David Deutsch

The David Deutsch Anthology

This page collects David Deutsch's books, talks, and interviews.

A playlist with the video interviews and talks can be found on YouTube.

A podcast feed with some of the audio interviews and talks can be found on Spotify, Pocket Casts and RSS.

Books

The Fabric of Reality · 1997
The Beginning of Infinity · 2011

Interviews

Surviving the Cosmos · Making Sense with Sam Harris · 16th Dec 2015 Website Podcast
Finding our Way in the Cosmos · Making Sense with Sam Harris · 16th Nov 2016 Website Podcast
Are There Many Worlds? David Deutsch in conversation with Markus Arndt · Joe Boswell · 19th Jun 2018 YouTube
David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge · The TED Interview · 23rd Oct 2018 Website Podcast
David Deutsch on 'Constructor Theory' · Joe Boswell · 8th Dec 2018 YouTube
David Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations That Transform the World · The Innovation Show · 12th Feb 2019 Website YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch on Brexit and Error Correction · Joe Boswell · 5th Dec 2019 YouTube
The Primacy of Ideas, with David Deutsch · Do Explain · 25th Feb 2020 Podcast
Selecting for Deafness · Dilemma Podcast · 26th Feb 2020 Podcast
Chat with David Deutsch about The Beginning of Infinity · visakanv · 18th Mar 2020 YouTube
David Deutsch Interview · Logan Chipkin · 24th Sep 2020 YouTube
David Deutsch – 'Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity' · The Popperian Podcast · 29th Nov 2020 YouTube
Meeting David Deutsch · Knowledge and Reality · 10th Jan 2021 YouTube
Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch · Theory of Anything · 11th Jan 2021 YouTube
Constructor Theory of Information with David Deutsch · Fallible Animals · 19th Jan 2021 Podcast
David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them · Conversations with Tyler · 2nd Jun 2021 Website YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch explains "explanations" further. (A "question for David" 2) · ToKCast · 21st Jun 2021 Podcast
David Deutsch comments on recent UFO sighting (The "Tictac" issue). A question for David 3. · ToKCast · 23rd Jun 2021 Website
David Deutsch on "Truth". A question for David 4. · ToKCast · 24th Jun 2021 Website
The limitless potential of human knowledge | David Deutsch · The TED Interview · 26th Jun 2021 Podcast
David Deutsch answers a question about our environment. A question for David 5. · ToKCast · 16th Jul 2021 Website
David Deutsch answers a question about Gödel and undecidability. (A question for David number 6). · ToKCast · 7th Aug 2021 Website
David Deutsch answers a question about the nature of the laws of physics (a question for David: 7). · ToKCast · 27th Aug 2021 Website
David Deutsch answers a question about observations. A question for David number 8 · ToKCast · 6th Oct 2021 Website
David Deutsch answers a question about the nature of mind. A question for David number 9. · ToKCast · 7th Oct 2021 Podcast
David Deutsch on The Fun Criterion, Objective Beauty & Artificial Intelligence · Ripples · 9th Oct 2021 YouTube
David Deutsch answers a question about dark energy. A question for David number 10. · ToKCast · 27th Oct 2021 Website
ToKCast Episode 100: David Deutsch · ToKCast · 1st Dec 2021 YouTube
To what extent can we predict the future? With Robin Hanson and David Deutsch · Daniel Martin · 13th Dec 2021 YouTube
David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes · Dwarkesh Podcast · 31st Jan 2022 Website YouTube
Against Bayesianism · The Joe Walker Podcast · 25th Apr 2022 Website Podcast
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1 · Naval's Podcast · 11th Feb 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
The Universal Constructor with David Deutsch · Logan Chipkin · 7th Mar 2023 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More · The Tim Ferriss Show · 24th Mar 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch: The Unity Of The Universe · The Unadulterated Intellect · 24th Mar 2023 Podcast
AGI (with David Deutsch) · Reason Is Fun · 8th Apr 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
Effective Altruism, X-risk, (e/acc) · Reason Is Fun · 22nd Apr 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
On Beauty, Knowledge, and Progress · Existential Hope Podcast by Foresight Institute · 27th Apr 2023 YouTube Podcast
Fun, Fury, Feeling · Reason Is Fun · 6th May 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
Multiverse of Madness with David Deutsch · Conversations with Coleman · 9th May 2023 Podcast
Physics of Inexplicit Ideas · Reason Is Fun · 23rd May 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
Inexplicit Ideas & Embodiment · Reason Is Fun · 3rd Jun 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
Bennett and Deutsch: The Nature of Computation, Incompleteness and Mathematics · Charles Alexandre Bédard · 28th Jun 2023 YouTube
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2 · Naval's Podcast · 11th Aug 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation · Sean Carroll's Mindscape · 16th Oct 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), and The Enemies of Progress · The Joe Walker Podcast · 20th Dec 2023 Website YouTube Podcast
Antisemitism in Britain - An Interview With David Deutsch #928 · The Daily Objective · 23rd Dec 2023 Podcast
Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism · Arjun Khemani's Podcast · 1st Jan 2024 YouTube Podcast
Decisions · Reason Is Fun · 3rd Jan 2024 Website YouTube Podcast
The Art of Decision Making · Reason Is Fun · 4th Jan 2024 Website YouTube Podcast
The Deutsch Files I · Naval's Podcast · 11th Jan 2024 Website
The Deutsch Files II · Naval's Podcast · 26th Jan 2024 Website
The Deutsch Files III · Naval's Podcast · 17th Feb 2024 Website
The Multiverse is REAL · Within Reason Podcast · 5th Mar 2024 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch, Peter Boghossian, & Reid Nicewonder Talk Fermi Paradox, Ideological Contagion, & More · Conversations with Peter Boghossian · 6th Mar 2024 YouTube Podcast
Are feelings ideas? · Reason Is Fun · 25th Aug 2024 YouTube
The Deutsch Files IV · Naval's Podcast · 11th Oct 2024 Website
The Deutsch Files IV (ToKCast version) · ToKCast · 17th Oct 2024 Website
Physicist Dr. David Deutsch-Quantum Computing, Turing Machines, & Multiverses · The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad · 24th Oct 2024 YouTube Podcast
Truth and Abstractions, with David Deutsch and Jake Orthwein · Do Explain · 28th Oct 2024 Podcast
Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth · Increments Podcast · 1st Nov 2024 YouTube
The Era of Man, Popper, and Western Civilization · Arjun Khemani's Podcast · 12th Nov 2024 YouTube Podcast
Physicist Dr. David Deutsch Returns - Science, Mathematics & Jew Hatred · The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad · 12th Nov 2024 YouTube Podcast
Interview with David Deutsch · The Theory of Anything · 23rd Dec 2024 Podcast
A Woven Web of Guesses with DAVID DEUTSCH · The Falsifiable Podcast · 2nd Apr 2025 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman · Within Reason Podcast · 7th Apr 2025 YouTube Podcast
Peter Werkhoven joins David Deutsch digitally to talk about quantum computing · TNO · 3rd Jun 2025 YouTube
"There is only one interpretation of quantum mechanics" | David Deutsch FULL INTERVIEW · The Institute of Art and Ideas · 4th Jun 2025 YouTube
David Deutsch: the fabric of explanations, optimism and creativity · Salvador Podcast · 24th Jun 2025 Website Podcast
David Deutsch, Robin Hanson, & Daniel Martin on Culture · Robin Hanson · 28th Jun 2025 YouTube
How Quantum Theory Leads to Conscious AI | David Deutsch Interview · This Is World · 7th Aug 2025 YouTube
David Deutsch: The Quantum Theory No One Dares Explain! · Brian Keating's Into The Impossible Podcast · 23rd Aug 2025 YouTube
Episode Preview | David Deutsch · Strange Loop Podcast · 2nd Sep 2025 Podcast
David Deutsch: AGI, the origins of quantum computing, and the future of humanity · Strange Loop Podcast · 3rd Sep 2025 YouTube
How to Reverse Academia's Stagnation · Conjecture Institute Podcast · 5th Sep 2025 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI - #515 · Into the Impossible With Brian Keating · 11th Sep 2025 Podcast
What is the best pathway to knowledge? · The Shape of Dialogue · 18th Sep 2025 YouTube Podcast
Sam Altman and David Deutsch on AGI · Axel Springer SE · 24th Sep 2025 YouTube
David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications · Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · 6th Oct 2025 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch on Progress, the Enlightenment, Aspirations, and the Open Society · Prashanth · 22nd Oct 2025 YouTube
In search of nothing | David Deutsch, Amanda Gefter, Lee Smolin · Philosophy For Our Times · 6th Nov 2025 Website Podcast
Falling for Physics | David Deutsch · The Light Side · 17th Nov 2025 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch on the Pattern · EconTalk · 22nd Dec 2025 Website
The Fun Criterion, Inner Conflicts, and How the Self Resolves Them — David Deutsch · The Do It Podcast · 24th Jan 2026 YouTube Podcast
David Deutsch on AGI, Alignment and Existential Risk · What The Bot with Reuben Adams · 12th Feb 2026 YouTube Podcast
What Is Quantum Mechanics Really Telling Us? · World Science Festival · 1st May 2026 YouTube
A Conversation with David Deutsch · Lucas di Grassi · 23rd Aug 2026 YouTube

Others