Balaji Srinivasan joins me for a multi-episode series exploring sovereignty in The Digital Age, geopolitical game theory, the future of statism, and how Bitcoin/crypto fits into the picture.
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OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:08 Stupid vs. Evil (21st Century Journalism) 00:09:16 The No Handshake Policy 00:10:50 The Centralization Inherent to Traditional Media 00:14:14 “The Monopoly of Truth is Effectively the Monopoly on Violence” 00:18:18 The Journalistic Incentive to Incite Conflict 00:21:09 Once Upon a Time, Google was a Neutral Search Engine 00:24:12 The Prevalence of Foreign-Made Goods to US Lifestyles 00:30:10 The More One Resorts to Coercion, the Less Firm One’s Hold on Power 00:33:58 The Rising Empire of China 00:40:01 The Chinese Anti-Corruption Model 00:42:54 NYDIG 00:44:01 The Secret Document that Transformed China 00:49:38 The Hierarchal Management Model of China 00:54:19 “Social Media Basically Defines Celebrity Today” 00:57:37 “If It Bleeds It Leads”: The Broken Incentives of Journalism 01:05:37 Digital Content Becoming a Goal-Oriented Set of Stimuli? 01:10:29 Reforming Legacy Journalism 01:12:37 The Rise of “Wokism” and the Collapse of Legacy Journalism 01:18:39 Centralized Media Companies as Bottlenecks to Truth-Discovery 01:24:44 Reintroducing Entrepreneurship to Journalism via Decentralization