The Beginning of Infinity

Father Of Quantum Computing: How To Think Like A Genius - David Deutsch - #1164

Modern Wisdom, 17 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 5 min 20 sec in.

David Deutsch, the book's author and episode guest, quotes directly from The Beginning of Infinity twice during a discussion of knowledge, fallibility, and the infinite scope of human ignorance. He uses the book's central idea—that everyone is always at the beginning of infinity—to argue that no one should hold themselves up as an authority, and that subjective certainty is no guide to truth.

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