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[Roan @RohOnChain]

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[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

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[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

BREAKING:

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[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I feel like this comes from a frame of the "21st century tech oligarchs" being "automatically friendly", if not in intent then in consequences.

And I respect the frame, because I was much closer to it 5-10 years ago. Today though I would say:

* Because of the unique dangers of superintelligent AI, digital tech accelerationism is not automatically a good force by default - you have to be specific about the vector (note: I still endorse unconditional acceleration in other sciences, with few exceptions eg. gain of function research)
* The biggest danger always comes from merger of business and government power against regular people (this point has been made by libertarians for like 100 years). I'm seeing signs that the ethos of being a counterweight to government, that was strong in business 10 years ago, is basically nonexistent today (see: refusal to participate in military contracts -> everyone doing it, rapid gulf of mexico renaming, lockstep realignment on culture war issues ... ; each individual thing is explainable, but they add up to a pattern). It feels to me like lots of people in tech today are _close to neutral_ on these things, and lack an ethos of independence, and so they just go along with whatever the power is
* I also think that this cluster's interest in open source is very contingent: the "open source" moral meme is played up when it is convenient, a part of a commoditize-the-complement strategy, and yet most things that matter (esp at the end-consumer level) are still closed source. Sure, we have deepseek, but I do not think that our default path gets us to eg. a version of BCI where we actually have acceptably strong assurances that the thing is not reading and writing our minds in hostile ways.
* The historical retort is always "well, ok, those guys can see all your data, but what incentive do they actually have to do something wrong with it?". And the answer is now clear: their incentive is to trade this access off to the government as a medium-sized favor in exchange for other privileges.

Getting back to hate speech, the way that that issue ties in is that it's a part of the process of creating a mentality where ~90% of people in the world don't matter. Once that mentality exists, it's easier to hold together a dominant coalition that is entrenching power within the hands of a very small group, at the expense of everyone else. And once that happens, surprising shifts are possible, eg. maybe we "learn" that open source is actually bad because everyone except for "us highly trusted people" are "terrorists". To defend against this, I favor having a robust common-humanity mentality that the goal is to uplift everyone, no man left behind.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct:

* free speech good
* starting companies and making good products good
* monopolies bad, vendor lock-in bad
* democracy good
* greed bad
* trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad
* cosmopolitan humanitarian values, caring about faraway people, etc good

Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

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[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

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