Vitalik Buterin

This thread is great and very on-point; I absolutely have had to watch myself to try not to fall into this trap.

Present-day rollups are still far from optimal! Great thread by @sanjaypshah Still a lot of room to improve both fixed costs and per-transaction costs. Very much early days in terms of how many optimizations that are easy to find theoretically haven't yet actually been deployed.

And I read that book and it was great!

People who criticize "utilitarianism" are often actually criticizing something quite different, like coldness or expediency. John Stuart Mill himself wrote quite a lot about the distinction in his original work in 1863. The whole thing is worth reading:

We've started new currencies. Now The Network State shows us how to start new cities and new countries.

Hot take: Star Trek Entreprise is actually quite underrated. Might be my favorite of all the series I watched.

Highly recommend more eyes on this problem.

On land value taxes see this great series:

On land value taxes see this great series:

On land value taxes see this great series:

post on stablecoins from last year is also good and recommended!

On many specific issues, intellectual elites are actually more pro-freedom than most others. @bryan_caplan has some good stats on this. Recommend reading The Myth of the Rational Voter.