#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
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Books: 1. The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com 2.
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https://amzn.to/3MJfvcD 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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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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