Matt Ridley joins me to explore the evolutionary nature of progress: why no one person can make a computer mouse, how money functions as a form of collective memory, and how ideas, like genes, evolve through exchange. We discuss the role of language, beauty, and costly signaling in shaping human behavior, the parallels between Adam Smith and Charles Darwin, why Bitcoin might be the next phase in the evolution of money, and reflect back on the corruption surrounding Covid, vaccines, and the pandemic response. Matt Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman.
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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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49:02 - Evolution as Biological Innovation
57:51 - Energy and Entropy
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