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Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

The architect of Ethereum whose writings on mechanism design, economics, and digital democracy define the philosophy of the decentralized web.

Radical Markets

Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin

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Radical Markets

Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

byEric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl
2018368 Pages

Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head... It shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant nineteenth-century spirit of liberal reform and lead to greater equality, prosperity, and cooperation.

Vitalik Buterin

Source: Foreword to Radical Markets

What We Owe the Future

Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin
Sam Harris
Sam Harris

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What We Owe the Future

A Million-Year View

byWilliam MacAskill
2022352 Pages

I highly recommend Will MacAskill's new book, What We Owe The Future.

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The Scout Mindset

Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin
Adam Grant
Adam Grant

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The Scout Mindset

Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

byJulia Galef
2021288 Pages

This reflects a broader intellectual evolution I've had: from 'X is what I must defend, so whatever is favorable to X must be correct' to 'I like X, but X has flaws and it seems like Y fixes them, so I support X+Y now'.

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The Precipice

Tobias Lütke
Tobias Lütke
Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin
Chris Williamson
Chris Williamson

Read by Tobias Lütke, Vitalik Buterin, Chris Williamson

The Precipice

Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

byToby Ord
2020480 Pages

The Precipice does a great job of this. Very layman-accessible main section, more technical appendices, even more technical notes. Definitely one example of a model to follow.

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