alt Hacker NewsHey. It's hard not to be a bit envious of how many points you, jdw, can rack up with one or two comments while I languish at negative :)
No need to learn nuance, you seem to be doing better than most of the natives here just by being yourself (with the help of modern tools)
I just wanted to get more people to read the vitalik.eth articles along with me. Hope you got something out of 2hours! I had been nibbling at them and steeping in their diagrams for weeks, your centralisation comments provoked me (in a good way)
Vitaliy Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan are both based in SEAsia, Audrey Tang is in Taiwan, Glen Weyl from California is the only Westerner--- but UCBerkeley is like 80% East Asians? Surely they also know about the lore.
I don't know if "staying vigilant" is the mood I was going for. Maybe "being aware of emerging centralising entities and be prepared to engage fruitfully with them"?
These days, "emerging centralising entities" might even be old programming languages like APL that have become popular again..
In the context of the links above, such entities need to provide an "exit option" in order to gain wider traction. For example, APL is clearly an escape from C-like syntax, but there might be new directions that that such "array languages" can take from Python or even natural language: