EFR 753: The Evolutionary Impact of Social Media and the Internet and Unlocking the Power of Collective Brain Innovation with Michael Muthukrishna
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
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Have you ever considered how our brains either catalyze or impede our progress as a society? How the software we've developed is a testament to our collective innovations, and how diversity in our environments sparks fresh perspectives? Join in as we delve into the intricacies of "collective brain innovation", a fascinating topic presented by Michael Muthukrishna. We will explore the paradox of diversity in communication, the importance of finding the right people for your collective brain, and understanding how disagreements and diverse viewpoints can be the catapult to our success.
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In this episode, you will learn...
- Collective brain innovation and its evolutionary importance
- Emphasis of teamwork, diversity, and disagreements in fostering innovation
- Navigating misinformation, trust, and free speech on social media
- The internet's impact on cultural evolution and information processing
- Reflections on the Industrial Revolution's impact and institutional struggles
- Intellectual arbitrage, AI research, and simultaneous discovery
- Self-understanding and its role in personal success
- Better individual information processing in the digital age
- Internet tribes, cultural evolution, conflict, and confusion
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is an operation podcast production. |
| 0:04.0 | A lot of the things are ways of thinking are things that are just like Excel or chat geept or Google. |
| 0:15.8 | It's not in the CPU or the GPU. It's in the software. So is our ability to count. |
| 0:20.2 | Our ability to reason. You know, our ancestors counted one, two three many. |
| 0:25.0 | And that was it. |
| 0:26.0 | So you meet great mentors, you meet other great people, and you take one of the things that our brains can do that other animals don't do very well is what we call theory of mind. |
| 0:42.0 | The internet and social media have just |
| 0:44.8 | ramped up everything about the cultural evolutionary process. It's just made |
| 0:49.0 | everything go faster. That is the billion dollar question and so you know I can I can speculate a little bit about it |
| 0:58.8 | but you know we as a species are working this out right So I mean the first thing to say is... |
| 1:07.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Michael with the Christian, I'm a professor at the London School of |
| 1:09.7 | Economics. This is Ever Forward Radio. |
| 1:13.0 | If you are here listening to this right now, this means a few things have most likely already happened. |
| 1:20.0 | You have realized that you want more out of life. |
| 1:23.4 | You want a true sense of fulfillment. |
| 1:26.1 | You want to be personally and professionally better, |
| 1:29.7 | more efficient and more effective. You seek to empower yourself and those around you. |
| 1:35.8 | You believe that high performance results come from high performance habits. You want |
| 1:42.0 | these things, you want these values, you want more of them in your life. |
| 1:46.0 | I would encourage you to join us in the 2024 Ever Forward Mentorship. |
| 1:50.0 | You, me, and a group of like-minded individuals for the entire year will work together to uncover |
| 1:56.1 | your current strengths as well as learn how to leverage them to future opportunities. |
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