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

Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State and co-founder of Counsyl, talks to Erik Torenberg about his past and future predictions, the future of the left and right, and why tech will never be able to escape politics. 

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Preview of episode

(02:30) Why are the scariest words in the English language “Balaji was right”

(07:06) When to reform vs start a new institution

(09:50) Are ideas weapons?

(15:30) You don’t start with a tech company anymore, you start with a tech community

(18:58) Internet nationalism

(22:06) What "political" means

(26:20 ) Activist movements are like “pump and dumps”

(29:40) What the sovereign individual misses

(41:03) Bitcoin is still the flag of technology

(45:38) Democrats will move to the right on immigration

(57:20) Tech America vs Woke America

(58:00) Why are tech people so woke?

(1:03:39) The left will flip on diversity

(1:05:00) The left is shifting from wokeism to statism

(1:15:17) Bitcoiners will take over the right wing party

(1:21:28) Elon