Live tweeting @DavidSacks & @balajis discussion on RedPills
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https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1434221769854910467
1/ BigGov, BigCorp, BigLabor seem way more competent back in 1950s/60s. ex: building interstate highway system then vs keeping schools + industry closed now.
Q: if worse now, why?
Q: if worse now, why?
2/ A: Balaji- yes, worse.
Talent has leached away into working on more individualistic endeavors for each person:
- more money
- more freedom
- less cancellation
Talent has leached away into working on more individualistic endeavors for each person:
- more money
- more freedom
- less cancellation
3/ Talent Migration
- Gates & Zuck dropping out of @Harvard to build Microsoft & Facebook
- Page & Brin dropping out of @Stanford to build Google
- Gates & Zuck dropping out of @Harvard to build Microsoft & Facebook
- Page & Brin dropping out of @Stanford to build Google
4/ from Communist to VentureCapitalist by @bhorowitz
Capitalist CEO & Bureaucratic Boss - common thread = both deeply feel they should be in charge
Capitalist CEO & Bureaucratic Boss - common thread = both deeply feel they should be in charge
5/ 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution
- new book by Sean McMeekin arguing in other setting/time/place same ambitious people would have led a religious movement a la Caesars, Popes, Generals
Decentralization + Crypto ⚡️are NEW outlet for this impulse
- new book by Sean McMeekin arguing in other setting/time/place same ambitious people would have led a religious movement a la Caesars, Popes, Generals
Decentralization + Crypto ⚡️are NEW outlet for this impulse
6/ Capitalism Virtualizes War 💰 ⚔️
@pmarca Andreesen says better to be slugging out with @BillGates in marketplace than Neitzschean will to power manifesting in physical violent wars like Vikings or Pirates 🏴☠️
@pmarca Andreesen says better to be slugging out with @BillGates in marketplace than Neitzschean will to power manifesting in physical violent wars like Vikings or Pirates 🏴☠️
7/ Future Looks Like Code
old version: infrastructure bill = legalese type of code in boolean if/then logic with lots of holes 🕳
Inverted Pendulum- “even bad things work sometimes” but also can reverse 🔄 & neutrals become detrimental
old version: infrastructure bill = legalese type of code in boolean if/then logic with lots of holes 🕳
Inverted Pendulum- “even bad things work sometimes” but also can reverse 🔄 & neutrals become detrimental
8/ Bumpy Ride next 20-40 Years
People in denial lots of different ways about propaganda coming from groups like @Davos @wef on Pandemic Preparedness years ago:
🇺🇸 USA ranked #1
🇨🇳 China ~ #78
clearly not correct relative value ranking in 2021
People in denial lots of different ways about propaganda coming from groups like @Davos @wef on Pandemic Preparedness years ago:
🇺🇸 USA ranked #1
🇨🇳 China ~ #78
clearly not correct relative value ranking in 2021
9/ Just 2 months ago @joebiden was assuring world that Afghanistan 🇦🇫 would not be overrun/abandoned in Saigon-type obvious-defeat
@davidsacks: “punches through facade of happy talk we’ve been getting”
@balajis: “like getting thrown out of plane while asleep, hit ground hard”
@davidsacks: “punches through facade of happy talk we’ve been getting”
@balajis: “like getting thrown out of plane while asleep, hit ground hard”
10/ GOD -> GOV
Last century people started replacing G-o-d with G-o-v; people made earthly governments their divine infallible rulers
Last century people started replacing G-o-d with G-o-v; people made earthly governments their divine infallible rulers
11/ GK Chesterton:
Once you abolish the God, government *becomes* the god
Once you abolish the God, government *becomes* the god
12/ Pivot to Counter-Decentralization
1st decade of Internet many builders assumed @Facebook & @paypal type companies would become global solutions & used by everyone…
Until nation-states reared their head
1st decade of Internet many builders assumed @Facebook & @paypal type companies would become global solutions & used by everyone…
Until nation-states reared their head
13/ Three Leviathans 🐉
1. God
2. State
3. Network
for breaking rules:
1. Catholic Church will punish you
2. USSR & PRC will punish you
3. Woke Online Mobs will punish you
1. God
2. State
3. Network
for breaking rules:
1. Catholic Church will punish you
2. USSR & PRC will punish you
3. Woke Online Mobs will punish you
14/ Scoop? @Balajis working on new book “The Network State” …
Distinct from nation-state
Root word = natality, your place/state of Birth; enthno-nationalism & rights by bloodline historically
New version = adherents to an IDEA 💡 can live/work in same network state
Distinct from nation-state
Root word = natality, your place/state of Birth; enthno-nationalism & rights by bloodline historically
New version = adherents to an IDEA 💡 can live/work in same network state
15/ Social network with sense of unified consciousness around that idea will band together online, start assembling small enclaves in Global Fractal Map 🗺
like Chinatowns or synagoues/Jewish Quarter
opt-in states that just start as LARPs *but* groundswell fringe grows
like Chinatowns or synagoues/Jewish Quarter
opt-in states that just start as LARPs *but* groundswell fringe grows
16/ Blockchain underpinning gives:
• digital ID
• currency
• smart contracts
• rule of law
Network State can even protect from old states under new paradigms…
• digital ID
• currency
• smart contracts
• rule of law
Network State can even protect from old states under new paradigms…
17/ ~30% of UN member states have population <1M, ~60% <10M
Surprising because it’s totally doable to build online communities that size who share an idea
Allegiance to online-mediated flags (#Bitcoin, ETH, etc) already far bigger than many national flags
Surprising because it’s totally doable to build online communities that size who share an idea
Allegiance to online-mediated flags (#Bitcoin, ETH, etc) already far bigger than many national flags
18/ US Dollar 💵 =
last tattered piece of paper holding the Republic together… prices diverge where innovation thrives
Tech -> deflation, lower costs per performance over time
Heavy Regulated -> housing/education/healthcare costs way 🆙
last tattered piece of paper holding the Republic together… prices diverge where innovation thrives
Tech -> deflation, lower costs per performance over time
Heavy Regulated -> housing/education/healthcare costs way 🆙
19/ How it Plays Out
🇨🇳: crackdown on Tech Leaders + Uighuyrs + video games + test prep + sissy/weak men on TV 📺
Wiping out Trillions in marketcap in the process
Breaking economic ties with 🇺🇸 & cancel visas between countries …
Booting up for WAR.
🇨🇳: crackdown on Tech Leaders + Uighuyrs + video games + test prep + sissy/weak men on TV 📺
Wiping out Trillions in marketcap in the process
Breaking economic ties with 🇺🇸 & cancel visas between countries …
Booting up for WAR.
20/ Blundering Into War
President Xi Jinping consolidating power, prepping for future confrontation with Western powers
resources to go deeper:
📖 Reading China Dream- Ownby, Silk & Steel podcast by @CarlZha, @danwwang letters
President Xi Jinping consolidating power, prepping for future confrontation with Western powers
resources to go deeper:
📖 Reading China Dream- Ownby, Silk & Steel podcast by @CarlZha, @danwwang letters
21/ even Jinping’s daughter educated at @Harvard 🛡
but overall shift now from China as Student to insistence on being Teacher
but overall shift now from China as Student to insistence on being Teacher
22/ Q from @EliasMourany on Pragmatism
@balajis: there’s a saying “go Woke, go Broke” recently; but last 20 years was opposite, use Foucaultian manipulation for redistribution of Status
from 2008 Media got worse- 1. tear down tech guys for revenge, 2. enforce orthodoxy
@balajis: there’s a saying “go Woke, go Broke” recently; but last 20 years was opposite, use Foucaultian manipulation for redistribution of Status
from 2008 Media got worse- 1. tear down tech guys for revenge, 2. enforce orthodoxy
23/ @paulg recently tweeted prevalence of woke-words skyrocketing post-2013 as NYTimes was recovering from stock price in toilet 🚽
💻 Reverse perspective: Tech industry to blame for leaching all the talent out
💻 Reverse perspective: Tech industry to blame for leaching all the talent out
24/ Culture Set of Sliders
Ideologues try but never successfully set some to 0 & others to 100
Statists, Libertarians, Conservatives, & Progressives all find some daily life versions of basic compromise necessary
Ideologues try but never successfully set some to 0 & others to 100
Statists, Libertarians, Conservatives, & Progressives all find some daily life versions of basic compromise necessary
25/ Q from George @g_djuric on real estate tokenization 🏡
@DavidSacks started Harbor 4 yrs ago, sold to BitGo- legal hurdles, sector doesn’t trade like Free Marketplace yet
@balajis- needs to work digitally first before we translate to IRL; crypto is of, by, for, about crypto
@DavidSacks started Harbor 4 yrs ago, sold to BitGo- legal hurdles, sector doesn’t trade like Free Marketplace yet
@balajis- needs to work digitally first before we translate to IRL; crypto is of, by, for, about crypto
Convo hosted on @getcallin- just launched by Sacks with incubated team & Thiel-Fellow @ericsson_axel, backed by @roelofbotha @sequoia
Show: #RedPills 💊
>350 people in audience, biggest so far
Check it out - full recording released soon.
Show: #RedPills 💊
>350 people in audience, biggest so far
Check it out - full recording released soon.
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