CoinVoice recently learned that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the Warpcast platform: "I have noticed that the most successful new ideologies in the past decade have tended to be very specific problem-oriented (i.e. prescriptions for specific problems), and relatively little about the meta-level (i.e. the social process of how to make decisions on specific issues). Here are some examples:

Abstract libertarianism is weaker than it was a decade ago. But its versions on specific issues are quite successful: YIMBY (housing), cryptocurrency

e/acc (theoretically covers all technologies, but in practice mainly focuses on artificial intelligence)

The largest branch of effective altruism has moved from the meta-level “try harder to make sure your donations do the most good!” to the specific levels (like AI safety, and to a lesser extent animal welfare and global public health)

Longevity exercise

Maybe Network Nation and Glen and Audrey’s diversity movement are two exceptions – but overall this seems to be a strong pattern. Why do you think this shift from the meta level to the specific level is happening? [Original link]