
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 Technology in Violence
It feels like in the last few years, we've built up more cultural immunity to current things. But there's a cost to that, which is the immunity to the current thing means just a lower trust society. So then it's like, I don't trust you, you're in the other tribe, right? And that adaptation leads to eventually like a fissioning and separation, I think.
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