Balaji Srinivasan

Ah, I should have remembered your outstanding thread. Writing a post on Internet Values. I'll cite it as one of the core freedoms.

Yes. You may have seen Sean Mcmeekin’s book, which is very good on this.

For generations, the Western financial system has been waging an invisible war on the world. Alex has made it more visible.

Clip from @TomBilyeu and @RayDalio's excellent interview here, which has racked up >2M views in two weeks.

Concept and clip are from this excellent 2017 talk by @aantonop.

Good piece — and towards the end you did guess part of the model I had in mind. Namely that it’s possible for economic contraction to coincide with capital flight to a more stable currency. For example, in Argentina the dollar-to-peso rate increased ~3X even as the banking…

I’ll hunt down the original, but if you have 40 minutes the video below is the one to watch. Dalio has a different ordering of historical reserve currencies; he says it’s the US dollar, then before that the British pound, then before that Dutch Guilder.

Most important article @Noahpinion has ever written. The central bank of the United States of America destabilized the American banking system.

and I independently came to the same conclusions from looking at the data, and we don't normally agree. You should read his excellent piece.

Good thread. I agree with much of this. Though I do think there are many areas of the economy where AI-aided is way better than human-only. We’re already seeing improvements in search, coding, writing, art, and design.

Interesting analysis that reminds me of Lanchester's laws. If you have two militaries that are trying to economically attrit each other, you can't just compare raw budgets. You also need to account for replenishment costs in PPP terms, counterweapon matchups, etc. Model here:

Outstanding thread by Noah. It is far better to have explicit community moderation and known rules than to operate a public warzone.