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  "note": "Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum blockchain, with his own take on \"techno-optimism\". This whole thread was started with [Marc Andreessen's manifesto](https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/) and branches out with a number of critiques and replies.\n\nI liked reading Buterin's view, and how he thinks through it. His general push toward defensive technology is interesting.\n\n> Across the board, I see far too many plans to save the world that involve giving a small group of people extreme and opaque power and hoping that they use it wisely. And so I find myself drawn to a different philosophy, one that has detailed ideas for how to deal with risks, but which seeks to create and maintain a more democratic world and tries to avoid centralization as the go-to solution to our problems. **This philosophy also goes quite a bit broader than AI, and I would argue that it applies well even in worlds where AI risk concerns turn out to be largely unfounded**. I will refer to this philosophy by the name of **d/acc**.\n> \n> The \"d\" here can stand for many things; particularly, **defense**, **decentralization**, **democracy**and **differential**. First, think of it about defense, and then we can see how this ties into the other interpretations.\n\nReading through this brought many ideas from Taleb's Anti-Fragile to my mind as well. Investing in defensive technology to make people and society more resilient. ",
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