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Vitalik Buterin

No. And I'm also not a capitalist. Both are 20th century ideologies. (And they are words that have been stretched and abused to the point of meaninglessness: remember, in the 1990s, Microsoft called Linux "communist": https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ ) I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress. These are timeless principles. The question is how to use the tools we have available to achieve these values in the context of the 21st century. I've written at length about the kinds of mechanisms I personally support, but I definitely do not think that I am the only source of good ideas, I think figuring out the best approach is a shared project of both thinking and also increasingly real world experimentation.

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Also when you say freedom do you mean individual liberty or do you mean liberation from institutional oppression of classes

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"I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress." 🐐

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This kind of question is tricky as you don’t know what communism or capitalism means from their perspective. These terms have become distorted and taken on many different meanings in the process of dissemination and interpretation. so when you mentioned the C word earlier, many people might have understood it differently from how you intended, leading to an amplification of misunderstandings based on their misconceptions. Therefore, it’s wiser and more desirable to emphasize specific principles rather than any “-ism.” No one should be bound or hijacked by an ideology; instead, they should pursue concrete values.

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Viva the mondragon accord

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thankyou so much for speaking your mind <3 I love you v

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Cypherpunk.timespan.vc archives of the Cypherpunk listserve. A lot of the early emails have to do with the ideals of the community. At the time they were fighting for cryptography to be regulated as commerce (not munitions) and for strong internet privacy to be a standard globally

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Do you support workers having democratic control over their workplace and sharing in the wealth generated by their work?

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For some reason it’s so hard for people to see the 3rd path on this and remain intellectually stuck in a false dichotomy from a hundred years ago. I’ve found the writings of the English Distributists like G. K. Chesterton super helpful and as relevant as ever when thinking about the social implications of the new tools we have now.

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I'm not sure that a 21st-century ideology exists to describe what you are saying here. Obviously, reading your writing would be the natural way to learn more about your views, but I think that it is difficult to describe to people what you think when it doesn't fit into the preexisting notions that people fit their understanding into. How do you deliver your thoughts in a way that is palatable for your audience while also not minimizing the uniqueness of your views by fitting them into conceptual boxes for the sake of easier comprehension by your audience?

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Hard agree re tools/mechanisms. I'm quite fond of relational ethics as a guiding framework for new technologies, esp coordination technologies. The literature is still very theory based (not a bad thing) but there are some practical mechanisms emerging eg. to improve plurality in llm trainingsets and rlhf

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“I am also not a capitalist” GOT HIM!!!! - Crypto Twitter

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“I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress.” me too, vitalik 🤝

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