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35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus

2020/5/22
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Eric Weinstein: 本期节目讨论了量子力学中的叠加态概念，并将其应用于解释日常生活中一些看似矛盾的政治现象，例如堕胎辩论。他认为，许多长期僵持的政治辩论，实际上是将人们的生活硬塞进不恰当的二元对立中，这些二元对立只能将世界状态表示为不恰当且简单的答案的叠加。他呼吁人们识别出政治僵局中由激进主义者强加的不恰当的二元对立，并尝试提出新的问题，寻找双方都能接受的答案。他还谈到了他对新冠疫情的看法，认为媒体对科技从业人员的刻板印象是错误的，应该停止这种嫉妒和偏见，从第一性原理出发看待世界。他认为Balaji Srinivasan试图批判性地思考新冠病毒如何重塑世界，而他自己则认为Balaji过于迅速地放弃了让制度恢复正常的希望。 Balaji Srinivasan: 他分享了自己对新冠病毒疫情的早期预警和观察，以及他如何通过阅读文献、与中国人士交流等方式了解疫情发展。他认为新冠病毒疫情具有尾部风险，一些人认为疫情不会发生重大变化，而另一些人则认为疫情可能迅速恶化。他认为许多对新冠病毒疫情预警较早的人，都属于不墨守成规、敢于表达不同意见的人。他还谈到了互联网增加了方差，导致信息来源多样化，也增加了辨别真伪的难度。他认为，在传统权威来源被削弱的情况下，人们需要共同的参考点来判断信息的真伪，并以理服人。他还讨论了如何应对新冠疫情，以及如何重建信任，并对未来发展方向进行了展望。

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Balaji Srinivasan discusses his early involvement with COVID-19, highlighting the importance of early detection and the challenges of being ahead of the curve.

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Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Corona virus and was ridiculed for his efforts by many in the world of institutional sense-making. That is before people realized he was not wrong, but simply early.

In this episode Eric talks to Balaji on the topic of what it was like to see the future before it arrived and what his crystal ball suggests about what is likely to happen next. As Balaji understands our world, the Corona virus presents a complex set of challenges that will strongly discriminate between those who can pass it's tests and those who will fail them. He sees this resulting in functional Green Zones which will become dominant in the future and Red Zones which will be characterized by dysfunctional responses. Presumably this new divide will then be expected to take over from the "North-South" divide between industrialized and developing nations. 

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