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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 🟠
@eddy
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
@vitalik.eth
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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Vitalik Buterin
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I see crypto as being in part about being the sector of tech that tries to think not just about consumer utility, but also these big techno-political questions, preserving freedom and openness and ability for regular people around the world to participate and not just consume, etc.
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Wilson Cusack
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There’s a quote that I think is from you, which I’ve been trying to find for a while, something to the affect that young people moved to SV thinking they were going to disrupt power, but it turned into a new kind of wall st. Crypto came from realizing that you have to go after something more fundamental/political.
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Evan Hudson
@evan-hudson
To that end, how can we engineer systems to help web3 scale in a way that is directed towards common good instead of an exclusive focus on market share and shareholder profits? What incentive structures are enabled by web3 to make the Regen meme go viral on the societal/civilizational scale?
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