Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1806036301009011054 Seeing so much hate for this diagram that would have been accepted as common wisdom 5 years ago makes me sad, and makes me somewhat more scared for the future of the world. I hope we can snap out of this mode of thinking soon.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
A common reply I see is: "you just set it up so that your outgroup *is* the set of people doing bad things" The challenge with this approach is that "people doing good things", for any reasonable definition of good, are not a coherent social group, or at least if they are, that configuration is very unstable.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
And a common bad pattern that happens in real life, is that people become convinced that they've found The One True Ingroup That Contains The Good People, and then it turns out that either (i) they're wrong now, or (ii) they'll be wrong in 10 years, and they end up having a hard time coming around to seeing that.
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Hakan
@vikanren
If you are talking your own opinions, stop promoting those decieving debates that are aiming to divide people into groups and thinks this please: there is no group / no enemy. https://x.com/DevrikKhan/status/1806663772301639692 But if the people who creat "vitalik.eth" make you talk, please tell them this: Why not? Why don't we try to achieve a stable peace instead of dividing people into groups and use them as slaves? How much can they lose by trying that?
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Devilflasher 🎩 🎭
@devilflasher
You can't always wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep
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devs
@devs
Why be part of a ‘group’? Not literally, but figuratively. Why not be independent of thought? Since reality is not static, most certainty would come from the self.
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