# Vitalik Buterin - My Techno-Optimism (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/114738859/cover-cover_image.jpg) ## Highlights - This core idea, that some technologies are defense-favoring and are worth promoting, while other technologies are offense-favoring and should be discouraged, has roots in effective altruist literature under a different name: **differential technology development**. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgga5b54p2yd7frrtc7zh4zr)) ^634293340 - Building tools to help people survive and even live comfortable lives independently or semi-independently of long international supply chains seems like a valuable defensive technology, and one with a low risk of turning out to be useful for offense. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hggadkz5gg0hpnqk6g7q2dz5)) ^634294284