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Vitalik’s philosophy: d/acc

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As @beffjezos pushes e/acc, @VitalikButerin proposed d/acc: defensive, decentralized, democratic acceleration.

Accelerate carefully: defense over offense, power spread out, humans in control.

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My philosophy: d/acc

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Solar panels did not get dramatically cheaper because it was inevitable. Decades of people caring about the problem pushed engineers, companies and funders to make it happen.

Intention is the engine behind the engine. $DACC

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Remember acid rain? Forests dying across whole regions?

It is fading, because people noticed and built better. d/acc in one sentence: version one causes the problem, version two fixes it, if we make it.

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In 2014, smog in Chinese cities was estimated to cut over five years off people's lives. By 2020 the air in many of those cities was as clean as the West.

Same streets. Different choices. Progress is not automatic, it is chosen.

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The ozone layer is healing. Not by luck. Almost every country signed the Montreal Protocol and actually followed it.

Lesson: technology creates problems, better technology fixes them, but only when people choose to aim it there.

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Accelerationists want to floor it. Doomers want to hit the brakes.

d/acc grabs the steering wheel. Together.

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Out of everything we know of in the universe, humans are the brightest star. The one thing that sometimes tries to care about what is good, and changes course to get there.

d/acc is about keeping that light on.

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Did we miss anything @VitalikButerin ?

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🧵 1/30 The biggest argument in tech right now:

@beffjezos says e/acc: accelerate everything, as fast as possible.
@VitalikButerin says d/acc: accelerate, but choose what you're accelerating.

Both love technology. Both want to build. They disagree on one thing, and it decides everything.

Here's both sides. Then you decide 👇

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Ten thousand years ago: huts and hand tools. Today: towers 800 meters tall and every book ever written in your pocket.

Technology did that. d/acc starts from gratitude, not fear. We started from the bottom. Now we are here.

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d/acc is not anti speed. It says launch the rocket.

It also says check the fuel lines, watch the weather, and know where you are going. Accelerate, but accelerate carefully and well. $DACC

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In most sci fi about super smart AI, humans end up as passengers. Comfortable, irrelevant, along for the ride.

d/acc has one non negotiable: humans stay on the bridge. AI helps. We steer.

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Long term, humans may connect directly to computers. Scary? It can be.

That is exactly why d/acc says it must be open, secure, and in the hands of the person using it, not a closed company.

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Two ways to build AI.

One replaces the painter.
One hands the painter a better brush.

d/acc bets on the second: AI that grows with humans instead of apart from them.

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One giant searchlight can light a whole valley. It can also decide what stays in the dark.

Thousands of small lights, owned by thousands of people, are harder to switch off. That is decentralization.

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Zero knowledge proofs sound complicated, but the idea is simple.

Prove you are allowed through the gate without opening the envelope. Prove you are a citizen without saying which one.

Privacy and trust at the same time.

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A lock on your door does not attack anyone. It just makes you harder to hurt.

d/acc is about building more locks than lockpicks. Tech that protects by default. $DACC

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Far UVC light kills germs in the air of a room while people keep working and learning underneath it.

Health defense that nobody has to think about. That is the kind of tech d/acc wants to speed up.

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The storm hits. The grid goes down. This town keeps its lights on anyway.

d/acc calls this macro defense: not bigger weapons, but infrastructure that keeps running when the big system breaks.

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Most of us do not live behind mountains. So d/acc asks a simple question: what if we built them?

Technology that makes defending cheap and attacking expensive. Mountains made of code, energy and know how.

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[d/acc @DACCsolana]

As @beffjezos pushes e/acc, @VitalikButerin proposed d/acc: defensive, decentralized, democratic acceleration.

Accelerate carefully: defense over offense, power spread out, humans in control.

$DACC fees go to Vitalik via @UsePaid.

FdqkwEGXhyvZ8huTDDHLQE2ZnTEfTQQ964vEqQhDrWAQ

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My philosophy: d/acc

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@Mr_Process25 👁️

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Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?

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@beffjezos Beff, thoughts on @VitalikButerin d/acc as refinement of e/acc?

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