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"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg cover image

E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

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The Importance of Predictions

One of your beliefs is that it's difficult to recapture institutions and instead you just have to create new ones. Tech companies are way younger and have still much more of a genuinely hierarchical structure than, you know, US government institutions. I've said actually for a while, I think they are more amenable to take over and reform than government agencies. But even still you would typically do a startup to disrupt rather than taking over and reform.

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