Vitalik on science, his philanthropy, progress and effective altruism.

[vincentweisser]

Interviewed Vitalik recently and going deep into the different cause areas he supports and is excited about, from increasing scientific progress, pandemic prevention, longevity to existential risk reduction.

Shownotes

• Vitaliks twitter: https://​​twitter.com/​​vitalikButerin

• Vitaliks blog: https://​​vitalik.ca/​​

• Decentralized Science Explainer https://​​ethereum.org/​​en/​​desci/​​

• Ending Aging book: https://​​en.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​Ending_...

• Science DAOs like: http://​​vitadao.com/​​

• Some of the projects he supported https://​​cryptorelief.in/​​, https://​​impetusgrants.org/​​, https://​​www.sens.org/​​, https://​​arcinstitute.org/​​

• Balvi (Pandemic Prevention): https://​​twitter.com/​​VitalikButerin/​​st...

• Quadratic Payments by Vitalik: https://​​vitalik.ca/​​general/​​2019/​​12/​​07...

• DeSoc Paper by Puja, Glen and Vitalik: https://​​papers.ssrn.com/​​sol3/​​papers.c… - Progress: https://​​www.theatlantic.com/​​science/​​a...

• Network States: https://​​vitalik.ca/​​general/​​2022/​​07/​​13...

• RadicalxChange: https://​​www.radicalxchange.org/​​

• The most important century https://​​www.cold-takes.com/​​most-impor...

• Curveballs: pandemics, existential, risks from nuclear, ai, bio, wars

• Recommend reading: https://​​80000hours.org/​​

• DeSoc x DeSci by Puja: https://​​www.youtube.com/​​watch?v=MUzwS...