The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

#134 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State

Apr 5, 2022

02:52:12

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Balaji Srinivasan

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Embrace Complexity Over Uniformity

01:23

Conformity Over Individuality

01:20

Importance of Replicating Data and Code

00:34

Academic Urban Legends

03:37

Introduction

5min

Is the Federal Government Losing Control of Affairs Under Bush or Bama?

5min

Canadians

5min

Do You Really Need That Many Booster Shots?

3min

Do You Know if You Have a Sickle Cell Trait?

5min

Science Is Not About Precious Citations

2min

The Reproducibility Crisis in Western Society

2min

The Minimum Threshold of Repplication

2min

The Technical Definition of Reproducible Research

4min

10.

Academic Urban Legends

4min

11.

What if They Did Fake the Data?

4min

12.

The School of Fish

2min

13.

Is That a Social Science Experiment?

2min

14.

A Model That Decentralizes Science

5min

15.

The Western Establishment Is in the Long Emergency of Emergency

3min

16.

Is Every Single Person in China Evil?

2min

17.

Is Free Speech Killing Us?

2min

18.

The New York Times Company Is the Truth, Right?

4min

19.

Is There a Filter Bubble?

6min

20.

The Cost of Censorship

5min

21.

Speech Rights Are Like Voting Rights, Right?

5min

22.

Is the Government Representative in the Last Stage of Bankruptcy?

2min

23.

Russia Can Win, You Know?

3min

24.

Is the West Declining, Is It Risen?

3min

25.

What Is Communism?

3min

26.

The Social War in the US

2min

27.

War Is Information War, Right?

2min

28.

The Social Civil War Concept

5min

29.

Wed 3 Is Waterloo for Woknus

2min

30.

Cryptocurrency - What Is It All About?

4min

31.

Is There a Web Three Splitting?

3min

32.

What Is a Democracies?

5min

33.

Is Bit Coin a Democracy?

3min

34.

How Do You See the Price of Housing and What Are the Impacts?

5min

35.

The Three Red Lines

2min

36.

Is It Nepotism or Socialism?

3min

37.

Getting Crypto Credentials on Chain

3min

38.

College Is Like a Vacation That the Young Don't Appreciate

5min

39.

Is Your Twitter Your Character?

2min

40.

What's the Importance of China's Social Media?

4min

41.

The Law of the Sea Is a Neutral Zone

2min

42.

Is It a China vs Indians?

6min

43.

The Usa Is Not Global Empire, Right?

4min

44.

Is China a Democracy?

3min

45.

Is the Chinese State Based on Ultimate Centralization?

3min

46.

China, a Dheus. Military Is a Perfect Record

2min

47.

India's Strength Is That It's Competent

2min

48.

Is India Going to Take Over the World?

5min

49.

Will to Power Founder

3min

50.

Using Block Chains to Build a Search Engine Index

3min

51.

Who's Like a Leader?

2min

52.

The Knowledge Project Podcast

2min

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country.

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