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

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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1. The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com

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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