Vitalik Buterin

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Asking "do you agree with my opinion X" feels good in the moment: the other person is more likely to agree, as agreeing feels good. Asking "what do you think" without pre-supplying your take is riskier. But it's worth it, because you get more information, which is far more valuable than feeling good in the moment.

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I hear people wanted less serious content and more memes so I figured I might as well start with a bad pun more appropriate to 2016. Q: What seat number does Vitalik have on a plane? A:

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Yoav talking about AA at EthSingapore. Really important discussion on why AA is NOT "just meta-transactions", and why the extra steps that ERC-4337 takes compared to more naive approaches are necessary if you care about decentralization.

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Finally got back my T-mobile account (yes, it was a sim swap, meaning that someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number).

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Work with Ameen Soleimani, Fabian Schär, Matthias Nadler and Jacob Illum on privacy and proof-of-innocence: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364

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I notice among people I talk to more enthusiasm toward learning French than Spanish. This confuses me; my feeling is that Spanish unlocks far more countries and speakers than French does and so is a more natural first choice. What do people think motivates this choice?

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https://chat.openai.com/share/f7ad44ba-f00c-41b8-b0b1-8763795724a5 This is probably the most serious phail I've seen from gpt4 in a while. That said, it's still impressive! Only one year ago these kinds of phails were the norm; the fact that I'm now surprised by it is a sign of progress!

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An old thread from me back in 2018 on the first five years of ethereum proof of stake research: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1029900695925706753

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"Unlike the pronatalists, who want to solve depopulation problems by bringing in entire new demographic cohorts of people, who are likely to have radically different values from us, on a mass scale, I'd rather we preserve our culture and focus on keeping alive and healthy the people we already have."

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One thing I forgot to talk about in my piece on Community Notes is that CN really succeeded at having the right vibe on a deeper emotional level. Normal fact-checking is "we're the experts, we know right and wrong, we're gonna school you", CN much more of a fun collective dunk on the powerful

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Random fun thing from India last month: the use of "winner" as a moral appeal of what someone should aspire to be.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-66655801 This is based. Charging in first to give people confidence that the path forward is safe is a type of good leadership.

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Inspired by https://twitter.com/RichardMorrison/status/1696610192811589989 Interesting how only the libertarians get to have color.

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How ChatGPT understands who I am as a human being.

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I continue to think Warpcast would benefit a lot from integrated polls :) In the base protocol, it's fine to make polls a plugin or some other construction that doesn't needlessly privilege them and uglify the software architecture. But at the UI level, I think they should be as integrated as Twitter/Mastodon polls.

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Is there a name for the type of government where the government pursues consumer protection, antitrust, etc policy by directly running one competitor in every important industry, instead of making rules for every participant?

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Interesting to see just how much cheaper Taipei is than Singapore now. Hotels in Taipei often cost less than monthly rent of apartments with comparable floor area in SG. I expect that as SG "gets full", many other nearby places in Asia will start to benefit from lots of migrants.

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It's fascinating just how much of modern Japanese seems to be just English but in katakana.

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I continue to be impressed every week by just how much EIP-1559 has improved ethereum's transaction sending UX.

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Another linguistics note: Has anyone else noticed how eliding the subject (in this case "I") seems to have become more and more acceptable in English over the last 10 years? Wonder if anyone has written about this trend.

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