Vitalik Buterin

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I actually think we're probably already at the point where the marginal bit of anti-wokeness is on balance more bad than good. (Not the same as wokeness being good, because anti-wokeness doesn't just fight wokeness, it also has many, IMO mostly bad, side effects) https://twitter.com/0FJAKE/status/1783928239099875386

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There is nothing "ZK" about ZKasino except that it lives on zksync, correct? I guess we have to adapt; even "ZK" is now a mainstream-enough buzzword that full-on scammers are adopting it.

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This is bad. Crypto is not just trading tokens, it's part of a broader ethos of freedom and privacy and keeping power in the hands of the little guy. These values unfortunately continue to be under attack, globally. https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1781546937675657392

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A quick test of the new llama3 models (and old ones): L3 70b: https://i.imgur.com/HPgNLnW.png L3 8b: https://i.imgur.com/HTxZmy9.png Mixtral 8x7b: https://i.imgur.com/qjEk93V.png ChatGPT: https://i.imgur.com/DIQ5loP.png ChatGPT is correct, L3 70b almost; others are wrong.

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Cryptanalysis is fascinating because it's one of the very few areas where the accelerationists are cheering when the algorithms turn out to not work. (Context today: https://twitter.com/GuyZys/status/1781190098823807293 )

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This is the rarely-expressed exact opposite of DST abolition: literally do micro-DST every single day to keep local time adjusted to sunrise (though I would just do sunrise = 0:00). I actually... kinda respect it? Some precedent in ancient chinese timekeeping:

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* meters * kg * lean celsius but don't care too much either way * abolish seasonal time changes * for online calls/events specify time in UTC * YYYY-MM-DD date format * ground floor is 0th; don't skip 4 and 13 * don't put sugar in cold tea Simple rules for a civilized society.

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If everyone around you often says "we live in a thoroughly X-ist society, it's horrible, and we need to switch to Y which is a refreshing new alternative", consider that you might actually be living in a thoroughly Y-ist society.

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"What more could Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev have done?" Post by Mike Orcutt on the recent past and future of financial privacy https://www.projectglitch.xyz/p/what-more-could-tornado-cash-developer

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Privacy is normal. Railgun uses the privacy pools protocol ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364 ) which makes it much harder for bad actors to join the pool without compromising users' privacy. https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1779813061060391246

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https://twitter.com/inversebrah/status/1779367565942468871 I would challenge the premise: English is "the BTC of languages" in some ways (mainly: network effect), but not others. I think the best candidate for "the BTC of languages" in spirit and design philosophy is toki pona.

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Excellent work by Toni Wahrstätter, replicating and expanding on my analysis last month on cross-validator correlations and adjusting validator incentives to favor decentralization: https://ethresear.ch/t/analysis-on-correlated-attestation-penalties/19244

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This (extremely off-putting) answer reveals a key thing that's beautiful about markets: They let people express the strength of their preferences without needing to always justify their values in front of a committee. https://twitter.com/DylanMAllman/status/1776649146675712146

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Excited to see work on solar geoengineering: https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1775705471078293875 Maybe global-south nations who will be most hit by climate change will start threatening to do this unilaterally; even if other techniques are ultimately better, perhaps they need the push to get to the finish line

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Re-upping my post from 1.5 years ago on "layer 3s": https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/09/17/layer_3.html The summary is that layer 3s don't magically improve throughput even more, though they can reduce some fixed costs of batch publishing and deposits/withdrawals.

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Degen communism: the only correct political ideology https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/04/01/dc.html

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A quick note on next steps in Ethereum protocol simplification and node resource load decreases (aka "the Purge"): https://notes.ethereum.org/@vitalik.eth/purge_2024_03_31

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This is a one terabyte USB key. ONE TERABYTE. Modern technology is amazing.

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What else could memecoins be? https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html

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"Base has overtaken Ethereum" ~= "Austin has overtaken America"

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