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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Joanna
@joanna7459
I think there is like a discovery phase for ideological movements when they have a lot of promise and seem like they could apply to "everything" in the beginning, but eventually you find that there are some practical application areas that have traction and some don't, so they evolve to focus on the areas with traction and that's how they survive. Its hard to know if the exceptions you mentioned are exceptions or whether they are still in this first discovery phase..
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Joanna
@joanna7459
ideology-market fit so to speak
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