My Techno-Optimism

Vitalik Buterin offers a new political framework in response to artificial intelligence's rivaling arch-pessimists and arch-accelerationists: d/acc. Buterin argues that the twenty-first century is the pivotal century for humanity, and d/acc offers us the tools to navigate it. At its core, d/acc is at once an incomplete gesture and an actionable philosophy: "acc" stands for "accelerationism," and the "d" is multifaceted: defensive, democratic, decentralized, directional and more.