TOP 5 Vitalik Buterin's Favorite Books
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Right now 1/3 of the way through Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. I definitely recommend it!
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
The Scout Mindset
This reflects a broader intellectual evolution I've had: from "X is what I must defend, so whatever is favorable to X must be correct" to "I like X, but X has flaws and it seems like Y fixes them, so I support X+Y now"
The Precipice
tobyordoxford's latest book The Precipice does a great job of this. Very layman-accessible main section, more technical appendices, even more technical notes. Definitely one example of a model to follow.
The Sovereign Individual
The book was certainly a inspirational tome for much individualist cypherpunk thought in the 2000s. But what did it concretely predict? And with 2020 hindsight (heh), what was right and what wrong?
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