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Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2

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Cooperation Is the Basis for the Species

We are capable of making objects that are beyond the capability of one human mind to comprehend. It requires lots of human minds to collaborate to make them and to accumulate knowledge of how to invent them as well. No one person understands any of these complex systems. I's kind of why i laugh when macor economists build their models trying to figure out where the economy is going to go. They rest on a few shaky assumptions, and they end up miraculously converging o whatever political biases the maco economists have in the first place....

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