Vitalik Buterin

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It's interesting how AI is changing the game on old concerns around legalese.

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The difference between central planning on humans and central planning on nature is that as civilization progresses, our ability to understand nature improves, and any specific intervention becomes more and more tractable over time, but humans themselves also become more complex, so the same thing does not happen for interventions directed toward humans.

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Aren't the romantics getting riled up about invading Panama and Greenland though?

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Left: Aella, 2023. Right: noemamag, 2025.

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I would add Lens too, that crew is doing very good and honorable work.

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are you using firefly or some other way to auto multi post?

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> we got privacy over long distance Careful, we're far from winning this game. It's a battle even to turn LLMs from becoming a privacy dystopia where openai, google and anthropic see everything.

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google pixel with grapheneos

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Really, all of cypherpunk / free software / ... is just trying to preserve boundaries that were unquestioned in the year 1900. * Your device serves you, not some gov or corp overlord * You can repair and modify your device to better serve you * Your private conversations are private * Your private money is private

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Proposed extra-naive benevolent conspiracy theory: this is "internal propaganda", someone saying this to convince _their own side_ to adopt some belief If I was a high-level deep state operative and I wanted to push to stop surveilling/hacking the world and instead support encryption for all, this is *exactly* the strategy I would take: make sure people learn about every single instance of US government databases getting hacked by foreign govs, so as to make the case that maybe the US government should just not have huge centralized databases of everyone's private data and we should keep data locally hosted and zk-prove things as needed

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d/acc: one year later https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html

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Learn a new language, get it up to medium skill level, then watch it with audio in that language. Your mind will be too caught up in being impressed at yourself being able to understand what they're saying so you won't have space to develop any opinions on the work itself.

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OK this actually explains a lot! It has often felt to me like star wars is this strange mix of manichean good vs evil morality play and some kind of surprisingly well thought-through epic space fantasy trying to make lots of valid political points while showing a complicated world.

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The claims in "official" star wars canon (aka propaganda) is that actually evil characters like palpatine were pulling the strings. But this is biased and often malicious exaggeration, not fundamentally different from how various movements and countries on earth often get branded as "neo-nazis", "CIA conspiracy", etc

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tired: the empire did nothing wrong inspired: the separatists (prequel trilogy) did nothing wrong

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Apparently now we're getting Generation Beta? And then presumably in 2039 Generation Chad? This whole scheme is dumb, we should just refer to age cohorts by their decade of birth like in China.

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the app doesn't even work 🥵 devs plz fix

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How would a sovereign/independent legal system and judiciary improve your life (or the lives of people you care about) inside a network state node?

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