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 The “Glorious Purpose” of Property Protection 00:06:36 NYT, CCP, and Woke Capital 00:12:00 Sovereignty vs. Self-Sufficiency 00:16:02 “Religious Fundamentalism Isn’t Always Pretty” 00:19:38 NYDIG 00:20:46 Cultural “Horizontal Gene Transfer” 00:22:53 The Ideological Virality of Communism in History 00:27:07 A Stable State of Combined Moral Justification and Raw Power 00:29:58 The Dangers of an “Inclusive” Ideology 00:32:42 Rigid Hierarchies Hurting Human Cooperation 00:36:32 “The Decentralized Center” 00:38:47 The Whitewashing of Communism in History 00:40:52 The Nepotism of NYT 00:43:25 Favor-Trading 00:45:36 Zuckerberg as an Entrepreneur 00:47:51 Euphemism and Dysphemism