Some EAs are working on or interested in things like crypto and blockchain, either as investment opportunities or as tools that might be useful for accomplishing things EAs care about (e.g., mechanism design, solving coordination problems). Maybe there should be a tag for posts relevant to such things. I’d guess that there are at least 3 relevant Forum posts, though I haven’t checked.
There are also at least two 80,000 Hours episodes that I think are relevant:
Crypto or something like that
Some EAs are working on or interested in things like crypto and blockchain, either as investment opportunities or as tools that might be useful for accomplishing things EAs care about (e.g., mechanism design, solving coordination problems). Maybe there should be a tag for posts relevant to such things. I’d guess that there are at least 3 relevant Forum posts, though I haven’t checked.
There are also at least two 80,000 Hours episodes that I think are relevant:
Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s failures so far, & how it could yet change the world
Radical institutional reforms that make capitalism & democracy work better, and how to get them
I would prefer Blockchain, as it is more general than cryptocurrency and doesn’t confuse people with the field of cryptology
Good points. I’ve now created the tag and used the name Blockchain.
Reasonable because the generality, though I think the cryptography ship has long, long since sailed.
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Seems good. Maybe we should crosspost one of the recent articles on Sam Bankman-Freid.
I’ve now created the tag. Feel free to make those crossposts and give them the tag, of course :)
(I won’t do it myself, as I have little knowledge about or personal interest in blockchain stuff myself.)