We asked @VitalikButerin why he frames Ethereum's broader mission as building "sanctuary technologies" rather than open source or decentralization. His take: "We're in a less peaceful and less safe world than we were 10 or 15 years ago. 10 or 15 years ago, you were worried about banks getting bailouts and dollars inflating. 15 years later, the risk that the dollar is gonna go crazy is way more credible ... and there's much worse things happening to people than just having your currency inflated." "There is a vision of safety we're competing with. Basically, let's trust the uncle in the sky, and the uncle in the sky is going to figure everything out for us in exchange for taking away all of our privacy and all of our agency." "We want to be safe and at the same time empowered. We want something that continues to keep us in control and at the center in a way where we have agency." @sodofi_ @binji_x

SITUATION UPDATE: Cerebras shares are indicated to open at $400, more than double the $185 IPO price, implying a market cap of approximately $86B. The company will raise $5.5B in the biggest IPO of the year so far.

Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg went live on MTS to talk the hyperstition of AI Doomers, suicidal empathy, the AI Induced Psychosis Summit, push polls, UFOs and more. 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - The Anthropic Blackmail Incident & AI Doomer Literature 02:49 - Suicidal Empathy & the SPLC Indictment 16:33 - AI, Jobs & the Rise of the AI Vampire 25:39 - The Future of Tech Jobs: From Coder to Builder 30:55 - AI Psychosis, AI Cope & Why the Models Are Actually Great Now 38:48 - Why AI Sentiment Polls Are Misleading 45:28 - UFOs: What We Know and What the Government Has Hidden 52:25 - Advice for Young People & the Generational Divide @pmarca @eriktorenberg