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Balaji’s Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Investing, and more)
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Topics:
(5:53) - Start of Balaji Interview
(6:24) - How would you introduce yourself to a stranger?
(8:19) - Do you think of your work as “whatever it takes” to advance your ideology?
(10:05) - What would you like to see most achieved?
(13:14) - What are the things you believe you are the best at?
(20:52) - What are the ideas you are most confident telling others that you know for certain?
(30:22) - Balaji’s upbringing & growing up in an age before the internet
(1:03:35) - Have you always been like this? Was there an inflection point that made you who you are today?
(1:11:41) - Are there any formative media, movie or books that really had an impact on you growing up?
(1:19:15) - Doing math as a hobby & philosophical frameworks
(1:29:19) - The Feynman Lectures & Magic the Gathering
(1:51:29) - Were there any inspirations you looked to in your transition into entrepreneurship?
(1:56:45) - What do you consider your career or body of work?
(2:07:20) - Where have you seen some of the bigger obstacles in your career?
(2:25:57) - Wealth, Burn Rate, and feeling “free to speak your mind”
(2:38:40) - How are you spending time and resources to have an impact according to your mission?
(2:50:56) - Are you trying to start your own network state or help people start theirs?
(2:55:06) - What’s your process with getting up to speed on new technologies?
(3:00:23) - What do you think about the trade-off between focusing on learning vs. when to start doing?
(3:03:50) - Countries that impacted Balaji’s philosophy
(3:08:33) - Balaji’s predictions on what Eric chose to have in the book
(3:13:13) - What are the mental models or heuristics you use most often?
(3:19:21) - Eric’s Themes of Balaji’s work
(3:28:14) - What is your definition of technology?
(3:36:09) - Do you believe a startup is synonymous with a great new technology?
(3:37:20) - The co-evolution of technology and humanity & Youth-Extension
(3:43:34) - The long-term battle for Network systems
(3:45:50) - What do you envision transhumanism looking like?
(3:53:05) - Wrap Up
Links:
From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
Elements of Mathematical Modeling
Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
One Thousand Exercises in Probability