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Balaji S. Srinivasan

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“As a nation, because the nation comes before the state. You could have a nation without a state. For example, the Kurds are a group of people that have a common ethnicity and culture and so on, but they don't actually have a state. The Catalonians, they're in the territory of the Spanish state governs, but there are people without a state. And actually, when you think about this, right, the United Nations is actually a misnomer. It's more like the selected nations that happen to have their states. There was actually a guy, you know, the guy who's currently running Kazakhstan and he's like, you know, we can't endorse the principle of self-determination for every nation because we'd go from 192 in the UN to like 600 nations because all of these new states would pop up rather because there's all of these hundreds of nations around the world that do not have their own state. You know, the thing is when you start seeing it this way, it's a lens on the map that”
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“Currency okay. In the 2020s, we're going to start asking the question, what is a nation? And it actually becomes something where, you know, the thing we took for granted that we thought of it as a...”
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“I think is constructed to route around all of them. So that's why it's a complicated definition. All right, but first, let me just kind of talk about the definition of a nation state. So first, like the nation itself, we just talked about how that is this body of people that's united by common descent, history, culture, or language. And the state is the government. Even that question of, okay, fine, what is a nation? You can actually drill into it. And all of these thinkers, all these famous thinkers, Rousseau and Hegel and Marx and Mill, all these guys that you read about in school, you may vaguely remember it, all of them are now actually something that an entrepreneur, someone who's very applied, would have to think about. Why is that? Because if in the 2010s we started to ask a question that we had never really asked in the 2000s, and that question was, what is a”
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“Will be more clear why the nation state is a complicated thing and why a network state has a multi-clausal definition because each one of those clauses takes care of a different failure mode. Because there's all these different people who've tried to start new countries. And just like a venture capitalist deal will have this term and that term, it'll have they'll have drag along, it'll have liquidation, it'll have pro rata rights and so on every single term in this contract anticipates some conflict or failure that had happened in the past. And that's why it's a more complicated contract. And the same way this definition of a network state goes through a ton of different kinds of failures from just putting a flag on an oil platform and trying to call that a country to going and trying to start a war and so on. There's many different ways that people have failed to start new countries.”
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“Tight identification between the state and the nation, it's not actually the case. The people can have a totally different government if they so choose. They shrug it off and that tiny layer of folks that are in the government just gets deprecated and a new government is set up if people pull their pointers away and they set up a new thing. That's what happened, for example, in the former Soviet Union when the Soviet governments fell. Okay, so my point is that these things that we interact with on a daily basis, we don't usually have to go to first principles and define them from scratch, right? You know, if we just talk about the definition of a nation state, this itself, the reason I want to talk about that for a second is”
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“Nation and the Catalonian nation and the Kurdish nation, and so on. It's multi jurisdictional. It's operating in this jurisdiction and that jurisdiction and whatnot. It's not like so the word underneath has kind of gotten abused. Similarly, like national security, it's really like state security. It's not really the security of the people. They're sort of abusing a term, right? So there's been this drift and this kind of confusion. And the reason for that is that states want to identify themselves with the nation in the same way that management wants to identify itself as being the same as labor and to not have a division between the two. Now sometimes that's good and sometimes that's bad. It's good if management is actually aligned with labor and economically aligned and so on. It's bad if management is disaligned and in the stereotypical case of like the evil CEO exec with the golden parachutes, that's a bad case, right? And so in the same way when people try to make this extremely”
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“Japanese culture and their ethnically Japanese and so on and so forth. And the state is the system of laws and government that that nation sets up to manage its own affairs. And they're as different as, let's say, labor and management in a factory. And the same nation could have very different states on top of it. A place like France is aware of this because they have had many different kinds of governments and so on on top. But in our day-to-day language, the nation and the state are conflated. For example, you'll hear the term national security or multinational or national as a synonym for federal, as national meaning like the entire, but they're actually conflating things because really a multinational, it's not like it's operating with the Japanese.”
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“Very simple to describe or interact with, but very complicated to implement. And for example, Google has this really simple interface of you type something into it. But to implement Google is actually quite difficult. And in particular, if you ask me to define not what a network state is, but what a nation state is, people will kind of have a tough time doing that. You know, they might say, oh, it's kind of like regions on the map or something like that. It's a country. But when you want to give like a precise definition that's not like a circular definition, the term nation state, for example, first, nation and state means something different. Nation comes from the root word, same root as like natality. It's like from common birth. And so a nation that's like a group of people with a common culture, like the Japanese people. And they have a Japanese language.”
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“Just talking about words, and this is something which is chosen for this purpose to kind of have several different definitions. So I've got a definition of it, and then I've got like several different ways of talking about it. So here's a definition and then won't seem informative, then I'll go through it, or at least it'll seem like a mouthful. So a network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population income and real estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition. Okay, now you might be like, Jesus, that's not a sentence. That's a paragraph. That's the thing is that there's tons of things which are very...”
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“Heard of it? Yes So he came up with a term which he calls cleodynamics. Cleodynamics like the muse of history. And essentially the concept is he named this term. It's like the science of history. It's like a quantitative form of history. And so he just took that term Cleo and he put it in front. And it's kind of a nice sound to it. And it's kind of cool. And he just made that word and then he's using that word. And I think it's a great word, right? And what this is similar to, by the way, is if you're an engineer, and you're writing code, what you'll find is, and you probably did this actually when you're writing your book, you'll find that you write 100 or 1,000 or 5,000 lines of code. And there's certain concepts, certain nouns and verbs that you keep using. And then sometime on line 3,700, you're like, oh, that noun is actually the core data structure of my entire program. And that verb is the core function of the whole thing. It's a little bit like you're writing a book in a”
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“Building our own vocabulary and thinking about it consciously from the beginning, sometimes coming up with words. For example, this guy, Peter Turchin, okay, who I like some of his work. Do you know him?”
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“A word, that Russell conjugation thing we were talking about, you would get a totally different looking Dolly 2 image based on the tone.”
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“I mean, literally, you could store like $100 million in those words. You could store all these possessions. And then obviously social media, where a few words can be a hashtag or a phrase that starts an entire movement and that is on every building and everybody quotes and so on and so forth. So those three points, by the way, why those three technologies, I know it's almost seems trite to say AI, crypto, and social, but those three technologies are, in a sense, cognitive or social technologies in a way that rocket ships and internal combustion engines are not because those don't interact with humans. These do, you know, these touch humans in different ways. So basically, I used to kind of think that all the word games that they played in academia in the humanities weren't that important. And it was just bore me as to why they were doing this. And now I realize it's like insanely important because a slight tonal shift”
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“You were to actually write that out in computer code to build some of those images, it would be thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of lines of code for some of them, but you can literally do it in like three words. And when people say, oh, you know, I'm not a number, I'm a name, there's actually a wisdom to that because words are like these super high dimensional vectors.”
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“So you can synthesize your faxes here. Great, good. And there's also like open source, not open source. There's more public versions that people can mess around. So the thing is that shows the power of words more to somebody who's of a quantitative bent more than anything I could say. Because you can write three words into Dali 2 and get an image out from it and it's effectively like an extremely compact programming language. I say like, I don't know, bology, improving musculature. I don't know, something like that. That would be funny. Whatever. Let's see. Point is that.”
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“So that's exactly right. I mean, there's actually this amazing app that people, it came out recently, Dolly 2. Okay. And what I love about it, have you ever heard about this?”
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“So, two things there. One is the reason that the Soviet example is actually quite good is they would also kind of jump to, oh, so your forecapitalism, well, then everyone can auction everything at all times and everything is always prices and evil hedge funders will take your house. And the thing is that all I'm saying is let's not pathologize this. Let's not put this in a box. Let us actually think, I mean, you don't have to go to the other extreme of Reut it up, whatever, whatever, you know, the thing that jumps to people's minds. There's an entire infrastructure, an entire continuum that can be built out when we're not just balled up in the corner of Game of Shadows and cheats and doping and pathologization. That's all I'm saying.”
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“We need a different word though, but I agree with you on the exact dose of something more is not always better. I agree with all that. The only thing that I'm saying is just, and it seems like a small thing, but it's like, I just don't like to even use words like doping, shadows, cheating, et cetera, et cetera, because that is conceding territory to folks that want to pathologize improvement. That's the only thing I'm coming at is it like to sort of pull the chip that's that limiter chip that's in our heads, you know, and remove that chip and basically like actually no limits.”
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“Honestly, just monitoring that funnel and publishing that funnel on a quarterly basis would be one of the most important newsletters. Would be an awesome funnel to kind of”
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“I love this is great. I'm learning stuff also. Framing of it in terms of athletes and the Olympic Games or Drug Olympic Games and so on. The thing is, you know, as you're aware, What is their personal muscle mass? When 100 people run around a track, maybe one of them wins, but all of them, the other 99, also get a cardiovascular benefit from that. And that's kind of what I'm focused on is not the zero-sum aspect of who wins this zero-sum competition where it's like this artificial and constrained environment, but rather the non-zero sum of how do we improve people's health across the population generally, even if it is true that these guys who are like extreme elite competitors have something to teach us broadly, like nothing on the field really matters to anybody outside the field beyond the entertainment unless there's some cool discoveries that come out of there and we're curing testicular cancer or we're having treatments for them that make them run around like Lance Armstrong after his thing. That's kind of where I'm coming from.”
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“What Herman is doing and what David Sinclair is doing, and so on and so forth. The reason I just want to identify this, I actually think that moral language, that moral premise. Everything, and it's often not articulated.”
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“Is once that moral premise got flipped, once it was allowed for the bulk of 99% of people to engage in this, yeah, there's a whole machinery that comes in. And so once we can flip that moral premise and we can say, look, life extension is good and more muscle is good and the whole Icarus narrative is wrong. The Wrightbrothers are right. Icarus is a myth, right? Wright brothers, that's a reality. We actually were able to fly. Icarus was just a mythical thing. The reality is a Boeing 747, right? Or whatever. Airbus, you know, name some recent aviation company that hasn't had some issues, but whatever, right? Overall, planes work. So in the same way, once we flip that moral premise and say optimism good, enhancement good, then we start shifting it out of gamer shadows and Soviets and the doping scandals and cheating all those negative adjectives and we start going to the positive stuff of”
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“Is basically that there are a lot of details when you actually come and implement capitalism. And from the outside, if you haven't done that, it makes it sound like too complicated, a root Goldberg machine that'll never work. Why don't we just seize everything, Comrade, and redistribute it from the state? And the thing that's already there is thing that's functioning. And the thing that isn't there is a thing that seems can be attacked in a thousand ways is the system that doesn't exist.”
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“Gears of civil society. You have accounting and you have supply chains and you have financing. You have all this stuff that we think of as like boring corporate stuff where it comes out of the shadows into you have courts that deal with edge cases because in the abstract, basically once you've denounced capitalism and pushed it into a corner, the Soviets could say, and what happens if someone cheats you, huh? Well, that's what happens under capitalism. And the answer is yes, it does, true, that scams or whatever do happen, but we have courts and we have mechanisms. And in the abstract, the whole thing can be denounced as obviously unworkable and so complicated you have all these edge cases, you have the chancery court, which determines in the liquidation who gets what kind of outcome you have senior debt, you have all this type of stuff, right? Sorry, I know I'm mixing a few things. Point is you have like Delaware Law and Corporate Law, you have liquidation preferences, you have”
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“Tying this together. My point is that when our moral premise in the Soviet Union, the moral premise was capitalism is bad. And if capitalism is a crime, only criminals will be capitalists. And it took enormous amount of effort over 70 years to flip that moral premise and be like, look, capitalism is at least acceptable, if not good. And then what happens is all of this stuff, you unlock the basic dispassionate.”
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“Sacrifice so that you, the worker, could have this bountiful life, and you're so ungrateful and evil. So there's that small group of academic types who could get outside their head, but there's a much larger second group of capitalists. You know what those guys were? Black marketeers. And they lived down to every stereotype of the regime. They would cut.”
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“Wait, wait, I was talking about this thing you just said, let's come to the network. So, one thing that's kind of important about this is, and this relates to the network state thing, you know, the title of that book, Game of Shadows, and some of the words cheat and fraud. And so on and so forth. The fundamental issue, and even with the Soviets and so on, right? All of this stuff is being done in the shadows. It's on the border of the system. It's by the bad guys. What it reminds me of is actually in the Soviet Union itself there were two kinds of groups that talked about capitalism. The first were the dissidents, you know, the guys who eventually became reformers and so on and so forth. That was a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of people. They're the people who could get outside of their childhood and all the propaganda on how evil those capitalists were. Weren't they imperialists? Weren't they pointing guns at us? Hadn't they killed our brave Soviet soldiers? Hadn't Lenin's revolution hadn't everybody sat”
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“From an abstract perspective, I want to know what chemists were doing because that is some Nobel Prize worthy stuff. To bring back somebody from testicular cancer to that level of physical fitness is insane, whatever it was that they were doing. Now, is it possible people, again, they'll come up with the Icarus line, what are you talking about? He probably dropped five years off his life. Okay, maybe he did. I actually don't know. But if he did, I think a lot of people might still take that trade off in the trade-off space to come from tesicular cancer to like ridiculously ultra-fit and so on, but five years less of life.”
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“Of thinking we could fly, we could fly, right? We could figure it out. Yes, there were some crashes. We figured it out. We got it down to a not just a science, but to an engineering. And so similarly, a lot of people, when you show stuff like this, Myostad and thing or whatever, they'll be like, oh, but it'll give you cancer or, you know, steroids will screw you up, man, or whatever. I'm like, that may be the case if you are not throwing all the science and engineering in the world at it. Okay, so here's kind of controversial statement. You know, Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France winner who cheated, right? I may be getting some of the facts wrong on this, but my understanding is he had serious testicular cancer. His doctors gave him some kind of treatment. And then he did, you know, he came back to win multiple tour de Francis. Like he was outracing other guys, many of whom were also juiced. But the point is, yes, within the game, sure, he broke the rules, should be punished. I don't despise.”
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“Exactly. That's right. And the thing is that this movie Limitless that I really like. And the reason I like it is it changes the normal Hollywood formula at the end. See, normally many Hollywood formula, you know, movies about science fiction stuff nowadays have a sort of Icarus thing to them. He flew, he was too bold and he flew too close to the sun and his wings melted and he came back to the earth. And, you know, so he should not have ever flown in the first place. And it's basically like you arrogant technologist, you added there's always some constraint and it will be subtracted from you. You'll never learn or whatever, right? This kind of intrinsic conservatism. What's awesome about it's a 10-year-old movie, so I'm spoiling it for people. But what's awesome about the end of limitless is that he engineers away that constraint. And because in real life, guess what? All of our planes don't crash either. We managed to outdo Icarus. It wasn't like some arrogant.”
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“Yeah, exactly. And so on the left hand side, wild type mouse, on the right hand side, Myostat and Null. And look at the chest on that guy. Like, holy moly. So that's why I put the captain America before and after.”
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“Okay, so you'll like this one. I may have mentioned this before, but if not, Super Should Show Misreal. Okay, this article is from PLOS. It's like 15 years old or whatever.”
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“So you ask for foreseeable future. So, first is transhumanism optimalism. I had this tweet, which is super soldier serum is real. Have you seen this one?”
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“We're close, but it's one of those things, it's sort of like gathering threads, you know, so you have to gather all of the skeins together so that now a Tesla car can be basically opened by your phone and then you have to sell so many Tesla cars that that's like 10% of the market and you've educated the market and then you do it for your wallets or your private keys and then you do it for your passwords and so on. So you're gathering all of these different schemes and then you make that tapestry or that coil.”
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“Converge into a different kind of thing because it's amazing that your cash and your wallet and your keys to your car and your credit card can all be thought of as a private key on your phone.”
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“I mean, it's a really good business in its own right. I mean, they've sold tens of not hundreds of millions of those devices. But yeah, the training data helps, helps a lot. And all three companies, you know, Apple, Google, A, and Amazon have these smart speaker things, which they're kind of interesting, right? If you Snapchat today and then you think back 30 years, the kinds of things that have converged, the clock radio has become this. That's like the closest analog to that in the 1980s household for an Amazon Alexa thing is that. And the phone obviously has combined lots and lots of different gadgets. And then we're going to now see if you look at like the Solana crypto phone, when you walked out of your house in the 80s or 90s, you'd have your wallet and your keys and then maybe your credit card. And then later you have your phone. And it'll be a physical wallet and a physical key and a credit card and so on. And eventually that's all going to come.”
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“Almost like you got like this primitive caveman and he's coming out of the cave and he's like who will OG smash today you know and looking looking up like this you know and he's like kind of surveying and he's alert or whatever right that maybe that's the adaptation but the opposite of that is staring down at your phone and actually Sergei Bryn many years ago remarked that it was emasculating to do that and who knows what the biomechanical feedback loop that's going on is but heads up is heads up”
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“Will be seen as this intermediate stage where you go and walk around, you're like, you know, like this all the time, right? And I'm not sure if it's Huberman who said this on your podcast or something, but he was like, you know, the way to wake up, to be alert is to like look up. Do you know that trick?”
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“Which are augmented reality apps. And you put all of that together. And what do you get? You get something which looks and feels just like a normal pair of glasses that you'd get from Lenscrafter or something like that. But you tap it and you get Terminator vision over the world. And maybe you tap it again and it darkens and you're in VR. And it says lightweight as normal glasses, which we know are a form factor that people do use. Millions of people use them every day. They look like normal glasses, so they don't like stick out to the world at large. But what they do is they now make you hands-free. So remember the thing we were saying, humans are always mobile. Well, why would people want AR glasses? They want the use of their hands. They want the use of their hands and they want to be outside and they don't want to be stuck inside all the time. And so this will make us truly mobile again because you won't be, you know, mobile phone.”
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“Yeah, right. Well, so come to that point. Apple's AR kit. AR kit is like you can hold your phone up and you can see like a glowing orb or something like that on the other side or, you know, for example, you've got a ruler app in the phone and you can hold it up and it'll just boom, it'll show you blueprint style with the measurements are of your walls. And then apps like Pokemon Go, right?”
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“So spectacles, Oculus Quest, Google Glass Enterprise, which I think is doing reasonably well, Google Glass Enterprise basically, they're using it for industrial applications, not walking down the street yet, but for industrial applications like a surgeon or a mechanic or something like that.”
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“So hour glasses, if you combine a few things, so Snapchat spectacles, which two Spiegel's immense credit he has persisted with after tons of criticism and hardware is really hard to iterate on, right? So he's persistent with that. He's made that a big thing. And I give him a lot of credit for that because it's very difficult to do that over multiple generations. It's the kind of thing that your CFO wants to cut. It's the kind of thing that the street doesn't like. It can be low margin, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, spectacles are out there. I'm not sure how well they're doing, but they've definitely improved a lot. I like them. I have no Snapchat stock, by the way. I'm just saying whatever thing. It's a good product. Spectacles, Facebook's Oculus Quest, again, something which Zuck deserves, I think, a huge amount of credit for putting $2 billion into that 10 years ago. They're only now really starting to recoup it because there were several iterations and there was a lot of technology that needed to go into Oculus Quest to get it to where it is now. Oculus Quest.”
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“Absolutely non consensus by like 2009, 2010, when that thread came out, except for within the tech people who are investing in mobile. What is kind of similar to that? And of course, not every future comes to bear and so on and so forth. But what would I consider something which in like five years or 10 years are going to be like”
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“Are mobile apps good for her? Everything is good mobile, right? There's Uber and there's Airbnb and there's Google Maps and on and on and on. And then when you actually go and think about it, the issue is that a lot of the, because people had been so used to operating a computer in Cessile fashion, meaning immobile, their imagination wasn't enough. They're like, why would I just want to do that on the go? I don't have a full mouse. I don't have a keyboard. I have to tap on a screen and so on and so forth. And Yashaan's point was humans are mobile. And so therefore, even if the interface is smaller, even if your UX is worse, even if it's more constrained and it can't do everything, it has that thousand X value proposition that it's always available to you at all times. And that alone means that every app will become a mobile app. This is totally obvious today. It's probably pretty obvious by 2015. It was.”
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“So my friend Yashaan Wong, he actually, I think he replied to this. Let me see if I can find this without mentioning coupons. Why and how is mobile the future? Or will the next revolution really be based around deals and incentives? I think it was from 2010 or something like that, right? And the thing is that post is a great time capsule because from today's standpoint, we're like.”
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“140 characters is it was some like SMS payload constraint that you know he understood how important mobile was going to be years before the iPhone even came out right most people were not seeing that most people even after the iPhone came out there's this great quora thread that's a time capsule that's something like what's the point of mobile apps it was like in 2010 actually and they're like what's the point of mobile apps is just going to show me coupons as I walk by a store Do you know that talk to you about this?”
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“So in the late 90s, and probably the early 2000s, people talked about the so-called convergence device. And you can go and look at the LexusNexis archives and so on. Bill Gates would talk about the convergence device. And what did he mean by that? He thought it going to be like a television, which would combine a computer and a phone and all of these other things. Why? It's because in the 80s and 90s everybody had a TV and everybody talked about the TV and the household gathered around it and they interacted with the remote. So it seemed like a reasonable thing that people would be habituated using a TV could do something else, right? And it turned out to actually the convergence device was not the television. It was the phone that acquired all of those characteristics, but they were correct that there was going to be a convergence device. And there were also people who were interested in, quote, mobile prior to the iPhone. Jack Dorsey actually, the reason Twitter, I believe, has”
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“Skeptical of the FDA, and that actually has good aspects because it means that more treatments and so on can get through. All right, so you asked about foreseeable future. So one of them is optimalism slash transhumanism. A second one, which I think is, this will be completely obvious to pretty much everybody who's in, let's say, big tech, but maybe not as obvious to people outside, is augmented reality glasses. Should I talk about this?”
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“That's right. So whatever else you might call it, you could call it, I like to use the term optimalism as opposed to optimism. You are optimizing yourself. You are being positive. There's an objective function. Transhumanism, you might say it's just a change or that change is positive or negative is unstated. But optimism is in a sense you're improving. You're getting better. It is like optimal physical fitness. It is optimal health. It is taking care of oneself. It is optimizing finances. It is optimizing everything very in tune with, I think what a lot of your listeners are for, right? So that to me, if you ask about foreseeable futures, transhumanism is an all-weather thing, or let's call it optimism. People will want to get better. And I think science is now really starting to catch up there. And this is actually one of the good things about the state sort of receding and coming back and not being able to, like the Overton window on this is absolutely moving. People are much”
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“So we need probably a different term for it, and I've got some terms that I've been thinking about. Often you have the positive and the negative version of any term. Like you can, you know, Russell conjugate it positively and negatively. He was righteously angry or he was incandescently mad or whatever. You can change the tone of how you... Yeah, exactly. You know, I sweat, he perspires, she glows, right? What was they saying?”
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