Balaji Srinivasan Quotes

Free speech is open borders for ideology.

AI copy on the page is the new lorem ipsum.

It's lorem aipsum.

On the one hand, AI is capable of performing superhuman work.

On the other hand, AI is becoming a synonym for fake.

This is another example of how the Internet increases variance.

AI is the best researcher and the worst spammer, at the same time.

Underneath it all, MAGA just wants to be left alone. And underneath it all, wokes just don’t want to be left out.

The public sector is the platform.
The private sector is the apps on that platform.

2010s: that’d be a good tweet
2020s: that’d be a good prompt

If your manufacturing is not price-competitive abroad, your military is not price-competitive abroad.

Because the wartime economy is just a subset of the peacetime economy. You can only turn plowshares into swords if you’re cranking out plowshares at low cost and high quality.

Every AI agent ultimately has a human principal.

Every program expands until it can send a message, host a crypto wallet, and run an AI model.

The lesson of deals is that if you have two, you have one. And if you have one, you have zero.

In other words: the second bidder sets the price and ensures the deal goes through. If you only have one bidder, the price floor is zero. And the deal may not get done at all.

The conventional wisdom is: substance over optics. And that is generally good advice. But sometimes optics is the substance.

Midwit writing used to be woke.
Now midwit writing is all AI.
“It’s not this, it’s that.”
A superintelligence, yet midwit.

AI quantifies the cognitive cost of context switching.

For AI.
Against AI slop.

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.