On this, our 335th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the time-traveling money printer in its newest instantiation: Trump’s monetization of Truth Social, wherein you pay to get a microsecond advantage in the market. Like so many before him, he’s becoming wealthy without generating wealth. But a president should be working to generate wealth for his country, and its citizens. Then: discussion of risk, exploration and frontiers in the context of Pa Ingalls and the Little House on the Prairie series, the fearful response to such things by many women, and the motorcycle accident that our son Toby was just in. (He will be okay.)
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Mentioned in this episode:
Tai Pan: https://amzn.to/44JG4bu (comission earned)
Pa Ingalls and risk at Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/scared-rabbits
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:47 A Deer, a Bike, and a Close Call
00:10:03 Sponsor: Masa Chips
00:13:53 American Financing
00:15:24 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:18:05 Trump’s Time Traveling Money Printer
00:20:58 A History on Market Edges
00:30:47 Truth Social Front-Runs the Public
00:35:57 The Greater Fool Principle
00:44:50 Profit vs. Creating Wealth
00:51:47 Risk After Toby’s Accident
00:55:22 Scared Rabbits & Pa Ingalls
01:03:26 Raising Children to Manage Risk
01:07:18 Why Frontiers Demand Risk
01:09:38 Toxic Femininity and the Safety Trap
01:13:12 Modeling Risk & Adventure
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
The First Front of War
Netanyahu calls information the eighth front. I think it’s the first.
A while back, Netanyahu said Israel was fighting a seven-front war, and that there was an eighth front: “the battle for truth.” Other times he’s called it the battle for hearts and minds in the West, especially in the United States, and he’s called social media “the most important weapon” in that fight. I don’t think that’s right at all. I think social media, the internet, and information itself are the first front of any war.
I find the Charlie Kirk assassination story absolutely fascinating. It reminds me of a kid who has chocolate covered all over his face, and his parents are asking who ate the chocolate, and the kid just shrugs his shoulders in feigned perplexity. To me, this is the dumbest assassination and cover-up in the history of cover-ups. You’ve got magic necks, magic bullets, and a teleporting Tyler Robinson.
Anyways, I’ve been thinking about what billions of ...
Hi Folks, I saw the Alex Gibney documentary MUSK today and there is much to parse in it (timing, motivations, biases, flawed assumptions, lack of introspection on the part of the filmmakers, etc etc) but in one particular segment, Gibney claims that there were so many early covid victims in NYC that the City had to rent refrigeration trailers to store all the bodies. I had not heard that story and have zero trustworthy sources to investigate it.
Has anyone done an empirical analysis of that claim?
The Problem With Power
I'd like to see an evolutionary biology perspective on systems which embody power.
In my simplistic way I conceive of the problem as that of a niche in an ecosystem which has some small, at first, amount of power to control the ecosystem.
Continuing, simplistically, it seems natural to me that certain entities would be naturally inclined to occupy that niche and where the mechanisms exist increase the power.
To me that looks like a feedback loop where power begets power begets more power.
Of course the Federal Government was, theoretically, constrained from an unlimited acquisition of power, but here we are, thanks to The Supremes; beginning with the Marshall court and nailing the coffin closed with grossly incorrect interpretations of the 14th amendment.
