Vitalik Buterin

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I feel that way about movies depicting pre-internet life

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My response to AI 2027: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html The AI 2027 post is high quality, I encourage people to read it at https://ai-2027.com/ I argue a misaligned AI will not be able to win nearly as easily as the AI 2027 scenario assumes, because it greatly underrates our ability to protect ourselves, especially given the (pretty magical) technologies that the authors admit will be available in 2029 in their scenario.

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Smart people in 2024: obviously the 00s-era AI misalignment story ("we tell AGI to end suffering, it kills everyone, no more suffering") is too naive, we have a smarter version 2025: coder tells AGI to remove bugs, it deletes all code, no more bugs https://x.com/alex_xiong_/status/1942442882402771178

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> 3. Permissive made much more sense when we actually distributed software. When it's all about services, it doesn't matter, does it? AGPL requires derivative works to publish source code even if they only make the work available as a SaaS

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For most people, morality isn't primarily about what ideological positions you hold. It's about how you treat people (and animals) as you go about your life.

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Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/07/copyleft.html

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I think it's an ok price to pay for keeping crypto global and not over-concentrated in one physical geography that would inevitably capture it. Probably >100x more favorable tradeoff ratio than mining.

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Do you believe you had a better moral character 20 years ago?

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> Crypto is built to be used not understood 👍 I hope that's not the conclusion people got :D Crypto is first and foremost about user empowerment, not user happiness. Empowerment benefits a lot from understanding. Though it's also okay if a user does not understand at first, as long as the resources are there if/when it comes time for them to need to.

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Alternatively, having the right opinion on some question might be a matter of intelligence, which you might say is orthogonal to (ie. a totally separate dimension from) good moral character. Each individual question also has its own idiosyncratic bias, and so some of the time you get an anti-correlation

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imo people who hunt for subsistence score much higher on animal rights than people who eat factory farmed food Would *you* rather: (i) live 50% of your natural life, then suddenly drop dead (ii) live a 50%-long life in a tiny cage where you get force fed lots of fat all day, then drop dead in a more horrific way

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the implication is that there is an easily accessible bad reason and a much less accessible good reason to support the thing

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What's a controversial issue on which the average person who disagrees with you has better moral character than the average person who agrees with you?

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Food is delicious, some of the best in Europe

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It's on the edge of Tiergarten?

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Ich bin ein bear linner

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What type of zu berliner are you?

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"Fuk bitcoins. Das ist unser Krieg."

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