Vitalik Buterin: belief

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…Well, longer, but about politics, not candidates, about politics at a conceptual level. “What is going on here? How can this be happening?” sort of pieces. MR’s market share of my mind definitely increased during that period. I think I definitely saw other spaces declining in quality, and MR didn’t, to its great credit, which I think was great. Now, a short-lived era because in 2020, obviously, pandemic, and then, somewhat resulting from that — though some of this stuff was seeded before — you have these big essays on progress, state capacity, libertarianism, but also, of course, pandemic response. Maybe we separate those two. COVID and just becoming, similar to the financial crisis, similar to other examples like this, where everyone’s learning in public, everyone’s trying to figure out what’s going on. What was that like for you two?…

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