#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

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Lex Fridman

Society & Culture, Technology, Science, Philosophy

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 473 minutes

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Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Balaji’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/balajis
Balaji’s Website: https://balajis.com
Books:
1. The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com
2. Reputation and Power: https://amzn.to/3eyQiF6
3. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: https://amzn.to/3TpuLNP
4. Seeing Like a State: https://amzn.to/3MJfvcD
Articles:
1. Bitcoin Is Civilization: https://www.commonsense.news/p/is-bitcoin-anarchy-or-civilization
2. Great Protocol Politics: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/11/bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-web3-great-protocol-politics
3. Regulation, Disruption, and the Future: https://bit.ly/3CKY9Ys
4. The Measured Man: https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-measured-man/309018
5. Secret Document That Transformed China: https://npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china
6. Hollywood’s Missing Movies: https://reason.com/2000/06/01/hollywoods-missing-movies
7. New York Times Truth Campaign: https://adweek.com/agencyspy/droga5s-first-big-campaign-for-the-new-york-times-is-all-about-the-truth/126274

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:23) – Prime number maze
(33:35) – Government
(49:51) – The Network State
(59:55) – Pseudonymous economy
(1:23:41) – Exit
(1:38:23) – Building a network state
(2:26:09) – Wikipedia
(3:03:40) – Fixing science
(3:30:08) – Fixing the FDA
(5:01:16) – Longevity
(5:20:14) – Donald Trump’s ban from social media
(5:49:32) – War
(5:56:41) – Censorship
(6:10:40) – Social media
(6:26:56) – Wokeism and communism
(6:45:44) – Cryptocurrency
(7:03:17) – AI, AR, and VR
(7:15:15) – Advice for young people
(7:48:10) – Regulating logic

Transcript

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Bology Sir Navasan, an angel investor, tech founder,
0:05.8	philosopher, and author of The Network State, how to start a new country.
0:12.3	He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Harwitz.
0:19.3	This conversation is over 7 hours.
0:22.8	For some folks, that's too long.
0:25.2	For some, too short.
0:27.1	For some, just right.
0:29.5	There are chapter timestamps, there are clips, so you can jump around or, like I prefer
0:34.9	to do with podcasts and audiobooks I enjoy, you can sit down or relax with a loved human,
0:41.7	animal, or consumable substance, or all three, if you like, and enjoy the ride from start
0:48.1	to finish.
0:49.6	Bology is a fascinating mind who thinks deeply about this world and how we might be able
0:54.7	to engineer it in order to maximize the possibility that humanity flourishes on this fun little
1:01.4	planet of ours.
1:03.1	Also, you may notice that in this conversation my eye is red, that's from Jiu-Jitsu, and
1:09.8	also, if I may say so, from a life well lived.
1:15.5	And now a quick few second mention of the sponsor.
1:17.9	Check them out in the description, it's the best way to support this podcast.
1:21.5	We got policy genius for life insurance, blinkus for nonfiction, notion for team collaboration,
1:28.0	and on it for supplements.
1:29.9	Choose wisely my friends.
1:31.6	And now onto the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle, I try to make this interesting,
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