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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Is Eternal (#277)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Balaji S. Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur and investor. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford university and sports several high scale financial successes; he was the co-founder of Counsyl, the former Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase, and former general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. twitter.com/balajis www.amazon.com/Network-State-How-Start-Country-ebook/dp/B09VPKZR3G Connect with me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2G3PRMUhxGQkyQzLiiCqlf?si=8656119458df4555 🎧 On Audible it’s here : https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-the-Impossible-With-Brian-Keating-Podcast/B08K56PXJX?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShar Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast- Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can't nuke a network. How would you nuke Bitcoin?

0:03.0

You would arm you.

0:05.0

Hello everybody and welcome to another fascinating episode of the Into the Impossible

0:12.4

podcast. Tis I your fearful host, Dr.

0:17.1

Brian Keating, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California

0:20.3

San Diego, and also the Associate Director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human

0:26.2

Imagination in today's episode with Dr. Balagie Strina Vassen is sure to expand your imagination.

0:33.7

Talking to him is like drinking from an intellectual fire hose.

0:38.5

Somebody shredded the Encyclopedia Britannica into a format and is beaming it straight into your mind.

0:47.0

Talks faster than I do, talks deeper than I do, and it's really fun to speak with a genius like him. We talked about so much ranging

0:55.3

from U.S. politics with a special degree of attention paid to the San Francisco area where he and I both used to live.

1:04.4

Talked about his new book, The Network State,

1:06.9

which is available for free and we'll have show notes

1:10.0

that link to that down below.

1:12.2

And we also talked about the upside of science,

1:16.1

technology, engineering, math, and the power

1:19.0

of supporting the underdogs, people like Ramanajan, who revolutionized the world of mathematics in much

1:26.7

the same way as Albert Einstein did for physics and the impact of his work is still being fell to this day and Balogy has a special

1:35.7

connection not just because Balogy's last name is Shrinavasan and Ramana John's first name

1:42.1

was Shrinavasa.

1:43.2

That's the least of the connection.

1:45.6

I think the depth of their intellect is what really binds them together.

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