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Obviously Germany, before Euro Deutsch Mark was becoming a very strong currency, so German products were expensive (similarly to Swiss Franc).

I think you should realize David Deutsch is not the author of the piece and give him some more credit.

But it was still better to have some deutsch marks than none.

People most often replaced all excess local currency with deutsch marks.

Just an opinion, your experience can be different (specially if you 'sprechen deutsch'), but maybe american students think that is easier to work in other countries.

As a specific example, the final conversion rates from the national currencies to the Euro are given to 6 significant digits, eg, 1.95583 Deutsch marks to the Euro.

Although Deutsch is not as charismatic a speaker as Kurzweil or as lucid a writer as Bostrom, his arguments make the most sense to me, given my limited experience doing AI research at Stanford.

Yea, I swore an oath never to be a Deutsch Telekom/T-Mobile customer ever again after experiencing their customer service first hand while I was stationed in Germany 10 years ago.

"The Beginning of Infinity", from David Deutsch, in which evolution, Popper epistemology and theory of computation blend into a world view fruitful of thrilling perspectives for humanity.

Obviously Germany, before Euro Deutsch Mark was becoming a very strong currency, so German products were expensive (similarly to Swiss Franc)." I know this is contested, but the other narrative is that Germany was forced into the EUR by Paris in exchange for unification.

Maybe that is Chomsky's concern, even though this instrumentalist attitude is far from new or unknown (think of Copenhagen (lack of) interpretation of quantum mechanics, and its (in)famous motto: "Shut up and calculate"!) If you are interested in this line of reasoning, I found David Deutsch ("The beginning of infinity") and Karl Popper ("Conjectures and Refutations") two passionate (and opinionated) voices!

David Deutsch's mesmerizing book, The Beginning of Infinity, describes the barely comprehensible nature of this reality and why it must be true.

It's amazing how close pg's ideas in this essay are to those of David Deutsch's in his Beginning of Infinity, e.g.

Is this exhibit accessible to an English speaker who knows ein bisschen Deutsch?