• The United States of America is the greatest startup in world history 
• As an entrepreneur, your social role is to make profits, but you also need to ensure that socialists do not take over your country 
• “Every founder starts as lead engineer and ends up as Chief Psychologist.” – Balaji 
• There is light in the world and there is darkness; accelerationism want light and the decels want darkness 
• A world of degrowth is a world that is full of war; when the pie is forced to be shrunk, the people are forced to fight because there are less resources available
• Academics do not understand that what matters is how systems and incentives work 
• We must take the frameworks that work in the entrepreneurial world and apply them to other things 
• Make America States Again 
• The darkest of times reveal who is on the side of darkness and who is on the side of the light

Joe Lonsdale is one of the most prominent investors in technology. He's the co-founder of Palantir, 8VC, Addepar, and the Cicero Institute — and one of Balaji's longtime friends. We have fun talking about education, longevity, space, and the little matter of completely reforming all governments with the internet.

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