David Deutsch

@DavidDeutschOxf

Physicist. Author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity

Oxford, UK
Joined September 2012

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    Just uploaded the next chapter to Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations: Chapter 5, Back to the Presocratics. One of my favorite stories in this chapter about the birth of science in Ionia🥰

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    24 hours ago

    If you've found any of my writing, or other content, at valuable - excellent :) I've added a "donate" button there on the front page, down the bottom as seen below.

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    "Last night I raised a glass not to Brexit, but to British democracy. The point isn’t just to leave but to decide for ourselves what happens next,"

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  6. Jan 31

    Popperian campaign slogan: "Forward into the unknowable future!"

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  7. Jan 31

    A few words from Joe Boswell relevant to today's big event…

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    The crassness of this BBC children’s clip is remarkable. a) The slave trade was made illegal before Victoria became Queen. b) Her governments went to great lengths to stamp it out. c) Brits had access to tea and sugar due to free trade. d) Buying imports is not “un-British”.

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    Jan 31

    A wonderful little fact about the maximum power density inside the sun (spoiler: about the same as inside a compost pile!) ht

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    “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice. But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off,” St John’s College principal bursar Adrew Parker tells students demanding divestment from oil companies.

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    Jan 31

    Some excerpts from "A Dream of Socrates" (Chapter 10 of "The Beginning of Infinity") by with some remarks Errors my own (most especially the long commentary in the second half). Audio only podcast version coming soon.

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    Jan 31

    not sure why, but 246mag republished this essay of mine, which reads pretty well. On Abuse, Donkeys, Mass Murder, and Terrorism - the video which i analyze is here:

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  13. Jan 30

    In this case, she could say: I was wrong about the facts and policies, but that wasn't my fault. And I was dead right about the hypocrisy!

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    Jan 29

    Interested to learn about constructor theory? If you're in , join us on 6 Feb for a colloquium by Chiara Marletto from . She will describe the theory's application to problems in information theory, thermoydnamics & quantum gravity.

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  15. Jan 29

    Yet instead of doing what would be fun, and thereby maybe solving stuff, people do what they're told they 'must', or what they think they 'should'.

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    Jan 29
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    Only surprised it doesn't say Scientific Facts.

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    Jan 28
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    Jan 28

    It’s a misleading headline. That’s not what they’re doing. It’s based off this Code of Practice “All IoT device passwords shall be unique and not resettable to any universal factory default value”

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