democracy

7 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Loretta Sanchez · across every show →

Everything said about democracy, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Sanchez: Democratic participation inherently makes government processes slow
“The democratic process is that everybody gets their day in court. Everybody gets their chance to petition. Everybody gets their redress of government. Everybody, if you want to participate, you get your ability to participate. So, if that's what we believe dem…”
Loretta Sanchez Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:46 a16z Podcast | Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harari: The breakup of the individual will collapse democracy and capitalism
“If in the 20th century, the big fear for individualism was that the individual will be crushed from outside, now the threat comes from the opposite direction. The individual will break up from inside, and then the entire structure of individualism and democrac…”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:15 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harari: Superior algorithms will render democracy and free markets completely obsolete
“And once you have an external entity, An algorithm that knows me better than I know myself. This is the real turning point. This is the point when individualism as we've known, it doesn't make any sense when democracy in the free market become completely obsol…”
Yuval Noah Harari Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:48 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Caplan: Democracy is a shared water pool used simultaneously as trash disposal
“Rather than thinking about democracy as a supermarket, think of it more about as like a common pool of water that is also our trash disposal system. And so people simultaneously are throwing in all of our intellectual garbage, but it's also where we drink.”
Bryan Caplan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:58 a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
Nov 16, 2022
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Balaji: Collective coordination occurs through democracy, markets, or harmony
“There's at least three different ways of thinking about many becoming one. There is let's call it there's democracy, right, which is an aggregation, an election. Many become one because you all vote and then the decision and it goes out. There's markets where …”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 54:46 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Nov 16, 2022
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Srinivasan: Capitalism and democracy are conflict resolution tools, not social foundations
“Both capitalism and democracy, by the way, are tools. They're conflict resolution tools, you know. Democracy is elections. Capitalism is markets. But like, within a family, or even within a company or a community, Not everything is an election or an auction. M…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 2:08:44 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Apr 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Democracy will fail without proof-of-human identity infrastructure
“Proof of human is a piece of a very important puzzle where we have to upgrade the entire infrastructure or we're not going to be a democracy anymore. I mean, that, that'd just be my guess.”
Ben Horowitz Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 36:30 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
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