Comment by Vitalik Buterin

But my problem is that I feel great uncertainty and have no idea which of the two worlds (or some other third thing) we’re living in?

The 2040 plan is already much more open source friendly (even mandating it! yay). It also includes “mutually assured compute destruction” ideas which (if they work) effectively give one of 2-5 actors the ability to trigger a global compute winter – a...

The hope is that humans and LLMs fail in distinct ways, and so requiring human + LLM 2-of-2 confirmation to take risky actions (and allowing human override only with much more friction and/or time delay) is much safer than fully relying only on eithe...