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The Racehorse Who Gambled
Expected Value, Discounted Future Cash Flows, and Stealing from the Future (a Rough Draft)
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David Z. Morris
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👁️ Luigi Mangione: Disillusioned Techno-Rationalist?
Did the UHC assassin snap after a youth wasted on formal systems modelling?
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David Z. Morris
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👁️ DeepSeek and the AI Murder Cult
Rationalism links a wave of murders, FTX embezzlement, and crashing markets.
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David Z. Morris
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👁️ Bed Bath & Qanon: The Grim Psychology of Stock Cults
Meme stock communities look a lot like doomsday extremists - including their manipulative leaders. Plus: OpenAI flips the (theoretical) "profit" switch…
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David Z. Morris
What is TESCREALism? Mapping the Cult of the Techno-Utopia.
A new paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres traces the intimate links between Tranhumanism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and other…
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👁️ Who is the New York Times Lying For?
The Times' primary FTX reporter has shocking family ties to the story. Also: The Red Lobster Bust-Out.
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David Z. Morris
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A Liar To the End: SBF’s Sentencing Hearing Was his Final Self-Indictment
The biggest fraudster of his generation couldn't talk his way out.
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David Z. Morris
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👁️ Basic Capital: The Worst Investment Product Of All Time - or Just the Weirdest?
When is complexity itself a scam?
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David Z. Morris
👁️ The AI Timelines Scam, Expanded (Free Excerpt): The Future as an Emergency, Part 3
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Rationalism of Panic
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David Z. Morris
👁️ SafeMoon: God's Warriors Go To Court
CEO and crypto scammer John Karony is the kind of delusional freak I live for.
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David Z. Morris
“Earn to Give” and the Ethics of Mediocrity (The Future as an Emergency, Pt. 2)
We’re very close to the end, folks.
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David Z. Morris
👁️ Men Explain Zizian Decision Theory To Me (And Crypto Crime Galore)
Teenage Rugpullers, Trump's Crypto Empire, Richard Heart charges dismissed, fake authors, fake science, it's all a good time.
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David Z. Morris
The Future as an Emergency (Part 1)
Effective Altruism and Techno-Authoritarianism
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David Z. Morris
👁️ Tesla is on Fire ️‍🔥
Profits tanking, resigning accountants, warranty fraud, oh my. A full rundown.
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Dark Markets
Dark Markets
Dark Markets is the Newsletter for Fringe Finance. David Z. Morris, PhD (CoinDesk, Fortune) is your guide to the squirming underbelly of capitalism, where markets are irrational, money is imaginary, and the machines are even stupider than the rest of us.
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