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Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government - 80,000 Hours

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… if you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things like valuing freedom, being democratic, being pro-foreigner, being open-minded, being interested in trade. If you are on the Mongolian steppes, then your entire mindset is kill or be killed, conquer or be conquered … the breeding ground for basically everything that all of us consider to be dystopian governance. If you want more utopian governance and less dystopian governance, then find ways to basically change the landscape, to try to make the world look more like mountains and rivers and less like the Mongolian steppes. — Vitalik Buterin Can ‘effective accelerationists’ and AI ‘doomers’ agree on a common philosophy of technology? Common sense says no. But programmer and Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin showed otherwise with his essay “My techno-optimism,” which both camps agreed was basically reasonable. Seeing his social circle divided and fighting, Vitalik hoped to write a careful sy

Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government | 80,000 Hours Search for: On this page: Introduction 1 Highlights 2 Articles, books, and other media discussed in the show 3 Transcript 3.1 Cold open [00:00:00] 3.2 Rob's intro [00:00:56] 3.3 The interview begins [00:04:47] 3.4 Three different views on technology [00:05:46] 3.5 Vitalik's updated probability of doom [00:09:25] 3.6 Technology is amazing, and AI is fundamentally different from other tech [00:15:55] 3.7 Fear of totalitarianism and finding middle ground [00:22:44] 3.8 Should AI be more centra

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