Ideas Having Sex: How Money & Language Evolve Civilization w/ Matt Ridley (WiM574)
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0:00 - WiM Episode Trailer
1:22 - The Rational Optimist,
5:34 - No One Person Can Make a Computer Mouse
11:50 - The Role of Money in the Global Hivemind
19:51 - Money as a Language
24:42 - The Farm at Okefenokee
26:08 - iCoin Technology
27:38 - Ideas Having Sex
35:42 - Nature vs Nurture
36:37 - Evolution of Everything: Adam Smith and Charles Darwin
40:58 - Natural Language as Software
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48:11 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
49:02 - Evolution as Biological Innovation
57:51 - Energy and Entropy
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1:12:51 - The Evolution of Language
1:19:33 - Birds, Sex, and Beauty
1:24:29 - Costly Signaling Theory
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1:33:41 - Objective vs Subjective vs Transjective
1:40:04 - If the Product is Free, You are the Product
1:48:03 - Lab Leak or Intentional?
1:51:13 - Closing Thoughts and Where to Find Matt Ridley
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