Vitalik Looks Beyond Ethereum to AI, Space Travel, and an Advanced Human Civilization
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Ethereum has transitioned to proof of stake; Vitalik is now focused on account abstraction and scaling solutions like rollups to improve efficiency.
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AI like ChatGPT is very productive, but the intersection with crypto is smaller than it seems; some applications could be in reputation, identity, and social networks.
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Vitalik admires creative thinkers like sci-fi writers, Taiwan's digital minister Audrey Tang, and technologists working to improve Ethereum.
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Travel between planets will happen, but Antarctica is a "tutorial" for space; Vitalik would go to space eventually but not first.
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Crypto enables more freedom; Vitalik dreams of ending disease and humanity becoming an advanced interplanetary civilization.