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Buterin's essay of 27 November 2023 holds that AI is fundamentally different from other technologies and that it is worth being uniquely careful, and states that the e/acc perspective can be taken too far. 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 disputes the premise that AI is "just another technology" whose acceleration carries the benefits of technological progress in general. Scope and limits The essay is sympathetic to acceleration in other contexts and proposes "d/acc" (defensive, decentralised, differential acceleration); it contests the unqualified acceleration of AI, not acceleration in general.
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My techno-optimism ↗ Author's site (vitalik.eth.limo) · 2023-11-27
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Source excerpt “AI is fundamentally different from other tech, and it is worth being uniquely careful” Location in source Section "AI is fundamentally different from other tech, and it is worth being uniquely careful" (heading)
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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 (14 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. 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 “However, it is possible to take this perspective too far.” Location in source Section "d/acc: Defensive (or decentralization, or differential) acceleration", paragraph 2 (last sentence)
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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 (10 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. 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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