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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Saulyaries
@saulyaries
Well it never really existed LOL existentially... Only changing the facts through science and mathematics perturbs the system. Then the changes initially enacted afterward for decades and centuries, sometimes humans reiterate socially after the breakthrough has been made. Sometimes making it seem like it's a current Discovery. Like the way they're still trying to understand Einstein by proving him wrong, which is the opposite approach that needs to be taken. But that was 100 years ago. Isn't that insane that 99% of all scientific advances in the last century happened a century ago?
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