Introduction 0:00
Haseeb’s background 0:22
Vitalik’s background 2:43
A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02
Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18
Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41
Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08
Doing away with ‘trusted’ third parties 14:09
Trading performance for security 14:43
‘Impregnable castles made of math’ 16:23
Ethereum’s limitations are latency and privacy 16:56
There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32
Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39
Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49
Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00
How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11
What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07
Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18
Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52
New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54
People don’t value privacy until somebody goes to jail over it 30:32
Eth is ‘simple at the base’ 31:12
Social recovery wallets make it easier to be your own bank 31:44
Block space is getting expensive 32:41
There’s not a lot of innovation on Bitcoin, by design 33:35
Blockchain’s ‘free-rider effect’ 34:57
Innovation is slowest at Layer 1 35:34
Layer 2 moves faster because it’s permissionless 36:59
What if we froze Layer 1 today? 37:25
Data for computation trade-off 38:57
Benchmarking blockchains apples-to-apples 40:02
Enshrining decentralization 41:43
Tensions between scaling and preserving value 42:27
There will be multiple stores of value 43:54
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The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
Where Are the Aliens?
It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
Humans Are Exceptional
Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution
There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
No Truth Can Be Justified
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures
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