s lifestyle 19:51 Closing thoughts 22:06 — Transcript http://nav.al/vitalik-2
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Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1
08/04/2022 Duration: 46minIntroduction 0:00 Haseeb’s Background 0:22 Vitalik’s Background 2:43 A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02 Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18 Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41 Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08 Doing away with ‘trusted’ third parties 14:09 Trading performance for security 14:43 ‘Impregnable castles made of math’ 16:23 Ethereum’s limitations are latency and privacy 16:56 There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32 Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39 Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49 Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00 How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11 What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07 Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18 Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52 New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54
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To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources
13/12/2021 Duration: 02minTranscript http://nav.al/caveman
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Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
10/12/2021 Duration: 02minTranscript http://nav.al/infinite-resources
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Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
06/12/2021 Duration: 02minTranscript http://nav.al/social
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Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
24/11/2021 Duration: 02minTranscript: http://nav.al/decentralization
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One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
19/11/2021 Duration: 01minTranscript http://nav.al/einstein
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Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
15/11/2021 Duration: 02minTranscript http://nav.al/resources
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If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
10/11/2021 Duration: 43sTranscript: http://nav.al/program
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The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
08/11/2021 Duration: 01minTranscript http://nav.al/existence
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Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
03/11/2021 Duration: 03minTranscript http://nav.al/intelligent