Innovation, freedom and failing better, with Matt Ridley
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the past, present and future of innovation -- from transport to nuclear power to vaccines.
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As a professional engineer for the last 25-odd years I largely agree. Where I disagree is that anyone can have an idea but few of them are really useful and even fewer can be made to work. The word inventor is related to inventory - that is an engineering drawing that describes how to make something that works. Far too many self-proclaimed "inventors" are nut jobs who haven't done their market research, know little about technology and aren't even willing to bet their own money.
It is notoriously difficult to cost something that hasn't been done before. When you point this out to the suits inhabiting the denser end of the Dunning-Kruger curve they think you're trying to rip them off - they assume everyone shares their morals. Developing trust is as important as developing technology; and eventually the relationship and process gets easier. I am lucky to have worked with some great clients. The long term investment in trust and technology pays off when done wisely and faithfully.
Couple of lovely voices, easy to listen to.
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Thanks for brilliant conversation.
evolution -> innovation -> game changers and ground breakers -> wealth for everyone
Nobody succeeds as an engineer unless they are prepared to work hard. It’s less brilliance and more resilience.
the most important this is to have a positive answer to the "why bother?' question
Add Steve Jobs to Edison et al.
Another part is imagining things people don't know they will come to need.
I enjoyed that, except for the point about climate change being merely about the winters being a little warmer. If that was ALL that would happen, no one would care! The problem is if the entire planet gets warmer, the icesheets melt releasing billions and billions of gallons of water which raises the water levels and makes huge swathes of presently inhabited earth sink beneath the waves. Goodbye most of the eastern seaboard, large parts of England, many islands, Denmark, Holland, all around the Mediterranean, Florida, large swathes of Mexico, California...the lot. In addition, once the polar icecaps have gone, a massive part of the engine that keeps the climate in northern Europe moderate (due to the gulf stream) goes with it. Once that goes the poles will re-freeze... right the way down to the tropic of cancer, leaving most of America, all of Europe the whole lot under a sheet of ice. This is basic stuff. If the author doesn't grasp that, what else is he missing?
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Matt is right - the environmentalists believe we should be punished, not rewarded.
It is the acceptable face of sado-masochism.
Good show.
Put please stop EQing so much bass into the sound.
Bass the fish? or the low-frequency sound? NVM...
Innovation has its difficulties these days because of the law of diminishing returns. For example the incentive to invent a slightly better light bulb, when you already a very good one is not as great as inventing a very good one. This law also applies to virtually everything else We are not going to invent a better wheel, as the one we have is doing a perfectly good job.
We also have the power of those who control existing technologies spending fortunes destroying any potential competition, often by simply buying up the copyright, or geting the ecology movement to continue to mess just about everything up.
The great world changer these days is information technologies. Knowledge is Power.
Most especially youtube has progressively taught the common man quite how ignorant and over trusting he has been. You can learn more in a couple of nights watching a few youtube lectures then you could in a month attending University, at infinitely less cost. You can check and cross reference facts and figures to see quite how much our political leaders are lying to us all, and how much our MSM are allowing them to carry on doing so.
Makes you wonder why they want to eliminate kinship, tribalism and nationalism. It's the opposite of a one world government. They target the family first. Every family is a micro-tribe or clan of a broader ethnicity or race.
At first I thought he said Maldon Salt nuclear reactor... ☺
Innovate dude. Salt fusion...
There's a veritable vinculum on the left....
From Europe ? You mean from the British Isles surely ?
What liberated women was the pill... then the washing machine
Either way, safe to do it by hand.
1. Innovation was not done by "humanity" as Brendan says, it was done by Europeans.
2. The Industrial Revolution is the most important even in history? It happened because British people had been under strong genetic selection for intelligence for several centuries, wherein wealthier (more intelligent) people massively outbred poorer (less intelligent) people. So much so that the current British population is almost wholly descended from the upper and upper middle classes of 500 years ago. This caused a continuous increase in IQ over centuries until intelligence reached a high enough point for the Industrial Revolution to occur.
3. We seem to be moving away from the "spirit" that caused the Industrial Revolution to occur? Yes, because unfortunately the product of the Industrial Revolution was to create enough surplus that the poor could reproduce just as much as the wealthy, but moreover that the wealthy could begin to limit their own fertility coluntarily. As a consequence of these phenomena, we entered a period of dysgenic fertility that has continued to accelerate up to the modern day, with the most intelligent having the fewest children and the least intelligent having the most children. We now find ourselves in a period in which genotypic intelligence is about 15 points lower than it was in the 1850s (100 vs 115).
The declining culture of innovation is a consequence of the declining intelligence of all industrialised populations. The Chinese are smart enough enough that they are focusing on technology like CRISPR that will allow eugenic improvement of IQ to counter this, but Western countries are so poisoned with egalitarian ideology and blank slateism that they seem determined not to arrest the decline.
Why do you think the British were under strong selection for intelligence more than anybody else?
The podcasts that the left should be producing
“The Edisons and Bezozes????? That’s an absurd equation but I guess it shows how intellectually, creatively and innovatively bankrupt this age is
35:05 "What shall we do with our children if they don't work?" Ask for a refund.