74. The Real Drivers of Technological Progress

74. The Real Drivers of Technological Progress

In this episode Saifedean talks about popular misconceptions regarding scientific progress, focusing on aviation as a case study. He describes how the Wright brothers invented the first airplane in 1903 despite claims from scientific authorities of the time that human flight was impossible, and how commercial aircraft capabilities started to decline after the 1970s. Drawing on insights from the work of Terence Kealey, Saifedean describes how many other historical inventions – such as those of...

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295. The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling

295. The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling

The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling shows why on-chain scaling has hard limits, why block space must remain scarce to preserve immutability, and how economic incentives push smaller payments...

14 Loka 202554min

294. The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This

294. The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This

The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This explains how Bitcoin compares to fiat & gold in salability across space, separates money & debt, ends credit monetization & allows a separation of ...

7 Loka 202535min

293. The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis

293. The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis

The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis calculates the minor benefits of fiat & compares them to its massive destructive effects: wealth erosion, distorted markets, political power gr...

30 Syys 202531min

292. The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States

292. The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States

The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States shows how fiat exports inflation via reserve currencies, swaps market discipline for IMF/World Bank debt traps, bailouts & central planning, limits capital fl...

23 Syys 20251h 3min

291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels

291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels

The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels shows how fiat distorts energy markets replacing reliable hydrocarbons with subsidized unreliable expensive fiat fuels, rewards climate hysteria over engineeri...

16 Syys 20251h 14min

290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science

290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science

The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science shows how fiat centralizes education and research funding, removes real market feedback, produces meaningless research papers, politicizes science, entraps st...

9 Syys 20251h 21min

289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food

289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food

The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food explains how fiat destroyed modern food, as governments optimize farming policy & nutritional guidelines to mask inflation, industrial sludge replaces meat & ani...

2 Syys 202549min

288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life

288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life

The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard mo...

26 Elo 202548min

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