The Good Psycho: Notes on SBF’s Sociopathy (Premium Bonus)
Except for killing animals, he ticks all the boxes.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Except for killing animals, he ticks all the boxes.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Ezra Klein's mighty efforts to sanewash the Rationalist cult leader run smack into Yudkowsky's intransigent robo-fantasia.| Dark Markets
Binance, Trump, and exotic instruments like Ethena USDe combined to wreck $19B in leverage positions.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Richard Sutton championed growing AI through pure compute power. Now, he's changing his mind.| Dark Markets
The RAND Corporation's suppression of Hubert Dreyfus launched a tradition of wilful ignorance that continues today.| Dark Markets
Help me shape my *next* book| davidzmorris.substack.com
Also: Tai Lopez finally busted; "Workslop"; and SBF is tweetin' again.| Dark Markets
Things can go from nerve-wracking to spectacular in the blink of an eye.| davidzmorris.substack.com
The Mismeasure of Eliezer Yudkowsky - Eugenicist?| davidzmorris.substack.com
From Code Theft and Plagiarism to Trump Frenemy, Sun's Track record is Trash| davidzmorris.substack.com
On justice and rage.| davidzmorris.substack.com
A new paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres traces the intimate links between Tranhumanism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and other crypto-authoritarian ideologies.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Are you not entertained? Also: Kanye Coin's infamous snipers return.| Dark Markets
The Desolation of Bittorrent| Dark Markets
Plus: Sale on Book Preorders; The Joe Rogan Scam; Democratic Dark Money; and more.| Dark Markets
The team behind Bullish brutally rugpulled their earliest investors. They'll do the same to public markets.| Dark Markets
Vitalik Buterin and Dan Larimer took wildly different paths. But they started from exactly the same place: Miami.| Dark Markets
Also: Bullish on Fraud; No trial for Do Kwon; the LIBRA snipers scam Kanye West; SafeMoon property seizures; and More.| Dark Markets
Also: Fake Monero "Founder" Ezekiel Osbourne Rides Again| Dark Markets
Real decisionmaking is a choice to act, not a procedure to follow.| Dark Markets
Evidentiary foulups have plagued the team led by one of Sam Bankman-Fried's prosecutors.| Dark Markets
Is Roman Storm a nefarious money-launderer? Or an activist for individual autonomy?| Dark Markets
Crypto is 100% back, in all its messy, degenerate glory.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Roman Storm's trial may finally conclude today, in its fourth week.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Reading Jean Baudrillard on Sam Bankman-Fried and his Illusions of Value.| davidzmorris.substack.com
On the Sexual Politics, Race Science, and Cult Indoctrination of Pure Reason| davidzmorris.substack.com
A message for twentysomethings: Don’t believe the fearmongers. Time IS on your side.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Why Logic and Reason Demand a Full Takeover of the U.S. Government| davidzmorris.substack.com
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Rationalism of Panic| davidzmorris.substack.com
CEO and crypto scammer John Karony is the kind of delusional freak I live for.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Depression, Anxiety, and the Palo Alto System| davidzmorris.substack.com
The Kelsier "Ventures" team are almost unbelievable morons.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Why Sam Bankman-Fried struck a minor chord with some major players.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Sam Bankman-Fried's unsentimental, materialist upbringing helped prepare him to rationalize his crimes.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Rationalism links a wave of murders, FTX embezzlement, and crashing markets.| davidzmorris.substack.com
"Stealing the Future" Draft Excerpt| davidzmorris.substack.com
Forensic details of Sam Bankman-Fried's comically rampant thievery.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Did the UHC assassin snap after a youth wasted on formal systems modelling?| davidzmorris.substack.com
Expected Value, Discounted Future Cash Flows, and Stealing from the Future (a Rough Draft)| davidzmorris.substack.com
Toby Ord's latest foray into crafting a rationalist universe. Also: Razzlekhan, Nishad Singh, Ryan Salame, TDBank, and more.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Sam Bankman-Fried's version of events - and what it revealed about his mind.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Sam Bankman-Fried will join a proud legacy ... just not in the way he was hoping for.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Happy New Year.| davidzmorris.substack.com
A book preview for supporters. Introduction, Part 1: Ends and Means.| davidzmorris.substack.com
I’ll come and take your life away.| davidzmorris.substack.com
The fraudster of our generation also embodies some of our society's biggest failings.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Barbara Fried's die-hard determinist utilitarianism ultimately fueled Sam Bankman-Fried's Effective Altruism - and his crimes.| davidzmorris.substack.com
The Times' primary FTX reporter has shocking family ties to the story. Also: The Red Lobster Bust-Out.| davidzmorris.substack.com
But it's time for my weirdo hobby blog to grow into something more ambitious. Here's what's coming next.| davidzmorris.substack.com
I can barely finish a book anymore, and I've had enough.| davidzmorris.substack.com
There's a dark secret at the root of Effective Altruism and related ideas. Also: a new forum for supporters.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Entering the home stretch of "The Boy Who Wasn't There."| davidzmorris.substack.com
AppHarvest, backed by Vance's fund and shilled to public markets at a huge valuation, went belly-up almost instantly.| davidzmorris.substack.com
News Jan 30. Plus: Farcaster Frames, God's Crypto, and Fake Porn.| davidzmorris.substack.com
FTX's victims now seem to include our greatest finance writer.| davidzmorris.substack.com
The biggest fraudster of his generation couldn't talk his way out.| davidzmorris.substack.com
Resolved: Effective Altruism is a Defense of the Status Quo| davidzmorris.substack.com
They’ll take you places. But they might not be places you want to go.| davidzmorris.substack.com
On Byung-Chul Han's "The Burnout Society"| davidzmorris.substack.com
Reason and logic alone are not adequate for understanding reality.| davidzmorris.substack.com
A Blueprint for Writers (And Other Solo Operators) After the Journalism Industry| davidzmorris.substack.com
Effective Altruism has authoritarianism under its skin. How Toby Ord’s “The Precipice” presaged the FTX Fraud. (The Kwisatz Haderach Who Failed, Part 2)| davidzmorris.substack.com
Scientism, Effective Altruism, and Frank Herbert’s Dune| davidzmorris.substack.com
In a tour-de-force sentencing document, SBF's prosecutors demonstrate his knowing, repeated, long-term choices to defraud thousands of innocent victims in service to his own ego.| davidzmorris.substack.com
