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Vitalik Buterin

New monster post: my own current perspective on the recent debates around techno-optimism, AI risks, and ways to avoid extreme centralization in the 21st century. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html

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Since working at Augur in 2017 I've been talking my wife's ear off about decentralization, crypto philosophy etc. This is one of the only pieces I've actually sent her to read. Her PhD deals with how narrative is real in that it impacts the world. I wonder what she'll think of the version of the future you hint at.

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Including all the different philosophies and how they can fit into d/acc is pretty neat.

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@dwr.eth wen d/acc channel?

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ACCELERATE RESPONSIBLY

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Comment section on Farcaster is so much better than Twitter 💜

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I must say, your water-balancing skills are truly exceptional. "Everyone, stop arguing and fighting, come and take a look at d/acc." You are attempting to achieve a "trusted neutrality" on a global human level.

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he’s done it again

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“And so it is my firm belief that, out of all the things that we have known and seen in our universe, we, humans, are the brightest star. We are the one thing that we know about that, even if imperfectly, sometimes make an earnest effort to care about "the good", and adjust our behavior to better serve it.” ^Yes

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This part makes me really optimistic:

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😔”nuclear worked out” 😇”nuclear worked out” 🦦“yins thought about safety yet”

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got through the first chapter - thanks for bringing so much nuance to the discussion 🫡

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This quote is an interesting part because we already do that by playing chess. Machines can beat humans since Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997, and yet we are still more excited about Magnus Carlsen games than the competitions between the latest AI chess model.

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Wondering how possible this merge could be in the next 20 years so a close-to-consensus AGI timeline. I imagine that - before we optimize our brains which might take a while - our brains connected to AI might behave like an old car that got a 1,000+ HP engine. In other words, not be able to keep up with its output.

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thank you for writing this!

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Re: our place in a superintelligent AI world, you have an unique perspective in that you are one of the rare few individuals with outsized impact on the world. At society scale most of us are functionally pets as is, whether the overlord is human or AI. Ego aside, AI might make a better ruler.

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Excited to dive into this!

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Thank you 🫡 I hope love wins 💜

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Love this framing: “If biotech advances as much over the next 75 years as computers advanced over the last 75 years, the future may be more impressive than almost anyone's expectations.” Many paths to an unimaginably wonderful future. Let’s go that way

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