Analogy: imagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general purpose, there isn't much surface for bad social philosophy to wreck it (or good social philosophy to improve it).
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I actually think the growth of app layer is exactly the time that good social philosophy is needed *most*.
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Vitalik Buterin said the Ethereum protocol is more exposed to philosophical influence than general-purpose technologies like C++, and that ideology plays a significant role in decisions such as adopting decentralization and energy efficiency
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