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

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36:37 - Evolution of Everything: Adam Smith and Charles Darwin 

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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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