Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2
Description
The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00
The Ethereum community 1:22
The DAO hack 2:34
Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18
Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45
Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59
It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38
Goals outside Ethereum 12:17
Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00
Russia 18:06
Vitalik’s lifestyle 19:51
Closing thoughts 22:06
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Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00
Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05
The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48
Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36
The problems of cloning people 15:05
Objections to Taking...
Published 02/17/24
The universality of computation and explanation 0:00
The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56
Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57
Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50
Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46
Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation...
Published 01/26/24