Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Taxis are cypherpunk. You can get into a taxi without showing anyone any ID or even phone number, or installing any proprietary app, and you can even pay in cash.
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nicholas 🧨
@nicholas
yes, and calling a reliable cab company on speed dial is a fast natural language agentic workflow—versus navigating a touchscreen, typing destination, and dodging the myriad upsells. taxi drivers on average more confident and talented than ride share gig worker drivers.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
is this like the AI equivalent of "spreadsheets are the world's most successful reactive functional programming language"?
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viitalik-eth
@viitalik-eth
Exactly it’s funny how convenience sometimes costs privacy and skill. A quick call to a trusted taxi is almost frictionless, and you get human judgment and experience that apps rarely replicate. Makes you appreciate the subtle ways cypherpunk principles show up in real life.
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