Eric Weinstein joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering mathematics, physics, history, politics, economics, and money.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTEric's twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinsteinEric's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ericweinsteinphdEric's Podcast: https://ericweinstein.org/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Systemic Failure of Modern Socioeconomic Incentives00:04:27 The Importance of “Paying People in Immorality”00:07:02 “The American Dream Has Stopped Paying a Dividend”00:09:22 Atheism and the Disincentives to Accomplishment00:11:58 “Tried to Put Some Money Away, But I’ve Got Debts No Honest Man Can Pay”00:14:52 Do Unbreakable Rules Engender Cultural Vitality?00:17:46 The Difficulty of Changing Existing Cultures00:20:39 “Nature Just Cares About Strategies that Work”00:24:20 Quantifying the Collapse of The American Dream00:29:14 NYDIG00:30:22 Does Fixing the Money Fix the Pace of Innovation?00:35:02 DISC: “The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex”00:38:04 “Fix the Science, Fix the World”00:40:20 Money Geeks Need to Focus More on Science00:42:15 The Market as a Trained Neural Net in a Force Field Called Money00:47:37 Bitcoin: Let It Be Money Before It Is Anything Else00:49:49 Isn’t Bitcoin Scientific Money?00:54:11 Eric Saying One Super-Offensive Thing to the Bitcoin Community...SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22