Academic Urban Legends

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Academic urban legends can be traced back to their source. Theories are often based on rumors that have never been proven or disproved. Research is done by building a chain of citations and checking them against each other. If you disagree with it, or question something, you drill down an look at its citations. So either it's data is correct or incorrect; maybe the data itself is fraudulent.

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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