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The Network State

A work by Balaji Srinivasan

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  • What korrents draws from it

    New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of., Strong encryption limits what governments can do in ways that legislation cannot., The Network is becoming the next Leviathan after God and the State, because on key dimensions it is growing more powerful and more just than the State. …

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What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of. (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Strong encryption limits what governments can do in ways that legislation cannot. (opens korrents.com)1

  3. The Network is becoming the next Leviathan after God and the State, because on key dimensions it is growing more powerful and more just than the State. (opens korrents.com)1

  4. The blockchain is the most important development in history since the invention of writing, because it is a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, complete digital record. (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Private networks like Uber, Lyft, email and SpaceX already outperform their state counterparts — taxi medallions, the USPS and NASA. (opens korrents.com)1

  6. The US establishment is not more ethical than the CCP on civil liberties, it is just less competent at exercising the same kind of power. (opens korrents.com)1

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