Top 15 Balaji Srinivasan Quotes

The end of Western Keynesianism will be even bigger than the end of Soviet Communism.

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.

Here’s a reframe.
AI doesn’t take your job.
AI allows you to do any job.
So a coder can now make films.
And a filmmaker can now write code.
It allows a non-specialist to get started.
But a specialist will be needed for polish.

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

media → AI
money → crypto
military → drones
manufacturing → robots

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

The right kind of ambition is to compete against yourself. To be the best version of yourself.

I hope it will be a Golden Age.
I know it will be a Bitcoin Age.

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end.
It does it middle-to-middle.
The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.

2020: blue and tech against red
2024: red and tech against blue
2028: blue and red against tech

The man who wants to be CEO, because he gets to be important, should not be CEO.

The man who does not want to be CEO, because he gets the importance, should be CEO.

An important kind of social network will be one where no bots whatsoever are allowed.

Bitcoin is an economic zone, not a country.

The technologist is the capitalist of the 21st century.

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.