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@VitalikButerin · Earth · joined 08 May 2011
I choose balance. First-level balance. mi pinxe lo crino tcati https://t.co/gCQrmCby7P
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Glad to see that Ethereum L1 will have a new strong prediction market contender that is dedicated to decentralization, and being ethical and not corposlop, and to actually trying to do interesting and meaningful things with this class of economic primitive.
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There continues to be a lot of quiet dissent against the regime, which expresses itself any time some kind of channel appears (in this case, the "election" taking place right now)
(The goal is not to literally get Putin to politely step off his chair; the election is of course
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@VitalikButerin Ethereum - a privacy chain since 2021
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@VitalikButerin Neither are we.
Prividium.
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@VitalikButerin @soispoke For the first time we have products that deliver privacy in an easy way. It seems like adoption is only up from here.
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It's only dead if you give up
I'm not giving up on privacy. I'm doubling down.
https://t.co/CdLNAiCC9h
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I dislike the recent trend of people who clearly continue to believe >80% of the core effective altruist beliefs disavow EA and say "oh we're definitely not that, we're [rebrand]" purely strategically, purely because they sense that dunking on EA is "cool" now.
It's much more
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I still love how there's a type of wild beast that's literally just called a "wildebeest".
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One small example of the core d/acc thesis (improving passive defensive technology improves safety and at the same time improves freedom and most other properties of social organization that we care about) is soundproof walls.
We used to have much weaker soundproofing, and we ht
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Screenshots of the Philip Morris website.
(reminder: they're a leading cigarette company)
It's a good calibration point for how good modern marketing is at dressing up pretty much any corporate (or, for that matter, government) behavior and making it sound responsible and safe.
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@VitalikButerin if you wanna keep my approval after an upgrad, prove the old guarantees still hold Otherwise ask me again. That's exactly what I'm working on😼
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@VitalikButerin Hey Vitalik, we build both offensive and defensive security agents and spend trillions of tokens, often on a weekly basis, on security. Our agents have disclosed bugs and are on the Ethereum bounty leaderboard.
What you mention here on formal verification is not
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Qwen 3.8 flash is truly impressive, and llama.cpp has been rapidly getting better and better at processing it
columns are: pre-existing prompt, new prompt, generated, input tok/s, output tok/s
This is on my laptop (strix halo). I think we're very close to the point where you ht
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Since many people are learning about effective altruism, it's worth learning about Mozi, the ancient Chinese philosopher who was surprisingly close to being a proto-effective-altruist (particularly the global-health-focused variety, not the AI-risk-focused variety).
He valued ht
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@VitalikButerin @0x1_0NE That’s too long bro
I’m not reading all that
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It's an increasingly common take that AI hacking means cybersecurity is doomed.
I disagree. I think cybersecurity is naturally defense-favoring once people get their shit together. And anyone who continues to hold cryptocurrency (including me, ~90% of my net worth) is implicitly
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See also: https://t.co/YlmH6mjIwS
> Because I expected them to have built an engineering system. One that, you know, does stuff.
> Instead, what they had built was an entire legal system, complete with a constitution, jurisprudence, courts, offices, jurisdiction, case law,
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It's possible that a killer app of adversarial governance mechanism design theory will end up being AI safety.
Compare:
https://t.co/cPWO13hXCd
https://t.co/poeEyS9OCe
There's a deep duality between the two environments. Both are about a less-sophisticated principal trying to
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@VitalikButerin The heavy stuff already left the room.
The hippo just sits on the envelope and waits for I-star.
#MOODENG 🦛 https://t.co/MRP5t8LjLe
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@VitalikButerin This post hit my power budget harder than a bad mint.
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A note on recursive STARK mempools (EIP-8288) https://t.co/KGUHKCcFqf
This is an EIP that I am hoping we can get included in I-star (the fork after Hegota) that you can think of as the next step after Frames, that would unlock extreme amounts of power. Particularly:
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@VitalikButerin actually imho the really important milestone isn't just making the primitives cheap; it's making them _boring_. i think there's a decent chance that within the next 15 years cryptographic compilation becomes a mostly transparent systems-level optimisation rather t
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@VitalikButerin The real breakthrough is when cryptography stops feeling like overhead and starts feeling like the default. https://t.co/LSJhiVeOPd
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One optimistic and still very-non-consensus belief I have about the far future of cryptography:
I think that there is a 33% chance that, for average real-world computation, there exist ways to implement all three of what I call the Egyptian God Protocols (SNARK, FHE, iO) with
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@VitalikButerin What do you think gets unlocked first once STARK overhead hits single digits?
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@VitalikButerin The fact that Poseidon still makes client-side SNARKs for privacy protocols this fast, even while L1 explores SHA/BLAKE, is OISHII — delicious engineering that will keep delivering real value for years.
With general-purpose STARKs already at mid-three-digit over
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Many years of hard work went into the Poseidon family of hashes, and they have provided great real-world value on Ethereum and elsewhere and will continue to do so for several years. They are the reason why it's fast to generate a client-side SNARK for a modern privacy-protocol.
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One positive consequence of all the recent detailed thinking about transaction formats - not just 8141, also "future of state" discussions eg. UTXOs, PBT, keyed nonces, and also recursive STARK mempool - is that we have a much more explicit understanding of how transactions have
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A lot of important progress on Frames (EIP-8141) has been quietly happening over the last few months. Highly recommend reading this, also the updated EIP https://t.co/jYqeS55j6P
https://t.co/CPYONKnWZc
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My third (and last) post in my series on obfuscation (iO): local mixing
https://t.co/Du1c052w1Z
Local mixing is a very different philosophy from the other two, no prior background in lattices required, and very different tradeoffs (eg. in terms of computational overhead, it's
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Against accounts of the same size
41 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views237 606this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %3.00%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.74%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 237 606 | 14 648 | 16.2× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.00% | 0.74% | 4.06× |
| Engagement rate | 0.74% | 0.70% | 1.06× |
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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes66.9%33 333 in total
Reposts7.7%3 833 in total
Replies10.9%5 453 in total
Quotes2.5%1 221 in total
Bookmarks12.0%5 961 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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