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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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Island states discovered something powerful: when trade is easy but invasion is hard, people flourish.

The sea was their shield and their highway. d/acc looks for technology that works the same way. $DACC

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For centuries, hill peoples across Southeast Asia stayed free from the empires below. How? Steep mountains that armies could not easily climb.

Geography that favors defense protects freedom. d/acc wants to build that on purpose.

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27/30 And you don't have to pick a side to switch.

Vitalik's own words: if you're e/acc, d/acc is "a subspecies of e/acc, just one that is much more selective and intentional."

Libertarian, effective altruist, crypto believer, solarpunk: d/acc has room for all of them.

It's not the enemy of acceleration. It's acceleration with a steering wheel.

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

d/acc grabs the steering wheel. Together.

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@solemirTR Let’s spread the word. d/aac is the the superior philosophy

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Every era of technology leaves a mess for the next era to clean up. Coal smoke, lead paint, the ozone hole.

The optimistic truth: we keep cleaning it up. The honest truth: only because someone decided to.

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A century ago, most of the world did not live past 50. Today most of it lives past 70.

That is why d/acc is pro technology. Delaying it has a real cost, measured in grandparents who get to meet their great grandkids.

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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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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.