Balaji Srinivasan Quotes

Socialists are verbal.
Nationalists are visual.
Capitalists are numerical.

In the 90s, the worry was that only the rich would have digital products. That was called the digital divide. And it turned out to be completely wrong.

Because digital is cheap.
Physical is the premium product.

AI is a tool.
But you need to provide the goal.

When fiat is inflated it slowly goes to zero.
When it is frozen it temporarily goes to zero.
And when it is seized it instantly goes to zero.
But hard money cannot be inflated, frozen, or seized.

You can do technology without building capital (eg open source).

You can do capitalism without advancing technology (eg small business).

AI makes everyone a tech CEO, crypto makes everyone a venture capitalist.

Too many are interested in “tech” (by which they mean money) but they aren’t interested in tech (by which I mean math).

Future books will be written monk-mode, by hand, completely offline, in digital monasteries purpose-built for focus.

The Industrial Revolution improved everyone’s life, in the long run.

But in the medium run, it caused the rise of communism, the murder of capitalists, and the advent of world war. Technological advance caused political chaos.

Then again, would you prefer no electricity?

AI is amazing for small-TAM custom software.

Indeed, the smaller the market, the more amazing it is. Because small markets typically don’t support the costs of software development.

There are now two kinds of AI retards.

The first kind of retard uses AI everywhere, even where it shouldn’t be used.

The second kind of retard sees AI everywhere, even where it isn’t used.

AI quantifies the cognitive cost of context switching.

For AI.
Against AI slop.

Programming isn't going away.
Prompting is programming.
And the better you are at articulating what you want in clear written English, the better your results.

One man’s abundance is another man’s overcapacity.