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Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013

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Balaji Srinivasan discusses the concept of Silicon Valley exiting the traditional political system by building alternative opt-in technologies.

Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013. Startup School is YC's free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! startupschool.org/

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What people say. Highly discussed as the origin of the controversial idea of Silicon Valley secession and building parallel institutions.

digitalwaverideon Hacker News • Recommends

On “How Paul Graham Is Wrong”

There are companies like teleport link that try to visualise this potential with data. Also recommend this YCombinator startup school talk by Balaji Srinivasan on this topic: Silicon Valleys Ultimate Exit link to this video
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Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School: Sillicon Valley's Ultimate Exit
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blueyeson Hacker News • Disputes

On “How to Gradually Exit Twitter”

How does this post address network effects in the age of aggregation? Who has sufficient incentive to tie all those disparate blogs and newsletters together? Balaji likes to talk about exit plans. See this speech at YC startup school: link to this video In general, they strike me as deeply unrealistic.
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balajison Hacker News • Mentions

On “Startup School 2013 Videos Now Online”

One of the speakers here. I found the online reaction to my talk pretty interesting as a case study in internet telephone. Here's the talk itself: link to this video First party viewers mostly seemed to like it: link CNET gave a second party writeup: link Then third party people started mischaracterizing it: link Finally, the Hill wrote a fourth party account, quoting these third party accounts, and that's what Washington DC saw: link Not everyone got it wrong; I think this account is closer: link But I encourage you to open up those tabs and go through them one by one to see a kind of pinball reflection of the tone of the talk. In microcosm it's an example of the emerging gap between Silicon…
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robomartinon Hacker News • Mentions

On ““The real problems are with the back end of the software””

...and the website is not the worst part of the ACA ride we are now on. Part of me has been ignoring a lot of the chatter around the ACA as potential right wing fabricated drama. Too much noise and bilateral bullshit being thrown about these days. That was until a few days ago, when I would learn our insurance has both more than doubled in cost and is also scheduled for cancellation. Doubled and cancelled. All as a direct result of the ACA. Brilliant! To say this was shocking is an understatement. Our annual cost will go well past $15K. There's a tragedy of unintended consequences, side effects and direct effects, being played out in the background that hasn't completely come to the surface…
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DanielRibeiroon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem”

The talk "Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit" that the article mentions was (also?) given at Startup School a few weeks ago: link to this video
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crassuson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem”

Here's the original talk for anyone that prefers original content to the "journalist telephone" game link to this video
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alainmeieron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology”

> Silicon Valley ideologues are proposing secession I believe no one ever said this; it has been misreported by Gawker and others. If you're curious, the original talk is here with no mention of secession: link to this video
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dsk139on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tech Trends 2014”

Interesting that Balaji Srinivasan talked about this concept of Silicon Valley as the enemy at startup school last year. link to this video
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TeMPOraLon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK”

> In that case, immigration is the only choice. That would be the "exit" from 0. 0 - link to this video
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asifton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Herd Mentality”

>you can't really create a government around it You say that as if it's a bug and not a feature... In all seriousness, I'm not sure I understand your claim that it's an impossible form of society. I understand the argument that the US or other existing nation states aren't going to become libertarian societies, but I see no theoretical reason why the creation of such a society is impossible (particularly when sea and space colonies start opening up new frontiers). I think this Startup School presentation by Balaji Srinavasan is relevant: link to this video
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internauton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”

…The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joesph Tainter The majority of the time these authors are interested in outcomes, not in winning for whatever their home team is. Outside of academia Silicon Valley itself is having a serious discussion on this topic from our perspective: Balaji Srinivasan : link to this video Peter Thiel : link link Patri Friedman : link Larry Page : link Last but not least, the notorious Moldbug: Best explained by Scott Alexander : link If somebody is aware of an interes…
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internauton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team”

…y view what you're calling Thiel's anti-political phrases are important. I know you see them as the spread of virus-capitalism, but I think without that kind of frontier building the world would be a much more boring place. I take it you're familiar with Patri Friedman's thesis. What did you think then of Balaji Srinivasan's Exit Ycombinator talk? link to this video I know presently the anti-Trumpists are getting a lot of airtime with their talk of secession, but to be honest there is something much deeper beyond the current election fallout which is worth looking at. From a right perspective I have been wondering for a long time whether Silicon Valley's interests are ultimately orthogonal to Washingto…
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