I'd think this was self-parody from some version of The Onion from Hell, but these people are deadly serious, and they're reshaping San Francisco politics.
newrepublic.com/article/1804...
San Francisco 25 years ago was so fun. Y2K doom loop parties, dotcom bubble bursting, at least a few artists that hadn’t yet been evicted… if only SF could have stayed its 90s self 😢
In all seriousness it was a breathtaking place to live and it breaks my heart every time I go back
Balaji is a complete Thiel-type nutjob, but not at all influential in San Francisco politics. Which is divided between moderate Democrats and progressive Democrats, although "progressive" mostly means giving out only 12 building permits a year
“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen (I literally laughed out loud when I saw who the quote was from. Of all the people to evaluate which ideas are good 😂)
i can see right now this wont end well... for the Grays.
just like it didn't for the Grays the last time.
(and these grays seem comparable to those old grays of the mid-nineteenth century. it's best they get beaten and surrender.)
The part where he declares Microsoft (now a $3T company) “obsolete” is all you need to know about his predictions and their value.
Who holds the largest outside share of OpenAI? Hint: Not Balaji
