Balaji Srinivasan

blue states are very much anti-AI, it disrupts their sense of self, right?

Like what they take pride in, you know?

Basically, roughly speaking, Democrats will be and are as mad about the disruption of the internet as Republicans are mad about the disruption of China.

It's particularly true for America.

It's to a lesser extent true because the thing is, a lot of other Western countries were disrupted by America already.

And so this is like the disruption of the disruptor.

And so they're like two cycles behind, in a sense, right?

Which means some of them could leapfrog.

But I think many in Western Europe are just kind of going to have a bad century.

But...

Yeah.

Well, just very, very briefly on that is I think many countries, not all, but many countries had a terrible 20th century.

They were under communism.

They're under socialism.

You know, that's Eastern Europe, Russia, India, China, Southeast Asia, Vietnam and so on.

Vietnam War.

Right.

All these all these places that had a terrible 20th century.

Actually, including big chunks of Latin America, which were, you know, a place like El Salvador and so on that had drugs, inflation, crime.

Right.