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Dan Romero
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Welcome to @vitalik.eth, co-founder of Ethereum! He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)
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Eddy Lazzarin 🟠
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What did you think of Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto? How you would frame crypto's relationship an optimistic, accelerationist outlook? https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
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Vitalik Buterin
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There's a lot I agree with - namely, that degrowth is bad, a lot of stagnationism that masks itself as caution and humility is actually a very anti-human force that needs to be directly opposed, but I also think there's a lot that it misses; namely, that the direction and order in which tech gets developed matters.
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Vitalik Buterin
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eg. I think brain computer interfaces are great and will be super important, but they are also risky: we're literally talking about reading + writing to our minds. To me it seems crucial that that stuff is as open-source as possible, favors local compute over phoning home... What is a16z doing to achieve that outcome?
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Eddy Lazzarin 🟠
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I see our radically pro-open source stance as an explicit agreement with you. a16z as a firm resolutely and unapologetically supports open source both directly and indirectly through our public codebases, advocacy to regulators, and even our investment strategy. We want to do everything in our power for open source.
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Vitalik Buterin
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Another area that I think is super valuable to intentionally accelerate is defense tech. eg. in the bio space, creating a pipeline where once a new pandemic (whether natural or artificial) appears, we can...
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