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Balaji Srinivasan

What Balaji Srinivasan thinks about politics

@balaji-srinivasan · 25 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com; a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and chief technology officer of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019. Wrote The Network State, which he publishes free and in full at thenetworkstate.com, and writes at balajis.com.

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  1. Our readingTechnology cannot let people escape politics, because politics arises from the existence of people who disagree with each other.

    Their wordsUnfortunately, no, because politics is about people who disagree with you. If you’re working with computers, or robots, or pure math, you don’t have politics.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com 9th of 25 in this piece

    robotics

    Interesting

  3. Our readingThe primary global political axis has shifted from capitalism-versus-communism to ethnomasochism-versus-ethnonationalism.

    Their wordsThe primary axis is no longer the politico-economic axis of capitalism-vs-communism, but the ethno-cultural axis of ethnomasochism-vs-ethnonationalism.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com 11th of 25 in this piece

    capitalism

    Interesting