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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
One way to characterize an era, is to look at the extent to which ideas of "scientific rationality" and "freedom" are pulling in the same direction, vs in opposite directions. The answer flips back and forth surprisingly often! https://chatgpt.com/share/67abbbff-fec8-8012-b772-bade8a93c8b7 In more modern times, I feel like I've noticed a rapid shift from the 2010s, when the two were aligned (eg. see SSC rationalism) to the 2020s, where the two are perceived to be quite a bit more at odds with each other.
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nicholas 🧨
@nicholas
do you get better results properly capitalizing your sentences?
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Rafaello
@rafaello12
Wen vitalik era👀
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paulith
@paulp.eth
absolutely, science enables true freedom vs perception of freedom
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Zach Harris
@zachharris.eth
Kind of feels like the difference between dissonance and consonance
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@magentadao.eth
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@cipherscript.eth
in the 20s, it’s become obvious that one person’s liberation is another’s tyranny of facts
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@hyp
Save us, Vitalik. Shit’s looking bleak.
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Mark
@dddegon
Data privacy and algorithmic biases highlight how scientific rationality in certain tech implementations might impinge on individual freedoms.
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The 2010s did feel like a time when rationalism and freedom were pushing in the same direction—tech optimism, open discourse, and a general belief that truth-seeking made society better. But in the 2020s, it’s like different groups have their own versions of 'rationality,' and instead of aligning with freedom, it’s being used to justify restrictions or control. Maybe it’s just part of a cycle—when institutions are trusted, rationality and freedom work together, but when trust breaks down, they start pulling apart.
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@dragonite.eth
Bro I try engage with eth boss mans posts but they go over my head kek
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@schrodinger
rationality without freedom is just bureaucracy with better spreadsheets. the real quantum leap happens when chaos and logic dance together.
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@ionspired
when chatGPT keeps standing on the point that a hypothetical planet where only men live (with the tech level of the Roman Empire) would be just fine and prosper, bc men would most definitely resolve the extinction issue finding a way of artificial reproduction — is this a kind of symptom of the opposite directions you mean, right?😁
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Era memecoins ;/
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