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Danny Crichton
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Write and design Riskgaming scenarios on tech, science and politics. Partner, Research at Lux Capital.
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Does AI "think"? Robin Sloan says we cheapen the term when we say it does.

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Christopher Leonard's deeper dive on the problems in the U.S. defense manufacturing sector is a real-life version of our Riskgaming scenario “Hampton at the Cross-Roads.”
China’s Belt and Road strategy Part Deux: DeepSeek is dominating Africa’s emerging AI market by offering open-source models that are dramatically cheaper and require less computing power than American versions.

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Losing the next war, AI "thought," DeepSeek
Lux Recommends #476
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Contra the Trump team, modern wars are won through industrial production capacity and logistics rather than battlefield valor. www.riskgaming.com/i/177567986...
The Economist has declared “the end of the rip-off economy.” You know who is benefitting besides consumers? Sabatuers for hire and their patrons. www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...
The problem with aging is that you eventually become out-of-sync with the youth. Like, if you had told me that a panel on VC secondary transaction mechanics and legalities would sell out, I'd ask to see your fentanyl dealer in Washington Square Park. Secondaries are the new primaries!
Democratic countries can’t keep taking blow after blow from adversaries with nary an attempt at a hybrid-war response. Here's what we have to do: www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...
Major partnership + $50M investment from Lockheed Martin into Saildrone, which will add $LMT's air-to-ground missile launchers onto Saildrone's unmanned surface ships. Affordable, capable, and ready-to-go – that's the future of defense. More here: breakingdefense.com/2025/10/loc...
Lockheed Martin to invest $50M into Saildrone, plans to equip USVs with missile launchers - Breaking Defense
This announcement is “transformational for us,” Saildrone CEO Richard Jenkins told Breaking Defense in an interview today.
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Mamdani should not be denaturalized or deported. Instead, small-d democratic voters should look at his economic record and divisiveness and simply reject it. People have the power to determine the future of NYC at the ballot box, and they should use it
As American power relatively declines economically, scientifically, industrially, and technologically, we have to use our abundant resources (energy, innovation, talent) ever more effectively to compete. America's assets + credible strategy = long-term 21st century success
It's really hard to see how America can stay the biotech superpower of the world this century against China when we can't even get Tylenol right
Get ready for “EtherHiding,” a novel technique that stores malware in blockchain smart contracts to make it nearly impossible to take down through traditional methods. North Korea is apparently all over it. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
This seems like a worthy effort: GiveDirectly is piloting a program that uses Google’s AI-powered flood forecasting system to deliver cash payments to vulnerable Bangladeshi farmers up to four days before floods hit.
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We've lost the war on terrorism and war on drugs. Next up: cognitive war.

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We've prioritized technology over human expertise, creativity, and regional knowledge that adversaries like China and Russia excel at deploying. We're going to suffer the consequences. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
Our anti-recommendation for the week
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Another things to stress out about in interviews: North Korea’s is exploiting tech hiring processes to steal sensitive data, cryptocurrency, and gain persistent access to corporate networks. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
There is no way to suppress bioweapons knowledge in the age of AI. Instead, we need to build the most robust surveillance, threat identification and prophylactics infrastructure possible. Then security is in our control.
A major $30M funding from Lux, Founders Fund and OpenAI today: Valthos is building next-generation AI biodefense technologies to protect us from natural and man-made pathogens. With the democratization of bioweapons, we need countermeasures stat. More on Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...