Balaji Srinivasan

And so if you think about the

negative reaction that someone on the right has to open borders that the visceral negative reaction is someone in the centralized left has to unfetter conversations, right?

And on the centralized left, let's say.

And so one way of thinking about it is that what the internet has done is it's busted all the borders, right?

Why?

Because a post from a long time ago, you know, I use Twitter as sort of a sort of a scratch pad for ideas, you know?

So here is a post

time ago that I think um is is a is a good concept the internet increases variance right um so here's this is it from 2019 right so from a 30 minute sitcom to 30 second clips and 30 episode Netflix binges okay um

basically a stable nine-to-five job to a gig economy task or a crypto windfall.

From a standard life script to living with your parents or a startup CEO at 20, right?

The internet just increases variance.

But why?

I'd argue it's because what the internet does is it removes the middleman, the mediator, the moderator, right?

Anything that, because it allows you to...

right so sometimes that's good wow i've made a new friend in japan we can code an open source together you know linux would not have arisen without a guy in finland being able to reach the world for basically free with computers right the bad is you have the crazy groups that can connect to each other and they can be crazy together online all these crazy reddit sub communities or whatever you know and so you just get the best the most good and the most bad

Right.

So that's a border busting kind of thing because the borders that existed before each and ideology and communities got busted, at least in the Anglophone world.

China's response to that is just to build giant digital borders called the Great Firewall around the linguistic and physical sphere.

Right.

Okay.