E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
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. -- 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
"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
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Show Notes
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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