Defensive acceleration
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Newest dated source: 2025-01-05
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Vitalik Buterin’s proposal to accelerate defensive technologies and spread power. Deciding what counts as defensive and how to prevent concentrated control remains part of the proposal. [1]
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Limits & distinctions
The approach is more than a midpoint between acceleration and a pause. Buterin acknowledges that defensive tools alone may arrive too late and discusses regulation. The intended benefits depend on what is built and who controls it. [1]
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A fuller explanation
Vitalik Buterin argues for advancing technologies that help people defend themselves and keep power widely shared. He also uses the d for differential, decentralized and democratic: choosing what to advance, avoiding central control and giving people a say. [1]
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How it relates to the map
Asks what to accelerate and who gains power. Faster defensive tools can coexist with caution about frontier AI. [2]
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1. d/acc: one year later
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Newest dated source: 2025-01-05
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-15.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
Read the definition and distinctions: defensive development combined with distributed and democratic control. Hypothetical future examples are not observed outcomes.
2. My techno-optimism
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Newest dated source: 2023-11-27
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-15.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
Read via the author's eth.limo site because vitalik.ca did not load. Introduces defensive, differential and decentralization-focused acceleration. Used for ideas, not a new placement of the author.
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Content version 0.20.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-15; this does not mean every source was read on that day.
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