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Balaji Srinivasan

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2887 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And, you know, free speech is, you know, the assumption that the interaction between you and a hostile government that's for you and deplatforming.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And so, and that does exist.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Don't get me wrong, it does exist.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

But it's simply not like how you interface with most people and most things at most times or shouldn't be.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And within a Discord, yeah, so like the base layer is just you're not cursing, yelling, making an unpleasant environment, posting spam, porn, malware, you know, like this kind of stuff, of course.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

But then there's a second level, which is keep things on topic, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So if, for example, it's a Discord about botany, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

I want to mainly post about plants, okay?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

If you suddenly started posting about spaceships or something like that, you might even be a great poster.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

But actually, do you remember?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

the Claude thing where it was all, like everything was the Golden Gate neuron.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Golden Gate Claude.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Golden Gate Claude, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So Golden Gate.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

was an example of somebody who was certainly coherent and polite, but just off topic, where no matter what you asked it about, it was about the, you know, the Golden Gate Bridge, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And it was like this funny kind of thing or what have you, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Where they could make it just obsess about this.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

This is like, you know, people are obsessed with things, you know?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And it's, you know, it's basically every post, no matter what you asked it about, monuments, it would bring it back to Golden Gate Bridge.