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*PREVIEW* Intelligence 4.0 (ft. Felix Biederman)

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Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week's bonus, Riley, Alice, Milo, and Chapo Trap House's Felix Biederman have once again sat down and cracked open a book of brain literature. This time we read through British brain god Dr. Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist (2010), and it left us all a lot happier as we explored a truly beautiful mind. It's a balm for the soul. If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36541262 If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping.   *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's what he says. He says, I will make a concession at the start. The pessimists are right when they say that if the world continues as it is,

0:25.7

it will end in disaster. For example, if all transport runs on oil and oil runs out,

0:30.3

then transport will cease. But the world will not continue as it is. It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem-solving machine doing so through invention

0:34.2

driven often by the market. Now, this sounds like Stephen Pinker to me, but here's where it diverges from Stephen Pinker

0:40.2

almost immediately when I'm going to read to you the title of the prologue.

0:44.5

Felix, again, this is when I realized that this is the book that I had to show you when I saw

0:49.4

the title of the prologue.

0:51.0

Hold on to your desk when you're about to hear this title.

0:53.3

All right.

0:54.3

Prolog. When ideas have sex.

0:58.1

Yes. Sure.

1:00.1

Yes. My man. Yes.

1:02.4

Yes. Yes.

1:04.5

All right. This guy's a gamer.

1:07.1

You know, he's like, he realizes the guys

1:10.5

who invent thinking too.

1:12.3

He has to, like, differentiate himself.

1:14.7

I'm already fucking vibing with this guy.

1:17.0

Yeah, absolutely.

1:18.0

Like, all of the other intelligence guys, they don't talk about sex because the only

1:23.6

kinds of sex that they're having are, like, insanely illegal, whereas this guy is just like, he's like having sex with the mind.

1:31.0

It's cool.

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