Vitalik's new article: The importance, future development opportunities, and challenges of Decentralization Accelerationism

This article focuses on the concept of decentralization acceleration (d/acc), discusses the importance of d/acc to build a safer and better world, and the opportunities and challenges for future development. This article is based on an article by Vitalik Buterin and compiled by Foresight News. (Synopsis: Vitalik Buterin praised "X Platform Community Notes" for being questioned and manipulated!) Musk: It's Decentralization and Open Source, I can't control it) (Background added: Vitalik Buterin ignited the "network nation" discussion!) Community Idea: Building a Long-Term Network Node with Independent Tax and Legal Experiments) This article focuses on the concept of decentralization acceleration (d/acc), discusses its application and challenges in technological development, including AI security and regulation, its association with cryptocurrency, and public goods funding, emphasizing the importance of d/acc to building a safer and better world, as well as the opportunities and challenges for future development. In-depth explanation of the connotation of d/acc, analysis of its role in dealing with artificial intelligence risks by comparing different strategies, and discussion of the value of cryptocurrency in it and the exploration of public goods funding mechanisms, and finally looking forward to the future of technological development, although there are challenges, human beings still have the opportunity to build a better world with existing tools and concepts. Special thanks to volunteers such as Liraz Siri, Janine Leger and Balvi for their feedback and review. About a year ago, I wrote an article on technological optimism, in which I set out my general passion for technology and the enormous benefits it can bring, as well as my cautious approach to specific issues that focus on superintelligent AI and the risk of destruction or irreversible loss of power if the technology is not built properly. One of my central points in that article was the idea of decentralization, democratic, and differentiated defensive acceleration. It is necessary to accelerate technological development, to focus critically on technologies that enhance our defenses rather than to cause harm, and to promote decentralization rather than concentration of power in the hands of a few elites, who do not judge right and wrong on behalf of all. The model of defense should be the model of democratic Switzerland and the historically quasi-anarchist Zomia, not the model of lords and castles under medieval feudalism. In the year since then, these ideas and ideas have undergone significant development and maturity. I shared these ideas on 80,000 Hours and received many responses, most of them positive, but also some criticism. The work itself continues to advance with tangible results: in the field of verifiable Open Source vaccines, we are witnessing progress; People's understanding of the value of healthy indoor air is deepening; "Community Notes" continues to play a positive role; The prediction market as an information tool has ushered in a breakthrough year; Zero-knowledge concise non-interactive knowledge arguments (ZK – SNARKs) are used in government identification and social media (and EthereumWallet is secured through account abstraction); Open Source imaging tools are used in medicine and brain-computer interface (BCI), among other things. Last fall, we celebrated our first major d/acc event: D/ACC Discovery Day (d/aDDy) at Devcon, which brought together speakers from all pillars of the d/acc (biological, physical, cyber, information defense, and neurotechnology) throughout the day. The people working on these technologies over the years have become more aware of each other's work, and outsiders have become more aware of the larger vision: that the same values that drive Ethereum and cryptocurrency can extend to the wider world. The Connotation and Extension of D/ACC Fast forward to 2042. You read a message in the media that there may be a new outbreak in your city. You're all too familiar with this kind of message: people tend to overreact to every animal disease mutation, and in the vast majority of cases, these mutations don't end up causing an actual crisis. Two previous potential outbreaks were detected at an early stage through wastewater monitoring and open source analysis of social media, and were successfully nipped in the bud. However, this time the situation is different, and the prediction market shows a probability of at least 10,000 cases as high as 60%, which worries you. Just yesterday, the genetic sequence of the virus was determined. A software update for the air tester in your pocket is now available, enabling the tester to detect new viruses, whether through a breath test or 15 minutes after exposure to indoor air in the room. At the same time, Open Source instructions and code to generate vaccines using devices accessible to any modern medical facility in the world are expected to be released within a few weeks. Most people have not taken any action at the moment, relying mainly on widely adopted air filtration and ventilation measures to protect themselves. Because of your own immune problems, you're more cautious: Open Source natively executes a personal assistant AI that takes on routine tasks like navigation, restaurant and event recommendations, as well as real-time air test data and CO2 data, to recommend only the safest places to you. This data is provided by thousands of participants and devices, and with the help of ZK – SNARKs and differential privacy technology, the risk of data being leaked or misused for other purposes is minimized (if you are interested in contributing data to these datasets, there are other personal assistant AIs that verify that these encryption tools actually work). Two months later, the pandemic miraculously dissipated: it seems that 60% of people followed the basic protocol, which is to wear a mask when an air tester sounds an alarm and shows the presence of the virus, and isolate at home if the individual tests positive. It is this move that is enough to further reduce the transmission rate of already large drops due to passive strong air filtration to less than 1. A disease that simulations suggest may be five times worse than the pandemic two decades ago has not had a serious impact. D/ACC Day at Devcon One of the most positive results of Devcon's d/acc event is that the d/acc concept successfully brings together people from different fields and really stimulates their interest in each other's work. It's not hard to host a "diverse" event, but it's not easy to get people from different backgrounds and interests to really connect closely. I still remember being forced to watch long operas in junior high school and high school, which I personally found boring. I knew I "should" appreciate them, because if I didn't, I would be seen as an illiterate computer science slacker, but I failed to resonate with the opera content on a deeper level. However, the atmosphere of D/ACC Day is very different: people genuinely enjoy learning about all kinds of work in different fields. If we aspire to a brighter future than domination, slowing down, and destruction, this broad alliance building is inevitable. D/ACC seems to have achieved significant results in this regard, and this alone is enough to highlight the valuable value of this concept. The core idea of d/acc is simple and clear: decentralization, democratic, and differentiated defensive acceleration. Build technologies that tilt the offensive and defensive balance toward defense, and in the process of implementation...