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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Sometimes you can believe the right thing for the wrong reason.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It's dangerous to encourage people to believe false things (or quietly fail to correct false beliefs) if they lead to correct conclusions though. Such strategies may work in the short term, but the world is chaotic, and generally a wrong-but-helpful belief today will become a wrong-and-harmful belief tomorrow. We learned this with the whole 2020-era attempt to try to convince people that covid is not airborne so that people would not hoard masks and leave them for emergency staff. It ended up leading to really harmful misconceptions that are still persisting.
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Philip Sheldrake
@sheldrake
If I may be so bold ... ... it turns out it's a false thing to intimate that DNS-type systems are either necessary or sufficient for all variety of identity purposes in web3, let alone the multiple 'real world' contexts we believe web3 might support.
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Philip Sheldrake
@sheldrake
As you note briefly in your recent review of Plurality (Weyl & Tang 2024), we need to up our game when it comes to accommodating human (non-bureaucratic) identity.
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