E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
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Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State and co-founder of Counsyl, talks to Erik Torenberg about his past and future predictions, the future of the left and right, and why tech will never be able to escape politics.
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00 ) Preview of episode
(02:30 ) Why are the scariest words in the English language “Balaji was right”
(07:06 ) When to reform vs start a new institution
(09:50 ) Are ideas weapons?
(15:30 ) You don’t start with a tech company anymore, you start with a tech community
(18:58 ) Internet nationalism
(22:06 ) What "political" means
(26:20 ) Activist movements are like “pump and dumps”
(29:40 ) What the sovereign individual misses
(41:03 ) Bitcoin is still the flag of technology
(45:38 ) Democrats will move to the right on immigration
(57:20 ) Tech America vs Woke America
(58:00 ) Why are tech people so woke?
(1:03:39 ) The left will flip on diversity
(1:05:00 ) The left is shifting from wokeism to statism
(1:15:17 ) Bitcoiners will take over the right wing party
(1:21:28 ) Elon
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