Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I am noticing that the most successful new ideologies of the past decade are very object-level (prescriptions on specific issues) and quite little meta-level (social processes for making decisions on object-level issues). Examples: * Abstract libertarianism feels much weaker than 10 years ago. But issue-specific versions of it are quite successful: YIMBY (housing), the crypto space * e/acc (it's about all technology in theory, but ends up being about AI in practice) * The largest cluster in effective altruism morphed from being meta-level ("think harder to making sure your donations are going where they can do the most good!") to object level (AI safety, with a little bit of animal welfare and global public health) * Longevity movement Maybe network states and Glen and Audrey's Plurality movement are two exceptions - but in general the above feels like a strong pattern. Any ideas why this meta level -> object level shift seems to be taking place?
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Aaron Blaisdell / ittybit 533
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My best guess is that the greater ease of global access to networks via the internet, especially web2, led to greater tribalism and echo chamber behavior. The result being a narrowing of opinions to fewer but major issues.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Now that in the 2020s, we're moving away from total twitter-as-global-watercooler dominance toward something more fragmented/pluralist, what will that imply about the ideologies that come about this decade?
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Aaron Blaisdell / ittybit 533
@aaronblaisdell
I see further fragmentation initially (my kids don't use Facebook; I rarely use TikTok, I listen to @bankless, and read Left leaning Heather Cox Richardson-- but who does both nowadays?) but I think AI is the real wild card. It can 100x silo us further or disrupt it completely. I'm rooting for @6079ai to help us achieve the later.
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