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Buterin's essay of 27 November 2023 holds that it seems very hard to have a "friendly" superintelligent-AI-dominated world in which humans are anything other than "pets", captions the accompanying figure "The world I don't want to see", and proposes tools that enhance rather than replace human cognition. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-11-27 · publication Records dated 2023 → Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. It argues that even a "friendly" superintelligent-AI-dominated world would leave humans as pets, disputing that such a succession would be desirable. Scope and limits The essay states the author's preference and argument; it names e/acc and Andreessen elsewhere but does not attribute W02 to them.
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My techno-optimism ↗ Author's site (vitalik.eth.limo) · 2023-11-27
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Source excerpt “It seems very hard to have a "friendly" superintelligent-AI-dominated world where humans are anything other than pets.” Location in source Section "Even if we survive, is a superintelligent AI future a world we want to live in?"
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Source details and check notes Authors Vitalik Buterin Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5a2b02de0057344215d4fc75f099b5ff327dcd5540cb074514addbe7babd34de). post dated "2023 Nov 27", as served on 2026-10-31. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Vitalik Buterin, “My techno-optimism”, 2023-11-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (17 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 29) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
My techno-optimism ↗ Author's site (vitalik.eth.limo) · 2023-11-27
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Source excerpt “The world I don't want to see.” Location in source Same section, caption to the figure directly after the sentence ending "anything other than pets."
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Source details and check notes Authors Vitalik Buterin Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5a2b02de0057344215d4fc75f099b5ff327dcd5540cb074514addbe7babd34de). post dated "2023 Nov 27", as served on 2026-10-31. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Vitalik Buterin, “My techno-optimism”, 2023-11-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (7 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 29) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
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Source excerpt “tools that enhance human cognition rather than replacing it” Location in source Section "A happy path: merge with the AIs?"
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Source details and check notes Authors Vitalik Buterin Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5a2b02de0057344215d4fc75f099b5ff327dcd5540cb074514addbe7babd34de). post dated "2023 Nov 27", as served on 2026-10-31. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Vitalik Buterin, “My techno-optimism”, 2023-11-27. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (9 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 29) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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