Betting on acts of terrorism - UK Indymedia
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Betting on acts of terrorism - UK Indymedia
That risk was magnified by the nature of the Manhattan Project’s participants. The single most important secret in the United States was left in the hands of people whom the national elite were not particularly inclined to trust: academics who had flirted with the far left, assorted European refugees whose allegiances were unclear, and pure oddball
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Opponents of the commercialization of sovereignty will do their best to inflame doubts about the new global culture of the Information Age and the demise of the nation-state that it implies. Another possible hitch arising from epigenesis, or genetically influenced motivational factors, is the prospect that the “losers and left-behinds” will respond
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The basic thesis is that, in the years since the global financial crisis, in response to the weakened legitimacy of global institutions and rising market volatility and political uncertainty, people at all levels of power, and in ever-increasing spheres of life, make use of the logic of financial speculation.
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
But SBF extended this willingness to gamble to infinity—he was willing to make a 50/50 coin flip on the future of humanity! This is dangerous and depraved. SBF had been a major investor in the AI company Anthropic.