David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity argues that all problems are solvable, though solving one creates new ones to solve. The speaker calls this extreme optimism, but grounded: it doesn't deny problems exist, just trusts humans can handle them.
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So one is this book called Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. So what it's about is— so problems are inevitable, all problems are solvable. Whenever you solve a problem, that's going to lead to new problems that are in turn solvable, right? So like, that's the thesis of the book. And so this very interesting— like, one way of interpreting it is that it's like extreme optimism, right? Like when you say that like all problems are solvable Sort of, it's, yeah, it's this very enthusiastic optimism to the world while still talking about problems head-on, right? It's not like a delusional way of being optimistic. It's like centering problems but has this highly optimistic view to it.