If you were in charge tomorrow, what concrete, measurable milestone would you have the most the talented scientists and 0.4% of GDP go to solving?

Well, it can no longer pull off basic projects, let alone Manhattan Projects.

But if it could do one (1), it should spend the capital on decommissioning of the federal government.

Return powers to US states or foreign states. Back to 1800s with far less centralization of function.

This is what we will get anyway…

“Make America States Again” was my favorite concept from your recent podcast w @erik 

This setup has added benefit of “good fences make good neighbors”

Eg, a main reason US politics is so unhinged is FL thinks that if CA bans abortion, it will apply to FL. And vice versa. 

State sov = pressure relief valve

building /bracket | talking /greatbooks | ex-BCG, ex-PHD | poli + phil + econ

Really agree. Balaji’s thinking iterates so fast that it would be super valuable for us. (For example, this time I could feel how learnings from Bitcoin Bet have infused his thinking)

Also youre a particularly good interviewer of him — I think it’s bc you are genuinely curious wo ever succumbing to hero worship