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Welcome to @vitalik.eth, co-founder of Ethereum!   He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

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What did you think of Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto? How you would frame crypto's relationship an optimistic, accelerationist outlook? https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

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There's a lot I agree with - namely, that degrowth is bad, a lot of stagnationism that masks itself as caution and humility is actually a very anti-human force that needs to be directly opposed, but I also think there's a lot that it misses; namely, that the direction and order in which tech gets developed matters.

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eg. I think brain computer interfaces are great and will be super important, but they are also risky: we're literally talking about reading + writing to our minds. To me it seems crucial that that stuff is as open-source as possible, favors local compute over phoning home... What is a16z doing to achieve that outcome?

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I see our radically pro-open source stance as an explicit agreement with you. a16z as a firm resolutely and unapologetically supports open source both directly and indirectly through our public codebases, advocacy to regulators, and even our investment strategy. We want to do everything in our power for open source.

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Another area that I think is super valuable to intentionally accelerate is defense tech. eg. in the bio space, creating a pipeline where once a new pandemic (whether natural or artificial) appears, we can...

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(i) quickly detect it (ii) quickly create vaccines and/or antibodies against it (iii) have local manufacturing so people everywhere in the world can quickly start taking them New pandemic -> countermeasure pipeline, ideally all within <1 month.

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The more that the offense/defense balance favors defense, in all spheres, the less the world faces dark tradeoffs between stagnation, centralized control and disasters.

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Love a good sports metaphor

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