The Network State Podcast
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Key Takeaways 

• The United States of America is the greatest startup in world history 
• As an entrepreneur, your social role is to make profits, but you also need to ensure that socialists do not take over your country 
• “Every founder starts as lead engineer and ends up as Chief Psychologist.” – Balaji 
• There is light in the world and there is darkness; accelerationism want light and the decels want darkness 
• A world of degrowth is a world that is full of war; when the pie is forced to be shrunk, the people are forced to fight because there are less resources available
• Academics do not understand that what matters is how systems and incentives work 
• We must take the frameworks that work in the entrepreneurial world and apply them to other things 
• Make America States Again 
• The darkest of times reveal who is on the side of darkness and who is on the side of the light

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Joe Lonsdale is one of the most prominent investors in technology. He's the co-founder of Palantir, 8VC, Addepar, and the Cicero Institute — and one of Balaji's longtime friends. We have fun talking about education, longevity, space, and the little matter of completely reforming all governments with the internet.

OUTLINE:
00:00 - How Silicon Valley got expensive
09:18 - Tech founders as philosophers
17:39 - 100% Democracy and .01% Democracy
28:51 - Internet Values vs Western Values
36:05 - How Academics Become Capitalists
46:40 - Red States, Purple States, Foreign States for AI
58:11 - Thoughts on Space, Robotics, Longevity

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