Takeaways from Podcast interviews:

  • Logan Chipkin on Constructor Theory:
    • Non-copiability (complete replication) leads to biological mutation;
    • marginalism (no universal utility), all things being equal (Latin); 
    • creationism both in economics and biology (36:00); 
    • the history of civilization is that of lowering time preference;
    • consumption is encouraged when the money is printed out of thin air (or the expectation thereof);
    • stock-to-flow ratio;
    • fiat money shields ideas from criticism, the cost of bullshit goes down (economics here meets memes); 
  • Logan Chipkin on BTC:
    • ETH and Austrian economics;
    • River Financials (?);
    • money is not wealth;
      • knowledge creates wealth;
    • BTC inflation schedule is predictable;
      • but knowledge is unpredictabledevelop