Balaji Srinivasan

But there's also the dream of what's called network states.

This is Balaji Srinivasan's idea, which kind of builds on Curtis Jarvis' work of this kind of patchwork network of CEO-run autocracies.

We can see real world examples, freedom cities, special economic zones, projects like Prospera, the charter city in Honduras, and Praxis, which is a group trying to build a brand new kind of digital nation from scratch.

All are real world examples of these kind of network states and Curtis Yarvin's ideas.

Okay, next question comes from James Graham.

And he said, the most chilling part of the nerd reich for me was the section covering Balaji Srinivasan's post calling for the grays and reds to team up and ethnically cleanse the blues, i.e. everyone from the hard left to quite center-right Democrats.

How much do you think talk like this is just playing to the gallery? How sincere is it? And to what extent do you think that distinction is meaningful? And I'm going to add in, also, you're going to need to explain to us what the reds, grays, and blues are.

So in a podcast interview in 2023, Balaji Srinivasan gave this whole extended monologue where he described the How to get rid of progressive democratic power in San Francisco.

And that would be for the gray tribe, this new tech political power, to team up with the red tribe, conservatives and Republicans, to purge the blue tribe.

The progressive Democrats from all institutions of power in the city and the gray tribe would also include former Democrats who now want to be more with the red tribe and the gray tribe.

This is a crazy, fascinating video.

uh invest lat am uh it's a half hour video it's this german guy in venezuela so his father this german guy's father came to venezuela in the 90s and set up some computer i.t company that i guess works with the venezuelan government they've got like i don't know tons of customers and employees in venezuela so they got they're they're loaded and so he set up this Network city states, right, that we've been talking a lot about these these neo feudal network city states, Balaji's.

So they're popping up.

When you were saying earlier what they wanted to do, the Knights of the Golden Circle, you know, one of the first things that came to mind for me and slavery.

It's like.

This is the 21st century updated high-tech version.

Because you have Balaji in Kazakhstan.

Praxian's just set up shop in Uruguay.

And there's more details after that, but that's kind of the overall gist.

I also want to call out some things that Balaji Sreenivasan said in an episode of The Chopping Block.

So he's the founder of Network School.

He said he thought that blockchains might need to implement something like the following, quote, You use Ethereum and by using Ethereum, you may have to ascent to something on chain that says if there's a hack of this or that or the other hash function that you know digital, sorry, or like a digital signature or what have you, that miners can then rewind to the state from like a week ago or whatever timeframe.

The hard part is not coming up with ways in which to mitigate this.

The hard part is how to figure out how to build this consensus, not just even in one ecosystem, right? We're talking about across multiple ecosystems.

And look, I think the reality is that that's a very good, like, I respect both of those individuals, both Asim and Balaji, who I personally know.

But I just think it's a very like thought leader thing to say, right? It's like, this is what we should do.

DYOR, NFA, who knows what could happen.

But there will be, it is not, Bology, the network school, did not buy Clanker.

It is a different owner.

So just beware.

And then, you know, it was explained to me and I should have got it from 2048, but I didn't.

So the devs will understand.

Anyway, speaking of 2048, we have a new bounty of sorts for a client from Bology.

this ever opens, 2048 for Farcaster clients.

Well, you know, Peter Thiel is one of the main villains in this story.

Right now, I'm learning about Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan, who was the founder of Coinbase, although he left after one year and one day.

He's a Gemini.

And just the whole...

I've read some secular commentators who seem to understand this principle maybe better than I do at times.

There's a secular commentator, a tech entrepreneur named Balaji Srinivasan.

He described a concept this way.

I have a specific vision of the future.

It, it, it, it widens the conversation about the possibilities, about the dangers of state monopoly, not just in money, but in other industries as well.

Does it matter if, if Bitcoin or if, if you believe in exit, does it matter what, you know, meat space governments do with their currency- Or with anything because you can always kind of e- escape, right? Or how does that work? And obviously, uh, Balaji Srinivasan, uh, had the, uh, book, uh, The Network Republic.

Mm-hmm.

You know, where it kind of envisions-