Balaji Srinivasan

Ozempic, but for IQ. https://t.co/lJ6B38oSVQ After artificial intelligence comes human intelligence. Biotech is working on it. https://t.co/Tviv3ISiSj https://t.co/gGY52FP1nq

It's hard to build union states. That's why they put it in their name. European Union United States of America United Kingdom Indian Union United Arab Emirates Union of Soviet Socialist Republics By default, Europe once looked more like this: https://t.co/iVfeIaQ1jR You gain a greater appreciation for why people build union states when you understand the cycles of history. Thanks to Sardar Patel, India today is more unified than it's ever been in history. China arguably is too. Meanwhile, the US is unfortunately disintegrating. But in 1947-1950, it was exactly the reverse. The US back then was highly unified, while India had just gone th…

What was education like before K-12? It was apprenticeship. https://t.co/t8wls3fVQg The rise of compulsory education under the Prussian model coincided with the rise of the centralized state and centralizing technologies, like mass production. It displaced the decentralized system in which apprentices learned from master artisans. But many factors are combining to return us at least partially to a more practical, less theoretical model of education. Worth understanding how it used to work. https://t.co/3WDWUodDK5

We can already slow aging, in mice. The fat gray mouse up top is two years old. The thin sleek mouse below is exactly the same age. https://t.co/TRRO8pXEBA This is the kind of effect size that you don't need stats to tease out. Whether the results replicate in humans or not, we have enough leads now that we can likely get Ozempic for aging with a big push. We should get started. https://t.co/K8kanfu3ue https://t.co/eWaWMbVBHA

No. But I'm happy to explain. (1) First, you assume incorrectly that America is a valuable economy that everyone wants to get into, when it's unfortunately more like a bankrupt country that the smart money is rapidly getting out of. That's why BTC has appreciated by >100,000,000X against USD, why gold is at record highs, why yields are soaring, and why the DXY is crashing. I take no pleasure in pointing this out, but I do have to point it out. (2) Second, you assume incorrectly that airgapping is censorship when it's actually more like digital borders. If X wants to retain both its American and Indian users, it might try to recommend Americ…

This is absolutely correct. Russians weren’t primitive. They had Mendeleev, Chebyshev, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky before the revolution. That is the tragedy of communism. A growing society got first mired in war and then captured by communists. Bolsheviks seized Russian farms, destroyed functioning markets, and ruined what had previously been an ascending civilization. There’s an alternate reality where Russian cosmists — essentially the techno-optimists of Russia — lead the country rather than the Bolsheviks. It would have been a very different century. But that descent into primitivism was the tragedy of the thing. If you’d talked to a Rus…

Paradoxically, anti-Indian posts may be going viral in part because so many Indians engage them to rebut them. Which ends up boosting them in the algorithm. If true, a possible fix may be to use AI to airgap anti-Indian posts from Indian users. @nikitabier @elonmusk

LAWYERS AS VERIFIERS Use lawyers as AI verifiers. Here’s how. (1) First, tell the AI that it’s the named partner of the most capable law firm in your city, with expertise not just in corporate law, but tech startups, compliance, accounting, and the like. (2) Then, draft a memo to the AI describing your business goals in full. (3) Conclude by asking a list of specific questions. Make sure to add the catch-all question of “is there anything I may have overlooked.” Ask to include citations to specific sections of legal code, caselaw, or sample documents like SAFEs. (4) Next, run that prompt against several AIs (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini…

media → AI money → crypto military → drones manufacturing → robots

Yes. In general, the Internet shifts leverage from consumers back to producers. For example, AI lets anyone manage agents. Cryptocurrency lets sellers accept payments without chargebacks. Robots let builders scale with fewer resources. Because producers are much scarcer than consumers, this is arguably net good. Exceptions include the (many) markets with inelastic production, often because of regulation. Everything that Western states heavily regulate or subsidize has become more expensive. Everything that tech has reinvented has fallen in price.

Everyone is a libertarian on the Internet. Because it is simultaneously far more progressive and far more capitalist than any previous society. It is ultra-progressive because billions of people from every race, religion, and ethnicity are on the global Internet. Anyone can speak to anyone, broadcast anything, associate with anyone, and do just about whatever they want if it is permitted by code. It is also uber-capitalist because billions of people can transact with anyone, hire anyone, work for anyone, found their own businesses, become zillionaires, set up their own servers, and enjoy perfect freedom of association. The common thread i…

The US is broke. The real debt is $175T+. And @elonmusk is 100% correct on the numbers. But the difficult step is the logical conclusion. There is no fix. It's a writeoff. A national bankruptcy. And the default will be in the form of money printing. From the 2024 Financial Report of the United States[1] comes the understatement of the century: > The total resources needed for all the programs sums to $175.3 trillion in PV terms. This need can be satisfied only through increased borrowing, higher taxes, reduced program spending, or some combination. Translation: the average American's assets are the government's collateral[2,3]. Because US …

Communism was slavery. That’s what 100% taxation meant. And they didn’t want the slaves to escape. But there is always an exit. https://t.co/ayggUU45cn

What’s the third kind of thing? (1) Internet company (2) Internet currency (3) Internet community New podcast with @jason on Network School. https://t.co/CKqKfgDELf

The original singularity. https://t.co/zfKvomwkQz The economic singularity. https://t.co/tcI4CJAeLS Some say technology is anti-human. But humanity is actually distinguished from animals by its use of technology. Clothes instead of fur. Tools in lieu of fangs. Even cooking simplified stomachs. The expensive tissue hypothesis stipulates that each such technological upgrade allowed more nutrients to be acquired and spent on the brain. So, for millions of years, evolution has been reducing humanity’s dependence on “hardware” (fur, fangs, stomachs) in favor of general purpose “software” that humans can run on their brains. Which is also the…

Yields up. Dollar down. Gold near all time highs. Bitcoin near all time highs too. https://t.co/eWFIU3CyP1 I hope it will be a Golden Age. I know it will be a Bitcoin Age.

Keynesianism debases the currency. Stealing from citizens and businesses alike. But then some blame capitalism. Resulting in more state power. And then more money printing.

The senior engineer needs only one prompt. The junior engineer needs multiple prompts. Different vantage points. From the standpoint of the AI, a senior engineer will surely prompt it more than a junior engineer. But from the standpoint of the org, a senior engineer will figure out a fix given only a one-line "prompt" from a coworker. https://t.co/KSWiXHofxg

Yes. A few miscellaneous thoughts. (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend migrates towards the edges of prompting and verifying, even as AI speeds up the middle. (2) Second, AI really means amplified intelligence, not agentic intelligence. The smarter you are, the smarter the AI is. Better writers are better prompters. (3) Third, AI doesn’t really take your job, it allows you to do any job. Because it allows you to be a passable UX designer, a decent SFX animator, and so on. But it doesn’t necessarily mean you can do that job *well*, as a speci…

Cryptocurrency partially protects you from debanking. Cryptoidentity partially protects you from denaturalization. We already know that cryptocurrency means money that no state can seize. What’s next is cryptoidentity that no state can strip. This will mean the merger of ENS/SNS with API keys, private keys, passwords, keycards, and AI-proof passports. From 2019: Cryptocurrency doesn’t stop states from debanking you from fiat currency. They have root over banking ledgers. Cryptoidentity similarly can’t stop states from denaturalizing you from fiat identity. Because they have root over passport ledgers, too. But even if stripped of fiat…

Yes. The current price of an apple is everything. Because you’re buying it to eat today. But the current price of Apple stock is nothing. Because you’re buying it based on its future value tomorrow. Investment operates on completely different rules than consumption. Yesterday and today are only interesting insofar as they offer clues about tomorrow.

You can’t stay and fight a sovereign debt crisis. It’s Iike fighting a volcano. You can get a first mover advantage by exiting to Bitcoin. Smart money is already getting out of the blast radius. https://t.co/BegBDwXivc

India is of course still a poor country, but it’s improving every day. Sorry to say that Blue America is headed in the opposite direction. https://t.co/QGGCjz05Kx This is the corresponding graph for SF till 2023. Perhaps the new mayor slows or reverse this. But the point is that the far left wrecked India for decades, and similar bad ideas afflicted blue cities as well. https://t.co/kqdr08m8YB Well, the original Grok-derived stat of 11% in the quote tweet seems to come from the same source (WHO/UNICEF), so if you disbelieve the straight line you also disbelieve the original source[1]. But if you want another source, here’s the Nature pap…

Yes. That’s what the blockchain is. Common law only scaled to Brits. The Constitution only scaled to America. But cryptocurrency scales to everyone. Everyone gets access to provably fair monetary policy, contracts, identity, property rights. We are all equal on the Internet. This is one of the reasons the future is China vs the Internet. China is the land power where the state is above the law. The Internet is the cloud power where the law is above the state. The code-based order takes over where the rules-based order ends. https://t.co/6vlwt0RhPj https://t.co/dGVTd2QsZE You can argue it boils down to the judges. We didn’t automate t…

RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY I disagree with the idea that democracy must limit economic growth. Moreover, I think we actually need to reclaim democracy just as we reclaimed free speech, because above all democracy means the consent of the governed. But let me first defend democracy's economic track record. (1) First: democratic India posted the highest economic growth rate in the world over the last ten years, proving that democracy need not hold back an economy: (2) Second: India is now arguably better at democracy than many Western jurisdictions, as half a billion votes were counted in one day. That shows democracy is feasible even at billion-p…

@MedGold_ Actually, the US is getting much worse on this dimension, while India is getting much better. https://t.co/RA8u2nL9Yy https://t.co/kzqi2VZP0y

What's India's potential? Well, Singapore previewed what China could look like. And Dubai may preview what India could look like. Because Indians are 38% of Dubai's population. While South Asians are >50%. And by working with Emiratis... They built a city that looks like this: https://t.co/8FgVWtpr3h Dubai shatters many preconceptions. It shows Hindus and Muslims working together. It shows the Middle East need not be fundamentalist. It shows that South Asians can build clean cities. And it's more desirable for many Brits than the UK. https://t.co/VN9gc4E6I4 It's interesting, because other commenters said the exact opposite — that the Ind…

Capital is moving to Dubai, Singapore, and Australia. Talent will follow. https://t.co/3sRgRmY3na

Tech is limited by founders. AI is limited by prompters.

Are pitch videos better than pitch decks? I'm judging a hackathon now with Coinbase where every pitch is a video. The founders built companies on Base while at Network School. It's kind of a Shark Tank-ish thing, but remote. Stream here: https://t.co/eWxxEHWOjm We'll always want decks. But AI has made video editing so much easier that a demo video alongside the deck will likely become standard. Btw, this stream is with @xenbh and @jessepollak from Coinbase, for Base projects completed at Network School (https://t.co/yrwniI2Q61).